Ready to move beyond the basics? This hands-on workshop series is designed for anyone who wants to make AI a practical part of their everyday life. Whether your goal is to save time at work, organize your personal life, learn something new, tackle a creative project, or simply become more confident using AI, we’ll help you discover approaches that work for you. You’ll learn how to write more effective prompts, create reusable AI workflows, and use AI to solve real-world problems. Throughout the series, you’ll apply what you learn to your own interests and goals—whether that’s planning a vacation, organizing finances, writing, researching, creating presentations, generating images, building a simple app, or streamlining everyday tasks. You’ll leave with practical skills and personalized workflows you can continue using long after the course ends. You don’t need to attend the introductory course to join this workshop. While the introductory course provides a helpful foundation, we’ll begin with a brief refresher before moving into what makes this series unique: hands-on practice, personalized guidance, and building practical AI workflows around your own interests, goals, and everyday challenges. Please bring a laptop. Most of the workshop is hands-on, and participants without a laptop won’t be able to fully participate in the guided activities. If bringing a laptop isn’t possible, you’re still welcome to attend, but plan to take notes and apply the exercises later.

Explore character, voice, movement, and imagination in this Acting and Improvisation class. Students will learn acting skills in a positive and fun environment that fosters confidence and creativity. In this dynamic class, student actors learn how to be "in the moment", explore our imaginations, sharpen our acting skills, work on voice and movement, and build confidence on and off the stage.

This class explores the wisdom of traditional foodways through a practical, whole-food lens. Drawing from ancestral eating patterns, Biblical food traditions, herbs, and ancient nutrition principles, this class highlights the role of nutrient-dense foods such as organ meats, bone broth, animal fats, fermented foods, fruits, vegetables, and heritage grains like einkorn flour. Participants will learn how these foods may support energy, digestion, metabolic health, and overall resilience through a return to simpler, more traditional eating. This course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to eat in a way that honors both history and health. You’ll discover how ancient cultures used food as nourishment and medicine, and how to incorporate traditional foods into a modern lifestyle in a practical, approachable way.

Support your digestive health by calming the nervous system and giving your body the tools it needs to rest, restore, and thrive. Digestive discomfort isn't always about what you eat—it can also be influenced by stress, tension, and how your nervous system responds to daily life. In this unique co-taught workshop, Karla Hensrud-Wagner, Yamuna® Body Rolling Practitioner, yoga instructor, and movement specialist, joins Penny Stadick of Herbz & Spicez, herbal educator, to explore the powerful connection between stress, movement, breath, and digestive health. Karla will guide participants through gentle movement, restorative stretching, breathing techniques, and relaxation practices that help activate the body's natural "rest and digest" response. Penney will introduce traditional herbs that have long been used to support digestion, soothe occasional digestive discomfort, and promote healthy gut function, while demonstrating practical ways to incorporate them into everyday life.

Make mozzarella cheese from scratch, and then use it to make a caprese salad to take home. Learn the basics of cheese making in this fun and informative class. We will also discuss how to make ricotta cheese, and everyone will leave with a cheese making kit to make their next batch at home.

Do you find yourself stopping to figure out every note? Losing your place when you look at your hands? Struggling to keep a steady rhythm while reading? Many adult learners feel stuck because they were never shown a clear, effective way to approach reading at the piano. In this class, you’ll learn how to move beyond slow, note-by-note decoding and begin recognizing patterns, making reading feel more natural and manageable. Designed for adult beginners and returning players, this class offers a supportive, step-by-step path for anyone who wants piano reading to finally make sense.

Join your child and Montessori Music Instructor, Laura Karst, as we explore the wonderful world of music! Through playing resonator bars, singing, listening activities, movement, games and hands-on musical exploration, children learn to hear, recognize and name each pitch in a joyful and developmentally appropriate way. Parents or caregivers are encouraged to stay and actively participate throughout the class. Together, you'll create joyful musical memories while helping your child develop a lifelong love of music. (Price includes Resonator Bars to keep).

Food preservation can be done in many ways, but is it safe? Learn more about safely preserving your garden harvest or grocery store fruits and vegetables during this in person introduction to safe food preservation through scientifically researched recipes and methods. *University of Minnesota Extension-Master Gardener Program, Clay County

As the days grow shorter and temperatures cool, many people notice changes in their energy, mood, immunity, and overall well-being. This unique co-taught workshop brings together Karla Hensrud-Wagner, Yamuna® Body Rolling Practitioner, yoga instructor, and movement specialist, and Penny Stadick of Herbz & Spicez, herbal educator, to help you navigate the transition into fall with practical tools for seasonal wellness. Karla will guide participants through gentle grounding movement, balance exercises, and breathing techniques designed to improve stability, calm the nervous system, support healthy lung function, and prepare the body for the months ahead. Penny will introduce traditional herbs that have long been used to promote immune resilience, respiratory wellness, and seasonal balance, while demonstrating simple ways to incorporate them into everyday life.

Build your skills as a performer, singer, dancer, and actor in this intensive performance class. Student Actors will learn body and breath foundations, space and stage presence, energy and vocal expression, character development, voice and movement, basic dance for the theatre, and will practice polishing a piece for performance. Performance will be at 7:30 PM on Dec 21.

Give your organization a competitive advantage with Artificial Intelligence (AI). And position yourself in an emerging knowledge specialty and growth area. Explore what AI can do to reduce costs, gather more and better business data, automate time-consuming tasks, improve efficiency, lower human error, reallocate staff time for higher priority functions, and more. Course schedule Introduction to ChatGPT Sep 8 – Oct 2 Intermediate AI Jul 6 – 31 Oct 5 – 30 AI Planning and Strategies Aug 3 – 28 Nov 2 – 27

Unlock the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with ChatGPT, the fastest-growing app in the world. Learn how ChatGPT can dramatically increase your productivity and provide you with a competitive advantage in the workplace. Designed for anyone seeking to acquire new skills, you’ll gain an understanding of the capabilities of ChatGPT and how to leverage them to achieve your goals faster and easier than ever before. Don't get left behind in the AI revolution. Capitalize on the opportunities it presents. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, take the first step towards unlocking your full potential with ChatGPT. Course schedule Introduction to ChatGPT Sep 8 – Oct 2 Intermediate ChatGPT Oct 5 – 30 Advanced ChatGPT Nov 2 – 27

Here’s a facelift you can do at home. Acupressure is an ancient Chinese healing method that works with the energy that flows through your body. Stimulating facial acupressure points can help erase years from your face naturally, bring a healthy glow to your skin; increase forming; even decrease headaches, relieve eye strain, soothe nerves, and increase relaxation. Learn how to make your skin healthy from the inside out.