29/08/2026
Latest newsletter: A new way into the inquiry!
For twenty years, much of my work has taken the form of practice.
I've become increasingly protective of what practice can make possible: entering a situation together, trying something, and noticing what becomes perceptible without immediately stepping back to explain it.
Explaining what just happened in a practice space can close down something we just made possible. So I tend to leave explanation for later, if it comes at all.
But boy, do I miss philosophizing with you all. Having enriching, enlivening conversations that tease out connections and new questions? There's hardly anything like it.
So I made a space for it.
The Living Inquiry
https://www.laurageiger.com/thelivinginquiry
The Living Inquiry is a small, participatory space for thinking together. We work with questions that keep returning or that change shape when I look at them from another angle. Questions I don't yet know how to answer and don't want to settle too quickly.
We talk, think, make connections, follow the question, and see where the inquiry takes us.
The first Living Inquiry question is:
What does it mean to colonize yourself?
We usually use the language of colonization to describe what happens when one person, group, or system acts upon another. I'm interested in turning the question toward ourselves.
We name what we're feeling. We explain why we reacted. We decide what kind of person we are. We interpret our patterns, define our needs, and try to understand what's happening to us. These are familiar ways of making sense of ourselves, and they can be useful.
But what if the ways I understand myself are also ways I control myself?
What happens when we explain an experience before we've had time to encounter it?
What happens when the person we're trying to understand is ourselves?
Recently, I wrote: Love means letting you exceed my understanding.
What if loving ourselves means allowing ourselves to exceed our own understanding, too?
I don't know the answer yet. That's why we're meeting.
I'll bring the writing, encounters, and practices that have led me here. We'll give the question enough time and attention to find out what it opens.
The Living Inquiry
Saturday, September 12
17-18:30 CET
11am Eastern US, 8am Pacific
Come talk with me!
https://www.laurageiger.com/thelivinginquiry
Want to enter the question through practice?
Witnessing Without Colonizing Yourself
https://www.laurageiger.com/witnessing
A three-hour online practice exploring what becomes possible when we don't require our own experience to become immediately understandable.
We'll work with writing, movement, attention, conversation, and simple relational conditions.
The point isn't to stop naming, explaining, correcting, solving, understanding, or caring for ourselves. It's to find out what happens when we don't take the next familiar step so quickly.
What happens when I don't decide what my experience is before I've fully encountered it?
Can I remain alterable to my own experience?
You won't need to know what the practices are for. I'll bring them.
Witnessing Without Colonizing Yourself
Sunday, October 4
17-20:00 Central European time
11am Eastern US, 8am Pacific
Come practice with me!
https://www.laurageiger.com/witnessing
Two ways into the same question.
One gives it a place to be thought with, and the other gives us a place to encounter it.
Neither is designed to settle it. Both begin by staying a little longer.
See you there,
Laura
P.S. Australia-friendly times for the next Deep Puppetry Studio!
A recurring participatory inquiry exploring the questions currently shaping Laura Geiger's work. Live gatherings combining practice, perception, and conversation for people interested in participation, encounter, and relational life.
