What Is Essential Is Invisible | Gabrielle Senza

 

"One can only see clearly with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince


Close your eyes for a moment. Can you name five invisible things you rely on every day?

Air, maybe. Love. Wi-Fi — yes, especially that. Faith. The warmth of connection when a conversation just lands. Sound. Frequencies. The scent of someone you love.

Once you start, it's surprisingly hard to stop. Artist and international facilitator Gabrielle Senza didn't stop at five. She set herself a challenge: name one thousand invisible things. Not a million — that would take too long. Not a hundred — too easy once the momentum builds. One thousand felt like the right amount of challenging without being impossible. And what began as a personal curiosity became the beating heart of the In/Visibility Lab, a living creative research project spanning Berlin, Turkey, England, Ireland, the United States, and beyond.

The deeper question underneath all of it: why do so many of us spend our lives oscillating between desperately wanting to be seen — and desperately wishing we could disappear?

  • MAGICommons Podcast (00:00)

    before eating, thank you to the soil. Thank you to the sun and the rain and the moon and the harvesters, the farmers, the delivery people, the grocery store stock people, you know, that are putting them on the shelves. Ashes that are checking it out. My partner who brought it home, was both of us who prepared the food, you know, it's like to bring it, like to bring awareness to all of those parts that.

    brought us to this moment, also part of celebration of all the little bits that make it extraordinary.

    MAGICademy Podcast (00:42)

    Gabrielle is an international artist, exploring our relationship between being visible and invisible. Because a lot of times when we are living and breathing and doing our work in this planet earth, in whatever context we are in, we sometimes have this hesitance

    of should I embody my fullest expression in the moment? And sometimes we will feel like maybe not, maybe the environment is not safe enough, maybe the environment calls for a different side of me, therefore my full expression does not align with the environment. And sometimes that comes from an innate...

    fear, maybe it comes from our hesitance, maybe it comes from our resistance to be seen and to want to fit in and want to comply whatever that is that we think is true and whatever we think is needed rather than being a very full version of ourselves. So Gapdol's work does tap into the space, not by giving us a right or wrong answer,

    by creating space and holding space for us to feel safe enough to explore, to fail and to come back up again and to continuously explore. And I think that the magic is in the process of exploring.

    Gabrielle Senza (02:13)

    love that. I love what you said and how you put that. So I'm excited about seeing what happens today in our conversation.

    MAGICademy Podcast (02:25)

    Beep, beep, In front of you lands a spaceship and out walks a friendly alien. If alien walks, if you were to use one word, one sound or one movement to invite the alien to play, what would that be?

    Gabrielle Senza (02:40)

    think I might hum. I might go bzzz.

    Thank

    MAGICademy Podcast (02:44)

    you

    I love that I just feel like tinkling like in my in my in my brain because that's the frequency I'm like my brain is like reasoning with that hmm that's beautiful why invisibility why visibility

    Gabrielle Senza (02:51)

    Right.

    Mmm.

    MAGICademy Podcast (03:01)

    Why in lab?

    Gabrielle Senza (03:02)

    Well, there are lot of reasons that I decided to sort of formally look into visibility and invisibility. Largely, well, was born from a curiosity about my own life, growing up feeling invisible. In some cases, like to people who were supposed to care for me, like feeling invisible to my mother.

    And like, isn't she noticing this stuff is happening and that kind of thing? And then also feeling, wanting to be invisible to like the sexual predators that were in our world and discovering that I really couldn't be invisible in that case. so it was like curiosity, like how many other people have experienced that? Like both feeling invisible and also wishing to be invisible.

    And what were the conditions around those experiences for people? Were they similar? Were they dissimilar? Was it age-related or gender-related specifically? Or would it be different in different parts of the world? And I was applying for grad school and I wanted a project that was quite expansive so that I wouldn't be limited to this very small box. And I was like, I will explore invisibility and we'll start easy with

    invisible things, like what invisible things do we rely on every day? And then that became a fun project in itself, like its own kind of game. Because, you know, sometimes at first it's hard to get started, like can you name five invisible things that you rely on every day?

    MAGICademy Podcast (04:31)

    Yeah, I would think

    air water what is kind of visible i mean transparent love happiness mission

    Joy.

    I believe.

    faith as more eternal.

    Gabrielle Senza (04:45)

    are excellent.

    MAGICademy Podcast (04:45)

    and

    the vibes from people that I connect with, the resonating feelings

    we're, as we are talking and sharing stories.

    Gabrielle Senza (05:08)

    And even

    earlier, you said you could feel the vibration inside the frequency, right? When I was... The frequencies are invisible. Even our words are invisible when we're spoken, right? So sound, a lot of sound. All of the emotions. You know, there's so many things. So that was a fun game that I first gave myself the challenge.

    MAGICademy Podcast (05:13)

    Yes, yes.

    Yeah, sound.

    Gabrielle Senza (05:32)

    Let's come up with 1000 invisible things. And I chose a thousand because A, I wanted it to be challenging, but B, I didn't want it to be impossible. You know, like if I said a hundred invisible things, that would be a little bit easy. I mean, once I got going, it'd be a little bit easy. Uh, and then a million could be like, woof, I don't know. That would take a long time. And I have other parts of the project I want to get to.

    MAGICademy Podcast (05:55)

    Yeah.

    Gabrielle Senza (05:57)

    The other parts of the project I wanted to get to was the creative research. Who has felt invisible? Who has wished to be invisible? Those kinds of questions really were important to me to explore. And I wanted to do it in different parts of the world. Where I was, I started in Berlin. And then I did some in Turkey, and England, and Ireland, and the US.

    different places and then also online, especially once COVID hit.

    Yeah, just wait for that. So I went online and I mean, I created a survey online for people to be able to fill out and we can put a link to that in the podcast, hopefully. and, you know, sort of get the answers that way. And then I also initially set it up as sort of, an art installation where people would just come across printed sheets of these questions before I put it on the internet.

    And they could sit down and engage with it and fill it out. And I thought that given that there were only about 10 or 12 questions and then some demographic like questions, I thought, it might take five or 10 minutes. But I was really surprised to see that it actually took 20 to 40 minutes for people to fill it out. Because there are other questions in there that we haven't really given any thought to.

    So that was really fascinating to me as well. And then since that time, I've created workshops and other places where we can literally engage within a container, which we might talk about later. So.

    MAGICademy Podcast (07:23)

    yeah yeah

    and i'm curious and i think people are maybe curious too like when you when you're talking about this one thousand things of invisible in our daily life and i i was listening to your soundtrack

    MAGICademy Podcast (09:05)

    is invisibility actually?

