Workshops & Retreats

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EMDR Therapy: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, & Resourcing
Apr
15

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.

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
May
6

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.

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PURE PRACTICE: Open Floor Conscious Dance!
Oct
25

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.”

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Sep
24

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.

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14 Communication Strategies for Hard Conversations!
May
21

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.

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EMDR Therapy: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, & Resourcing
Feb
22

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.

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Jan
23

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.

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Open Floor Conscious Dance 101/3-Part EMBODIED MIND Series
Oct
8
to Oct 22

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.

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FREE Open Floor Conscious Dance Class!
Sep
29

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.

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Sep
26

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.

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Sweet Beliefs Conscious Dance! Cookies, Kids, & Cold Brew!
Jul
29

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!

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The Center Will Hold: Open Floor Dance Workshop
May
5

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.

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Mar
2

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.

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Moving Meditation to Release Stress
Feb
28

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.

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Jan
10

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.

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Open Floor Dance 101 & Moving Meditation/3-Part Series
Nov
6
to Nov 20

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.

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Self-BRAINSPOTTING: A Simple & Powerful Mindfulness Practice to Self-Regulate
Sep
20

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.

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OPEN FLOOR 101/3-PART SERIES w/CORI
Jun
30
to Jul 14

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.

• 6/30/22: Week 1: GROUND

• 7/7/22: Week 2: ACTIVATE & SETTLE

• 7/14/22: Week 3: SPATIAL AWARENESS

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FREE Moving Meditation: Open Floor Cycle!
May
21

FREE Moving Meditation: Open Floor Cycle!

Come dip your toe and your hips, literally into 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.”

You will be guided into an exploration of how your body activates and settles through meditation and movement. The more regulated your body, the more present, creative, and engaged you can be in the present moment.

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“Your life is meant to confront everything that holds you captive."

— Rumi