Into The Treehouse
From the brainchild of former Slow Factory Leadership Team Paloma Rae and Nicole Nimri comes Into the Treehouse, an intergenerational model that centers play as a stepping stone of progress.
Rooted in years of experience in the social and cultural space, Into the Treehouse offers an embodied framework for learning, healing, and creating.
In the Treehouse, play is embraced as a valuable source of intelligence and a powerful antidote to burnout in the ever-changing landscape of our world.
This approach revives inspiration, refreshes strategy, and strengthens connection—across teams, industries, relationships, and the self.
In a world obsessed with productivity, our collective chooses wonder. At Into the Treehouse, we believe that play is the root of progress—not a luxury, but an essential, embodied framework for learning, healing, and creating. The Treehouse is a state of mind that asserts play as our first teacher and Nature as our first playmate.
Over time, systems that prized efficiency over imagination, oppression over Nature, and suppression over expression began to stifle that instinct. Our framework is rooted in remembrance— when we reclaim wonder, we don’t regress—we return to our original intelligence: the curiosity, openness, and playfulness that made us flexible, visionary, and brave.
By reclaiming play as a vital form of intelligence, we create spaces where creativity flows freely, ideas evolve naturally, and progress feels not only possible—but inevitable.
As an intergenerational playground, we invite people of all ages to reconnect with their instinct to build, create, and play without inhibitions and bring the feeling of “catching fireflies” to their creative and healing process.
Into the Treehouse is a safe place for everyone to bask in, understand, enjoy, and move through the human experience. The Treehouse invites us to steward both our inner child and our outer world.
To be a liberated adult is not to sever ourselves from the child within, but to integrate that part—allowing wonder to inform our decisions, our creativity, and even our productivity. This isn’t about being less serious—it’s about being more whole.
Come Into The Treehouse—your inner child already knows the way.
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Founder
Paloma Rae (she/hers) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work grows from a commitment to curiosity, creative freedom, and transformative play—an ethos shaped by her Montessori foundation. As a mixed-race, Afro-Indigenous creative, she explores possible futures through performance and visual expression, guided by a deep relationship to Land as a living relative and teacher.
Her work—featured at MoMA PS1 and Central Saint Martins’ Lethaby Gallery—moves fluidly across mediums, rooted in care, and a commitment to justice, accessibility, and joy. For Paloma, play is more than process—it’s memory, mindset, and movement toward collective liberation. This philosophy fuels Into the Treeehouse, an intergenerational space created to reimagine learning, healing, and creating through the power of embodied play.
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Founder
Nicole Nimri (she, hers) is a first generation Jordanian writer, researcher, portalist, creative doula, Reiki Master, and strategist exploring how design, culture, the built and natural environment, religion and mythology shape identity and our sense of place. Her practice weaves between justice and design, systems and spirituality, poetry and place—with a focus on community building and developing networks of care and liberation.
Both her work and personal philosophy are grounded in the idea that curiosity and wonder are maps to freedom, self-knowledge, and connection. Nicole treats play as a strategy: a form of resistance, a mode of inquiry, and a way of staying tender in a world that often demands hardness.
