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THE IN-BETWEEN LAB

 

For people who live across identities, cultures, and the quiet spaces in between.

There are people whose lives refuse a single category.
 People who cross cultures, languages, expectations, and roles.
 People who belong in many places — and sometimes feel they belong in none.

If you’ve ever felt stretched across worlds…
 If you’ve ever felt unseen in your fullness…
 If you carry multiple selves inside you…

Welcome. You’re not alone.
 The In-Between Lab is a place for your whole self to breathe.

THIS LAB IS FOR YOU IF…

You’ve ever felt:

  • Between cultures or countries
  • Between languages
  • Between family expectation and self-definition
  • Between racial or ethnic identities
  • Between who you were raised to be and who you’re becoming
  • Between multiple inner selves who don’t always agree
  • Between the desire to belong and the desire to be free

If you’ve ever said, “I don’t fit neatly anywhere,” this is your place.

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

 

 

Across eight weeks, you’ll explore:

  • The worlds that shaped you
  • The parts of you forged by migration, culture, or adaptation
  • Lineage stories that hold both wisdom and ache
  • How belonging shifts in different rooms
  • How to hold your complexity with dignity
  • Practices that help your body feel steady in the in-between

Everything is rooted in reflective conversation, somatic grounding, identity mapping, and compassionate community.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is The In-Between Lab?
The In-Between Lab is an 8-week small-group experience for people who live across identities, cultures, languages, or roles — and want a space where all of those parts can be explored without reduction.
 It’s a place to reflect, name, and make room for the stories and inner landscapes you already carry, in ways that feel grounding rather than overwhelming.

This Lab is not about choosing a single identity.
 It’s about giving each part of your lived experience room to breathe and relate to one another with more ease.

Is this therapy?
No — this is not therapy, nor is it meant to replace it.
 It is a reflective, identity- and somatic-centered coaching space that draws gently from narrative practice, parts work, and cultural awareness — always in clear, non-clinical ways.

Some participants are also in therapy; others are not.
 This Lab works well alongside therapeutic work because it centers meaning-making, belonging, and choice rather than diagnosis or treatment.

Who is this lab for?
This space is for people who resonate with any form of “in-between” living, including:

  • multicultural, bicultural, or multiethnic identities
  • children of immigrants or diaspora communities
  • Third Culture Kids and Adult Third Culture Kids
  • people who speak or move between multiple languages 
  • people who code-switch or shape-shift to fit certain rooms 
  • anyone who feels they carry many selves that don’t always feel at ease together 
  • people navigating layered family, cultural, or social expectations 
  • individuals who want to inhabit their identity with more tenderness and spaciousness 

You do not need to have the language for your story yet — many people come because that language hasn’t existed for them until now.

I’m not “confused” about who I am. Is this still for me?
Absolutely.
 This Lab is not based on the assumption that you are confused, fragmented, or missing something.
 It’s for people who want to explore their identities with more nuance, more gentleness, and more choice — even if they feel grounded in many ways.

Some join because they want clarity.
 Some because they want companionship.
 Some because they’ve never had a place where their complexity felt welcome.

All of these are fully valid reasons to be here.

How do I know if I belong here?
If any of the following resonate, this Lab will likely feel like home:

  • You’ve lived in multiple cultural or relational worlds
  • You’ve learned to translate yourself in different spaces
  • You sometimes feel unseen in your fullness
  • You’ve carried identities that don’t easily fit together
  • You long for a space where you don’t have to shrink, explain, or simplify yourself

Belonging here does not require having a particular background — only a willingness to explore the stories that shaped you.

Will this feel heavy or emotionally intense?
We move at a pace that honors your nervous system and your lived experience.
 Some sessions may invite tenderness, but nothing is rushed, forced, or expected.
 There is room for humor, joy, creativity, mischief, play, rest, and ease.

You are invited to engage in ways that feel right for you moment to moment.

