When you create more of what matters with greater ease, freedom and aliveness... what else becomes possible?
A two-day initiation into Ontic Agility — expanding your freedom to move between ways of seeing, being and participating, and create more fully and more freely with reality.
James Tripp & John Patrick "JP" Morgan
Edinburgh · October 8–9, 2026 · 12 participants
The life you want may not require more force. It may require a different relationship with reality.
The Edge
If you're here, chances are you already know how to make things happen. You've learned, adapted, developed capabilities and created a life that works in many important ways.
Life may be pretty good — you may love much of what you do, value the life you've created, and know that you've already made choices others would consider bold.
And still there can be a sense of something pressing at the edges — a sense that there is more to explore, more to create, perhaps even more of yourself to bring into play.
Because the very ways of seeing, being and participating that have enabled you to create what you have can quietly become the limits within which you keep creating.
Not because what you've created isn't beautiful. Not because what you've achieved isn't enough. Simply because there may be more of you — and more for you — than your current way of living and creating has room for.
A Larger Life
A larger life? This doesn't necessarily mean a busier life, a more impressive life or a life filled with bigger achievements.
It means a life with more of what matters to you.
Maybe that's your work having greater reach and impact. Making more money while working more freely. Making a bold ask you've never quite allowed yourself to make. Creating something simply because you want it to exist.
Maybe it's more adventure. More intimacy. More time. More play. More space to think, explore, travel, make things, be with the people you love — or follow possibilities you can't yet see from where you are standing.
Because the possibilities we pursue are shaped by the reality we already inhabit.
And sometimes a larger life begins not with knowing exactly what you want next, but with becoming free enough to discover what else might be possible.
A larger life isn't simply about creating more. It's about becoming freer in what you can create.
Creating Magically
Most of us learn to create by deciding what we want, working out how to get there, and then applying ourselves to making it happen.
And that works... until it doesn't.
Because the more tightly we hold to what must happen and how it must happen, the more easily we can become blind to the generative possibilities that don't fit the reality we've already imagined.
Creating magically doesn't mean giving up intention, ambition or action. It simply means holding them differently.
You know what matters. You move. You make the ask, start the conversation, take the risk, create the thing. But you also stay responsive — to what happens, to what changes, to what comes back, to what you hadn't considered, and to possibilities that only become visible once you're already in motion.
You expose yourself to serendipity — and dance with what unfolds.
This is where life can begin to surprise you.
A conversation goes somewhere you couldn't have planned. An obstacle becomes an opening. An unexpected connection changes what is possible. Something that looked difficult becomes strangely simple. One move reveals another that you couldn't have seen from where you started.
Not necessarily because reality has become magical in some supernatural sense, but because you are no longer requiring it to conform so tightly to what you are sure you already 'know'.
You bring intention. Reality brings information. Magic happens in the participation between the two.
What Changes
This path to magic — Ontic Agility — isn't about replacing one way of living with another. It's about becoming freer to see, be and participate differently as life changes — and as what matters to you changes along with it.
What looked fixed becomes more fluid. What looked intractable becomes more workable. What looked like the way things are becomes just one of many ways of seeing things — and possibilities that were previously invisible begin to appear.
Who you've been no longer has to determine what's available to you next. You become freer to move beyond familiar roles, identities and expectations — without needing to reject the person who got you here.
You make the ask. Start the conversation. Name what you want. Experiment with the idea. Ask for more money, more freedom, more commitment, more of what matters — and discover what happens when you do.
Plans change. People surprise you. Doors close and others open. Instead of treating what happens as interference with the plan, you become increasingly able to turn reality into material for what happens next.
More richness in what you see. More freedom in how you move. More creativity in what you make of what happens.
The Cost of Stasis
The cost of a reality that has become too small isn't necessarily frustration, struggle or failure. Your life might continue to work remarkably well as it is.
But there is a deeper cost — what never gets the chance to happen.
There's the ask you never make because it doesn't occur to you that you could. The idea you don't follow because it doesn't seem quite realistic. The conversation you don't start. The adventure you hold back for another day. The bolder part of you that never gets brought into play because there has never been room for it.
