The Practice of Re-Membering
The Practice of Re-Membering is a three-night creative gathering at Red Clover Ranch in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region, facilitated by Annie Novotny, LCPC, ATR-BC and Muffie Delgado Connelly, SEP.
You’ll spend our time exploring the practice of returning to relationship with our bodies, our creativity, the land, one another, and maybe some parts of yourselves you haven’t heard from in a while.
Participants will be invited to-
Make things without worrying about whether they’re good.
Move without needing to know where we’re going.
Follow a color, a sensation, a strange idea, and our curiosity.
Get a little messy. Maybe surprise ourselves.
Share, to our comfort levels, what we discover in these processes.
And there will be space where nothing in particular is expected of you. Time to walk the land, take a nap, sit around a fire, eat something delicious, laugh with new friends, or simply be quiet.
Throughout your time together, Annie and Muffie will guide you through creative practices and embodied experiences designed to help you listen a little more closely, to your body, your impulses, your imagination, and to what might be asking for your attention.
This retreat is an invitation to remember something we so easily lose track of in the noise of our lives: that we belong. To yourselves. To your bodies. To your creativity. To one another. To the land beneath your feet and this big, strange, living world.
The practice of re-membering is less about finding something you’ve lost and more about creating enough space for what has always been there to find its way back to you.
Guests, please note that this is a hosted retreat, and reservations must be made through the Retreat Leader Host. Red Clover does not manage the bookings for Hosted Retreats, and you must reserve your space directly with the Hosted Retreat Leader. Click the button to book directly through the Retreat Leader Host’s Website or their retreat booking site.
Annie Novotny, LCPC, ATR-BC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor, board-certified art therapist, artist, and arts educator. For over 20 years, she has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, fostering creativity, curiosity, and artistic exploration. As the founder of Roots & Rays Creative Counseling, Annie is dedicated to holding intentional spaces where creative expression becomes a pathway toward connection—to ourselves, to one another, and to the world around us. She believes in the transformative power of making things together and in creativity as an innate resource available to us all.
Muffie Delgado Connelly, SEP, is a dance artist, somatic experiencing practitioner, and movement specialist based in Portland, Oregon. With over three decades of experience as a choreographer, educator, and bodyworker, her work bridges creative expression and trauma-informed healing. Muffie is dedicated to helping people reconnect with pleasure, resilience, and vitality in their bodies, and her choreography and somatic practice invite others to experience movement as both art and medicine.