Summer 2026 Cohort: The Invented Person

You've built someone in your mind who may not exist in the way you've constructed them. You've assigned meaning to small gestures, read depth into ambiguity, and called it recognition when it might have been projection. You may already suspect this. What you probably haven't seen is the pattern underneath it — the specific, repeatable way your mind builds a person from fragments and then bonds with what it built.

This cohort uses designed writing exercises to surface how you construct and attach to people who exist more vividly in your imagination than in your actual life.

Over six weeks, you'll produce a body of written material under conditions designed to activate the machinery of idealization and then learn to read that material for the patterns your mind keeps running regardless of the person or the scenario.

This is not about fixing how you love. It is not about attachment styles or healing or learning to choose better. It is about seeing, clearly, what your mind does when it encounters someone it wants to make extraordinary and what that construction is protecting you from having to face.

Five exercises. Six weeks. A cohort report. And a set of observational lenses you keep.

Limited to 8–12 participants. Tentative start date is Early Summer 2026.

Cost is $4,500 per participant. This cohort is built from designed exercises, individual reading of every submission to surface cohort-wide patterns, and a closing report written specifically for that cohort's field. The fee reflects the labor involved in producing this work for a small group.

What do you get as a participant

• 5 Exercises via email
• 2 Live Virtual Sessions with a facilitator
• The Imaginal Pattern Studies Observational Lenses Booklet in digital format
• Review of all submitted material to develop the closing report and follow-up exercises
• Closing Cohort Report + 2 additional exercises

A payment link is sent upon approval into the cohort. One to two need-based scholarships are available. If you would like to be considered, note this in the Cohort Interest form or email info@imaginalpatternstudies.com.

If you are interested in this cohort, complete the Cohort Interest form.

Because the method is cumulative and the group functions as a working container, I select participants based on interest and fit. I maintain a waitlist for future sessions if a cohort is already full.

You can also reach out to info@imaginalpatternstudies.com for more information.