And many of those possibilities you'll never consciously miss — because you never saw them in the first place.
That's the strange thing about the limits of what we 'know'. From inside them, they rarely look like limits.
They just look like reality.
The real cost of a smaller reality is not only what it prevents. It's what it prevents you from even imagining.Reserve your place
A Participation That Creates
James Tripp and John Patrick "JP" Morgan met through a mutual love of magic, mentalism, hypnosis and street hypnosis — fascinated by what becomes possible when the apparently fixed rules of reality begin to bend.
Over the years, that conversation moved beyond performance and into the deeper dynamics of life itself.
What makes us who and how we are? What makes change possible? How do we become less constrained by what we think we already 'know'? How do identity, perception and participation shape what becomes available to us? And how might we create more of what matters without simply applying more force?
James and JP have approached these questions from different directions, sometimes converging, sometimes challenging one another, each developing his own body of work while an eighteen-year conversation has continued between them.
And throughout those eighteen years, the conversation has been profoundly generative — not simply producing new ideas, but new experiments, new capabilities, new choices and real changes unfolding through the lives James and JP have created. Again and again, the conversation has expanded what each could see, what each could do, and what each imagined might be possible.
And Creating Magic opens that conversation to you.
Not to install a model in you. Not to give you another system for how life should be lived. But to bring two different bodies of experience and expertise into the room — and invite you into a different quality of participation with life: more open, more responsive, more alive to possibility and to all that will emerge.
Twelve people, each bringing a life, questions, possibilities and edges of their own.
And together, with your life as material, we create.
The Invitation
You are not coming to collect concepts. You are coming to step into the work — to explore, experiment, create, and discover what becomes possible when you participate with your life differently.
Create with what unfolds.
A question changes the direction. A demonstration opens a possibility. Someone brings a real edge into the room. And the conversation goes somewhere none of us could have known in advance.
Across these two days, we follow what comes alive. We work with what emerges. We create with what is actually happening — because the way we create together in the room is the work that will unfold through your life.
You don't just learn about a different quality of participation. You're directly invited into it.
The Work, Lived
James has intentionally built his life around freedom, possibility and lots of discretionary time — not as abstract ideals, but as something tangible in the way he shapes his days and the life he creates with his family.
His days have space for drawing, guitar, reading and deep exploration; for training and martial arts; for family, long walks with his dog, and following where curiosity leads. That same freedom has enabled bigger choices too: when his daughters were seven and nine, James and his wife chose to take them out of regular school and spend a year travelling the world as a family, home-educating along the way — one expression of a longstanding commitment to creating a life less ordinary, lived on their own terms.
And this freedom has a solid grounding, also intentionally created: a family home in Edinburgh’s West End, owned outright; freedom from debt; and a life rich in options — one in which circumstances are less something to be constrained by and more something to create with.
For James, this is part of what the work looks like when fully lived: not ignoring the pragmatic demands of reality, but developing the freedom and adaptiveness to work creatively with 'what is' — choosing what matters, engaging deeply with it, and shaping a life around what personally counts.
JP has intentionally built his life around freedom, love and creative responsibility — not as abstract values, but as something tangible in the way he shapes his work, his family life, his home and the conversations through which he creates.
His life is rooted on Happy Farm, a two-acre farm in Maui, with his wife Kalpna and their sons, Asher and Rumi. The land, the family, physical training, food, spiritual inquiry, conversation and community are not separate from his work; they are part of the world from which his work is created. Much of his business has been built through conversations with people he loves serving, and through courses, community and live events designed to help coaches and entrepreneurs become more free, loving and powerful.
That freedom has a material shape too: a home and farm purchased with money earned through coaching conversations; a body of work built around thinking, writing, speaking and live transformational rooms; and a life increasingly organised around the question of what creates more freedom, cash flow and joy.
For JP, this is part of what the work looks like when fully lived: creation begins in being, identity, worldview and perspective. As the place someone creates from changes, what they can see, say, choose and bring into existence changes with it.
