My Map of the Territory
A compass, not a plan. A direction that lets life circulate and clarifies what I choose to nurture.
Reflecting the living,
putting back into circulation
Creating from the source.
Giving, receiving, letting it circulate —
like living water that regenerates as it passes.
In-depth reflections on today's world — through the lens of the living. What circulates, what stagnates, what is ready to transform.
Living governance · Systemic reading · Transmission
Featured reflection
My priority goes today to the Invisible Pact: turning this story into a work of art, perhaps a film. On the side, I offer individual systemic readings, for whoever wishes to explore their own story — and what their soul is seeking through it, in an embodied way.
My inner compass
From Control to Emergence
Doing my part, letting reality respond — and leaving an empty chair for what I do not yet know.
Where I speak from
Several crossings,
one common thread
Forty years crossing systems — from the inside. International finance, pioneering entrepreneurship in the living world, then governance. Each stage refined the same capacity: reading patterns, naming blind spots, telling apart what accumulates from what circulates.
"True strength is not doing everything alone.
It lies in sincere connection and reciprocal support."
1990 — 2007
International finance — 17 years, including Citigroup. Complex systems, flows, power dynamics.
2007 — 2024
Sequoia — At the origin of the takeover and development of Sequoia, of which I was CEO — the drive came from me, the journey was made with others.
Today
L'Oiseau Bleu — Foundation. Living governance, transmission, collective consciousness. Exploring the invisible legacies of the feminine — silenced suffering, passed down from generation to generation without ever being named. Frozen suffering becomes poison. Recognized, loved and transformed by the crossing, it becomes source again — living, purifying, creative. The Grandala, a bird of the Himalayan heights, is its living signature.
In the background
Ten years of equine work (Eponaquest), somatic intelligence, transgenerational exploration. The body and deep listening as the first grounds for reading.
Reflections
Regenerating the world through the lens of the living
These aren't advice articles. They are reflections rooted in experience — on what our systems do to us, and on what the living shows us.
THE INVISIBLE PACT · SYSTEMS · EMERGENCE
Below the Waterline
September 29, 2026
Here is how, today, I picture part of the chaos we are going through. A multitude of tiny things, often invisible or so habitual that we no longer notice them, are at work below the waterline.
LIVING · BODY · HEALING
TAU — opening passages
September 20, 2026
TAU does not lend itself easily to definition. It does not need one. For me, it is a portal that works through the body.
CULTURE · CREATION · AI
Absurdland — or the right to laugh at serious things
19 September 2026
A story born in a drawer, transformed into an illustrated tale when an old imagination met a new tool — with laughter as a way of looking at our own hells.
HEALTH · HERITAGE · SYSTEMS
What if we expanded our definition of a toxic environment?
September 5, 2026
Eating well, moving, nurturing good relationships: the foundation still matters. But what does the accumulation of everything we are exposed to — including what we have inherited — do to a living organism?
THE INVISIBLE PACT · TRANSMISSION · HERITAGE
When we no longer know how to see the value of what we have received
August 23, 2026
This autumn, the villa Les Tournesols will disappear from the seafront of De Panne. What do we really pass on when we believe we are passing on a heritage?
CO-CREATION · INTERDEPENDENCE · ENCOUNTER
The middle way
August 17, 2026
For a long time, I have had an intuition that there is a third way: one that allows something alive to emerge from the encounter between two beings.
QUEST · CO-CREATION · CALL
What I was looking for, perhaps, was not a treasure
August 10, 2026
In 2024, something from the past called out to me. It began with an email sent, for no apparent reason, by a stranger: the portrait of an ancestor, just as unknown to me, on display at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
HEALTH · IDENTITY · SYSTEMS
Towards a new art of healing
August 10, 2026
I have just finished Cured, by Dr Jeffrey Rediger. After a seventeen-year investigation into spontaneous remissions, he identifies four dimensions that seem to play a major role in our state of health.
LIVING · BODY · PASSAGE
My encounter with the Living
August 5, 2026
In February 2026, everything collapsed. No more meaning. No more bearings. No more energy. What I want to speak about here is not what happened, but the way I went through it.
POWER · BODY · SYSTEMS · MONEY
What the body ends up paying for
July 19, 2026
Reading an article about corruption in large corporations, I stumbled by chance on a name: Philippe Jaffré. CEO of Elf Aquitaine, dead of cancer at 62. It wasn't his career that stopped me. It was the age.
DISCERNMENT · EXPERIENCE · CONSCIOUSNESS
What practice teaches discernment
July 5, 2026
I found myself slipping onto ground that was draining my energy — without having chosen it, without noticing right away. The day I saw it, something was set free. Not the situation. My way of inhabiting it.
FOUNDATIONS · CONDITIONING · LINEAGE
The house built from the roof down
June 20, 2026
I had already succeeded, in the way the world counts success. Seventeen years in international finance, including Citigroup. Then seventeen years building Sequoia. On paper, everything was there. And yet.
MEMORY · TRANSMISSION · PACIFICATION
The proof you don't need to find
June 16, 2026
For a long time I wanted concrete proof of certain things from the past that I felt without being able to put into words. It led me on a quest for external truth, since 2024.
INVISIBLE PACT · TRANSMISSION · LIBERATION
When suffering stops governing
June 16, 2026
For a long time, I believed my sufferings were only mine. Then I looked more closely at my family history. Dramas. Losses. Secrets. Deaths. Invisible loyalties, passed on unnamed, like ghosts.
ARCHETYPE · LINEAGE · REBIRTH
The Mystery of the Blue Bird
June 1, 2026
There are symbols we don't choose. They choose us. In 2024, I was called toward a building. Incomprehensible at the time. It was a work by my great-grandfather on my father's side — a family, a lineage I knew almost nothing about.
RECIPROCITY · VALUE · SYSTEMS
Changing the project doesn't change the system
June 1, 2026
People often reach out to me this way. A well-written message. Flattery about my career. Nostalgia for shared moments — even when there's been no contact for ages. Then the real request arrives. A piece of information. A contact. A diagnosis. No offer of reciprocity. No real commitment.
Mental structures · Cooperation · Timeline
We all pull a cart along our path in life
May 15, 2026
Every cart has a square wheel that slows our spontaneous momentum. That wheel isn't the same for everyone. That's exactly why we are mirrors for one another — and why mutual support has a value that autonomy alone never reaches.
Nature · Cooperation · Nervous system
Consensual governance — what nature shows us
May 10, 2026
We were raised to believe success is autonomy. Managing on your own. Depending on no one. Except that's not what nature shows. 'Every man for himself' isn't a law of nature — it's a story we were told.
Lineage · Money · Sovereignty
The financial system needs our fears to keep running
May 5, 2026
Some of my exhaustion wasn't mine. It came from further back. What I learned by following the thread — about dispossession, invisible pacts, and what it costs to honor them without having chosen them.
Conditioning · Body · Identity
The superwoman trap
March 20, 2026
It slipped into all my ways of functioning. It took me a long time to see it. The superwoman model was, for my generation, a conquest. But what no one said is that this model rests on an illusion: that carrying everything alone is strength.
Vision capital · Transmission · Regeneration
When the world's richest heiress chooses to heal rather than sell
March 5, 2026
Alice Walton could have stayed in retail. She chose to found a school of preventive and integrative medicine. What strikes me isn't the amount invested. It's the gesture. True capital isn't what you accumulate — it's what you pass on in a form that regenerates.
These reflections circulate freely.
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A book, a film, a debate — read or watched on your own, then shared together.
Interventions
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Formats and terms are defined case by case, depending on the context.
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