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Deep Puppetry certificate program
This will be the last offering of the 8-week certificate in its current structure and pricing, as the program will shift to a new 10-week format later in 2025.
Through hands-on animation, shared inquiry, and weekly practice, we explore how giving life to an object becomes a way of meeting the world without control. This is relational work: learning to stay with what is present, to respond instead of direct, and to be shaped by the encounter rather than dominating it.
Across eight sessions, we move from contact with raw material into collaboration with emergent forms of life. We study how movement arises between two presences, how power circulates in small interactions, and how distributed agency can change how we meet the world. What begins as object animation becomes practicing a different way of relating to uncertainty, to difference, and to the not-me.
Over the course, we will:
• Listen through our hands
Follow movement where it already flows rather than imposing intention.
• Explore influence and autonomy
Practice supporting another being without controlling it; learn what accompaniment feels like.
• Animate the world
Blur the boundary between subject and object and work with animacy as a relational field.
• Stay with the unknown
Meet discomfort, incoherence, and the unfamiliar without tightening around it.
• Work with power and mutuality
Shift from “What do I want?” to “What is happening between us?” Notice scarcity, hesitation, and the impulse to intervene.
• Develop new relational capacities
Witness without colonizing and use improvisation as developmental practice.
• Bring ritual and reflection into the work
Let each session become both a laboratory and a site of meaning-meeting rooted in justice, imagination, and shared agency.
This is not puppetry for performance but puppetry as threshold, an embodied study of how we meet life without domination.
No artistic or performance background required.
• 8 online sessions
Recordings available for one week after each class
• Approx. 20 hours live + 10 hours between sessions
(homework videos, readings, reflections)
• Certificate awarded for attending at least 6 sessions and completing assignments
• Designed for educators, therapists, facilitators, artists, activists, and anyone working with relational, creative, or justice-aligned practice
• This work can be tender and transformative. Participants should have personal or community support outside class.
Eight Wednesdays in class
January 7
January 14
January 21
January 28
ONE WEEK BREAK
February 11
February 18
February 25
March 4
6pm - 8:30pm Central European (this is the default time zone)
10:30pm-1am India
12pm - 2:30pm Eastern US
9am - 11:30am Pacific US
Includes one 40-minute private session with Laura (scheduled individually).
Pricing
6800 SEK (approx. 710 USD)
Early bird: 5130 SEK (approx. 530 USD) - ends Dec 15
Payment plan: 2400 SEK/month for 3 months (~255 USD)
click here to sign up via the payment plan
Limited scholarship opportunity, depending upon enrollment
This will be the last offering of the 8-week certificate in its current structure and pricing, as the program will shift to a new 10-week format later in 2025.
Through hands-on animation, shared inquiry, and weekly practice, we explore how giving life to an object becomes a way of meeting the world without control. This is relational work: learning to stay with what is present, to respond instead of direct, and to be shaped by the encounter rather than dominating it.
Across eight sessions, we move from contact with raw material into collaboration with emergent forms of life. We study how movement arises between two presences, how power circulates in small interactions, and how distributed agency can change how we meet the world. What begins as object animation becomes practicing a different way of relating to uncertainty, to difference, and to the not-me.
Over the course, we will:
• Listen through our hands
Follow movement where it already flows rather than imposing intention.
• Explore influence and autonomy
Practice supporting another being without controlling it; learn what accompaniment feels like.
• Animate the world
Blur the boundary between subject and object and work with animacy as a relational field.
• Stay with the unknown
Meet discomfort, incoherence, and the unfamiliar without tightening around it.
• Work with power and mutuality
Shift from “What do I want?” to “What is happening between us?” Notice scarcity, hesitation, and the impulse to intervene.
• Develop new relational capacities
Witness without colonizing and use improvisation as developmental practice.
• Bring ritual and reflection into the work
Let each session become both a laboratory and a site of meaning-meeting rooted in justice, imagination, and shared agency.
This is not puppetry for performance but puppetry as threshold, an embodied study of how we meet life without domination.
No artistic or performance background required.
• 8 online sessions
Recordings available for one week after each class
• Approx. 20 hours live + 10 hours between sessions
(homework videos, readings, reflections)
• Certificate awarded for attending at least 6 sessions and completing assignments
• Designed for educators, therapists, facilitators, artists, activists, and anyone working with relational, creative, or justice-aligned practice
• This work can be tender and transformative. Participants should have personal or community support outside class.
Eight Wednesdays in class
January 7
January 14
January 21
January 28
ONE WEEK BREAK
February 11
February 18
February 25
March 4
6pm - 8:30pm Central European (this is the default time zone)
10:30pm-1am India
12pm - 2:30pm Eastern US
9am - 11:30am Pacific US
Includes one 40-minute private session with Laura (scheduled individually).
Pricing
6800 SEK (approx. 710 USD)
Early bird: 5130 SEK (approx. 530 USD) - ends Dec 15
Payment plan: 2400 SEK/month for 3 months (~255 USD)
click here to sign up via the payment plan
Limited scholarship opportunity, depending upon enrollment