Bring the Inquiry to your Group
Participatory inquiries for facilitator trainings, educational communities, museums, organizations, book clubs, and existing groups
Many of the inquiries on this site can also be experienced with existing groups.
Rather than beginning with a fixed workshop, we begin by considering which inquiry is the best fit for your community. The inquiry remains the same. The form changes. A book club, facilitator training, museum, municipality, or organization creates different conditions, and those conditions shape how we practice together.
That can take the form of a single workshop, a multi-week practice, an artistic laboratory, or another composition shaped by the inquiry and your community.
The medium follows the inquiry.
I don't come to tell groups what I see. I compose conditions where groups begin noticing forms of participation that had previously gone unseen.
What kinds of groups?
This work is well suited for:
facilitator training programs
facilitation communities
coaching schools
educational communities
universities
museums and cultural institutions
book clubs and reading circles
artist collectives
teacher education
leadership and learning communities
organizations
conferences and festivals
research groups
communities already gathered around a shared question
No previous experience with my work is needed.
Possible inquiries
School of the Small and Imperfect
A multi-week participatory inquiry into how social worlds are continually composed through ordinary participation.
Especially powerful for groups that already meet together, where the inquiry can continue unfolding between sessions.
Deep Puppetry™
An artistic practice exploring encounter through ordinary objects.
Suitable for museums, festivals, universities, artists, educators, and communities interested in perception, participation, and the possibilities of unfinished encounter.
Witnessing Without Colonizing
Depending on your community, Witnessing Without Colonizing has taken the form of inquiries into facilitation, education, dialogue, parenting, partnership, and everyday conversation.
Sometimes none of these feels quite right.
That's welcome.
Some of my favorite collaborations have emerged by beginning with a conversation rather than a predetermined workshop.
Previous collaborations
The inquiry has been explored in universities, municipalities, cultural institutions, educational settings, and international organizations.
Selected collaborations include:
Rutgers University
University of North Carolina
Anna Lindh Foundation
Misk Global Forum
Malmö Folkuniversitet
Helsingborg Municipality
Festival of Ecology, Stage and Transformation
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Skillinge Teater
Toronto District School Board
How we begin
Every collaboration begins with a conversation.
I'd love to hear about your community and the questions you're living with. Together we can explore which inquiry feels like the best fit.