a·tel·ier

Explore the friction and balm in how your body’s natural organization shapes the way you move, think, and connect to Aliveness. For this Atelier, Brie, an expert in the Action Type framework and former Columbia University volleyball coach, will guide you through an iterative and revolutionary approach to understanding how your mind and body work together to navigate the task at hand.

Whether you’re aiming for peak performance, seeking better stress management and recovery strategies, or simply curious about optimizing your body’s potential for intentional movement, this exploration offers actionable insights to enhance your physical and mental alignment.

“That is what Imaginisma offers me: a landscape of friction and balm, of questions that scour and nourish. It leaves traces in me — a quiet resilience, an orientation to curiosity and aliveness made sturdier by iteration. And in the small, consequential moments, I recognize myself, and I like who I am becoming.”

Limited to 6 participants per session.

You are summoned to the court of Prince Mortimer—a once-beloved ruler now infamous for his delight in others’ failures. In this immersive atelier, you’ll bring something you care about deeply that can be attempted in under 3 minutes.

Through theatrical play and genuine challenge, we’ll explore the art of standing back up after failure. Each participant will have the opportunity to attempt their meaningful challenge, then—after a brief reflection—try again with a different approach.

The bitter Prince serves as our delightful antagonist, creating a collective mission that binds participants together in unexpected ways.

What happens when we fail at something that matters to us, then find the courage to try again differently? What becomes possible when we do this together, witnessing each other’s resilience?

Bring something that matters. Embrace spectacular failure. Rise again.

Navigate the hidden mechanics between people and optimize those frame-perfect moments where authentic connection becomes possible. Through guided practice, we’ll translate unseen patterns into tangible expressions—bridging conscious and subconscious worlds with precision.

Each Atelier is calibrated as a challenge space for those ready to reset their relational muscle memory and develop advanced techniques for authentic engagement. The relational practice is designed for real-time iteration—experimenting openly, embracing necessary failures, and immediately implementing lessons into your next attempt.

“Imaginisma has refined my ability to feel into new phenomenological territory, rather than thinking about it, and given me permission to iterate out loud; to flop, to fail, to feel, to try again, and to watch myself gain the ability to do my holy work out loud, explicitly, and in ways that feel true to me. What. A. Blessing.”

A playground where your unscripted self comes alive. Part whisper, part wildness, part wonder—this two-part adventure invites your body to remember what your mind forgot. Come spill the water of who you think you should be and splash in the puddles of who you truly are. We’ll wake up together through two electric explorations:

Session 1 — Sensation & Voice Feel the electricity in your fingertips as silence becomes your teacher. Discover what happens when you stop performing and start being. Then, let sound rise before thought can trap it—your throat knows truths your brain can’t calculate, flowing through tone, rhythm, and delicious spontaneity.

Session 2 — Embodiment & Connection Try on faces that have always lived inside you. Your spine already knows how courage stands; your shoulders remember how grief moves through them. Then risk being seen—two gazes creating one moment, breathing together into something neither could create alone. We’ll close with the sacred sound of nothing or everything.

This isn’t about getting it right. This is about getting deliciously alive. 

Justin flourishes between seasons of active adventure and quiet restoration. In his active phase, he thrives as an Imaginisma Arcana artist, improv theatre company leader, and EMT. During restorative periods, he studies rest along calm rivers in his native Southern Ontario, connecting with nature. These complementary rhythms continually reveal new depths of beauty that he shares through his creative practice. 

Historically allergic to imperfection and mistakes, he has been practicing the art of iteration and finding it deliciously liberating. His experience of life is becoming more vast as he slowly embraces the possibilities. His goal is to serve as a conduit – that through him the liberating energy of music-ing can be passed, from those who have inspired him, to those with fertile ears.

Join a session with Justin for a visceral experience of opening to the stream of discovery. Along with volunteers, Justin will improvise songs based on stories that are shared. Prepare for emotional depth, fantastic flops and spontaneous magic. Prepare to be feel inspired.

Five poems trace the delicate threads that bind us to earth and one another. Through verses that journey across time with the steadfast company of friendship, and meditations on trees that stand as silent witnesses to family histories, these works explore our most fundamental human condition.

The natural world serves as both mirror and metaphor—roots reaching deep into soil just as memories anchor us to those we’ve loved, branches extending outward like generations stretching into uncertain futures.

Join us for an afternoon where poetry illuminates how we navigate our brief passage through time, finding solace in connections that persist even as seasons change, trees age, and hearts break with the exquisite awareness of our mortality.

Six invites you, as he sips whiskey, into the conversational field where the essences of art and learning conspire. Inspired by the book “The Educational Imagination” by Elliot Eisner, one of Six’s favorite educational theorists, this Atelier explores pathways to Aliveness by shifting our relationship with iteration optimized learning (i.e., attempting, failing, and getting back up in rapid succession) in front of others. The intention? To create games that infuse vibrancy (the aliveness and grace of being human) into the mundane and rote.

Meet the collective of Imaginismas through stories we’ve been building for the last few months, one iteration at a time. Some of us are seasoned storytellers, some of us are doing it for the first time. That’s part of the fun!

Come listen in, and if you like what you hear, join us at our Info. Session!