laura geiger
Relational Ethics Practitioner and Creator of Deep Puppetry™
I teach how to participate with the living field, material and human, in ways that make more life possible.
My work brings together relational praxis, material engagement, and embodied ecology to create practices where people can experience how development happens through relationship, not inside the self.
Deep Puppetry™ works with material to show how aliveness emerges through contact.
School of the Small & Imperfect works with people to explore how new relational life becomes possible when we participate without rushing toward coherence or control.
Both practices create conditions where inherited habits can loosen and where something unexpected can take form through the interaction itself. We practice staying with uncertainty, listening before knowing, and following what the field is doing rather than what we think should be happening.
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 (paper, fabric, trash) and attend to the life that appears through contact. The object is not a symbol or a tool; it is a partner in a shared field. As we animate, we begin to notice the subtle habits that shape our participation: the impulse to understand, to steer, to resolve, to retreat.
Deep Puppetry™ slows this down. It lets us feel how a relationship 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.
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 (of fish) 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.
People learn to participate without self-curating, to follow emergence, and to let new relational possibilities take root.
The School meets weekly on Zoom in three-month cycles.
orientation
My framework is one where 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.
My work cultivates ways of participating that are less organized by the relational structures we’ve inherited and more aligned with what can emerge when we attend to the field itself. 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. It grows from years in applied performing arts, somatic inquiry, social therapeutics, and long-form collaborative exploration. I stay close to what arises and let the work unfold from there.