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🗓 First Mondays | Monthly PlayShops


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✨ September 7th: Open Source Database✨

Led by Matt McClure and Olaf Elander


📅 September 7th

🕕 6:00 pm ET | 5:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm PT

💻 Via Zoom


📩 Click button below to RSVP.


Join us for an engaging, experiential PlayShop exploring Open Source Database through InterPlay.



MEET THE FACILITATORS

Geneseo, NY

Matthew McClure

InterPlay Board co-chair

Certified InterPlay Leader


Matthew McClure is a dancer, teaching artist, improviser, and clown who loves to laugh. Movement, play, and teaching have taken him around the world from Korea for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for an MA in Dance. Matt facilitates InterPlay in Western New York State and assisted at the InterPlay Art and Social Change for the Emerging Generations in 2025. Matt is always wondering, “How can we transform our world through play?”


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Naples, FL

Olaf Elander

Certified InterPlay Leader


Olaf tasted an early increment of InterPlay at the Graduate Theological Union in the late 1980's. He returned to InterPlay in 2008 as one of the weekly Oakland men's group initiators. Olaf became a certified InterPlay Leader in 2017 and has led groups in Missoula Montana, and now in Naples, Florida. He has an interest in men's work and has led Men's InterPlay sessions himself and with other male leaders. Olaf facilitated work-life balance classes in the corporate world bringing parts of InterPlay to the information technology culture. He believes that InterPlay is to 21st Century spirituality what 12 Step has been to 20th Century spirituality. Whee!!

🕕 6:00 pm ET | 5:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm PT

💻 Via Zoom

✨ Each month, we’ll explore topics that matter most to you and your leadership journey, including:


  • Zoom & online facilitation techniques
  • Grant writing for yourself, your region, and beyond
  • Bringing InterPlay into organizations
  • Partnering with the national office on larger events
  • And much more!


Upcoming Dates:

  • October 5, 2026
  • November 2, 2026
  • December 7, 2026


This is more than a training—it’s a space to connect, experiment, share ideas, and grow together.

Come for the skills. Stay for the community. Leave with tools you can use right away.


Let’s build what’s next… together!



Christine Gautreaux, MSW (she/her) is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Christine’s superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice and using art to make a difference in the world.

She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.

Pivoting with the times, Christine has been called an expert on Zoom and utilizes this online platform to facilitate connection and ease in an online, interactive learning environment.

Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She has professional experience with successful grant writing, community organizing and social media marketing. Christine is a life coach for caregivers who are burnt out and ready to take back their own life and make it delightful again. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellness V. I and V. II


As an organization committed to generosity, 10% of all contributions for general operating will be allocated for general scholarships, supporting our commitment to accessible programs —donate today!

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Oakland, CA 94612

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