    Gabrielle Senza (09:08)

    Well, from, talked about invisible things already, right? Like what invisible things we rely on in our lives. And, and my feeling is that, excuse me, once we get going and we start thinking about those things, it's sort of like, you just become more more aware of what's invisible in your life. Like we just had that little issue with connectivity and then it was like, yes, of course, wifi is invisible.

    MAGICademy Podcast (09:32)

    So important.

    Gabrielle Senza (09:33)

    Telepathy is invisible. So, you know, there are a lot of things that are invisible in our lives. And you named a couple of really important ones that a lot of people share, which is faith and connection to spirit, however you want to call that. And

    And I'm reading this book on Tao, Taoism and the wisdom of Tao. And that is about energy force, right? But in terms of the personal and the social aspect, that's more like when, sort of like what we touched on earlier, in a space, a person has often said like, well,

    When I'm in a space with other people, like in a meeting, and I say something, it's like I don't even exist. People don't acknowledge me. Someone else might take that, pick up the same exact idea and state it. And then they're the ones that get all the, ⁓ the credit for the idea. Unless someone else in the room says, ⁓ Jiani just said that the credit goes to her. You know what I mean? But not everybody will respond that way.

    So that's one way. Another time is people feel invisible sometimes within their own families, like someone else gets all the attention. Or on a deeper level, when I've worked with people from the gender non-conforming community, transgender folks often talk about how both family and workplace will often misgender them or use their old names, their dead names.

    And that just hurts so much. It's like if you constantly mispronounced my name and I frequently corrected you, but you continued to misuse my name, I would feel like, she just doesn't care. So why do I even want to connect anymore? You know what I mean? So it creates a space and a kind of isolation. And I was thinking about this.

    How does invisibility connect with loneliness? And loneliness is such an epidemic in our country and the world really. And they even are saying, doctors are even saying, it's also a cause of death, you know, that people die of loneliness. So we really need connection. And so when I think about invisibility and the work I do with the Invisibility Lab is being able to create

    containers where we can have connection. People can have connection with each other. People can have a deeper connection to themselves. If I'm working one-on-one, have a deep, they can feel seen and heard and celebrated by me. I can reflect back to them their own brilliance and their own contributions in the world where they might not even see them. You know, like I felt so invisible growing up that

    when I returned to my hometown as an adult and people would recognize me and say, hello. I was like, how is that even possible? Like I was invisible. like, how can you recognize me? Right? I was invisible. am invisible, but no, I mean, obviously I'm not invisible. I'm solid. But you know, that feeling of

    of invisibility often is equated to loneliness or alone. I felt alone. And actually, I know I might be digressing, but I feel it's all connected. When people talk about trauma, I learned this from Dr. Gabor Matei. He said the trauma isn't necessarily the event that happened.

    like the assault or the violence or whatever it is that happened to a person. The trauma comes from having no place to share it that's safe and for it to be received and held. And in my case, for example, when I told my mother something that had happened to me, she never said anything to me to sort of help me feel like, that should never have happened to you. I'm so sorry. I want to hold you. I want to let you know you're safe now. I didn't get any of that.

    And so I just continued living my life feeling fearful of people that I couldn't trust people and that in fact, she didn't even do anything to, to address it. You know what I mean? The issue. So, so that just like really weighs on us. Like that's the trauma piece. And then how do we, I'm taking this from the wisdom of trauma, this beautiful movie that

    made about Kabir Matei and some of his principles. And he said that some of our coping mechanisms that we pick up, like it might be drinking or it might be like excessive amounts of sex or, you know, risky behavior or overeating or whatever it is. He terms it, he said, what if you could consider that vice, that habit that you picked up?

    as your body's wisdom for keeping you alive throughout all of that that happened to you. Because your body doesn't want you to die. So it's going to give you a way to dull it enough for you to stay alive. Like, wow, that is such a radically different way of looking at addiction. Right? What if your addiction is wisdom, your body's wisdom? It's simply a coping mechanism to stay alive.

    And so once we can take the trauma that happened to us, which is invisible generally, right? Like the memories of it, not visible to anybody, but we may be feeling it in our body and our mind and the way we think about life. All of that is invisible and confusing, at least in my experience. And what if we're able to get to a point in our lives where we can find a doctor or a therapist or a coach or somebody who can.

    receive and hold that and acknowledge it. Kind of like the practice you did with us earlier to get us

    know, noticing any tight spots or uncomfortable spots in our bodies and allowing the light to receive it, embrace it, hug it and love it, acknowledge it, and then kind of melt it away, right? That's very different.

    That's a very healing.

    experience. You know what I'm saying? Like when I did share my traumas as a teenager, when it was coming back to me and I started sharing it with people who were close to me, but they had no way of knowing how to receive it or respond. And so I felt like I was just talking to a brick wall, even though they were my best friends. They didn't know.

    MAGICademy Podcast (15:36)

    Yeah.

    Gabrielle Senza (15:59)

    how to say, I'm so, so sorry that happened to you, Gabrielle. That should not have happened. How can I, would you like a hug or can I just hold you? Do you want to tell me more? Can I get you some help or any number of ways of responding other than just like a blank, like, my God, I don't know how to deal with this.

    MAGICademy Podcast (16:18)

    yeah i think because a lot of times we think we we wanted to connect and i think a lot of times it's difficult because we have never experienced what's the other person

    experienced and and with this lack of experience we can try to rely on our ability to be compassionate to be empathetic but i think because there's a missing experience so maybe parts of the brains were not being reactivated the same thing maybe they i think it's just they would not

    the experience to be able to relate. think this idea of relate, building a bridge to connect with that experience is not there. And because they have an experience that it's really difficult for them to say, let me build a bridge. It's not even in their conscious mind. think when they hear that, they're...

    Gabrielle Senza (17:13)

    Yeah.

    MAGICademy Podcast (17:14)

    they're in awe and they're in shock and they just so they just they just I think they're facing a wall too maybe internally I'm like what what should I do like in that so we're all facing a wall to each other

    Gabrielle Senza (17:24)

    Absolutely.

    don't know how to respond. I don't want to put blame on anybody, including even my mother. She just clearly didn't have any idea how to respond. And she wasn't in on it. You know what mean? She wasn't maliciously enabling a situation. That wasn't what was going on for me in my case. So I've forgiven actually everybody.

    involved, including myself, including the beliefs I held since being a child and having experiences that I had no control over, and even forgiving the people who, who

    you know, treated me poorly and

    MAGICademy Podcast (18:05)

    That's very difficult.

