Workshops & Retreats
Sweet Surrender MINI RETREAT-Turn of the Year 2024>2025
Come PAUSE, REST, REFLECT, and OPEN to 2025. This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, art, and journaling to honor the change of the year.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Thursday, 12/26/24/max 12 participants.
In-Person WRITING GROUP: Inner Well, Outer Word 5-Week Series
What to Expect: A group of engaging, supportive, non-writers and writers. Directed prompts and writing exercises. A sense of connection and support. Creatively engaging with your inner world, meeting yourself. Cultivating a sense of clarity, meaning, and perspective. Opportunity for healing, personal growth, and insight. Novelty and fun!
PAUSE: An All-Inclusive Midwinter Movement Retreat
This thoughtfully curated, all-inclusive retreat is anchored in the teachings of the resource-based, mindful movement practices of Open Floor International. From writing to dance parties, guided movement to time in nature, spacious time alone to co-resting opportunities, there’s a little something for everyone and every part of your being. Music supports our practice.
Retreat with us! The Christine Center and Certified Open Floor International (OFI) Teachers, Teresa Reid + Cori Hildebrandt, invite you to gather with other like-minded souls during the depths of midwinter- a time of potent pause – to take a break from your everyday routine- to listen to your body- to sense your inner knowing- to tap into currents of inspiration- to resource yourself.
WORKSHOP! Inner Well, Outer Word: Spontaneous Writing!
Calling all writers and non-writers! Come creatively engage with your inner world through directed prompts and writing exercises. Cultivate a sense of clarity, meaning, and perspective. Opportunity for healing, personal growth, and insight. Novelty and fun!
Sleep: WELL. Workshop
Sleep is foundational to health and wellbeing, yet is a struggle for many of us! Come learn current sleep science and leave with strategies and tools to improve your sleep. Register and join us for this free event!
EMDR Therapy: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, & Resourcing
Come learn about Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, an evidence supported psychotherapy intervention that effectively treats anxiety, depression, trauma, and other symptoms. What trauma is and how anxiety and depression are often symptoms of trauma will be discussed. There will be an experiential practice where you will create an EMDR resource through guided visualization that you can use at home to self-regulate and calm your nervous system.
PURE PRACTICE: Open Floor Conscious Dance!
Come try a FREE Open Floor Class! “Open Floor International inspires people to move. We teach dance and mindful movement for personal healing, professional growth, and community building. In a challenging world, Open Floor supports resilience, compassion, and joyous connection.”
Inner Well, Outer Word: Spontaneous Writing Workshop!
Calling all writers and non-writers! Come creatively engage with your inner world through directed prompts and writing exercises. Cultivate a sense of clarity, meaning, and perspective. Opportunity for healing, personal growth, and insight. Novelty and fun!
Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective relational neurobiological therapy, and through demonstration and practice learn how to do self-brainspotting. BSP uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain, metabolizing, and moving you towards regulation. BSP helps with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain.
Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music.
Open Floor Moving Meditation + Patio Wine Social
Come allow yourself to be present to what’s moving in and around you, draw support from the ground beneath you, and deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
What to Expect: You’ll be guided through a 60 minute meditation and movement experience using Open Floor principles on the old schoolhouse lawn with the grapevines watching at Forestville Vines Winery.
We’ll then refresh with a beverage on the patio. Live music and pizzas will be available for order. Stay and hangout if you like!
Open Floor Moving Meditation + Patio Wine Social
Come allow yourself to be present to what’s moving in and around you, draw support from the ground beneath you, and deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
What to Expect: You’ll be guided through a 60 minute meditation and movement experience using Open Floor principles on the old schoolhouse lawn with the grapevines watching at Forestville Vines Winery.
We’ll then refresh with a beverage on the patio. Live music and pizzas will be available for order. Stay and hangout if you like!
14 Communication Strategies for Hard Conversations!
We have all been there! Knowing we need to have a hard conversation with someone. Come learn 14 strategies to support you leaning into hard conversations and communicating in ways to get the best outcomes. This class will include lecture, demonstration, experiential practice, and coaching. It’s taught by Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN, Psychotherapist, Trained Mediator & Conflict Consultant.
Open Floor Moving Meditation + Patio Wine Social
Come allow yourself to be present to what’s moving in and around you, draw support from the ground beneath you, and deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
What to Expect: You’ll be guided through a 60 minute meditation and movement experience using Open Floor principles on the old schoolhouse lawn with the grapevines watching at Forestville Vines Winery.
We’ll then refresh with a beverage on the patio. Live music and pizzas will be available for order. Stay and hangout if you like!
Open Floor SOUL MOVES Moving Meditation
Feeling disconnected? Overwhelmed? Unsupported? Want to access connection, meaning, and soul? Come move and include all that is stirring in and around you. We’ll dance in the present moment with uncertainty and seeking true self. Each session will be different.
Pre-Registration: $30/session or FREE to IA Unlimited Members.
EMDR Therapy: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, & Resourcing
Come learn about Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, an evidence supported psychotherapy intervention that effectively treats anxiety, depression, trauma, and other symptoms. What trauma is and how anxiety and depression are often symptoms of trauma will be discussed. There will be an experiential practice where you will create an EMDR resource through guided visualization that you can use at home to self-regulate and calm your nervous system.
5 Week Series VIRTUAL WRITING GROUP: Inner Well, Outer Word
What to Expect: A group of engaging, supportive, non-writers and writers. Directed prompts and writing exercises. A sense of connection and support. Creatively engaging with your inner world, meeting yourself. Cultivating a sense of clarity, meaning, and perspective. Opportunity for healing, personal growth, and insight. Novelty and fun!
Grief: Tools to Work Through a Spectrum of Loss
In person and virtual on the River Falls Public Library Facebook and YouTube. Stephanie Larson, Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW, LCSW, has special interests in supporting clients in processing trauma, supporting older adults, and caregivers.
Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective relational neurobiological therapy, and through demonstration and practice learn how to do self-brainspotting. BSP uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain, metabolizing, and moving you towards regulation. BSP helps with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain.
Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music.
Open Floor SOUL MOVES Moving Meditation
Feeling disconnected? Overwhelmed? Unsupported? Want to access connection, meaning, and soul? Come move and include all that is stirring in and around you. We’ll dance in the present moment with uncertainty and seeking true self. Each session will be different.
Pre-Registration: $30/session or FREE to IA Unlimited Members.
Sweet Surrender MINI RETREAT-Turn of the Year 2023>2024
Come PAUSE, REST, REFLECT, and OPEN to 2024. This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, art, and journaling to honor the change of the year.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Friday, 12/29/23/max 12 participants.
Open Floor SOUL MOVES Moving Meditation
Feeling disconnected? Overwhelmed? Unsupported? Want to access connection, meaning, and soul? Come move and include all that is stirring in and around you. We’ll dance in the present moment with uncertainty and seeking true self. Each session will be different.
Pre-Registration: $30/session or FREE to IA Unlimited Members.
Open Floor Conscious Dance 101/3-Part EMBODIED MIND Series
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. We are constantly shaping our minds and being shaped by our minds. This series will focus on Embodied Mind and Belonging. When we are embodied in our mind, we are aware of how our relational patterns, behaviors, habits, and choices are impacted by our thoughts.
· 10/8/23: Week 1: THINKING MIND/VECTOR: Making sense, feelings vs. facts, clarity, and direction.
· 10/15/23: Week 2: PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL MIND/RELEASE: Seek stability, let go of old beliefs that no longer serve you, be fluid and flexible.
· 10/22/23: Week 3: CREATIVE MIND/EXPAND & CONTRACT: Play with imagination, expand into new possibilities.
FREE Open Floor Conscious Dance Class!
Come try a FREE Open Floor class! “Open Floor International inspires people to move. We teach dance and mindful movement for personal healing, professional growth, and community building. In a challenging world, Open Floor supports resilience, compassion, and joyous connection.”
You will be guided into an exploration of how your body and mind expand and contract through meditation and movement. The more aware you are of how your body and mind connect and disconnect, the more authentically you can show up as you move through life.
Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective relational neurobiological therapy, and through demonstration and practice learn how to do self-brainspotting. BSP uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain, metabolizing, and moving you towards regulation. BSP helps with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain.
Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music.
Moving Meditation & You-Pick Blooms!
What to Expect: You’ll be guided through a meditation and movement experience using Open Floor principles near the pines and peaceful pond at Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm. We’ll explore the body resource of release. When do you feel most free? How do you connect to what’s beyond you? What is no longer serving you and needs to be let go? Come be creative and curious about how you move through life.
We’ll then refresh with a custom curated floral beverage, be instructed on proper flower cutting techniques, grab flower snips that are provided, and then mosey through fields of flowers, where you will pick your own bouquet of blooms to take home!
