Insights
Explore how visual perception, symbolic thinking, and image based coaching support leadership, resilience, and decision making in individuals and organisations.
Case Study: Midlife Career Redirection Through Image Analysis
A man in his mid fifties contacted me after more than twenty years in consulting. From the outside, his career looked stable and successful. He had moved steadily through the ranks. Increasing responsibility, strong reputation inside the firm, teams who respected him and a comfortable income. Nothing dramatic had happened. No crisis, no burnout. Yet something had shifted.
Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina 2026: Fire, form, and the search for a center
While watching the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026, one element held my attention longer than the others. The cauldrons hosting the Olympic flame. Their form carried meaning before any commentary attempted to explain it.
Landscapes of the Soul, CG Jung and the Psyche
It is a strong exhibition, and walking into the Landesmuseum that morning I felt a quiet respect for the way Switzerland protects its cultural inheritance, not as something decorative or nostalgic, but as a living archive of ideas and practices, among which its contribution to psychology, with figures such as C. G. Jung, Hermann Rorschach, and others, holds a central place.
Image is psyche*
We need meaning in our lives and work—without it, we disengage. Symbols help us sustain that meaning, especially in times of crisis. One might argue that the greatest crisis we face today is a crisis of meaning.
The Wholeness and The Beaune Altarpiece (or The Last Judgement)
Seen intrapsychically, the Last Judgement becomes a portrait of the human psyche. The radiant and the tortured figures coexist within the same being. The Archangel Michael’s scale does not weigh others’ souls, but ours. Heaven and Hell are no longer separate realms but two poles of one psychic field. The light of consciousness and the shadow of the unconscious are both present, both alive.