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INTERPLAY
Consulting and Training Methodology that Builds Capacity to Integrate Sustainability Principles into Existing Mission, Goals & Objectives for Business and Non-Profit Organizations: Interplay Applies Whole Systems Thinking to Inform & Inspire Sustainable Development

Interplay engages members of an organization to recognize themselves as diverse and interdependent resources capable of partnering to charge the flow of energy, information, and actions that realize sustainable development.

Participants see themselves and their communities as part of nature through exercises that build capacity to observe, inquire, and interpret how personal, social and ecological well-being are aligned.

Understanding of nature as the most sustainable system helps participants create an ecological context for understanding sustainability principles and applying them to support review, realization, and renewal of existing mission, goals, and objectives.

Interplay invites recognition of opportunities to integrate real life examples of elements of self, society, and the system of life on Earth to help participants realize unlimited potential to redefine progress and build capacity for constructive change and restoration.

Interplay celebrates people and communities as part of nature, capable of unique ideas and actions that cultivate resources and relationships that are alive, diverse, interdependent, ingenious, changing, unique, renewable resources, with inherent brilliance that allows them to accomplish more together with less.

As members of various interdependent communities of life, what sustains us? Who are we? What are we? What do we need? What do we want? Interplay is an interactive, creative learning process that taps human potential to inform, inspire, develop, and sustain healthy lives and learning communities that improve personal, social and ecological well-being.

    Interplay:
  • Facilitates rediscovery of the vital nature of our lives, organizations and communities.
  • Encourages awareness of relationships and conditions that help ventures succeed.
  • Vitalizes living and learning with whole-systems thinking.
  • Cultivates individual and group capacity to create and contribute to sustainable development.
  • Increases understanding of nature as a model for healthy lives and learning communities.
  • Generates practical knowledge transferable to all arenas and aspects of life.
  • Develops appreciation for the concept of global community, nature as a life support system, and self as part of nature.

Interplay sessions are adapted to meet individual clients’ existing goals & objectives. Consultations & interactive workshops have served educational, recreational, and business organizations since 1980. Contact: Marta Swain, marta@clothingmatters.net or by phone 616-988-8500 .

From 1980-1996, Marta Swain served as visiting artist and educational consultant, facilitating Interplay workshops and consultations for diverse clientele around the world. Revealing nature as a model and metaphor for efficient & effective processes/practices, Interplay cultivates capacity to create and sustain healthy lives and learning communities that improve personal, social, and ecological well-being (see Vitae). Swain founded Clothing Matters, a leader in the field of sustainably manufactured apparel since 1996, to promote people and planet friendly apparel as a comfortable, everyday way to reduce pesticides, petroleum, and waste of precious resources. Clothing Matters Promotional Apparel serves a diverse, discerning clientele who choose to put their logo on part of the solution, investing in their crew as vital contributors to sustainable development, with increased returns on their marketing dollars.

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