By returning to significant moments, it helps bring into words what is often difficult to fully articulate.
Where experience
begins to make sense
Work through lived moments to clarify critical expertise
and take more consequential action.
remained difficult to articulate?
What this is
This is an exploratory and reflective process centered on your lived experience
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
Explore significant moments and situations
Through a facilitated process, moments are relived in detail, and what they mean unfolds.
Reveal recurring patterns, tensions, and dynamics
A trained reading connects what felt like separate episodes, drawing out the expertise at work and core values.
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
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.
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
Curiosity has always led me to my best teachers, so when I learned of Magali’s research, intrigue drew me into her interview process. Although the process itself felt very simple, I was surprised by the meaningful recollections evoked through Magali’s thoughtful inquiry and presence. But even more surprising and gratifying was how she helped give language to the deeper value underlying my experience — language I could feel deeply, but had never found the right words to share.
What stood out to me was how the interview moved beyond general self-reflection and instead focused on specific lived moments and experiences. Through the process, I began to see clearer patterns between important turning points, decisions, and recurring behaviors in my own life. What stayed with me afterward was not only the insights themselves, but also a strong sense of inner calm and clarity. There was a feeling of coherence - as if different parts of my experiences had been connected in a meaningful way.
I really appreciated how much meaning and insight could emerge from a single conversation and a few lived moments explored in depth. The process helped me recognize connections and recurring dynamics across different experiences in ways that I had not fully articulated before. It also made me realize how much depth and analysis can emerge from this kind of guided exploration.
I was exploring the process during a career transition from public health to learning and development. What stayed with me most was Magali's gravitas - her presence seemed to slow time down and created a rare space for deep reflection. The session helped me recognize how powerful it is to revisit key moments in life with someone who amplifies their meaning. This experience continues to serve as a template for the kind of transformative space I hope to create in my own teaching, facilitation, and coaching.
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.
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.
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.