laura geiger
Relational Ethics Practitioner and Creator of Deep Puppetry™
I teach how to participate with the living field, material and human, in ways that make more life possible.
My work brings together relational praxis, material engagement, and embodied ecology to create practices where people can experience how development happens through relationship. Not as a concept, but as something felt, enacted, and co-created.
Deep Puppetry™ works with material to reveal how aliveness emerges through contact.
School of the Small & Imperfect works with people to explore how development unfolds through the space between us.
Both practices create conditions where inherited habits of control and self-protection can soften and where something new can take shape through interaction rather than intention. We practice staying with uncertainty, listening before knowing, and responding to what is actually happening in the field.
This is where our sensing selves can discover forms of agency, care, and collaboration that thought alone cannot produce.
what happens here
Deep Puppetry™
A material-led practice for exploring how relational life emerges.
We work with simple objects and collaborate with their unfolding life. The object is not a symbol or a tool; it is a partner. Through contact, we begin to see the scripts that shape our participation: the impulse to guide, fix, interpret, or resolve too quickly. Deep Puppetry™ slows this down. It helps us meet the unfamiliar without organizing around fear or control, so a different kind of relation can appear.
This is relational ethics made tangible through material.
Deep Puppetry™ is offered through a two-level certificate program, online workshops, and in-person intensives.
The Deep Puppetry™ Certificate Program’s final cohort in the current format begins January 7. Enrollment now open.
School of the Small & Imperfect
A weekly relational laboratory where development is practiced at the scale of contact.
We work with conversation, shared activity, and subtle relational experiments that help us notice how we listen, where we tighten, and how we move when we don’t yet know what to do. The school is horizontal in spirit, a collective practice space where difference can remain present, where coherence isn’t rushed, and where small gestures of attention can shift the whole field.
This is where people learn to participate without self-curating, to follow emergence, and to let new relational possibilities take root.
The School meets weekly on Zoom in three-month cycles.
orientation
I work within a frame where relational capacity is world-building capacity. How we meet one another, human and other-than-human, shapes the social, ecological, and political worlds we make and inhabit.
My work cultivates ways of participating in relationship that step outside the domination patterns we’ve been shaped by, that let emergence lead, and that make room for more relational life to become possible.
The small is not preparation; it is the site of development itself. Every gesture of attention, every moment of contact, participates in world-making.
This practice is grounded and experiential. It comes out of years in applied performing arts, somatic inquiry, social therapeutics, object work, and long-term collaborative experimentation. My teaching moves slowly and responsively, staying close to what is happening and letting the work unfold from there. I don’t offer answers. I help people find new questions.
I work inside a framework where relational capacity is world-building capacity. How we meet one another, human and other-than-human, shapes the social, ecological, and political worlds we co-create.
My work cultivates ways of participating that are less organized by the relational structures we’ve inherited - structures shaped by hierarchy, coloniality, and modernity. The small is not preparation; it is the site of development. Every moment of contact is part of the world we’re making.
This work is grounded and experiential. It grows from years in applied performing arts, somatic inquiry, social therapeutics, and long-form collaborative exploration. I stay close to what arises and let the work unfold from there.