In SELVES, we use our visual arts materials as tools to help us explore different areas of our lives, experiment with new ways of looking at ourselves, and work with our goals and what matters to us in a whole new way.

Along the way, we continue to develop our relationships with ourselves and build the “muscles” we want to bring into our lives. Just as they did in FOUNDATIONS, the art exercises will help you loosen up, reduce perfectionism, get in touch with your intuition, gain clarity, experience more play and novelty, increase authenticity, and more!

While SELVES is not an art class, most people find it deepens and expands their creative practice, and many find their art skills growing just through doing the exercises. Those with already-robust art practices tend to find SELVES helps them to use their art tools in new ways, and to strengthen the connection between art-making and life.

In Lab SELVES, we’ll use the core improv principles and skills you learned in FOUNDATIONS to develop our relationships with ourselves and our goals.

New exercises will help you continue to develop your skills and gain new connections and insights. Since you already have a foundation, we have the opportunity to experiment with slightly more advanced exercises.

Don’t worry, though – just like in FOUNDATIONS, the improv exercises are carefully designed to be zero-performance, introvert-and-extrovert-friendly, and accessible to all layers of experience.

Continuing to play with improvisation as a tool will help you feel more and more confident thinking on your feet, putting yourself out there, being present, taking positive risks, and more!

In class, you’ll practice with concepts and skills that can help you build your relationship with yourself and gain insight on your life and goals. Then, you get to immediately put them into practice in your life – in bite-size, low-risk, just-right-for-you ways.

Each week, you’ll have a menu of optional homework assignments and real-world experiments to help you apply what you’re learning to your real life! You’ll be amazed at how quickly your learning trickles out into so many areas of your real world.

Since you’ve already experienced Foundations, you know about the amazing ahas happen when you hear how your classmates are connecting to the principles and applying them to their lives!

Because each cohort is limited to 12 people, no one gets lost in the crowd. There is space for all voices to be heard. Sharing is always optional, and our camera-on, settled-in-place norms mean that each member is fully part of each group moment, whether verbally or quietly!

While so much of our discovery happens in connection and group interaction, we learn best when we also have time to reflect individually and privately.

Both in and out of class, you’ll have guided opportunities to reflect on, and “connect the dots” in your learning. While you’ll have many opportunities to share your independent reflections and discoveries, you’ll never be required to. It’s always your decision. This allows for you to explore courageously, and safely!

You already know that the community of The Lab is incredible. It’s the extra-special, not-so-secret ingredient that takes everything you learn in class to the next level.

A quick note about the community and connection aspect of continuing in The Lab with additional modules: It’s so cool the way connections from your original cohort deepen over time, and also how getting to know new people from other original cohorts enhances your overall Lab experience!

Those who have done multiple modules report that they could never have imagined how strong these connections would become.

Especially in an increasingly automated, isolated world, this face-to-face connection and analog creating can help you ground yourself, develop skills that are vital in this world, and hang on to what makes us human.