laura geiger
Relational Fieldwork
Creator of Deep Puppetry™
I work with people and material to practice participating with the living field.
This work is rooted in a kinship orientation, which means staying near what we encounter without needing to own it, define it, or resolve it. Through simple contact in both human and other-than-human contexts, we slow down enough for relational life to become perceptible. What emerges isn’t planned in advance; it takes form through the interaction itself.
Deep Puppetry™ works with material to reveal how relational life emerges through contact.
School of the Small and Imperfect works with people to explore what becomes possible when we stop rushing toward coherence or control.
Both practices create conditions where inherited habits can soften and where something unexpected can take form through the interaction itself. We practice staying with uncertainty, listening before knowing, and letting the field set the terms for what happens next.
This is where our sensing selves discover forms of agency, care, and collaboration that thought alone cannot produce.
what happens here
Deep Puppetry™
A material-led practice for exploring how relational life emerges.
We work with simple objects like paper or cloth and attend to the life that appears through contact. The object becomes a partner in a shared field. As we animate, we begin to notice the subtle habits that shape our participation: the impulse to understand too quickly, to steer, to resolve, or to pull away.
Deep Puppetry™ slows this down. It helps us feel how relation moves when we stop organizing it and what becomes possible when agency is shared rather than directed.
This is relational ethics made tangible through material. Ethics here are practiced as proximity without possession and responsiveness without control.
Deep Puppetry™ is offered through a two-level certificate program, online workshops, and in-person intensives.
The Deep Puppetry™ Certificate Program’s final cohort in the current format begins January 7. Enrollment now open.
School of the Small & Imperfect
A weekly relational laboratory where development is practiced at the scale of contact.
The School is a structured space for group inquiry into how we participate with one another. We work with shared activities and subtle relational experiments that help us notice how we move when the next step is not yet known.
It is a space where difference can remain present, coherence isn’t rushed, and small shifts in attention can reorganize the whole field.
The School creates conditions where people can participate without self-curating, follow emergence, and let new relational possibilities take root.
The School meets weekly on Zoom in three-month cycles.
orientation
My framework begins with the understanding that relational capacity is world-building capacity. How we meet one another, human and other-than-human, shapes the social, ecological, and political worlds we make and inhabit.
I’m interested in how inherited relational patterns loosen when we attend to the field itself and what becomes possible in their place. The small is not preparation. It is the site of development. Every moment of contact participates in world-making.
This work is grounded and experiential, shaped through years of applied performing arts, somatic inquiry, social therapeutics, and long-form collaboration. I stay close to what arises and let the work unfold from there.