About Us
How we got started
Bushnell House Retreat
Tangible Mind began as a quiet experiment. It was born from a belief in the transformative power of creativity and the importance of keeping technology human.
It emerged around kitchen tables and on long walks with collaborators, during a moment when so many of us were reckoning with isolation, disconnection, and a profound search for meaning.
Date
June 9 - 11, 2024
Outcomes
Location
Chatham, NY
Mission / Vision /Values Exploration
Abundance Mapping
Strategy Ideation Session
Materials Experiments
Entity Exploration
“We are neural beings. Our brains take their input from the rest of our bodies… Our bodies structure the way we think.”
— George Lakoff
Cognitive Linguist and Philosopher
EDGE 3rd Culture:
A Talk with George Lakoff
Strategy Session
Tangible Mind hosted a strategy session with Toni Kokenis, TA for Marshall Ganz at Harvard Kennedy School, to deepen our work at the intersection of storytelling, leadership, and movement-building. The session brought together the founding team as artists, organizers, and educators to explore public narrative and relational organizing.
Through this session, we refined our theory of change and began mapping a leadership development framework rooted in the embodied experience of individuals and communities. Ganz and Kokenis’s methods offered generative critique and strategic clarity that continue to shape how we think about narrative, civil society, and identity.
Their wisdom affirmed our core belief: that the stories we tell about who we are, what we’ve faced, and why we act are central to how we create change.
Date
June 20, 2024
Outcomes
Location
Chatham, NY
Campaign Design
Constituency Mapping
Theory of Change
Entity Design
Thinking doesn’t just happen in the brain—it extends into our bodies, environments, and interactions with others.
“The movements of our hands, the rhythms of our breathing, and even the postures we assume can shape the quality and content of our thoughts.”
— Annie Murphy Paul
Extended Mind Theory