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January 7-9, 2026

Workshops: Cori Hildebrant

OPEN FLOOR MOVING MEDITATION CYCLE

Wednesday, January 7th | 7:30–8:30 PM

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. You will be guided through three rounds of sitting, walking, and moving meditation using Open Floor International principles. Music supports the practice. Time will be spent sitting, standing, walking, dancing, talking, breathing, lying, and modifying as needed. Open Floor practice is for everybody.

60 minutes, Peace Pod

More About Open Floor Practice: Open Floor teaches resource-based mindful movement, embodiment, and conscious dance. 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. Be one of those people!

INNER WELL, OUTER WORD SPONTANEOUS WRITING WORKSHOP

Thursday, January 8th | 12:30–2 PM

Calling all writers and non-writers! Come creatively engage with your inner world, meeting yourself through directed prompts and exercises, outrun your inner critic. Cultivate a sense of clarity, meaning, and perspective. A sense of connection and support. Opportunity for healing, personal growth, and insight.

90 minutes, Great Room 

Is This Workshop Right for Me? No writing experience necessary. Willingness to be curious, open to possibility, to write, to speak, to listen, to be heard, and to be seen. Group process, experiential exercises, and creativity help cultivate belonging, security, significance, personal growth, and wellbeing.

“Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.”

― Charles Bukowski

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”

― Maya Angelou

SELF-BRAINSPOTTING: A SIMPLE & POWERFUL MINDFULNESS PRACTICE TO SELF-REGULATE

Friday, January 9th | 3:30–5pm

Come learn about Brainspotting (BSP), a powerful and effective neuroexperiential 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 can help with sleep issues, depression, anxiety, irritability, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma, stress, and pain. 

90 minutes, Great Room 

Bring: Smartphone/device with headphones/earbuds to play music if you have  them available.

For guests on-site these classes will be included. For our community members wanting to attend the Brainspotting workshop on January 8 - the drop in fee is $35. Stop by the desk or call to be added to the class list: 715-779-0178.

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BIO: Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN, Psychotherapist, Owner of Coriander Living Collective LLC, Certified EMDR & BRAINSPOTTING Therapist, Licensed Clinical Supervisor, Certified Open Floor International Teacher

A socially interested, resourceful professional dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency, awakening awareness and insight, encouraging action, fostering healing, and cultivating satisfaction in the lives of others. Stands that we all have a responsibility to nurture healthy people and communities. Committed to ongoing learning and growth. Believes we all want the same thing; to live our best life. 

She holds appreciation for her roots, experiences, and the people who have supported, challenged, and allowed her to witness what being human entails.

She is a lover of variety, simple pleasures, gathering pearls of joy, and wandering this big, bad, beautiful earth. Measures a good day by her sense of productivity, freedom, and connection. When not dreaming about her next big adventure or vicariously living through someone else’s travel planning, she can be found playing psychotherapist, meditating, dabbling in small adventures, or drooling over anything related to creative, quality food.

https://openfloor.org/teachers/cori-hildebrandt/

https://www.corianderlivingcollective.com

QUESTIONS?: info@corianderlivingcollective.com

June 6, 2026

The 72 Microseasons of the North & The Art of Noticing

Join artist-photographer Mary Jo Hoffman renowned for her unique and personal engagement with the natural world for two Immersion classes on June 6, 2026. Best known for her project, "STILL” where every day (every single day) for over a decade, she made a photograph of found nature – no subject too small or too ordinary. For Hoffman, a former aeronautical engineer, this daily ritual cracked open profound revelations about the connectedness of all things, the importance of place, and the creative life.

Her book, STILL: The Art of Noticing–already in its fifth printing– features 275 of the most stunning photographs the author-artist has accumulated over thousands of consecutive days of daily shooting accompanied by perceptive, deeply felt, and often humorous essays illuminating the insights gained through this daily creative practice.

Session 1: “The 72 Microseasons of the North"

June 6, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Join author and artist Mary Jo Hoffman, creator of the STILL project and book STILL: The Art of Noticing, for an immersive experience celebrating the poetry of the seasons. Inspired by the Japanese concept of the 72 microseasons. Mary Jo will talk about the importance of "placefulness" as an antidote to the placelessness of life online. While Mary Jo visually presents the 72 Microseasons of the North, guests will be encouraged to create simple compositions using foraged natural materials and photograph their own “still” moments — a meditative exercise in beauty.

Session 2: “The Art of Noticing"

June 6, 2026 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

In this workshop with Mary Jo Hoffman, author of STILL: The Art of Noticing, guests will participate in a guided foraging walk. Mary Jo will share the tricks she uses to see ordinary natural subjects with fresh eyes. Then participants will each be given a "selective filter" to forage by, and together we will make a large assemblage of simple foraged compositions. This is hands-on and highly interactive!

For all guests on-site these classes are included. For our community members, this class is open to the public with a $25 drop in fee or a $130 10-class pass. Please sign up at the front desk in the Retreat Center. Contact Jenna Erickson, Assistant Retreat Director, with any questions - jerickson@wildriceretreat.com.

Author Bio

Mary Jo Hoffman is an artist-photographer renowned for her unique and personal engagement with the natural world. Best known for her project, "STILL” where every day (every single day) for over a decade, she made a photograph of found nature – no subject too small or too ordinary. For Hoffman, a former aeronautical engineer, this daily ritual cracked open profound revelations about the connectedness of all things, the importance of place, and the creative life

Her book, STILL: The Art of Noticing–already in its fifth printing– features 275 of the most stunning photographs the author-artist has accumulated over thousands of consecutive days of daily shooting accompanied by perceptive, deeply felt, and often humorous essays illuminating the insights gained through this daily creative practice.

Hoffman lives in Shoreview, Minnesota, on Turtle Lake, with her husband, Steve, a food writer and author.