I’m Laura Geiger.

My work lives where relational praxis, material engagement, and embodied ecology meet. I help people practice forms of relating that support justice, shared agency, and the capacity to be changed by what we encounter.

This grows from a long fascination with how people meet one another and what shifts when we do it with more presence, less urgency, and fewer habits that keep us out of real contact. I’ve found that when attention slows and gets more honest, the space between us becomes a place where development can actually happen.

Relational praxis, as I use the term, is lived work. It begins with noticing our patterns: where we lean away, where we override, where we disappear, where urgency takes over, and how all of this becomes structure. It asks how we might meet difference without shrinking or imposing, and how interaction itself can generate more livable possibilities than any one person could script.

For more than twenty years, I’ve taught and facilitated in artistic, educational, and communal spaces. Across those contexts, I have focused on creating conditions where people can participate without self-curation, where contact precedes explanation, and where something unexpected is allowed to take form.

Deep Puppetry™ and School of the Small and Imperfect emerged from this inquiry. One works with material, the other with human relationship, but both are laboratories for practicing how change becomes possible through encounter. In each, people learn to stay with what is happening, to move at the pace of emergence, and to discover new forms of agency that arise through shared attention rather than individual effort.

My teaching is steady, responsive, and oriented toward what is unfolding in real time. I’m not offering answers. I’m helping hold a space where new questions and new ways of relating can take shape, where ethics are practiced through contact rather than held as concepts. How we work together here becomes how we work with the world.

My influences include applied theatre, social therapeutics (East Side Institute), somatic practices, ritual studies, object theatre, and many years of group facilitation at the intersection of embodiment, artistic inquiry, and relational development. These threads meet in a practice concerned with how we create the worlds we live in through even the smallest exchanges.

If you’d like to explore the work directly, you can join Deep Puppetry™, School of the Small and Imperfect, or reach out about longer-term study.

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.