The Self Expansion careers and jobs

Balanced Life. Sustainable Work. Lasting Success.

The Self Expansion helps organizations and their people build lasting capacity: to carry load, see clearly, decide well and recover, at work and beyond it.

The problem

The person under pressure at work is the same person who goes home at night. Stress, exhaustion, conflict, hard decisions, change after change: these challenges land on the same person, and they arise on two levels. Exhaustion follows workload; cynicism follows a lack of support. Most workplace wellbeing programs act on the first level only, handing people techniques while the conditions that wear them down stay in place.

The Self Expansion works on both levels at once: building each person's capacity, and changing what the organization asks of its people and how it supports them.

The approach

One life, one system, one practice. Body, mind and emotions form a single system: working with the breath already works on thoughts and feelings. The method trains universal principles, consistently, until they become a capacity people can rely on in any situation.

Root causes. Practices refined over centuries, informed by current science and translated for working life. They act on the physiological and psychological foundations of stress and exhaustion.

Two levels, together. Individual work, through movement, breath and attention, builds each person's capacity. Organizational work, on workload, roles, management practices and culture, changes the conditions. Programs that combine both levels produce roughly twice the effect of purely individual approaches.

Understood by the mind, felt in the body. Every principle is first understood (top-down: psychology, physiology, applied philosophy), then lived (bottom-up: breath, somatic movement, mindfulness). Either one alone gives way under pressure.

Transferable intelligence. Discernment, self-knowledge and the ability to act with intention: qualities that make people more effective in any situation, at work and outside it.

In their words

"A must-have and a must-go for any high-performer."

Zach, Department Head, French bank

"Bringing together the physical and mental parts to think about the whole self. Most courses tend to focus on one or the other."

Matt, Senior Manager, investment fund

"That was a safe place where we felt listened."

Victor, Senior Tax Manager, law firm