INNER EYE COACHING

How to capture your other self in a screen.

A two-weekend intensive laboratory with Diego Agulló & Harry Kraievets. 6th and 7th + 20th and 21st JUNE

Apply: diegonante@gmail.com

There is a strange paradox about problems: the ones we try to hide are often the ones secretly organizing our lives. A problem is not merely an obstacle, it is a structure of repetition, a melody that keeps returning, shaping how we relate, love, hesitate, create, or sabotage ourselves. Picnic with Doppelgänger is an experimental laboratory that approaches personal difficulties not as something to fix, but as material to investigate, perform, and transform. Blending therapeutic tools, artistic research, and somatic practices, the workshop creates a space where participants can observe their own patterns as if encountering a character in a play. The guiding hypothesis is simple but unsettling: what you call “your problem” may actually be a relationship you have not yet learned how to meet. Over two intensive weekends, participants move continuously between individual exploration and collective work, between introspection and encounter. Personal questions become shared investigations, revealing unexpected affinities between people who at first believed their struggles were unique.

The Process

Participants are then guided through a series of exercises designed to identify the current tension, question, or recurring pattern shaping their lives. Participants record a short video confession or inquiry addressing questions such as:

• What kind of problem or ache is currently present in my life?
• Which transformation do I seek?
• Who am I becoming through this pattern?

These videos are screened within the group, creating a first mirror between individual stories and collective resonances. Slowly, a shared leitmotif begins to emerge: a hidden melody connecting the participants’ different narratives.

Doubling the Self

One of the central methods of the laboratory is the practice of doubling oneself. Participants create a video portrait of their “problematic self”, a version of themselves that embodies the pattern they wish to examine. Through video, writing, and performative exercises, they develop a relationship with this figure as if it were another person. This creates a strange but productive situation:the self becomes both interviewer and interviewed, observer and observed. Participants may conduct a self-interview inspired by formats such as the Proust Questionnaire, record a podcast conversation with their filmed alter-ego, or engage in dialogues between their present self and their recorded self.In some exercises, another participant temporarily plays your identity in front of you, creating a living mirror where roles are exchanged and the self becomes visible through another body.

Dreams, Mirrors, and Crisis

The laboratory also explores the dream as an entry point into unconscious material. Through guided exercises participants work with dreams as symbolic narratives that reveal hidden structures of desire and fear.At a certain point in the process the workshop deliberately approaches a productive crisis—a moment where familiar definitions of identity stop working. Participants may encounter a temporary disorientation: not knowing exactly who they are, what they want, or which version of themselves is speaking.This moment is not considered failure. It is considered fertile ground.

Articulation

From this crisis emerges the second phase: articulation.Participants begin shaping the material generated during the process—videos, texts, conversations, performances—into a clearer form. Through editing and decision-making they identify what truly belongs to their inquiry.The guiding principle is: you are as many selves as the practices you embody.Video becomes the central format of the laboratory because it can document any other artistic practice—movement, performance, dialogue, or visual experimentation—while allowing participants to observe themselves from the outside. The final step is a collective screening and reflection, where the group acts as a mirror helping each participant recognize what has appeared through the process.