What will I walk away with?
  • Participants often leave with:
    • a more coherent and compassionate sense of their identity 
    • language for experiences they’ve held alone for years 
    • clarity about what they want to honor, and what they may release with love 
    • practices that help them feel steady across contexts 
    • a deeper connection to lineage, ancestry, and inner parts 
    • more ease in expressing their voice and needs 
    • a community of people who understand the nuance of their experience 

    But most of all:
     You leave with a sense that your story makes sense — and that you don’t have to hold it alone.

Do I have to share personal details?
No.
 You choose how much or how little you share.
 Listening is participation. Silence is participation.
 You can stay with your own process without narrating it to the group unless you wish to.
What if I’ve never done identity or somatic work before?
That is absolutely welcome.
 Everything in this Lab is offered gently, with options and choice.
 There is no required level of prior knowledge — only curiosity and presence.
Do I need to be from a specific cultural background?
No.
 The In-Between Lab is intentionally cross-cultural and intersectional.
 People from many heritages, races, lineages, languages, and locations join this space.
 Your experience does not need to match anyone else’s for it to be valid and welcome.
Is this Lab only for people currently living abroad or between countries?
Not at all.
 “In-between” includes cultural, racial, linguistic, relational, class-based, and internal worlds — not only geographic ones.
What is the time commitment?
One 90-minute session per week for eight weeks.
 Optional reflective practices between sessions support deeper integration but are never mandatory.
Will there be homework?
No formal homework.
 Instead, you’ll receive invitations — small, approachable practices you can engage with if they feel nourishing or supportive.
Can I join if I’m also doing The Unburdening Lab?
Yes.
 Many people find the two Labs complement each other beautifully:

  • The Unburdening Lab supports releasing what weighs you down. 
  • The In-Between Lab supports weaving your stories into a grounded, integrated whole. 

You may do them in either order.

THE IN-BETWEEN LAB

The In-Between Lab is a guided journey that unfolds across two individual coaching sessions and six group gatherings. Together, they create a rhythm of trust-building, shared reflection, embodied insight, and practical integration.

This is not a linear “fix yourself” program.
It’s a spacious, relational process — one that honors where you come from, what you carry, and what wants to change now, in this season of your life.

Below is an overview of how we’ll move together.

Session 1 — Opening, Arrival & Naming the In-Between
We begin by naming the many identities and inner parts that show up in this space.
 Participants explore what it means to live in the “in-between” and begin shaping language for their lived complexity.
 You leave with a sense of visibility and shared experience.
Session 2 — Identity Mapping: The Worlds That Made You
We explore the layers of identity that shaped you — cultural, familial, racial, linguistic, professional, and personal.
 Through reflection, mapping, and somatic grounding, you begin to see your story with more clarity and compassion.
Session 3 — Lineage, Belonging & Ancestral Echoes
We look at the stories, migrations, losses, joys, and silences in your lineage.
 Participants explore what they inherited, what they want to honor, and where they wish to “detach with love” as they write their next chapter.
Session 4 — Living Between Worlds
We explore the lived realities of crossing cultures and contexts:
 code-switching, identity shifting, adaptive performance, invisibility, and hypervisibility.
 You begin to understand how these adaptations shaped your inner parts — and what they may want now.
Session 5 — The Parts Within Us
We explore inner parts that carry cultural roles, protective strategies, desires, and tensions.
 Participants learn to meet each part with respect, compassion, and curiosity — allowing more internal harmony and choice.
Session 6 — Boundaries, Voice & Self-Definition
This week focuses on choosing yourself without rejecting your communities.
 You practice boundary language rooted in dignity, clarity, and care.
 You explore what it means to define yourself on your own terms — not others’.
Session 7 — Joy, Creativity & the Freedom to Be Multiple
We welcome joy, play, imagination, and desire as sources of belonging.
 This session celebrates the beauty of multiplicity and helps you build practices that support your wholeness moving forward.
Session 8 — Integration & Claiming Your Story
We gather everything you’ve learned to create an integrated, empowered understanding of who you are.
 Participants leave with language for their story, compassion for their inner parts, and the confidence to inhabit their complexity with more ease.