Emergent ecology of encounter: tender, strange, unfinished

A KINSHIP TOO WILD TO NAME

Where the poetic and the political meet in practice

welcome to a field of practice.

This is for the edge-walkers, the holy mischief-makers, and those longing to move in ways that defy definition. This space is a humming tangle of gesture, attention, creation, devotion, and relation.

Here we attend to the places where mystery and contact take root. We let Life move through us and in so doing, find a kinship of orientation - toward emergence, uncertainty, and the slow improvisation of becoming-with.

This is for you who feel called to dwell with the unruly, to stay with the not-knowing, to meet complexity with curiosity, to risk closeness without collapse.

We let the symbolic, social, somatic, and sacred bleed into one another until something stranger and more alive can begin to move.

These are sites of attunement and living inquiry where we practice fractal activism, the politics of tenderness, and love as an act of world-making.

invitations to the practice

deep puppetry

Using simple materials, you'll learn to co-create with puppets as unruly collaborators and guides. This is puppetry as a site of healing, resistance, and relational practice beyond performance and outside language. For people trying to move out of systems of domination beneath an intellectual orientation and into how we move, relate, and create together.

school of the small and imperfect

This a weekly online membership space in which we practice showing up and bringing our attention to the shared field. We consciously stay in the uncomfortable, unresolved places and tend the edges of the unknown. A living laboratory of emergence, this school of fish supports our development and resources the presence, creativity, and energy we bring into our own lives and communities.

1:1 work

Private sessions are relational, symbolic, and somatic spaces where we follow the thread of what’s alive. Rather than fixing or diagnosing, we co-create new ground through conversation, guided practices, and poetic tools that open you to new perspectives, patterns, and meaning. This is relational practice at its most intimate scale.

What is the work?

Here, we don’t chase answers; we court emergence. We follow what moves. We use creative, relational, and symbolic tools to tend, not fix and to offer new ground for Life to arrive.

This isn’t about discovering a hidden self, nor escaping the world as it is. It’s about letting something stranger and more alive begin to move through us in gesture, creation, shared attention.

This practice is field-based and participatory. I use dialogic encounter, somatics, symbolic play, intuitive ritual, and performance to help individuals and groups engage with mystery, deepen responsiveness, and rehearse alternative ways of relating to self, other, and world.

This work does not orient toward the delivery of meaning nor the pursuit of mastery but the holding open of a space where new patterns of perceiving, relating, and being can emerge. I design conditions for Life to become accessible and to be met as presence, as mystery, as movement.

It’s not therapy, coaching, or art-making, although it can look like all three. It is a set of invitations into deeper encounter with what transforms.

It’s cosmological in scale and as close as breath in practice.

    • Contact over cognition

    • Relationality over individuality

    • Process over fixed essence

    • Mystery as method

    • Imagination as portal

    • Ethics as responsiveness

  • I use the term kinship cautiously, knowing it arises in many Indigenous lifeways not as metaphor but as deep and specific worldview, as a sacred system of relation, responsibility, and belonging. 

    In my work, I don’t borrow from those meanings nor refer to a fixed lineage, culture, or system but learn from those values. I invoke kinship as an orientation to relate without domination, to stay without certainty, to tend what we cannot master. It points to a practice, a way of being with what is unfamiliar, unruly, or emergent. A Kinship Too Wild to Name is not teachings about kinship but about opportunities to practice becoming-with.

What people say

“This woman is so audacious in what she believes is possible for us, as individuals and as a collective, and in the space that she holds, the potential of our highest good becomes incredibly alive and within reach - it becomes felt sense.” -Danah Alkhaleel

“There was magic for me. The profundity and poetry and power in what Laura sees and calls forth brings an expansiveness and an immersion and a magic all of its own.” -workshop participant

“Laura is a force of grace, light, and deep wisdom. Through Laura's loving and empowering guidance, a new found liberation was unlocked inside me.” -Janet-Lee Ropas

“Laura's course has changed my life. It sounds cliche but it's true. I feel like parts of me that were asleep or dormant have been awakened, old emotions are being cleared, and I am now safe to express things that I've held inside.” -June Morrow

“Laura is extremely skilled, warm, welcoming. From a greater distance of time, I’m even more appreciative of the healing I found. Working with her is a warm river of grace.” -Fiona Vipond

“Laura created a space that had so much acceptance so I could move some deeply held emotions and through it all, I felt her hold me. It is not often I meet course leaders like her.” -Lars Möller

​”Laura has an incredible ability to help you shift inside. Through what seems like simple exercises, she helps bring about insights, healing and expression as you’ve never experienced it before.” -Tanya Lochner

“Working with Laura reconnected me to the magical intuitive being I am. I felt trust and joy more than I ever have before in my life.” -Shahad Altukhaim

“Laura's seemingly endless, unique and compassionate invitations to be seen and heard reinvigorated the sweet child within to be witnessed and loved again. Her wide bandwidth for buoyant playfulness and creativity, blended with her ability to be soulfully present and grounded, was truly something to behold.” -Jessica Zullo

“Laura has helped me break the spell I’ve lived under for probably hundreds of years, and she has helped me unleash, break open and literally rebirth the essence of my voice. I am blessed and in deep gratitude for I no longer fear speaking.” -Myriam Llano, Divine Renewal™