Joint Journeys
My work evolved organically through decades of study and experience across psychology, business, international affairs, media, and wisdom traditions.
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At its core, it catalyzes and nurtures deep inner transformation in service of meaningful outer impact,
and a life well lived.
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Integrating executive coaching and strategic advisory, I work across business, nonprofit, and public-impact contexts, around the globe.
I weave approaches and perspectives from three different fields:
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Psychology — depth psychology, dreamwork, inter-generational dynamics, somatic work, EMDR
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Leadership coaching and strategic advisory across business, geopolitics, and the non-profit sector
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A variety of wisdom schools and philosophical traditions
I also developed an original framework, the Roundtable of Inner Characters — a practical method for recognizing, engaging, and integrating the multiple inner forces that shape our life, decision-making, and relationships.
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Each client’s journey is tailored to their needs, every step of the way. At times it unfolds in a one-on-one process, helping a person grow, explore their multi-faceted self and walk towards a life well lived. At others, I facilitate groups — leadership teams, cross-sector coalitions — cultivating the alchemy of connection and co-creation.
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Inner transformation and outer impact are treated as a single continuum. As clients become more grounded in their authentic self, I support them in engaging external realities: leading organizations and navigating complex geopolitical, technological, and societal landscapes. Clarity of being informs clarity of judgment, relationship, and action in environments where the stakes are real and the answers are rarely simple.
Who do I work with?
I work with individuals and organizations around the world — business and nonprofits, in one-on-one or group settings. When it can enhance the process, I bring in collaborators from other fields of personal development and team building.
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What is a life well lived?
There is a question I like to ask: If we meet when you are 90' and I ask 'was yours a life well lived?', what would it entail for you to be able to answer with a frank 'yes'?
The answer to that question informs our choices today, and helps us journey with more authenticity and fulfillment. Yet to answer this question accurately, we need to understand much more in depth who is the "I" that speaks.
We are multifaceted beings, each facet with its own set of qualities, needs, fears and versions of what is a 'life well lived'.
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The Roundtable of Inner Characters
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In order to decipher those different facets, I developed a tool, called the Roundtable of Inner Characters. It is a practical and in-depth way to explore our various sides, to understand more who they are, what they want, how to navigate their realities, which can seem contradictory at times. You can read more about your Wise One, your Doer, your Lover, your Caretaker, your Hermit and the others here.
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Why is my practice called Neidan?
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Alchemy is an ancient philosophy which has traversed cultures and ages under different guises, from Ancient Egypt and Greece, to India and China. It is a way to connect to the ultimate essence of things and beings.
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In China, this ancient tradition is called Neidan — Nei for internal, Dan for essence, or elixir. Neidan represents a multitude of ways —philosophical, physical, scientific, metaphysical — devised over millennia to connect to that ‘inner elixir’, to identify and develop our inner ‘seeds of gold’.
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At my own scale, and with a 21st century perspective, I founded Neidan with the same objective — helping people and organizations find and manifest their core essence, becoming ‘who they are meant to be’.
Inspirations & Teachers
Carl Jung &
depth psychology
Victor Frankl & the search for a meaningful life
The Wisdom Teachers, Seers and Shamans, I have been fortunate to encounter and ‘joint journey’ with
John O'Donohue, for blessing the space between us & illuminating us with timeless wisdom
The Dalai Lama & my blessed times in H.H. company
The creative forces, artists, authors, designers, crafts-masters, scientists, filmmakers I have been inspired & touched by
Archeologist & mythologist Marija Gimbutas and her revolutionary understanding of who we were before “history began” (egalitarian, peaceful societies…) — along with the historians, researchers, authors who echoed and amplified her paradigm shifts
Laura Inserra & the power of sound to discover, heal and transform
Mark Wolynn & the tools to address our trans-generational baggage
J. Krishnamurti & the permission to find one’s own truth
Lou Andreas Salomé
& the courage to be oneself