    Gabrielle Senza (18:06)

    And it's

    not condoning behavior at all. It's not at all about condoning the behavior. It's more about like...

    That happened and I've since done everything I can in order for that to not happen again to me or anyone else I care about. And it's done. Like I don't need to carry the shame of that anymore. The shame actually belongs on the perpetrators and I'm not going to carry that anymore. wishing someone ill like, you know,

    something bad to happen to them because they were this way, doesn't, in terms of frequencies in my body, doesn't feel good. So when we talk about frequencies and emotions, know, wishing something bad upon someone just has like a really bad, low frequency, like a bad feeling. So that's what forgiveness is about.

    MAGICademy Podcast (18:51)

    yeah yeah it's like kind of like dragging

    It's like dragging us down to fit in that frequency and that's a trap too. Like that means we cannot let go, we cannot surrender. We hold this strict view. We enforce a lot of things on it. So it does.

    Gabrielle Senza (19:08)

    Yeah.

    MAGICademy Podcast (19:12)

    yeah it does the opposite of freeing us instead they just lock us in back in

    I once heard a story, I don't know where the story come from, it said there are two types of wound. One is if you get hit by an arrow, that's a physical wound and hurt. And then the second wound and hurt comes from us dwelling on it and ruminating on it. And that creates actually more lasting...

    damage to our body and our psyche. how I think also this this all the kind of like religion at the core level is to help us always be reminded of our authentic beingness no matter what that means and not not get trapped back to dwelling in the second type of of hurt and and damage within us and

    so we can create a sort of release. However, we still hold people accountable to whatever in terms of consequences and to prevent future, like all the strategies that we've been talking about still valid. I think that that's more happening internally on a psychic and psychological level.

    And I think when you're talking about the invisibility...

    I think our audiences may resonate like typically in a family actually when you spent most of your time and energy with and especially with mama and papa and so I think sometimes we feel like they just wear a tinted glass when they're talking with us even though we're being together all the time and and the

    the feeling that part of you are not being accepted or being judged, I think is big. And you mentioned about our body trying to numb us and help us to survive. I think that's something we all to some degree carry. I think it may come from their unwillingness to surrender to what really is

    with their own biases. I think we all have those biases and I think the biases create the hidden parts where we are not able to see the other person, even ourselves I think.

    Gabrielle Senza (21:43)

    Right,

    right. And, know, so many people who experienced trauma and haven't like been able to work through it or find other alternative healthier ways to process it and clear it, know, acknowledge it, process it, it, it, learn other coping strategies. Then they continue to sort of wear this mantle of shame and then it's like,

    the trauma defines them. And it's like the trauma definitely impacted my life for sure, but it no longer defines me. You know, like I'm so much more than that. So much more than all the stories that are attached to the trauma that happened in my life. So much more than the wounds and the damage that happened during those times. And in fact, I'm at a point now where I can say, because I had those experiences,

    I am able to be more empathetic with people, more compassionate, more loving, more kind. can hold space for people who've been through hard things. can have, you know, a lot of awareness, like I can help people regulate, down regulate, co-regulate with me. You know, if they're moving into like a hyper active state, we can...

    we can calm together. We can get to a place where we could be like, okay, let's take it in tiny bits. We don't have to go through all of this together in this one sitting, you know, if you want somebody to listen or to learn like the coping strategies that I was talking about for grounding and not letting the shame and the trauma define a person.

    Like we can move beyond it, it really is possible. And that is our, that's our purpose. Like it is our purpose to get through all those things and they're there to help us become the people that we came here to become.

    MAGICademy Podcast (23:37)

    Yeah, and that brings my thought back to the experience that you created and I noticed on your settings as you set the stage, the space, there are empty bottles and then people get to like write down something on the empty bottles. So what is that?

    Gabrielle Senza (23:39)

    Let's see.

    MAGICademy Podcast (23:56)

    intention of the empty bottles and also how did people respond as they write things on the empty bottles? Is that part of the design to transform? Is that part of the design to create space? Like yeah, how does that work?

    Gabrielle Senza (24:18)

    Yeah, generally I leave it pretty open. So on the form, the survey form, there's a picture of a jar. And you'll see that on the website when you go through it. And that's, there's a label on it, a blank label, and people can write what invisible thing do they want to contribute to the archive of invisible things. And so

    MAGICademy Podcast (24:26)

    Yeah.

    Gabrielle Senza (24:38)

    people can interpret that any way they want. Sometimes they want to put something in there that they never want to think about again and it should just be pushed away, right? Another thing might be like something so precious to them. Like I remember one young woman said, the scent of my grandmother. And I was like, oh, that's so sweet. Like, of course, why wouldn't you want to blow up the scent of your grandmother?

    You know? Yeah. So.

    I try not to orchestrate and direct too much the things that we're exploring because I trust in the magic of the universe. I trust in the magic of a person coming forward and what occurs to them is right. Just like with events, like I can have a

    and I could have

    40 people show up or could have four people show up. And I can know because of my experiences that it is so perfect that these four people showed up. It's perfect. I don't have to feel bad about not getting 40 people because I know this is going to be really valuable for the people who are here. And so I think that has to do with invisibility as well. the powers, the invisible forces that help.

    create experiences for us. So that's where I went with the bottles on the labels, you the empty labels people can.

    interpret it however they wish, you know?

    MAGICademy Podcast (26:07)

    Yeah, and sometimes that reminds me just in our daily life we can keep an empty bottle on our desk or by our bedside and and put a sticker there and then just based on how our day went write it down and say hey today I have witnessed or I have

    captured this invisible love today and I'm gonna keep it with me for a bit and then I'll release it back to the universe and that allows us to make invisible visible and in return help us to acknowledge, validate

    the beauty, most likely invisible beauties that's being taking place in our mind and also find a space to, to put in those invisible hurts, those micro traumas or macro traumas that we experience, the hurt that we experience, the disappointment that we experience and give them a space rather than

    as a first step rather than relying on others to process that first with us. We can process that within ourselves first. And that process is magical, I feel like.

    Gabrielle Senza (27:25)

    I agree, I 100 % agree. Being able to acknowledge.

    something that may be unable for years, know, finding emotions within and then being able to describe them or come up with like, what is that called? I don't even know what that emotion is. And then, you know, bit by bit we can take the steps to towards healing. It's all towards healing. And the jar question, I just had this other, I just remember this other thing. People, someone shared with me one time that they know somebody

    or maybe they practiced it themselves. Unfortunately, I can't remember who it is, but they had a joy jar. So they had a jar and the family would be like, they'd put a slip of paper in. What bright joy today.

