InterPlay goes ahead at DADAA in Midland. DADAA works across Western Australia to enhance the social inclusion and wellbeing of people with disability or mental illness through participation in the arts.
We have had an introduction session and we are about to go into our second week of the term.
With this group I am taking a very different approach to a regular InterPlay group, not that any InterPlay groups are 'regular'. We take it very slowly, with plenty of simple, repetitive movements and instructions. It is a joy to see the participants follow some of my movements and improvise some of their own. It is good to see these participants having fun and laughing. I am challenged as never before to be flexible with what I have planned while continually adjusting and improvising to match the abilities and confidence of the participants. I am really enjoying our cup of tea stop for 15 mins in the middle of our two hour session...that's different!
We are all different shapes and sizes and abilities at our InterPlay groups.
These are little figurines and critters that I'm collecting from second hand stores for Sand Play Therapy.
