Welcome!
“Change your story, change your world” is a lifetime of learning compacted into a single sentence. Simple — and like all things of that nature, it may take a lifetime to understand.
I am a returning voyager. Born in the south of France, I have spent most of my life elsewhere — six years in Africa, thirteen in Asia, two in South America, nine in North America, eight years inside the UN system, field work across over seventy countries. I did not collect passport stamps. I collected stories — mine, theirs, ours — and learned to hear the difference.
That is the education that matters. Not the postgraduate degree in political science, though that sharpened certain tools. The real training was three decades at the edges of systems in chaos: watching how people make meaning under pressure, how cultures weaponize narrative, how the same event becomes five different truths depending on which side of the border you’re standing on.
Out of that came something I did not plan: I can hear the story behind the words. Not the story someone tells — the one running underneath it, quietly organizing their reality without their knowledge or consent.
That is what I do in coaching.
When someone arrives in pieces, I place a blanket over their shoulders — coherence, resources, a thread back to themselves. When someone arrives comfortable, certain they’ve finally got it right, I pull the carpet from under their feet. The voice changes. The work changes. What doesn’t change is the direction: back toward the self that existed before the inherited scripts took over.
The most common thing clients say afterward: “I feel myself again.”
That is the only result I am interested in.
My work draws on four decades of cross-cultural immersion, developmental psychology, geopolitical analysis, eastern philosophy and the study of consciousness across traditions. Not as academic references. As lived experience.
If you want to understand the framework behind the work, start with Locked In, my book on human consciousness and why we stay trapped at levels of story that no longer serve us. The Quiz that accompanies it will show you exactly where you are in that map.
If something here already resonates and you want to talk, the door is open.
For more about what is available here and how to access it, check-out the “Rewrite your Story! post.
The Lenses Behind the Work
Geopolitical Shaped by an education in Political Sciences and International Development, and three decades working inside and alongside international institutions — the UN, conflict zones, failed states — I learned to read the architecture beneath the headlines: who holds leverage, who absorbs the cost, which narratives serve which interests. I don’t analyze events. I read systems.
Psychological This lens draws on developmental psychology, consciousness studies, and twenty years of direct work with people at genuine turning points. We all live inside stories we rarely see or question. Today I hear the stories running underneath the words and help people see clearly through them.
Spiritual This is the lens that allows to sit with what is real and who is actually present. Drawing from many traditions — Zen, Sufism, Yoga and Tantra, Christian Mysticism among others — I have moved beyond doctrines and kept the method of the crazy wisdom tradition: disruption as an act of care, the capacity to destabilize comfortable certainties in service of something more alive.
Transcultural I was born male, white, and French. After six years in Africa, thirteen in Asia, two in South America, nine in North America, field work across seventy countries, three languages still spoken fluently, I did not build cultural knowledge but cultural transcendence. The ability to catch the assumption our culture does not allow us to see and becomes conclusion. Knowing the difference between the map and the territory.
The ground — embodied field experience Nothing uniquely cognitive ever creates transformation. The passkey lies in the body, deeply embedded in our DNA, in our nervous system. Being an observer is different than being a participant. Watching war in the news is not the same experience as holding a young child who walked on a landmine. In emergencies, in collapse, in the slow grind of institutions trying and failing to change, I have shaped my experience not as a lens this time, but as a living field, an embodied experience that knows and speaks many truths before the mind can even come online. There is no credential to display here.
