Relational lineage

Studio Imaginal is shaped by a living constellation of teachers, communities, practices, and unnamed lineages. These relationships are not citations. They are compost. We draw from them not to replicate, but to re-pattern - through our own situated, imperfect practice.​ We are especially influenced by work that holds complexity without collapsing it into certainty, and that treats healing, learning, and change as fundamentally relational:

 

• Gregory Bateson. The pattern that connects - across mind, body, family, culture, and ecology.

• Nora Bateson / Warm Data. Sense-making across contexts, where meaning recombines without forcing certainty.

• Vanessa Machado de Oliveira / GTDF. Depth, refusal, and the courage to stay human in decolonial learning.

• Bayo Akomolafe. Slowing down inside urgency; making space for the not-yet-known.

• John Paul Lederach. Tenderness as strategy; empathy as a force for transformation.

• Joanna Macy. Grief and gratitude as pathways back into relationship.

• Robin Wall Kimmerer. Reciprocity as intelligence; science with reverence and responsibility.

• The Mairi Foundation / Bateson Clinic (Italy). Healing grounded in ecology, family systems, and layered time.

• David Lynch. Mystery as a practice - letting the unresolved breathe.

• Ken Silvestri. Healing as pattern recognition in motion; subtlety as care.

• Didi Firman. Purpose held relationally - between will, surrender, and community.

• Judi Marshall. Living life as inquiry: learning from lived experience with rigour, reflection, and relational accountability​

• Unnamed lineages. Ancestors, artists, teachers, and microbial kin shaping what we can become.​