A wise guide, and a mirror.

A life lived at the edges

I studied philosophy, argumentation and advocacy in France, and trained in mediation in Paris. But my real education happened elsewhere: as a refugee of war, a helicopter pilot, a teacher, a relief worker. I have lived on a farm, on a boat, in a penthouse, and in an ashram in India. I have been shot at and shipwrecked. I loved a man named Murray, and I lost him far too soon.

Grief, it turns out, is a doorway. So is everything, once you are awake to it.

I shifted from a hypnotised, automatic mind to the calm of wholeness. That is the whole of my work.

Eighty thousand rooms

For thirty-five years I led transformational seminars across more than twenty countries, as faculty and a global leader for one of the world's largest personal-development companies. Tens of thousands of people sat in those rooms. I learned what wakes a human being, and what only sends them back to sleep more comfortably.

And then I left it all. Not out of disappointment, but out of clarity. I went on a spiritual quest, and out of it came my courses: a blend of philosophy and spirituality.

Menorca, and what remains

Today I live simply on the island of Menorca, close to the sea, the olive trees, and the silence. I am becoming more spiritual and more empty, and I find I need very little. No woo-woo, no complicated stories, no drama. Only the elegance of simplicity.

I am dedicated to one thing now: the quiet creation of a new culture for humankind, a culture of awareness and consciousness. It begins with you.