    And that was a really fun process to have a whole collection of joy and then they could just go back and enjoy jar.

    MAGICademy Podcast (28:16)

    yeah and people can fold stars and fold birds in there and ⁓ it's just so beautiful i think i used to do that when i was little i have a jar and i collect candy wrappers and they're so beautiful i would hold them hold it against the sun and each candy wrapper just

    Gabrielle Senza (28:22)

    Yeah.

    Yeah.

    And that was enjoying it, remembering.

    MAGICademy Podcast (28:37)

    gives different colors.

    Gabrielle Senza (28:39)

    Yeah, yeah, so good, so good.

    MAGICademy Podcast (28:41)

    And yeah,

    so good. And then let's kind of dive into this like conundrum, this like dilemma. In the experience, first, thank you so much for inviting me to one of the Invisibility Lab experiences. And I think in that experience, I've noticed that we share this common conundrum or dilemma where

    One part of us wants to be seen, wants to be acknowledged and validated. And the other part of us refuse to be seen, feel risky, feel a lot of fear, feel a lot of internal judgment. And what, how should we...

    integrate those two desires that seem so contradictory to each other.

    Gabrielle Senza (29:28)

    I think it really comes down to it's a place-based answer. So in other words,

    the desire, the longing to feel seen and heard and celebrated. We all have that. Our human hearts feel so good when somebody really sees us and we know that we've been heard. And even better if they're like, I celebrate you for blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is, like for sharing your feelings. I celebrate you for showing up today. I celebrate you for giving it your best shot.

    It doesn't matter if it was failure. don't even consider there is failure. Everything helps with the learning, right? So if somebody doesn't get the outcome they're after and they feel like they failed, it's like, let's reframe that because actually you only get to the success if you learn along the way. So any failure is really just another step in the learning. so, and why do we crave

    this sense of belonging. I think that goes back to, you know, early evolution. You know, we could not survive on our own. We had to be. We only survived by being in groups. And then there's, so there's this sort of survival piece that is like, my God, I really, I don't want to be rejected. I don't want to be left behind. I don't want to be, you know, abandoned.

    You know, these are really core issues that we have as humans. I believe probably most of us have those desires, like, and fears. So, so there's that, that's the longing. And then there are different degrees of being seen, you know, is it like fame? Like, do you want to be famous and seen like on a stage in a big way? Or do you...

    just want to be seen in your community as a person who, you know, has integrity and has some really interesting ideas or is a wonderful artist or whatever it is, like not so much fame, but just acknowledgement and respect. So respect is a really key element of seeing and being seen. Now the desire for not being seen, the desire for invisibility,

    I think pretty much across the board is about safety. Like, is it safe to be seen? And sometimes it is legitimately dangerous to be seen in some situations. That's why a lot of trans folks are in great danger all the time. Because our society does not embrace and accept and see them as souls.

    on the earth expressing in a different way than other people do. That's it. There's nothing wrong with it at all. You know, I wish, I wish we could all see each other as souls first in human bodies. doesn't matter what shape, size, color, age our bodies are. We are simply souls. so couldn't we, wouldn't it be wonderful? would be just like, Jiani my gosh, you're a soul too. That's so cool.

    That's so funny that you came in this way. How'd you come about making that choice or whatever, you know, and just being fun with it instead of judgmental. That's my fantasy world. That's the world I would love to create and live in. However, it's not the world we're currently living in. So, so the question of safety has to do first of all, our physical safety. I mean, the visibility piece.

    MAGICademy Podcast (32:41)

    Me too.

    Yes.

    Gabrielle Senza (32:51)

    How many women have walked down the street and had cat calls, know, guys cat calling them or worse, you know, really

    them. So many. So there's a legitimate reason to want to be invisible. And I, I celebrate that that's wisdom. Now, if the desire or the fear of becoming visible is more around.

    It's not about that. It's not a dangerous situation where we need to be cautious. It's more a situation of like, you know, being a podcaster and being seen. know so many people that want to do podcasting, but are really afraid of being seen. They want to be coaches and they're really afraid of getting their, their voice out there, their magic out there. And, and that.

    I believe has more, less to do with danger and safety issues. think it has more to do with, believing that they have something worthwhile to say. So it has more to do with worth self-worth and they might, they might totally believe in what they're doing and then just be afraid that someone else is going to just be like, what do you know? And why do they have that fear? Probably because they experienced something like that.

    when they were younger. And so another thing I like to do sometimes when we do discern that that is the issue, that it's not about safety, but it's more about just being like knocked down or dismissed, knocked down like metaphorically, Like not physically.

    MAGICademy Podcast (34:22)

    judged and ignored

    and being, you know.

    Gabrielle Senza (34:26)

    Yeah, so then what I like to do,

    yeah, in a case like that, if I'm working with somebody one-on-one, actually it could even be done maybe as a group. And if you want, we could even try it right now.

    MAGICademy Podcast (34:38)

    Sure,

    I didn't expect that coming but okay sure yes I'm ready.

    Gabrielle Senza (34:42)

    Okay, so imagine a time when you felt... Wait, let me just think for a minute.

    ⁓ all right.

    Imagine a time when you felt...

    really seen, like really seen for who you are and unnecessarily celebrated, but it was totally okay for you to be you and all of your you-ness. And just nod your head when you feel like you've found a memory of that.

    Beautiful.

    Now, take a breath and let that go.

    Beautiful. Now bring in a memory, recall a memory where you felt completely not appreciated for who you were being, for who you are, like dismissed, judged.

    And if you have a moment that you can remember in your history, just bring that to mind. nod when you have it.

    Okay, great.

    So now I'm gonna ask you about that memory.

    Do you see it in your mind's eye as a video or like just a moment like a photograph?

    MAGICademy Podcast (35:43)

    video.

    Gabrielle Senza (35:43)

    Okay, so now I'd like you to keep that video but speed it up. Imagine it's the same video but it's just going like really fast.

    and then imagine it going backwards and playing backwards.

    And then imagine the sounds involved if there are people talking. Were there people talking in that memory, saying something? Then imagine them saying it really fast, like Mickey Mouse speed, and it sounds really ridiculous.

    MAGICademy Podcast (36:10)

    Hahaha

    Gabrielle Senza (36:11)

    And then imagine them saying the same thing really, really slowly. So that too sounds really weird.

