Insights on executive and life coaching, creativity, and Jungian image-based work.
When the Toads Return in February
Reconnecting with nature outside, even through something as modest as observing a garden pond in February reconnects one with a different kind of nature inside oneself, one that seems to follow similar laws of latency, activation, growth, and rest.
Sunlight and Moonlight. On consciousness, the unconscious, and two ways of seeing.
If our lives were illuminated only by sunlight, everything would be visible but nothing would be deep, whereas without moonlight, everything would be deep but nothing would be articulated.
Spirited Away and the Journey of the Soul: A Jungian Reading of Miyazaki’s Classic
I have watched Spirited Away a hundred times and I still cannot fully grasp the nature of its enchanting power. Each viewing leaves me with the same impression: I understand the story, I follow the characters, I recognize the symbols, and yet something escapes explanation. The film works at a depth that resists reduction.
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.
Creativity as a Leadership Discipline
Complex challenges resist linear answers and standard playbooks, requiring from leaders a sharper quality of perception, sustained attention to human and systemic dynamics, and the capacity to produce meaning under conditions of uncertainty and pressure. When familiar reference points weaken or collapse, the objective is not speed for its own sake, but clarity, coherence, and judgment that hold over time.
This is where creativity becomes a leadership discipline.
"The Boyfriend", Season 2 on Netflix: The Quiet Architecture of Desire
At first glance, The Boyfriend looks like a familiar kind of show, a reality program where young men meet, observe each other, hesitate, feel attraction, withdraw, and sometimes move closer again, yet from the very first episodes something feels different, as if the show were less interested in producing drama than in capturing something more fragile and more difficult to name, the subtle way in which people learn to exist in front of others.
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.