Meaning Making Interview

Where experience
begins to make sense

Work through lived moments to clarify critical expertise
and take more consequential action.

Have you ever felt that something important
remained difficult to articulate?
Start the conversation

What this is

This is an exploratory and reflective process centered on your lived experience

By returning to significant moments, it helps bring into words what is often difficult to fully articulate.

In a confidential dialogue, the process surfaces how those moments still influence your present.

It becomes a way to design what is to come.

How it works

Through a research-informed guided 90-minute reflective conversation and in-depth exploration

During the Interview

01

Explore significant moments and situations

Through a facilitated process, moments are relived in detail, and what they mean unfolds.

02

Reveal recurring patterns, tensions, and dynamics

A trained reading connects what felt like separate episodes, drawing out the expertise at work and core values.

03

Reflect on how they continue to shape decisions and action

In-depth interpretive guidance makes visible the tacit logic still operating in present thinking and choices.

After the Interview

04

Receive a written synthesis to work from, with new perspectives to take forward

The written synthesis gathers the whole analysis into one document, a reference kept and returned to long after the session.

05

Integrate emerging insights and explore future directions

In a follow-up conversation, what stays unconnected is brought together, opening real possibilities for what comes next.

What emerges

A coherent picture, across your professional and personal journey.

You see clearly what drives your successes and failures, and put words to your unique expertise.

You gain clearer direction and firmer ground for the decisions, transitions, and what you will accomplish from here.

You act more strategically on what counts for you, and it shows in how you lead and perform.

Testimonials

Useful when

When periods of transition, uncertainty, or standstill call for deeper reflection and clarity

You are looking to unveil the meaning of your path

You want a clearer view of what is holding your movement or decision in place.

You are preparing the next step

A new role, a career shift, a founder decision, a personal transition, or a current direction that needs to be read differently.

Experience is there, but the pattern is hard to read

Your path contains enough successes, tensions, and choices to reveal something useful.

About Magali

Research depth,
grounded exploration

Magali Balayn Lelong, PhD, helps articulate and make sense of what remains implicit in experience, in ways that continue to inform future reflection and action.

Magali Balayn Lelong
20+ years supporting transitions, organizational development, and leadership LinkedIn
PhD experiential knowledge and transformation ResearchGate
Published work contributions to research and practice Book

Contact

Start with what keeps coming back

Send a few lines about what feels unclear, unresolved, difficult to articulate, or begin with where you are.
Learn more about the process and how it may resonate with your current situation during an initial call, including pricing.

magali@tacitbridge.com

Foundations

This approach draws on the work of Pascal Galvani on reflective practice and experiential knowledge.

Galvani, P. (1998). Quête de sens et formation.

Galvani, P. (2020). Autoformation et connaissance de soi: Une méthode de recherche-formation expérientielle. Lyon: Chronique Sociale.