    And now when you think about that experience, I'm curious, does it have the same kind of charge, the same kind of negative charge to it or has it lightened a little bit?

    MAGICademy Podcast (36:29)

    I definitely lightened a little

    I was like...

    Gabrielle Senza (36:41)

    Yes, yes, yes. So that's a little game that I like to play sometimes with people. Like if there's a particularly tough memory and it's hard to get beyond it, then there's a way we can play with it so that it no longer grips us and holds on to us in the same way. And what are we talking about here? We're literally talking about something that's invisible. And isn't that amazing? That's a memory.

    that is invisible, like it's not currently a reality, can still have a grip, it can have its talons in us, know, like something, it hurts still. But what's possible when we can like loosen that, lighten it and just be like, oh, that no longer has any hold on me at all.

    And then in terms of the positive memory, we could do the same thing. You could speed it up. You can play it around. You could do that if you want to. And that actually I would probably only recommend doing if it was like something that we were really just so committed to repeating and we just had to have in our lives. Like we have so much...

    invested in that happening again, which could also hold us back in a way, right? Because it's like, I'm reaching for this high, amazing thing. But anything that falls short of that doesn't count. And then we're dismissing all these other things that are actually good things. Do you follow what I mean?

    So then you can have these two experiences. You know, can think of it on the left and on the right.

    if you sort of envision them actively in your mind and you take a big deep breath in.

    And then you imagine them merging together.

    You can tell me what's happened between the two. they super like black and white or are they like, ⁓ kind of blended?

    MAGICademy Podcast (38:30)

    It's like a wave. It's it's kind of like like moving now. So they kind of like go to the left, go to the right, left, right. So it's kind of like part of a part of a ⁓ movement in a way.

    Gabrielle Senza (38:47)

    Yeah,

    it sounds like they're kind of dancing together or within the same. Yeah. And then so, so picture, I'm going to take this another step. So picture the, um, the really positive memory again, and just sort of feel into that as strongly as you possibly can, just make it as real as you can. And then you can just say something about it. You don't have to say it aloud, but just.

    MAGICademy Podcast (38:50)

    together.

    Gabrielle Senza (39:14)

    you know, something about it.

    like the feeling in your body or an image or a sensation or the emotion of it, you know?

    MAGICademy Podcast (39:20)

    laugh

    Gabrielle Senza (39:21)

    Great. And now you can take a breath and let it go and return to the other experience that was sort of the negative experience.

    MAGICademy Podcast (39:22)

    You

    Gabrielle Senza (39:31)

    and bring that up as real as you can now. I know we've dissolved it a little bit, but bring it up as much as you can into your memory, into your experience.

    And then when it's kind of at the max, you can just say something about it again, an emotion or an image or something that comes to your mind.

    MAGICademy Podcast (39:48)

    Okay.

    Gabrielle Senza (39:49)

    Okay, great. And now, bringing them both again into your consciousness, both experiences as real and as strong as you possibly can together at the same time. And take a big deep breath in.

    and tell me what happens between them on the exhale.

    Are they the same, different?

    or blended.

    MAGICademy Podcast (40:06)

    think it's more... I think it's both. I'm able to see the good and the visible and the invisible and I'm also able to see as they blend together. I can hear the sounds. So it's all... depending on how... what my mind wants to do, it's all available there.

    this is how I feel now it's like I'm like an editor in a way like I'm editing so depending on how the story wants to be shared all pathways can be actualized because I'm the editor I can just edit

    Gabrielle Senza (40:28)

    and have a

    Yeah, that's right.

    You have choice. You have choice. Sometimes our experiences, our memories, our traumas, our, our minds, they take, feels like they have control over us. Our feelings have control over us and we don't have any control over them. However, when we do some of these exercises, we get to experience two opposing emotions even, or memories in your case.

    MAGICademy Podcast (40:44)

    choice. Yes. Yes.

    Gabrielle Senza (41:06)

    And then we get to see how we can move from one to another pretty quickly.

    And then we also can discover like, it actually doesn't have that big a hold on me anymore. Like that's entirely a

    MAGICademy Podcast (41:26)

    by guiding me through I get a sense of

    agency I get a sense that I'm the editor and I can have full agency to decide how I process that and it does not invalidate any of those things that already taken place but it's helping me as the editor to really regenerate a narrative that's more

    empowering per se.

    Gabrielle Senza (41:54)

    Exactly, exactly. That's beautiful. And that's how we help people feel seen. Right?

    MAGICademy Podcast (41:58)

    Yeah, so how... ⁓ that is how

    we help people feel seen, is that...

    Gabrielle Senza (42:04)

    like, me your experience or tell me how you're feeling. And we don't even often need to go into this. Like, I have no idea what you just were processing, but you do. And I held space for it, you know? And so, yeah, I love how you put that. You discovered that you're an editor, you have choice, you can move between different states of feeling. You know, we can feel really excited and we can feel really

    MAGICademy Podcast (42:14)

    Yeah.

    Gabrielle Senza (42:29)

    calm, we can feel really frightened and we can feel really confident as an exercise, you know? And that tells us we actually have a lot more agency that we give ourselves credit for.

    MAGICademy Podcast (42:41)

    yeah and i think in that particular moment for a moment i really feel like oh wait a second um

    Well, even though that's an experience where I feel unseen, but I don't mind to come back and re-experience that again, because since I'm the editor, just like re-watching the content again, and I get this sense of gratitude. It's that, well, I mean, if the universe only gives me experiences where I feel seen all the time, I probably get bored very fast. And I think

    Because of all these situations where we feel unseen, that makes the situations where we feel seen more valuable and the variety itself adds the magic to us being human and living a human experience.

    Gabrielle Senza (43:33)

    Right, right. And going back to what we were talking about a little earlier about where it is that we feel seen or unseen and asking ourselves what's the cost of not being seen in this space? What's the benefit of not being seen in this space? And choosing

    Just like you're able to have agency over how you're feeling, we can have agency about, know, if we want to be seen more at work, for example, then it's up to us to bring that forward and find ways to do that.

    And if we also at the same time know that it's not safe to do it in another location, for example, then we don't do it. The most important thing I think is to make sure that you do find some people where you can totally be yourself with. And my goal for the invisibility lab is to create more spaces where people can be seen and heard and celebrated and known as their full selves.

    And it's okay if they cannot be that way all the time at home or at work or on the streets or whatever. It's okay. It's okay. Can you be that way? You know, in some spaces, because that's when we feel most alive.

