WELCOME IN
School of Softness is an experimental school and studio that facilitates the study of tenderness and play, both online and IRL
Led by artist & designer Annika Hansteen-Izora, School of Softness offers classes and creates experiences through a lens of design, communal care, and radical imagination
Gatherings
These gatherings are closed to QTBIPOC people. If you'd like to learn more, fill out the interest form here!
Space to tend to your creative business work. Whether that's your website, newsletter, emails, this is time to gather, lock in, and feel less alone in the journey of being a creative business owner.
🌿 Studio Hours
A soft place for trying, learning, and being bad at things on purpose! This is time to practice whatever you're curious about: coding, drawing, writing, music production, ect.
🌀 Curiosity Lab
Meeting up outside to write poems. Bring something to sit on, write with, and your open heart. I offer a few prompts, we take time to write, and share!
✏️ Poems in the Park
Cute cozy time to get lost, zone out, look for edge pieces, laugh, focus and hopefully find our inner piece with other QTBIPOC puzzlers.
🧩 Inner Piece
For the babes that have work to do, but don't want to do it alone. This is time for co-working for your 9-5, or whatever pays your bills. Bring your emails, 1,148 open tabs, and lock in energy.
🐚 Office Sirens
For the sporty gays that don't care about winning, just having fun. We meet up for either pickup soccer or kickball games in Brooklyn parks!
⚽️ Bad Ball Club
QTBIPOC Poetry in the Park
Become a Student
Join the school, anytime, anywhere.
Events
Nice words about the workshops
I'm holding so much gratitude to Annika for bringing this into existence and sharing it. Everything about their workshop, from the visuals to the facilitation, was a dream.
Morgan M
This workshop was just so right. Joyful, energizing and easy. I felt so much optimism after (something that I struggle to access as anxious person) - I really trust and adore how Annika finds subtle and distinct ways to embody, accommodate and acknowledge so much during the co-creation of spaces like this.
Rana A
I’ve done many online workshops in the past and Annika is truly a wonderful facilitator; this is one of the best online workshops I’ve attended.
Trina D.S.
. Annika has put together a structured guide that allows plenty of room for exploration and play and she shows up with warmth and genuineness alongside the knowledge she shares.
Talia G
