My hobby at 10 was to dress as a grandma, walk down the street and say “Bonjour” to the people I’d meet.

Hi, I’m Pan Ini, I am an artist and facilitator who blends playfulness, curiosity, and social commentary to create spaces where people can loosen up, dig deep, and explore new ways of being.

Rooted in clowning, applied theatre, and well-being, my work dances with themes of mental health, sustainability, and feminism—drawing from both personal experience and an interest in culture. My workshops and performances invite people to reconnect with their creativity, vulnerability, and joy—while making space for the weird, messy, and beautiful parts of being human.

I’ve had a few adventures outside the usual map. My experiences with psychosis—where reality cracked open into something both ridiculous and profound—have given me a unique lens on the world. In those states, I glimpsed both the absurdity of our social systems and a deep sense of interconnectedness. These experiences fuel my belief that play, imagination, and presence aren’t just frivolous—they’re radical tools for reimagining the world and our place in it.

As a facilitator, I bring openness and care while encouraging shared responsibility for growth and learning. My workshops weave together mindfulness, play, storytelling, and conversation—offering a mix of lightness and depth where people can explore, question, and simply be.

As an artist, I use humor, paradox, and participatory performance to poke at societal norms and invite new possibilities. I see culture itself as an art form—something we’re all shaping and the outcome being the feeling created.

My journey through mental ill health has led me to seek balance—often by playing with opposites: light and dark, being and doing, the entertainer and the entertained, anger and softness, success and failure.

I believe in the power of courage, conversation, and community to stir things up in meaningful ways. My work is both deeply personal and a shared playground—a place to laugh, reflect, and connect more deeply with ourselves, each other, Earth and our roles in culture.

to heal the earth, we have to heal ourselves.

Pan Ini’s key reading list:

All About Love, bell hooks

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Fear Essential Wisdom for getting through the storm, Thich Nhat Hanh

Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl

Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire

Daring Greatly, Brene Brown

On Connection, Kae Tempest

Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse