6 sessions · 10 people · one closed group
Each session starts with a real question and gradually moves you from observation to action.
01
Put words to what is really happening.
02
Explore different perspectives in a small group.
03
Test a response, a conversation or a new way of approaching a situation.
You leave each session with one concrete action to test in your everyday life.
83%
want to work in their host country
4%
actually do
These figures are about accompanying partners. The mechanism is the same for everyone: what blocks you is rarely your competence. It is your bearings, which no longer work the same way here.
You know your work. You have navigated change before. And yet, in Japan, everything takes more energy.
You know your job, but here everything takes more energy.
You know what you bring, but not yet how to translate it here.
From the outside, it looks like a privilege. From the inside, part of you has gone quiet.
Your move came without a job title, but not without a cost.
The issue is not “adapting to Japan”. It is finding enough footing to decide, act and move forward.
Inspired by co-development and mastermind groups, guided by a facilitator.
These four situations meet in the same Circle, on purpose, with newcomers and people here for years. Someone working in Japan shares what the workplace really demands. Someone still looking asks the questions others stopped asking.
And those who seem to have “figured it out” are still adjusting too.
For a few hours, you step outside your usual role.
You don't have to perform. You don't have to know exactly what you want. You don't need a polished story to tell.
You bring a real situation. You look at it differently. You explore it with others. You try another way of responding.
Because understanding isn't always enough. Sometimes you need to practise for something to really change.
One-to-one goes deep. In the Circle, relational dynamics add what one-to-one cannot fully reproduce: you describe what happened, and here, it happens.
Watching someone name a challenge and commit to a step can unlock your own.
The same situation, read in ten different ways. Yours is only one of them.
See how your words, presence and listening land on others, as it happens.
What felt like a personal weakness is shared by capable peers.
Your commitment is seen, remembered and followed up by the group.
Practise a difficult conversation, a boundary or a request in a safe setting, before doing it at work.
That's what turns insight into a new possibility for action.
Ostrowski, The Capable Group Coach (2026) · Bandura, Social Learning Theory (1977) · Yalom & Leszcz, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (2020)
Step out of your usual rhythm for a few hours and look at your situation differently.
Understand what is unsettling you in this new environment — and what isn't yours to carry.
See how other people experience very different situations, and put your own experience back into perspective.
Practise the conversations, decisions and responses that currently take too much energy.
Become less driven by your first automatic reaction.
I had a major realisation: my professional value is not only what I produce, but what decision-makers notice, remember and associate with my name.
Jérôme, 38 — sales engineer
accompanying spouse, on a career break
I appreciate the structure, the high level of interaction, and also leaving with a concrete tool for afterwards.
Pierre, 43 — entrepreneur
It is quite rare to leave a workshop with both the feeling of having received… and of having really been able to speak.
Sasha, 50 — doctor, on a career break
Despite my experience abroad, taking up my position in Japan unsettled me. The circle helped me find clarity and alignment again in my daily life.
Géraldine, 45 — Country Manager, expatriate
Online masterclass
90 minutes · online
Closed groups, small numbers, and a place kept for you once your request is confirmed.
6 sessions of 3 hours · in person and online · Tokyo
Six sessions, ten people, one closed group. Each session starts with a real question and moves you from observation to action.
6 sessions of 3 hours + 3 one-to-one sessions of 50 min
The Circle works on the way you function. The one-to-one sessions work on your direction. The only option that covers both.
Support for a partner and an employee on an international assignment is now recognised as a key factor in a successful assignment. Your employer — or your partner's employer — may fund this pathway.
I will send you the document to share with Human Resources.
7 %
Only 7% of expatriate partners receive career support from the company that sends them abroad.
When we are in familiar territory, many of our reactions happen automatically. We know how to position ourselves. How to ask. How to say no. How to read a meeting. How to handle disagreement. When the territory changes, those same reflexes may become less reliable.
What happens before you've had time to choose.
What you decide to do in the seconds that follow.
That's the difference we practise. Not by talking more about the problem. By putting it into practice.