Sheila K Collins PhD
Pittsburgh, PA
817 706-4967
Sheila K Collins PhD
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 817 706-4967
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I am here to reimagine...
Grieving as a life-long art we can get good at. Using the inspiration of the arts and the power of our own stories to connect and heal us, we metabolize our individual and communal losses, and together, transform our larger world.
My Story
After careers as a professional dancer and a Social Work professor, I am now a "dancing social worker." I write and teach body-based tools for self care, especially important for those caring for others. Accompanying two of my adult children and my best friend through serious illnesses and death taught me that our toughest challenges call us out to discover our better selves. As an author, keynote...
After careers as a professional dancer and a Social Work professor, I am now a "dancing social worker." I write and teach body-based tools for self care, especially important for those caring for others. Accompanying two of my adult children and my best friend through serious illnesses and death taught me that our toughest challenges call us out to discover our better selves. As an author, keynote speaker and performance artist I share how art and art making offer inspiration and tools that can help us live our best lives now. Since 2006 I have directed the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based improvisational troupe that assists arts and human service organizations in achieving their noble purposes. The group has developed programs to address Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness, the Art of Grieving, and Changing the Race Dance.
After careers as a professional dancer and a Social Work professor, I am now a "dancing social worker." I write and teach body-based tools for self care, especially important for those caring for others. Accompanying two of my adult children and my best friend through serious illnesses and death taught me that our toughest challenges call us out to discover our better selves. As an author, keynote speaker and performance artist I share how art and art making offer inspiration and tools that can help us live our best lives now. Since 2006 I have directed the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based improvisational troupe that assists arts and human service organizations in achieving their noble purposes. The group has developed programs to address Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness, the Art of Grieving, and Changing the Race Dance.
My Community Resources
Stillpoint: A Self-Care Playbook For Caregivers
Being a caregiver is a hazardous occupation, whether it’s a chosen helping profession or a family responsibility that’s chosen you.
Warrior Mother: An Award-winning Memoir
Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals that Heal. An award-winning memoir.
Upcoming Reimagine events
Reimagine Summer Events
The Art of Grieving: How art helps us live our best lives
Embracing grief as the art we need it to be, we look to the arts for inspiration–exploring voice and movement as the medicine to playfully process loss and create rituals of sanctuary and belonging
Sun. August 21
zoom
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
$0 - $50
The Art of Grieving: How art helps us live our best lives
Embracing grief we look to the arts for inspiration–exploring art-based ways to center our everyday and transcendent connect to death. We'll explore holy stopping places as rituals for remembrance
Sun. August 28
zoom
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
$0 - $50
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
Join us for an hour of playful body wisdom, exformation, and radical self-care tools & techniques taught by two dancing social workers. Learn & practice the five skills of Self-Care. *InterPlay Event.
Tue. August 30
Zoom
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
$0 - $50
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
Join us for an hour of playful body wisdom, exformation, and radical self-care tools & techniques taught by two dancing social workers. Learn & practice the five skills of Self-Care. *InterPlay Event.
Tue. August 23
Zoom
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
$0 - $50
Previous Reimagine events
The Art of Grieving: How art helps us live our best lives
July 31, 2022
The Art of Grieving: How art helps us live our best lives
July 24, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
August 16, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
August 09, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
August 02, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
July 26, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
July 19, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
July 05, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
July 12, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
June 28, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
June 21, 2022
InterPlay Radical Self & Community Care
June 14, 2022
Asheville, NC, NC
Finding and Living in the Self-Care Stillpoint
May 01, 2022
Yucca Valley, CA
Finding and Living in the Self-Care Stillpoint
April 24, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
June 07, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
May 24, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
May 31, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
May 31, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
May 17, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
May 10, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
May 03, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
April 26, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
April 19, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
March 29, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
March 15, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
March 22, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
March 08, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
March 08, 2022
Radical Self & Community Care *InterPlay
March 01, 2022
The Art of Grieving: Emerging Towards A Life Well-Lived
June 20, 2021
The Art of Grieving: Emerging Towards A Life Well-Lived
June 13, 2021
The Art of Grieving: Emerging Towards A Life Well-Lived
June 06, 2021
Radical Self & Community Care - InterPlay
April 27, 2021
Radical Self & Community Care - InterPlay
April 20, 2021
Radical Self & Community Care - InterPlay
April 13, 2021
Radical Self & Community Care - InterPlay
April 06, 2021
Radical Self & Community Care - InterPlay
March 30, 2021
Radical Self-Care Series **InterPlay
August 04, 2020
Radical Self-Care Series **InterPlay
August 11, 2020
Radical Self-Care Series **InterPlay
August 18, 2020
Radical Self-Care Series **InterPlay
August 25, 2020
Radical Self-Care Series **InterPlay
July 28, 2020
Radical Self-Care Series **InterPlay
July 21, 2020
Embrace Duality: Dance in the Turmoil of the Universal Story
July 01, 2020
The Art of Grieving: Toward a Life Well-Lived
June 11, 2020
Radical Self-Care During a Pandemic *InterPlay
June 14, 2020
Radical Self-Care During a Pandemic *InterPlay
June 07, 2020
Radical Self-Care During a Pandemic *InterPlay
May 17, 2020
Radical Self-Care During a Pandemic *InterPlay
May 31, 2020
Radical Self-Care During a Pandemic *InterPlay
May 24, 2020
The Art of Grieving: Toward a Life Well-Lived
May 28, 2020
Radical Self-Care During a Pandemic *InterPlay
May 03, 2020