    MAGICademy Podcast (44:46)

    Yes, yes. And sometimes people may think, well, this should be a conversation that happening in a therapy session or are we entering into this therapy session? And I think therapy has its space. I think conversations like this is to acknowledge that we are all human and it's not any type of sickness that you need to seek.

    sort of like a theroputical correction through therapy as if something is wrong with us. I think this is a type of conversation that we have permission to have in a casual and situations like this, like a podcast conversation or like a casual conversation that we have with a friend. We don't have to stick any sort of like tags or

    Gabrielle Senza (45:36)

    Yeah, absolutely.

    MAGICademy Podcast (45:38)

    things around us and say oh I'm going to therapy to solve this particular challenge to reach this particular outcome so I can get measured to show improvement I mean that's like I mean it has its space but I think the life is much bigger than that

    Gabrielle Senza (45:55)

    Yeah, magic can happen anywhere, I think.

    MAGICademy Podcast (45:58)

    can happen anywhere yeah yeah so for entrepreneurs and start founders leaders who are leading innovation teams in a

    context I I still

    refuse I still kind of resist to think in terms of like organization because it's organized by a power structure a kind of like structure that's there what I tend to think is it's ultimately a group of people and they have this internal agreement of work in a particular rhythm a speed or sequence so for those type of people who

    have more resources to cultivate opportunities and resources to make everybody working together feel seen and feel visible. How, what should people do? How should it be done in a community, in a group of people?

    Gabrielle Senza (47:05)

    Thank you. ⁓

    I think, I think that's such a great question and a big one. And I'm looking at, I'm doing like retreats, staff retreats and bringing some of that invisibility lab experience and giving people the opportunity to learn about each other, to learn more about each other than what they would.

    typically learn in the boardroom or in the, what do call those, the little cubicles, or at the lunchroom or whatever. So I think that's a beautiful thing when we can connect with people and learn more about each other.

    MAGICademy Podcast (47:36)

    Cubicles, yeah.

    Gabrielle Senza (47:46)

    Yeah, there are some games, I call them games, because I like games, you know, where we can ask people, you know, so my, my worksheet, for example, has all of these questions that people can, can see, like, what did you answer about? What's your biggest concern in the world? And then, you know, that opens up a conversation like, ⁓ my biggest concern is, you know, the health of my aging mother. And then another person might be, my biggest concern is.

    Um, the rise of, of nationalism in the country or in the world, you know, and, not make it a political discussion, but just to be like, Oh yeah, tell me more about that. How is that impacting you? What does that look like in your life? And to not have it be a con, you know, like a debate. It's about getting to know it's exploratory. So how can we create spaces for.

    as a way to get to know people and not judge them.

    MAGICademy Podcast (48:40)

    It's as if we're given, I think in the daily times, it's all about work.

    doing the work, hitting the KPI, make things happen. We have these big dreams and all that. And ultimately it's group of real authentic people that's making things happen. And because what we think is more important takes more space and having the agency and opportunity to say that, wait a second, let's take a pause. Let's create a space that

    We don't call it summit, we call it retreat. Let's create a retreatable space where we come in and the only goal is to explore, to find the interesting aspects of people that we surround ourselves with on a day-to-day basis, trying to...

    commit to this big audacious dreams of changing the world, of building a new world and and ultimately it's it's me, you, he, her, them.

    Gabrielle Senza (49:40)

    Right?

    we are exactly, again, like all the people who are working in corporations are also souls in human bodies. And they have concerns, they have dreams, they have wishes, desires. There are places where they feel nervous, there places where they feel seen and comfortable, you know? And so...

    I think it's really valuable to get to know people more. That's how we create connection. That's how we get to experience ourselves as being seen.

    MAGICademy Podcast (50:09)

    first create a space that it will call a safe space. That's so beautiful.

    Gabrielle Senza (50:13)

    to.

    MAGICademy Podcast (50:14)

    Well, we've in this almost an hour of time, we've covered a really kind of a wide spectrum of topics surrounding the idea of visibility and invisibility. And we talk about what is visibility, what is invisibility, we explored.

    situations and examples of where we feel invisible, where we feel visible and that invisibility can carry with us that anytime in any situation, even in families, even around people we really love and people who give birth to us and who help raise us. So really it's kind of like this, our

    ability to connect and our ability to disconnect. I think that's so common. And we also talk about how the key of it is to create a space and to design some sort of instruction to guide us to process both situations in a way that

    It gives us agency and ideally restore us to this observer's perspective because ultimately we are all observers.

    to really look at the experiences from an editor's perspective and say, okay, great. So we have this invisibility piece, we have this visibility piece. Now putting them together makes this story more engaging and worth living. And we also kind of elevated that into specific context, like working in the corporate situation, working in a startup situation where

    It's not just us, it's a group of us working together and those intricate dynamics can potentially create opportunities for us to feel unseen. And then it's important for us to create a safe space to retreat into a space to explore and ask each other questions and stay curious about each other.

    ⁓ moment that they feel seen, moment that they feel unseen and maybe bring back this idea of this empty bottle. So we have two empty bottles, one is seen and the other one is unseen and they can bring those bottles with them at home too. So they can re-edit what happens and what has happened.

    without going into an extreme of distorting the realities and all that, but acknowledging what happens and then process in a way that...

    feels agentic, And in the end, gives us hope and encourage us to continuously experience no matter if it's seen, no matter if it's unseen, it's all part of life we sign up for.

    what did little Gabrielle enjoy doing when she was maybe 11 years old, 6 years old, 5 years old?

    Gabrielle Senza (53:10)

    I loved exploring things. I think I'm very much an explorer. I'd go outside and just sense. think I had a relationship with invisible things, but I might not have called it that at the time. And then I did a lot of drawing. I did a lot of art and coloring and I don't know.

    pretending, doing things like that. A lot of like little girl things, I guess. But tracing animal footprints in the sand and sensing a being that had just been in that space, you know, that kind of.

    being with nature, being with myself,

    MAGICademy Podcast (53:59)

    what do you think is magic is magic those invisible things is yeah i'm just what is magic

    Gabrielle Senza (54:09)

    Well, magic, think, I mean, I think the magic here is the noticing. When we notice the flower, then suddenly we get to have an experience with the flower. Like, look at the color of that flower. Look at the fuzz on that bee in the flower. You know, like it becomes like a whole wonderland.

    of discovery and it's like, wow, I pass that every day. I never even noticed. I'd like you said, I took it for granted, but wow, what an amazing world we live in and hearing so much bird song around here. It's just amazing. So I feel like one of my specialties, one of my special gifts is planting seeds of awareness. So when people can start noticing, notice what's invisible, notice what's beautiful.

