Founder of Meraviglia & Creator of The Architecture for Living

For most of my life, I have been fascinated by how we humans make sense of life.

Why can two people experience the same situation completely differently? Why do we keep repeating patterns even when we can see them? How much of what we believe is actually ours? And how do we remain true to ourselves while still being deeply connected to others?

Those questions have followed me through very different chapters — as an interior designer, entrepreneur, investor, leadership practitioner, mother of three, and simply as someone who has never been particularly good at accepting that something should be done a certain way because that is how it has always been done.

I naturally zoom out and zoom in.

I zoom out to look at the larger picture: the environment, relationships, systems, culture and circumstances we are part of.

And then I zoom in: What am I seeing? What am I assuming? What am I feeling? What is my part in this? What changes when I look at it differently?

Somewhere between those two perspectives, things often become surprisingly clear.

Fifteen years of inquiry

Around fifteen years ago, this curiosity became a much deeper inquiry into the relationship between our inner world and the reality we experience.

I studied self-awareness, behavioural patterns, embodiment, leadership, human dynamics, consciousness and the ways our thoughts, emotions, beliefs and body influence how we perceive what is happening around us.

Again and again, I came back to perception.

Because we don't respond to reality.

We respond to our perception of reality.

Once you begin to see that process while it is happening, you can work with it.

You can observe instead of immediately react. Zoom out. Zoom in. Question an assumption. Notice a pattern. Listen to what your body is telling you. Discern what is actually yours. Look from another perspective. And then choose how you want to respond.

That inquiry eventually became The Architecture for Living — a practical framework for developing these capacities and learning another way of meeting life.

But for me, the work doesn't end with the individual.

Sovereign — and more connected

I believe we are entering an extraordinary new phase of human development.

Technology is accelerating. AI is changing how we work, think and create. Traditional structures and sources of authority are being questioned. We have access to more information, perspectives and possibilities than any generation before us.

That asks something of us.

We need to become increasingly capable of observing, discerning and choosing for ourselves.

But I don't believe the answer is greater independence or individualism.

I believe we can become more sovereign and more connected at the same time.

To stand within ourselves without closing ourselves off.

To listen to another perspective without automatically adopting it.

To disagree without needing to make the other person wrong.

To belong without abandoning ourselves.

And to create together without handing our responsibility over to the group.

I call this sovereign interdependence.

For me, this is where the Architecture ultimately leads: not towards more self-focus, but towards a different quality of relationship and participation.

The individual is where the work begins. It is not where it ends.

As a mother of three young professionals, I see how relevant this is for their generation too. They are entering a world of enormous possibility and unprecedented complexity.

I don't believe we need another generation that simply becomes better at adapting to the systems it inherits.

I am much more interested in what becomes possible when people learn to think, discern and choose for themselves — and then bring that sovereignty back into relationship, leadership and what we create together.

And then came Meraviglia

In 2023, I moved to Piemonte after unexpectedly coming across an old cascina in the Italian hills.

There was no business plan for it.

But slowly, the house and my work began to come together.

Meraviglia became the physical home — and eventually the wider platform — for bringing The Architecture for Living into practice.

Today, I work with people online and in person, individually and in small groups. Sometimes we spend five days together in Piemonte. Sometimes we work intensively over a much longer period. Sometimes the work happens through a conversation, keynote or dialogue.

The form can change.

The essence doesn't.

We zoom out. We zoom in. We play with perception. We practise another way of meeting ourselves, each other and life.

That is the work I love.