Imagination changes what we can see.
And what we can see changes what becomes possible.
I create story-based experiences that help people and teams see differently, imagine what else is possible, and step into new ways of thinking and being.
Explore the Work
For teams, organizations, & schools
Story-based experiences that build cognitive flexibility, strengthen collaboration, and help people see familiar questions from new angles.
On imagination, story, and becoming
Talks and keynotes exploring how imagination shapes what we notice, rehearse, and make possible.
Step into a story world
Explore an evolving imaginative world designed for creative practice, reflection, and discovery.
About Naomi Kinsman
I’m an Illumineer, author, creative strategist, and story-based facilitator exploring how imagination can help us see and navigate our real lives differently.
For more than twenty years, I’ve designed experiences for writers, educators, leaders, teams, and organizations using story, metaphor, play, and reflection to make invisible things easier to see and explore.
Adding my own characters into the frameworks I’d already been learning about really stuck with me. I became more conscious of those two sides of myself, and I’ve carried that awareness into both my work and my own personal creativity. The exercise really helped me make the ideas my own.
Naomi has developed an original approach to teaching that is both playful and highly effective. Kids learn through her process that there are multiple ways of approaching writing. I have yet to see a student hesitate to apply the learning from games into their writing; it’s as if the student sees the pen hitting the paper as a continuation of the games Naomi sets up.
Rehearsal for Becoming
A short talk about how imagination helps us rehearse possibilities for who we might become.
Notes from the Field
Essays and observations about imagination, creative practice, story, and the work of becoming.