James & JP
James's work centres on participation: how we meet life, engage with circumstances and other people, and create with what comes our way. Strongly influenced by Taoist thought and practice, he is interested in what becomes possible when we loosen our grip on fixed ways of seeing and being — becoming freer and more adaptive in how we move through the world.
His work draws on more than three decades of exploration across generative changework, hypnotic facilitation, philosophy, martial arts and music. Across all of it runs the same question: how can we develop the agency and agility to meet life creatively, working with what is there to create more of what matters?
JP is a practical philosopher, coach and founder of We Are Creating. His work helps coaches and entrepreneurs become more free, loving and powerful through conversations, courses, community and live experiences.
At the heart of his work is an exploration of being: how identity, worldview and perspective shape the actions we take and the realities we create. His particular fascination is with what becomes possible when change happens not simply at the level of what we do, but in the being we are creating from.
Who Is This For?
Creating Magic is for coaches, founders, change agents, leaders and committed creators who are not looking to be fixed.
You've already created much that matters to you. Developed real capabilities. Made choices, solved problems, taken risks and found ways to make things happen. Your life isn't waiting to begin.
Your edge is subtler.
Perhaps you can sense that more effort from the same place is not where the next opening lies. That there are possibilities you can't quite see from where you currently stand — but you sense they are there. That something in your work or life wants more space, more freedom, more range.
You may be ready to make bolder asks. To hold what you 'know' more lightly. To experiment beyond the edges of who you've previously been. To create with more aliveness and less force.
Not because the life you've created isn't good. But...
Because you're curious to find out what else you can create from here.
Across Two Days
Creating Magic has a shape, but not a rigid script.
James and JP will bring distinctions, demonstrations, conversations, experiments and live explorations drawn from their respective bodies of work. But the event will also be responsive to the twelve people in the room — the questions you bring, the edges you encounter, the possibilities that emerge and what becomes useful as we go.
We begin by loosening the grip of what already seems obvious.
Through conversation, exploration and direct experience, we'll investigate how ways of seeing, being and participating shape what becomes available — and begin experimenting beyond the limits of what you currently 'know'.
Expect assumptions to become more visible. Certainties to become more fluid. New distinctions to appear. And possibilities that were difficult to see from outside the process to begin making themselves known.
The purpose isn't to replace your current reality with a better one.
It's to give you more realities to move within.
Day Two takes that increased freedom into creation.
Your actual life becomes increasingly central: the things you want to create, the conversations you need to have, the asks you might make, the choices you're facing, the edges you're meeting and the possibilities you're curious to explore.
We'll work with what is alive in the room — sometimes individually, sometimes collectively — experimenting with different ways of seeing, being and participating, and discovering what changes when you create from somewhere different.
There will be direction, but there won't be a predetermined destination.
Because these two days aren't about showing you where to go. They're about increasing your freedom to create where you go next.
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Our Location
Situated in the heart of Edinburgh, Lister Place gives twelve of us four beautiful and distinctly different spaces to create with: the Studio, the Balcony, the Library and the Bothy.
Each has its own character. Together they give us room to move — to gather, separate, experiment, change perspective and reconvene as the work unfolds.
Because sometimes changing space changes what's possible.
A question might begin with all twelve of us together and continue somewhere quieter with two or three. An experiment can move from one space to another. A conversation in the Library will have a different quality from one in the Studio or tucked away in the Bothy. Something discovered in one room can be carried into another — or brought back to the whole group.
The spaces give us freedom to change context physically as well as conceptually, and to follow what comes alive rather than keeping twelve people in the same chairs for two days.
The work doesn't simply happen in the space. The space becomes part of the work.
Taking Your Place
You've already created much that matters. This isn't about starting again, fixing what isn't broken or becoming someone else.
It's an opportunity to step outside the limits of what you currently 'know', enter a different quality of participation, and spend two days creating with what emerges.
Bring your life. Bring your questions. Bring the things you want to create and the edges you don't yet know how to move beyond.
We'll bring everything we've spent eighteen years exploring.
And together, we'll see what becomes possible.
James Tripp & John Patrick "JP" Morgan
Edinburgh · October 8–9, 2026
12 participants
£2,500
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