Montecito · California · MMXXVI

studio MAKA — a discipline, a circle, a held space.

For those whose success has created the space to ask different questions.

The Founding Circle
Sunday 9 August 2026

I. The Studio

We do not promise reinvention. We make room for the self that has been waiting — patient, unhurried — beneath the noise of a well-lived life.

Studio MAKA is a room, a discipline, and a small circle of people willing to sit with the questions that matter. Each season we welcome a handful of guests. No applications, no cohorts, no curriculum.

The studio occupies a converted stone outbuilding off East Valley Road, surrounded by oak, olive, and the slow weather of the coast. Sessions are private. Conversations remain so.

Golden-hour sunlight through linen curtains in the studio

Light moves through linen. The room remembers stillness.

Pl. 03 — The studio at half past four

A single hand-thrown vessel on linen — Pl. 02 — Vessel, after firing

A note on form

The vessel is most useful where it is empty.

Transformation is less an addition than a careful subtraction — of obligation, of borrowed shape, of the lives we never agreed to live.

II. The Practice

Four movements, one season.

Stillness

Three days of quiet observation. We strip away the inherited language and listen for what remains.

ii.

Inventory

An honest accounting — of energies, attachments, the architecture of an existing life.

iii.

Form

Slow construction of the next chapter. Drawn by hand, in pencil, over many afternoons.

iv.

Return

Re-entry into the world, with new lines and a quieter centre of gravity.

"Transformation begins the moment we create space to hear ourselves again."

— Khewna Dawar

Founder

Khewna Dawar

Khewna Dawar is a leadership advisor, executive coach, and facilitator with more than two decades of experience working alongside leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals navigating growth, transition, and change.

Her perspective is informed by Industrial-Organizational Psychology studies at Harvard and executive coach training through the Hudson Institute of Coaching.

Through Studio MAKA, Khewna creates thoughtfully curated experiences that blend reflection, meaningful conversation, and practical insight — helping participants gain greater clarity, perspective, and intention for what comes next.

IV. An Invitation

The Founding Circle

Sunday
the ninth of August
two thousand twenty‑six

Hour: Four until seven, Pacific
Place: Montecito, California.
Exact location shared upon curated RSVP.
Seats: Twelve, by invitation

Twelve seats.
One quiet evening.

On the ninth of August, studio MAKA opens its doors for the first time — privately, and only once in this form.