Relational Field Session is a 90-minute live practice where people enter group interaction without access to familiar tools of control: steering, clarification, consensus, or caretaking.

Nothing is discussed before it happens. Very little is explained while it’s happening. What matters is how people adjust once they are already implicated.

This session interrupts habits that allow groups to function smoothly at the expense of relation: stepping in “to help,” smoothing discomfort, absorbing cost quietly, or withdrawing while appearing neutral. This work interferes with how power reproduces itself in groups.

These habits are not challenged through critique. They are interrupted by removing the conditions that usually reward them.

Participation asks you to remain in contact as dynamics begin to take shape, including moments of hesitation, urgency, confusion, relief, or over-responsibility without rushing to resolve them.

People often notice that things start organizing themselves before anyone decides what they believe, want, or intend to do.

Why this work exists

Dominant and extractive systems persist through everyday interaction.

They are reproduced in how responsibility shifts, how difference is handled, and how we stabilize one another, often while reassuring ourselves that neutrality or good intention keep us from being implicated in that reproduction.

This work attends to the patterns where those systems are enacted. Practicing differently in small moments is one way of interrupting how larger relational fields reproduce themselves.

what happens here

You’ll take part in a small number of guided group experiments on Zoom.

The structures are simple. The effects are not always comfortable.

We keep our attention on what is already happening in the room: who moves first, who waits, who adapts, who carries more so the group can continue. Care, restraint, and neutrality often feel ethical. They are also how domination continues without instruction.

Interpretation and debate are limited on purpose because explanation often arrives after patterns have already settled.

Disorientation sometimes appears early. We don’t rush to fix that.

What to expect

• A live, facilitated session on Zoom (90 minutes)

• A small number of structured group experiments

• Minimal discussion and no analysis (If something feels unfinished, that’s part of the practice.)

• No requirement to share personal material

• No recording

• Nothing is extracted or resolved at the end

Facilitation is active but restrained. The structure does most of the work. You’re allowed to participate at your own threshold. There is no reward for speed, clarity, or expressiveness.

What this is not

This is not therapy or group processing. It’s not a certification or professional credential. It’s not an introduction to Deep Puppetry™. It’s not a place to resolve personal issues.

The session is not neutral, as the conditions are designed intentionally, but it is not persuasive or ideological.

You are not asked to arrive anywhere.

Who this is for

This session tends to resonate with educators, facilitators, artists, organizers, and others working inside collective or relational contexts.

It’s also for people who are uneasy with how quickly “good intentions” turn into control, urgency, or disappearance in groups.

No prior experience is required. You don’t need the language. You just need a willingness to stay in contact when things don’t immediately make sense.

Practical details

• 90 minutes

• Live on Zoom

• Group size is limited

• €55 / $64 / 590 SEK

• 4pm-5:30pm Central European time (dates below)

This session is for those willing to stay with ambiguity long enough to notice what shifts without converting that shift into meaning.