Sweet Beliefs Conscious Dance! Cookies, Kids, & Cold Brew!
We create stories to make sense of our body sensations and emotions. Our stories then create sensations and emotions in our bodies. This process develops our sense of self, sense of others, and our worldview. Yet, our stories can be self-limiting, create conflict, and be untrue! The more aware we are of our beliefs, values, and stories the better equipped we are to move through life with clarity and direction.
“Open Floor International inspires people to move. We teach dance and mindful movement for personal healing, professional growth, and community building.” Come try an Open Floor Conscious Dance class with your child!
The Center Will Hold: Open Floor Dance Workshop
Where do you end, and others begin? Where do you go when you move away from pain? What are you vulnerable to? Borrowing from Brené Brown, who states in Atlas of the Heart “The center will hold. I believe that in the midst of struggle, the center will hold if, and only if, we can feel the edges.”
Come explore your sense of center and find and feel your edges using the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. What we practice on the dance floor cultivates awareness and insight that informs how we move through life off the dance floor.
Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective relational neurobiological therapy, and through demonstration and practice learn how to do self-brainspotting. BSP uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain, metabolizing, and moving you towards regulation. BSP helps with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain.
Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music.
Moving Meditation to Release Stress
Using the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International, we will do meditation and movement exercises to release stress and regulate your nervous system. You will spend time sitting, standing, dancing, talking, breathing, lying, and modifying as needed. You will learn skills to use for self-practice at home. Music supports our practice. Open Floor is for everyBODY.
Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective relational neurobiological therapy, and through demonstration and practice learn how to do self-brainspotting. BSP uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain, metabolizing, and moving you towards regulation. BSP helps with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain.
Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music.
Release 2022, Hello 2023 Mini Retreat!
Come RETREAT, RECHARGE, and WELCOME in 2023 with intention! This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, journaling, and art to release 2022 and welcome in 2023.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Wednesday, 12/28/22/max 12 participants.
Open Floor Dance 101 & Moving Meditation/3-Part Series
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. The benefits of an Open Floor practice include building strength/coordination/mobility, lifting mood, reducing anxiety/stress, regulating the nervous system, encouraging connection to self/others/spirit, increasing self-awareness, and building resiliency. People who have a regular embodiment practice approach life with more ease, creativity, and flexibility.
• 11/6/22: Week 1: CENTER: Feel steady, balanced, at home in your body.
• 11/13/22: Week 2: ACTIVATE & SETTLE: Calm and regulate your emotions.
• 11/20/22: Week 3: TOWARDS & AWAY: Understand your preferences and emotional boundaries.
Open Floor 101/3-Part Series w/Cori
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. The benefits of an Open Floor practice include building strength/coordination/mobility, lifting mood, reducing anxiety/stress, regulating the nervous system, encouraging connection to self/others/spirit, increasing self-awareness, and building resiliency. People who have a regular embodiment practice approach life with more ease, creativity, and flexibility.
• 9/28/22: Week 1: GROUND
• 10/5/22: Week 2: ACTIVATE & SETTLE
• 10/12/22: Week 3: SPATIAL AWARENESS
Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective relational neurobiological therapy, and through demonstration and practice learn how to do self-brainspotting. BSP uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain, metabolizing, and moving you towards regulation. BSP helps with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain.
Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music.
Open Floor Practice & You-Pick Posies!
Come allow yourself space on 40 acres of woods, fields, and flowers to deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
What to Expect: You’ll be guided through a meditation and movement experience using Open Floor principles near the pines and peaceful pond at Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm. We’ll explore the body resource of spatial awareness, the space around you, how to offer space to others, and how to claim space for yourself.
We’ll then refresh with a custom curated floral essence sparkling beverage, grab flower snips that are provided, and then mosey through fields of flowers, where you will pick your own bouquet of posies to take home to brighten your space!
Open Floor Moving Meditation + Wine Spritzer Social
Come allow yourself to be present to what’s moving in and around you, draw support from the ground beneath you, and deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
What to Expect: You’ll be guided through a 60 minute meditation and movement experience using Open Floor principles on the old schoolhouse lawn with the grapevines watching at Forestville Vines Winery.
We’ll then refresh with a wine spritzer on the patio. Live music is scheduled to start at 1pm and pizzas will be available for order. Stay and hangout if you like!
“Your life is meant to confront everything that holds you captive."
— Rumi