I’m Laura Geiger. My work grows from a long curiosity about how development actually happens. Not as an idea but as something we can feel, enter, and participate in together. Over time, I’ve come to understand development as relational, something that happens between us, not inside the individual self.

Deep Puppetry™ and School of the Small and Imperfect emerged from this inquiry. They take different forms, and both are spaces where we practice meeting what’s unfolding without rushing to control it, fix it, or make it make sense. When we stay with moments this way, something unexpected often becomes possible.

Much of what limits us in relationship isn’t personal or chosen. It lives in habits shaped by urgency, dominance, fear of being wrong, or the pressure to arrive at clarity too quickly. These patterns organize moments before we even notice them. My work helps bring these habits into view, gently, so they can loosen and the relational field can move differently.

In Deep Puppetry™, a simple material object becomes a partner in this exploration. The puppet isn’t a character or a metaphor. It’s a way of making relational life visible at a scale we can actually feel: a shift of weight, a pause, a breath, a subtle leaning-toward or away. When we slow down enough to follow what arises between us and the material, possibility opens.

This work isn’t therapy, and it isn’t performance. It’s developmental in another sense: development as something that happens in contact, in the shared space where familiar patterns soften and new forms of relation can be accessed.

Alongside Deep Puppetry™, I steward School of the Small and Imperfect, a weekly practice community devoted to collective emergence and relational ethics. Together, we practice staying with difference, uncertainty, and the unfinished without collapsing, tightening, or organizing the moment too quickly. The work lives in participation, not in explanation.

My background includes somatic work, applied performing arts, ecological and material practices, social therapeutics, and more than twenty years of facilitating groups where relationship itself is the medium. These are my influences, but I don’t teach techniques or methods. I create conditions. I hold spaces where people can participate in ways that make more relational life possible.

If you sense that another way of relating is possible and want to practice it with others, you’re welcome here.

If you’d like to know more about the influences behind this work, you can read about the training and lineages that shape it: here.