Our Cohort Courses

Cohort journeys through the In-Between framework. Small groups. Real relationship. Slow, embodied work.

Identity work cannot be done alone. The In-Between framework asks us to return to ourselves, translate what we have lived into creative practice, and cultivate authentic relationships. All of which requires a brave container. Cohorts are how the practice meets itself in the community.

Our Philosophy

  • Identity work cannot be done alone.

    This is the truth at the center of our cohort offerings and the reason we have chosen, deliberately, to build the practice this way rather than as self-paced courses, recorded videos, or one-on-one programs alone.

    The In-Between framework moves through three connected practices. IN asks us to return to ourselves; to the identity, ancestry, and stories we carry. YUN asks us to translate that lived experience into intentional, embodied creative practice. And IN-YUN asks us to cultivate connection, community, and accountability with others walking their own return. The first two movements can begin in solitude. The third cannot. By design, the framework does not complete itself without other people in the room.

    There is also something specific to this kind of work that resists isolation. When we begin returning to ourselves to ancestral memory, to inherited silence, to the parts of identity we have learned to fragment in order to belong, we encounter things that need witnessing. Not analysis. Not advice. Witnessing. A self-paced course cannot do that. A book cannot do that. An algorithm cannot do that. Only other people, met in real time, doing the same work with their own histories, can hold what surfaces when this kind of practice gets honest.

    Our cohorts are intentionally small and meet in live sessions that move slowly and on purpose. Between sessions, we practice through writing, reflection, embodied prompts, and whatever creative form a cohort is centered on. We pause. We circle back. We do not move at the speed of content delivery; we move at the speed of becoming.

    This format is not for everyone, and we are honest about that. People looking to extract information quickly will be frustrated. People who prefer to learn at their own pace, without commitment to others, will be better served elsewhere. People primarily seeking credentials or networking will not find what they came for. But people who have been quietly carrying their stories, who have done the solo work for years and arrived at the edge of what solo work can do, often find that the cohort is where the practice finally meets itself.

    This part of the practice requires us to be in the room with each other. And it is, in our experience, the part where the most happens.

  • Each cohort gathers a small group of people over a set number of weeks for online sessions.

    Live sessions are where the group does its core work together: teaching, shared reflection, creative practice, and the slow, careful conversation that the In-Between framework asks for. Between sessions, cohorts connect through a private group space for ongoing reflection, creative sharing, and the kind of conversations that happen when the work is still alive in you.

    Most weeks follow a similar rhythm. We arrive, we settle, we move through the week's theme together, we practice, we listen. Some sessions include guest artists and practitioners who bring their own lineage and voice into the room. The final week is a closing with a possible sharing, a witnessing, and a quiet honoring of what each person has carried, made, and uncovered.

    We keep cohorts small on purpose. We are not optimizing for scale. We are optimizing for depth.

Writing in the In-Between

Writing the In-Between is a six-week online writing course for anyone whose story has never fit neatly inside one identity. Through memoir, fiction, and poetry, we move through the In-Between framework as a writing practice — beginning with the terrain of your own identity, moving through inherited narratives and the silences they leave behind, and arriving at the craft of holding contradiction on the page without collapsing it into something tidy. This is not a course about writing correctly. It is a course about writing truthfully — and discovering that your truth, in all its complexity, is exactly where your most powerful work begins. For adoptees, mixed-race and multicultural writers, and anyone who has lived in the space between worlds. No prior writing experience required.
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The Artist You Are

The Artist You Are is a six-week online cohort for emerging artists ready to stop leaving parts of themselves outside the rehearsal room, the design studio, or the page. Across six intimate weeks, we move through the In-Between framework as a creative practice beginning with the question of who you are, moving through ancestry, body, and inherited story, and arriving at how identity shapes the work you make and the people you make it with. This is not a performance workshop. It is not a diversity training. It is an invitation to discover that your identity isn't separate from your artistry; it is your artistry. For actors, writers, designers, directors, and multidisciplinary makers ready to bring their whole selves into the work.
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Past Cohorts Gatherings

Every cohort that has happened is part of how the next one will be held.

Below are the gatherings that have come before. The rooms where this work has been practiced, the people who have entered the container, and the lessons each cohort has carried forward. Each one has shaped what the practice is becoming.

The Adoptee Writers Gathering

These cohort offerings did not emerge from a curriculum. They emerged from a community.

From June 2025 through January 2026, we held the Adoptee Writers Gathering a free monthly space, co-created with Jesse Jae Hoon and Kayla Kim Votapek, for adoptees to write, reflect, and be in community. Across eight months and eight gatherings, we wrote alongside each other in a space where adoption was not a topic to defend or explain, but a shared starting point. There was no pressure to share. No expectation to perform. Only the invitation to show up as we were.

What happened in that space taught us what this work could become. Adoptees from many backgrounds, published authors, playwrights, poets, and people just beginning to find their voices on the page gathered to write together. We sat with grief, joy, contradiction, and silence. We learned what kinds of prompts opened the room, what kinds of pauses the work needed, and what depth was possible when the right people gathered with no one to translate themselves for.

Writing the In-Between is the cohort that grew directly from that ongoing practice. It is the more structured, deeper container we built once we understood from the gatherings what adoptee writers, mixed-race writers, and writers of in-between identity were ready to do together.

The gatherings themselves have closed for now but the practice continues.