    Notice what feels good. Notice when you feel alive. Notice when you feel constricted or contracted. It's all information. It's all part of the research of how we can be more alive in our life and really enjoy it fully because if we're just taking everything for granted, then there's not a whole lot of enjoyment happening.

    MAGICademy Podcast (55:19)

    supposed to be all about enjoyment and even in challenges that's a different type of enjoyment even sometimes tragedy happens to us I mean it's hard to enjoy but it is an experience and it is a type of experience that we get to be in and I like how you are saying that the magic is our ability to notice

    I think awareness is the beginning of everything.

    Gabrielle Senza (55:45)

    everything.

    And we talked briefly about this, so I remember that you know about the little prince, the story of the little prince. And the fox's secret is that one can only see clearly with the heart and that what is essential is invisible to the eyes.

    MAGICademy Podcast (55:51)

    Yes.

    Gabrielle Senza (56:03)

    Thank you.

    MAGICademy Podcast (56:05)

    you

    I think just hearing you say that...

    Feels like an invisible hug, like, calming and hugging and...

    warm now all of a sudden all the

    things become visible now I pay attention to my awareness is at I start seeing and sometimes if I cannot see my heart sees I feel and all of a sudden a normal life feels it has more depth

    it has more dimensions it has more texture and everything is worthy

    Gabrielle Senza (56:48)

    ordinary becomes extraordinary.

    MAGICademy Podcast (56:50)

    the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

    Gabrielle Senza (56:52)

    That's how we make the invisible visible. It's just acknowledging it, noticing with our awareness. Yeah.

    MAGICademy Podcast (56:57)

    yeah

    yeah and and it's kind of like the childlike wonder when we were little kids if we still remember everything is new

    we experience everything for the first time. We take the first gaggle of air when we were born. If I remember, I don't remember, but I could imagine. we voice, we practice our vocal cords the first time when we come out of our mama's womb and crying.

    Gabrielle Senza (57:23)

    Yes.

    MAGICademy Podcast (57:24)

    and our first time experiencing tears tears coming out our first experience feeling touched people hugging us and and soothing us and we feel our first experience of kiss they kiss us on our face on our lips on our forehead

    And we feel the first experience of taste. We drink milk from our mamas or a milk bottle. We feel how food tastes coming through our mouths into our stomach and through our body. And we experienced our first experience of pooping. So we poop, we process everything and we poop them out. It's all like...

    Gabrielle Senza (58:04)

    Yes.

    MAGICademy Podcast (58:06)

    I'm an adventurer! It's like, ⁓ I have my first poop today! Woohoo! ⁓

    Gabrielle Senza (58:08)

    It's a whole different story.

    Exactly.

    And then like when you come to the pleasant moment as adults, and as you said, like how much is it that we take for granted? So I recently started trying to before eating, not just say blessings on this meal or something like that, but even like thank you to the soil, thank you to the sun and the rain and the moon and the...

    the harvesters, the farmers, the delivery people, the grocery store stock people that are putting them on the shelves, cashiers that are checking it out, my partner who brought it home, those both of us who prepared the food, it's like to bring it, like to bring awareness to all of those parts that brought us to this moment, to this morsel of food is also part of

    MAGICademy Podcast (58:44)

    Gabrielle Senza (59:03)

    celebration of all the little bits that make it extraordinary.

    MAGICademy Podcast (59:08)

    Yeah, it's all a collaborative reality.

    say thank you for the people who stock the inventory. I've never thought about them like now yeah it is part of the the process and even the supply chain like when we think about supply chain this is like code like language supply chains

    it is made of people who carry things from point A to point B and there many people all over the world helping to carry things from point A to point B that this thing comes to us and we get to enjoy its presence, we get to enjoy this moment of being together. I was like, yeah, the supply chain is full of people.

    and doing things and helping to make things happen.

    Gabrielle Senza (59:54)

    Exactly. And if you think about this moment right now in our country, in the United States, where the farmers who have been bringing us food all along suddenly are afraid to be seen because they might get snatched up by ice and then taken away and deported or whatever it is that's going to happen to them. it's like, everyone is crucial, you know, and no one deserves to be treated that way.

    And so for, and actually that's when this project started was in 2016 when Trump was running for president the first time, I was very aware and worried about my Brown and Black friends and family members. And I was like, oh my God, this is talk about wanting to be invisible, but still desiring to be seen and respected and cherished and free.

    You know, to go about your business and support your family and, know, drive your car and pay your taxes and all the things. But suddenly we have so many people that are terrified of being seen. And how is that right? How is that right? So what can I do in this moment today to at least

    I see people, let them feel seen and appreciated because they may not be getting any of that.

    right now. But that's something I can do. My heart is big enough to love more.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:01:14)

    Yeah, and it all comes from this healing within first to fill our own containers for love, light, forgiveness, gratitude, joy, then invisibility. And then just naturally it flows out and embrace more and it drives us to do more, to be more.

    and to help more and it all comes from that inner visibility and invisibility to come together.

    Gabrielle Senza (1:01:47)

    Yeah,

    it comes from the heart. It really comes from the heart, right?

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:01:51)

    It's such a beautiful conversation. I'm just so happy. Just by talking on this, it's so beautiful.

    Gabrielle Senza (1:01:56)

    much.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:02:02)

    And also that reminds me, because I think maybe because of the way I was trained, I always try to think what would devil's advocate say in that particular moment. And something that comes to my mind is like, ⁓ Jiani Gabrielle, you're just living in your echo chamber. Like, that's great. Like you get to like just not see everything that's happening. And I think my response to this is this voice is that

    Yes, sometimes echo chamber is important. Echo chamber provides safety, provides space, provides visibility. And I think the world is made of and harmonized by people building their own

    echo chambers in a very open-hearted way rather than a controlling way and that's a different topic and that creates islands of cohesion and echo chambers of cohesion and that's how Mother Earth vibes, right? Now I feel like I want to dance.

    Gabrielle Senza (1:03:02)

    Yeah. Yeah. The

    islands of sanity, know, whatever that means for each, you know, for people in their lives, you know. Yeah.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:03:10)

    Yeah,

    that's so beautiful. Thank you, Gabrielle, for providing us this opportunity and this excuse to explore this idea of visibility and invisibility. And I hope this conversation will reach you wherever you are over the world

    what type of religion we decide to carry, what geographic locations, what kind of food we love, what we don't love, what kind of TV shows we don't love, what kind of political parties we decide to align with or not align with. All these are important to some degrees, but not as important as we're all this.

