About Laura Geiger

Laura Geiger is a practitioner and training designer whose work explores how participation shapes power, responsibility, and ethical possibility inside groups.

Her methodology has developed through long engagement with voicework, somatics, applied theatre, and relational practice, investigating how people change through interaction rather than insight alone. Early spiritual and intuitive inquiry informed her attention to presence and perception, while the work itself has evolved through embodied experimentation and social practice.

She designs training environments where relational patterns can be experienced directly, allowing practitioners to notice how authority, care, and responsibility emerge through participation. Her work is grounded in a commitment to interrupting patterns that reproduce domination in everyday relational life.

This work has appeared in a range of artistic, educational, and organizational settings, including: Rutgers University, University of North Carolina, Anna Lindh Foundation, Misk Global Forum, and Folkuniversitetet Malmö.

Development of the Work

Laura began facilitating creative and voice-based group processes, exploring how expression, attention, and embodied practice shape experience. She later moved into somatic work, studying how relational habits live in the body, including patterns of protection, control, responsiveness, and adaptation.

Her inquiry expanded through applied theatre and improvisational methods, including Theatre of the Oppressed and Social Therapeutics, investigating how new ways of relating can be rehearsed collectively and how people develop through social interaction.

Through ongoing experimentation with objects, embodiment, perception, and participation, she developed Deep Puppetry™, a practice that makes participation visible and allows people to study how they meet power, care, and uncertainty in real time. Deep Puppetry continues as a core practice within her teaching.

Turning Toward the Relational Field

Through teaching across many contexts, Laura became increasingly interested in how change actually occurs - not only through new skills or expanded awareness, but through the conditions that shape participation itself.

She observed that people could engage powerful practices for growth and still find themselves repeating familiar relational patterns, especially under pressure. New behavior did not automatically interrupt deeper habits shaped by environments and histories.

Alongside this, she began examining how colonial and hierarchical systems persist, often invisibly, through everyday relational habits in how authority concentrates, how responsibility collapses, and how care can become management.

Her work gradually turned toward studying the relational field: the subtle patterns through which interaction organizes itself moment to moment.

Current Focus

Laura’s current body of work, Relational Fieldwork, investigates how power, responsibility, and possibility emerge through participation and how these dynamics can be studied through structured practice environments.

Rather than focusing primarily on individual insight or expression, she designs conditions where participants can experience how relational patterns form and shift in real time.

Her work supports practitioners in developing greater tolerance for uncertainty, expanded participation range, and the capacity to remain present inside ethical complexity without rushing toward control or withdrawal.

The aim is not perfection or correctness but increased freedom to participate responsibly within systems that shape collective life.

Approach

Laura’s teaching draws on interdisciplinary experience across somatics, performance, relational practice, trauma-informed work, and social experimentation.

Her approach emphasizes:

• learning through participation rather than abstraction

• practicing under real relational conditions

• slowing interpretation so patterns can be observed

• working with complexity without premature resolution

• cultivating ethical responsiveness in live environments

She works with facilitators, educators, therapists, artists, organizers, and others responsible for group environments.

Background

Laura holds a degree in Sociology and has pursued extensive training across movement and somatic practice, applied theatre, trauma-informed work, puppetry, relational methodologies, and spiritual inquiry.

For more than twenty years, she has taught internationally in artistic, educational, and community contexts and continues to develop original training environments exploring relational practice, embodiment, and social interaction.

Her work continues to evolve through practice, teaching, and ongoing curiosity into how people live and act together.

If you’re curious about the lineages and influences that have shaped this work, you can read more here.