Laura Geiger
Most of us understand things before they have had the chance to change us
We inherit ways of meeting the world that eventually become invisible.
Someone hesitates, and we reassure them. Someone doesn’t make sense, and we explain. An object appears, and we decide what it is. A silence opens, and we hurry to fill it. A person surprises us, and we fit them into what we already know.
These are ordinary movements. They help us live together. They also shape the worlds we are able to inhabit.
I create practices where these movements become visible while they are happening - so that we can discover what else becomes possible when understanding doesn't arrive quite so quickly.
Another person is always more than our first recognition. A conversation is always more than its first meaning. And a world is always larger than the habits by which we organize it.
How do we keep an encounter alive long enough for it to change us?
That's the question my work keeps returning to.
Begin here
Practice
Live relational practices
Living Inquiry
Monthly conversations
Writing
Essays from the field
Organizations
Long-term collaborations
Private Practice
One-to-one accompaniment
We spend much of our lives becoming better at recognizing the world.
These practices are an invitation to another way of meeting the world.
What if we didn't have to understand before we could remain in relationship?
What if another person, an object, a place, or even a memory could remain larger than our first understanding of it?
Each practice approaches that question differently.
Everything else grows from there.