    Gabrielle Senza (1:03:37)

    Yeah.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:03:51)

    beingness, the soul and going through an experience.

    Gabrielle Senza (1:03:56)

    Thank you. That's amazing.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:03:58)

    And for our audience, yeah, there's a lot of technical difficulties and thank you for the Wi-Fi to helping us sustain until the end of this show. And for those who would like to connect with Gabrielle, I will include her bio and her...

    Gabrielle Senza (1:03:59)

    with the technical difference.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:04:16)

    social links and websites in the show notes below and she's having some upcoming programs experiencing the vast magic of Antarctica and so more of those information and media resources will be updated on her site so I hope this conversation reached you at a time that you were able to

    witness and co-witness that experiences with us together as well. Thank you, Gabriel, for this beautiful space. I'm having a lot of fun.

    Gabrielle Senza (1:04:50)

    I can tell, and I am too. It's very fun talking with you, Jiani I hope we have lots of other conversations as well. Very fun.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:04:57)

    Yes, let's

    make it as an ongoing one and maybe in the future we can collaborate and and do a retreat together.

    fun like a like a collaborative retreat

    Gabrielle Senza (1:05:06)

    I love that idea.

    Yes. Good.

    MAGICademy Podcast (1:05:09)

    Okay, it's in there.

One Thousand Things We Never See

We move through most of our days on autopilot, swimming in invisible forces without pausing to notice them. Gravity holds us to the earth. Emotions move through us like weather. Words vanish into air the moment they're spoken — and yet they echo for years inside the people who received them.

Gabrielle's Archive of Invisible Things invites a simple but radical shift: noticing. Not fixing, not optimizing, not solving. Just noticing.

When we do, something quietly extraordinary happens. The ordinary starts revealing itself as anything but. The morning light through a window. The rhythm of a stranger's laughter. The invisible labor of the farmer, the delivery driver, the grocery store stocker — the entire invisible supply chain of human effort that brings a single meal to your table.

"Before eating," Gabrielle shares, "I try to remember to thank the soil, the sun, the rain, the harvesters, the farmers, the delivery people — all the essential elements that brought us to this moment." It sounds simple. It is simple. And that's exactly the point. Awareness is the beginning of everything.

The Conundrum: Wanting to Be Seen, Fearing It Equally

Here's where it gets real.

Most of us carry a quiet contradiction inside: a deep longing to be truly seen, held alongside an equally deep fear of exactly that. We want someone to notice our work, our ideas, our full selves — and simultaneously, we want to shrink, disappear, go unnoticed.

This isn't a weakness. It's a deeply human, and often deeply wise instinct.

For many people, the desire to be invisible is rooted in real, legitimate danger. Women navigating unwanted attention on the street. Transgender and gender non-conforming people navigating a world that too often refuses to honor who they are. Migrant workers and communities of color living with the very real fear of being seen by the wrong eyes. In these cases, the impulse toward invisibility is not something to be fixed. It is the body's intelligence, protecting what matters.

But for others — and perhaps you recognize yourself here — the fear of being seen is less about physical danger and more about a memory. The time your idea was ignored in the meeting until someone else said it louder. The moment you shared something true about yourself and were met with mockery or silence. The years of feeling like you existed in a room full of people who looked right through you.

Those invisible wounds are the ones Gabrielle's work gently tends.

You Are the Editor

One of the most quietly powerful ideas in Gabrielle's practice is this: you are the editor of your own story.

Through simple, playful mind experiments — speeding up a difficult memory, playing it backwards, hearing the voices at Mickey Mouse speed — the story shifts. The grip loosens. What once felt like a fixed, defining truth about who you are begins to feel more like... footage. Material. Something you can work with rather than something working on you.

"You are a conscious being with choice," Gabrielle says. "Sometimes our memories, our traumas — they feel like they have control over us. But when we discover we have the ability to move between different emotional states at will, and relatively quickly, we also discover those stories no longer have that big of a hold on us anymore."

This isn't about erasing hard experiences or pretending they didn't happen. It's about removing the toxic emotional charge, and you do that by reclaiming authorship. The difficult memories and the joyful ones can coexist — they can even dance together — and both are part of what makes a human life worth living in full. But they don’t have to define who you are in the world.

The Heart Sees What the Eyes Cannot

Perhaps the most radical reframe Gabrielle offers is this: loneliness and invisibility are cousins. In an era when doctors are naming loneliness as a cause of death, the act of truly seeing another person — and allowing yourself to be seen — is not a soft, optional luxury. It is a matter of survival.

The antidote isn't fame, or a larger audience, or more followers. It's the quality of attention we bring to the people and moments already in front of us. It's the friend who says “I see you” and means it. The colleague who credits your idea aloud. The space — a retreat, a conversation, a jar where you write down the invisible beauty of a Tuesday afternoon — where you are allowed to be exactly and entirely yourself.

When we begin to notice what is invisible, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. A flower you pass every day becomes a whole wonderland. Birdsong floats in the air. The warmth of the sun on your skin first thing in the morning. Your own heartbeat, steady and alive.

What is essential has always been invisible to the eyes. We just have to learn — and keep learning — to see with the heart.

 
 
 

Gabrielle & MAGIC

Gabrielle Senza is an international artist, facilitator, and leader whose work travels across continents — and into the interior landscapes of the people she works with. Through staff retreats, one-on-one sessions, performances and immersive experiences including upcoming Laboratories of Belonging in London and New York, she brings what she calls her truest gift: planting seeds of awareness. She learned early — tracing animal footprints in the sand as a child, sensing the presence of a being that had just passed through — that magic doesn't announce itself loudly. It lives in the noticing. She also trusts, deeply, that the right people always show up. Four people in a room can hold as much magic as forty, if the space is honest enough. "Magic can happen anywhere," she says. And in her work, it reliably does.

To explore Gabrielle Senza's Invisibility Lab, including the creative research survey and upcoming programs, visit invisibilitylab.com.

 

Creative Process

  • Discuss Potential Outlines: Human + ai

  • Create Initial Drafts & Iterate:  Human + ai

  • Ensure Guest Alignment: Gabrielle Senza

  • Ensure Final Alignment: Dr. Jiani Wu

  • Initial Publication: April 2, 2026

 

Disclaimer:

  • AI technologies are harnessed to create initial content derived from genuine conversations. Human re-creation & review are used to ensure accuracy, relevance & quality.

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