school of the small and imperfect
A 13-week facilitated relational practice lab for unfinished interaction, participation, and social coordination in real time
Most interaction settles into familiar patterns faster than we can fully notice.
Someone steps in. Someone absorbs tension and restores continuity. Someone becomes responsible for keeping things moving.
This often happens before anyone consciously decides to.
School of the Small and Imperfect creates live conditions where those movements can slow down enough to become perceptible while they are still unfolding.
We aren’t trying to eliminate coordination, avoid care, or remain uncertain forever.
We are exploring what becomes possible when interaction is allowed to stay unfinished a little longer.
what happens inside the lab
Each week, participants enter structured live interactional environments designed to make participation more perceptible in real time.
Through improvisation, interactional scores, interruption, repetition, awkwardness, coordination, silence, and collective experimentation, participants begin noticing:
how responsibility distributes itself
how interaction settles into familiar shapes
how roles emerge
how tension reorganizes participation
how reassurance stabilizes moments
how quickly interaction settles into shared assumptions
Over time, participants often begin noticing more while interaction is happening, rather than only afterward.
The room itself develops rhythms: awkward, funny, subtly disorienting, social, sometimes relieving, sometimes difficult, and often unexpectedly alive.
The work is structured but not rigid. People are not trying to perform insight or arrive at correct behavior together.
Instead, participants practice remaining inside live interaction long enough for familiar participation patterns to become perceptible while they are still unfolding.
over the 13 weeks, we practice:
Early weeks
noticing the impulse to step in
sensing coordination pressure
recognizing how quickly interaction stabilizes
Middle weeks
contributing without controlling the outcome
remaining present without immediately resolving
interrupting patterns without taking over
Later weeks
staying in interaction without agreement
allowing difference without premature coherence
tracking participation as it reorganizes in real time
The focus is not personal disclosure or interpersonal analysis. It is live participation inside structured interaction.
Participants often notice shifts in:
how quickly they intervene
what becomes perceptible during interaction
how responsibility distributes itself
their capacity to remain present during unfinishedness
how easily they become recruited into familiar participation roles
Why this requires a lab
These patterns happen between people and faster than conscious reflection.
They become perceptible through repeated live practice with others.
“These practices are subtle and powerful. I find myself with colleagues, friends, and family noticing that lifelong patterns of relating have begun to shift. The changes unfold slowly, over time, and they hold — as if the bones of relationship to self and other are being re-aligned.”
-Alissa Di Franco“A trustworthy kind of disorientation. Our hours together altered how I moved, noticed, and responded to my life. Here, there is the possibility of relational habits becoming visible, becoming relational skills to move with, rather than be bound by.”
-Karalyn Riepert
“This work has started to expand in me and in my relational field. I’ve noticed patterns repeating across different people and situations - with such similarity that I can’t help but see my own participation in creating the outcomes. There’s a kind of zoomed-out perspective now, like I’m in the interaction and also watching it unfold while it’s happening.”
-Kevin Karpinski
Who this is for
This tends to resonate with people who:
care about power, harm, and how interaction shapes outcomes
notice relational dynamics easily
work with groups, collaboration, or care
often find themselves carrying more than they intended
want to practice without rushing to resolve
feel interested in what happens before interaction fully settles into familiarity
You don’t need a specific role or professional identity.
You do need enough grounding to remain present when interaction becomes uncertain, unfinished, or socially unclear.
Structure
13 weeks
75 minutes weekly
live on Zoom
closed cohort
maximum 12 participants
Each cycle repeats. The field does not.
A Different Kind of Practice
The work is not about mastering interaction. It is about becoming more perceptive inside it.
next cohort
Dates announced soon.
Tuesdays, 15:00–16:15 CET
(6am Pacific US, 9am Eastern US, 2pm UK, 7:30pm India)
Enrollment closes when the cohort begins. No late entry.
Investment: 6300 SEK (approximately 665 USD)
Monthly payment plan available: three monthly payments of 2400 SEK (approx 258 USD)
A small number of reduced-rate spots are available if needed. You’re welcome to reach out.
If you recognize this pattern in your own participation and haven’t been able to shift it on your own, this is a place to practice.