Metamorphosis
A return to your creative roots with Teri Hofford & Mitzi Starkweather
The workshop that focuses on putting the
ART
back into your heART.
Metamorphosis is a creative reclamation workshop for photographers who’ve lost their spark. A shedding of old identities and a return to the curiosity, play, and artistry that made you fall in love with the camera in the first place. We are stripping everything back, connecting to the raw & the real, and most importantly, remembering who we are as artists.
This 2 day workshop is not another push towards productivity where you leave with 1000 extra photos to edit that look like all the other attendees’.
This is a high-touch, deeply personal workshop designed for creatives who feel disconnected, uninspired, or lost in the noise and are ready to come home to themselves again.
Over two days inside the warmth of Teri’s home, you’ll move through a process of tender deconstruction and soulful reconstruction, held in a space where you get to soften, breathe, and finally hear yourself.
And at the end of each day, you’ll be photographed by Teri Hofford and Mitzi Starkweather ~ not as a performance, but as a sacred witnessing of who you are becoming.
Inside the workshop
Day 1: Deconstruction
The first day you will hear from both Teri & Mitzi about their own deconstruction experiences in the photography industry. They will share the walls they hit, the signs they ignored, and the repercussions of what kept them feeling fulfilled in their careers.
Both Mitzi & Teri will go through the tools, resources, and frameworks they used to support the squidgiest part of their journeys and walk you through them in your workbook.
We’ll look at the stories, expectations, and internalized beliefs that have shaped you, especially the ones that have pulled you away from your creativity, your voice, and your purpose. You’ll explore who you’ve been taught to be, what you’ve outgrown, and what needs releasing to make space for something truer.
At the end of day 1, you will be photographed by Teri in a quiet, grounding experience that honors you in the raw, honest in-between.
Day 2: Reconstruction
On the second day Teri & Mitzi will share how they began rebuilding their lives and dreams after shedding all of the identities they’d carried for their whole lives and help you explore identity, purpose and the version of yourself that feels aligned, powerful, and fully expressed.
We will use PLAY to help you remember who you are, why you create, and what fuels you to show up authentically. Most importantly, we are going to show you how to embrace your metamorphosis every time you get “stuck” and turn each “creative block” into a rebirth.
You’ll leave with a renewed sense of direction and a foundation that feels both grounded, expansive, and like breathing again.
At the end of day 2, Mitzi will photograph your emergence and the new shape of your becoming.
What You Can Look Forward To
An Intimate, In-Home Setting
For the first time ever, Teri is opening up her home to create a warm, comforting, and beautifully creative space.
On both days, you will get to step into your clients’ shoes and allow yourself to be photographed by 2 award winning photographers.
Portrait Sessions with Teri & Mitzi
One of Teri’s signature elements of her workshops are the beautiful workbooks that allow you to revisit the content, long after you’ve left the workshop!
Beautiful Workbooks + Journals
It’s high priority for us to keep our numbers low so that each attendee gets the ample support that their specific dream life requires.
A High-Touch, Small Group Experience
Meet Your Guides
Just 2 humans who uncomfortably found out who they were, by confronting who they weren’t. And now they want to help you do the same.
MITZI STARKWEATHER
Portrait photographer, educator, and speaker.
Mitzi Starkweather helps remind people who they are. Through portrait and boudoir photography, intentional conversation, honest mentorship, or play, Mitzi’s goal is always to return to the joy of creation.
After years running a studio in a small town that consistently did a quarter million a year, she found herself burnt out and disconnected with her work. She realized she was following other people’s blueprints instead of letting her heart craft her own. Over the past three years she’s shown what it means to throw rules out the window and do things HER way. Her Raw Portraits Course continues to create a network of photographers all over the world who are returning to the joy of why they started creating in the first place, and helping their clients show up as they are by doing that themselves.
This workshop is the outpouring of her heart — both inspirational and practical — built on fun, curiosity, and love.
TERI HOFFORD
Body image educator, photographer, author & TedX Speaker
Teri’s work began with a simple realization: she’d spent years trying to “fix” her body instead of listening to it and that disconnection was costing her the life she knew she was meant to live. Once she reclaimed the relationship with her body, everything opened. And now she guides others through that same unravelling, remembering, and returning.
Teri first became known for revolutionizing the photography world’s understanding of body diversity, creating Confident Curves in 2016 and going on to speak on international stages like WPPI, The Portrait Masters, and Gather to Grow. But the deeper shift came when she blended her Applied Positive Psychology certification with her experience to create the ACE Method: a gentle, practical framework that helps leaders release the beliefs that keep them overworking, overthinking, and undervaluing their own magic.
Today, through intimate retreats, in person & online workshops, mentorship, and her TEDx talk 5 Reasons You Look Bad in Photos, Teri offers a high-touch, deeply personal experience for creatives ready to realign their inner world with the work they feel called to create. Her approach is rooted in compassion, clarity, creativity and the belief that your purpose becomes undeniable the moment you learn to trust yourself again.
This workshop is for you if…
You’ve accomplished a lot, yet feel disconnected from your purpose
Your creativity feels muted, blocked, or unclear
You’re craving time, space, and guidance to reconnect with your inner voice
You want to shed old narratives and rebuild from truth & love rather than fear
You desire not just clarity ~ but revived creativity
You want to feel witnessed in the transition you’re in
You’re ready for a transformation that feels soft, deep, and fully supported
Hear yourself saying the words “stuck” and feel fear about it all falling apart
You are ready to trust fall into our world and let us guide you towards the life & biz you dream of
DETAILS
PRICE
EARLY BIRD PRICE (valid until Jan 15, 2026)
[split payment plans available at checkout!]
$3700 cad (approx $2636 usd)
$4000 cad (approx $2,850 usd)
FULL PRICE after Jan 15, 2026
Included in your price:
2 days of guided workshop with Teri & Mitzi hosted at Teri’s home
Workbook + Journal
1 x 20 minute session with Teri
1 x 20 minute session with Mitzi
Lunch, Snacks, Coffee provided
1 Quickie Coaching with Teri to be used within a year of the workshop
DATES
April 16 & 17, 2026
LOCATION
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
