Conversations Beneath The Surface

White Swan, Genève, 2023

An invitation to explore beneath the surface of everyday life, that which has not yet been thought, where ties between us and the world in which we live are woven.

“Wherever we see life, we see networks.” — Fritjof Capra, 2002

The place where we meet is a living space, where differences encounter each other without bloodshed, where new perspectives can be forged and new possibilities can emerge.

Driven by the virtues of hope and courage, we confront danger, boredom, fear, and frustration, where the wild things are. We explore the diversity of experiences, from contemplation to reflection, from curiosity to wonder, at times.

Our motto: face it.

We encourage a sense of adventure, we deal with the unknown, and we try to learn a few lessons along the way. We even dare to play tiger, squirrel, or baboon, discovering various intensities of life through unexpected alliances.

We have left aside the obsession with control and certainty that strangle imagination and creativity, to allow the emergence of forgotten facts and their verbal formulation. We embrace the words that appear to us and let the voice of others resonate within us. Words and minds meet, inner worlds connect, and new meanings crystallize.

By approaching each other through dialogue, curious about the mystery of one another, acknowledging our mutual interdependence, relationships come alive.

Through free association, we approach the presence of immediate experience beneath the layers of the conceptual and logical discourse that isolate phenomena from their unique soil. We follow the words wherever they lead us, spontaneously leading us to the emergence of images, fleeting and yet familiar, acting as mirrors, expanding our field of vision, inviting us to explore the mystery they hold.

The strange becomes familiar and the familiar becomes strange, just as ethnographers felt when approaching new worlds. Eventually, a new balance emerges.

Thought becomes flexible and mobile again, discovering unprecedented connections. Sensations long hidden in the shadows resurface and remind us of their presence. Some heavy illusions finally evaporate by themselves, emotions gradually find fresh air and a new coherence.

A relationship between life and language has been engaged, life transforming language and language transforming life, and as the words evoked find a new rhythm and order, mutually illuminating each other in their established relationship, a new clarity becomes apparent. And now it becomes conceivable to say what we would not have dared to articulate before

Occasionally an interpretation arises, attempting to translate some vaguely presumed intention.
No one can speak about everything, but speaking about certain things is like speaking about everything, wrote the Argentine poet Roberto Juarroz, and suddenly we realize that in narrating one episode of our journey, we recognize the grand themes of an entire lifetime.

​The primary purpose of dialogue is no longer to communicate something or convince one another, but to explore together meaning, to think and feel together, touching upon the implicit order, towards forgotten, unexplored territories within ourselves, where vital potentiality is liberated. The physicist David Bohm, often with a slight smile, suggested (edited from recordings of a summer conversation, 1990): Meaning is naturally, spontaneously, active and transformative.
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I work with individuals and teams facing human challenges within their professional environment.

During phases of personal or organizational transition, I foster a space for reflection where resistance can be addressed, obstacles removed, options identified and new paths to meaningful change opened up.

Organizational psychologist and executive coach, a graduate of INSEAD’s Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change, trained at Hult Ashridge International Business School, I have built my coaching and consulting practice through twenty years of corporate life experience with renowned global companies.

​To schedule an initial exploratory conversation by video-conference, please contact me directly at [email protected]