Above Below

The method

Two structures, one company.

The detail behind the work. Read it if you want to know exactly what happens in the room, and what we are working on when we are working on you.

Below

The visible structure

Profit, revenue, hiring, product, delivery, money. Everything that can be measured, and where the second creation becomes visible. This is where we start, because this is where you feel it.

Above

The invisible structure

Body, mind and spirit. The beliefs, the conditioning, the protections and the tension a founder carries, and the state they decide from. Invisible on any dashboard, and already shaping everything below.

The body is the bridge between the two. It is where the invisible becomes perceptible, before it becomes visible in the business. That is why we work with it directly, and why a session is not a conversation about the business alone.

The structure we work from

Two triangles, six points of work.

Every session moves between two triangles. Below are the three points that make a company move. Above are the three points that decide the state it is moved from. Each point already exists in your company today. Our work is not to add them, but to turn them from something that runs you into something you build with.

Below

The visible structure

Vision
Today it is often implied and carried in your head. We make it clear enough that the company can decide by it.
Strategy
Today it holds too many options at once. We reduce it to the few choices that actually carry the vision.
Action
Today effort is spread wide and moves slowly. We make execution specific, owned and visible in the numbers.

Above

The invisible structure

Body
Your body is already signalling where something is stuck. We read those signals, release the tension, and your capacity rises.
Mind
Beliefs and patterns are already organising every decision. We make them visible, so they stop deciding for you.
Spirit
You are always deciding from some state. Right now it may be pressure or protection. We move it toward intention and clarity.

How the work moves

One cycle, two structures.

This is how a session moves, using profit as the example.

ABOVEBELOW1RECOGNITION2AWARENESS3EXPERIENCING4RESTRUCTURING5CREATION
  1. 1

    Recognition

    It starts with something visible below: a number that is not where it should be. Profit, for example. We name it plainly.

  2. 2

    Awareness

    From there we move up. Above, you become aware of what is not flowing behind that number.

  3. 3

    Experiencing

    You experience where it is held in the body, and you see what has been producing it.

  4. 4

    Restructuring

    From that centre we restructure the patterns and the decisions the number was built from.

  5. 5

    Creation

    Then you create again from a clean place, and the number can move, because the decisions behind it are different.

What changes

What changes below.

Examples of what can shift in the business, where it becomes measurable.

Decisions get clear

The real constraint gets named, and choices that felt impossible for months become decidable.

Hiring gets cleaner

You stop recruiting for the gap you were unwilling to look at, and start recruiting for the company you are actually building.

Growth stops costing you

The same growth arrives with far less energy spent, and without borrowing from your health, your sleep or your relationships.

The team stops absorbing you

What a founder carries becomes culture. Once it is resolved, the organisation stops working around you and starts working with you.

The numbers can move

Profit, pipeline and delivery can respond when new clarity is translated into different decisions, accountabilities and execution.

The work becomes enjoyable

Building stops feeling like pressure and starts feeling like creation, which is usually when the results arrive.

What changes above.

Examples of what can shift in the founder.

The way you think

Fewer loops, less noise. Thinking becomes something you use, not something that runs you.

The way you feel

Emotion stops being a threat to manage and becomes information you can read and act on.

The way your body feels

Contraction, tension and held stress release, and your capacity for load goes up.

The beliefs you carry

The rules you inherited about money, worth and effort become visible, and stop deciding for you.

The state you decide from

Instead of deciding from pressure or protection, you begin deciding from intention and clarity.

The way you move through life

Not only in the business. How you lead, relate and rest all change with you.

Seven principles

A new structural design for business.

01

As the outer reflects the inner

Every company reflects the internal structure of its founder. Change that structure, and different decisions, behaviours and results become possible.

02

Founders are the invisible structure

Strategy, culture and execution are downstream of the founder. The most direct lever in any business is the person building it.

03

Energy is a business metric

How a company feels is not soft. It is one of the most accurate forward indicators you have, months ahead of any dashboard.

04

Truth before strategy

Strategy built on what we wish were true breaks under load. Strategy built on what is actually true holds.

05

Coherence is a competitive advantage

Most companies leak energy through misalignment. A coherent company moves with less effort and lands with more truth.

06

Consciousness amplifies money

Not the other way around. Capital cannot raise the level a company operates from. It only magnifies the level that is already there.

07

We consult, you create

We hold the space for clarity, reflection and truth. The building stays yours, and so does the ownership of what follows.

Step one

Book a private consultation.

Complimentary and confidential, with both of us. Bring what is happening in the business right now and we will work with it directly.