Commitments
Ethics & sovereignty
Supporting people also means making choices: about how I work, the tools I use, what I promise and what I refuse. Here are mine, made visible.
Last updated: 18 October 2026
My principles
Congruence
Aligning what we feel, think and do. It’s at the heart of my work, and I try to apply it to my own practice.
Integrity
Saying what I do and doing what I say: that’s what I aim for, on this site, in sessions and in my prices. I don’t always manage it perfectly — I do my best, and when I get it wrong, I acknowledge it and put it right.
Autonomy and sovereignty
My aim is for you not to need me anymore: to leave with the ability to understand yourself, regulate yourself and choose for yourself.
Body first
When things go wrong, we take care of the body first: sleep, food, movement. We are animals built to move.
Respect for life
Contributing, at my scale, to life on Earth continuing to thrive — including in my technical choices.
What if it were both?
Rather than choosing between A and B, first look for where they coexist. Think in complexity, act simply.
The ethics of the relationship
- Consent and non-directiveness. I don’t decide for you what’s good for you. We work from what you bring, at your pace, and you can always say no.
- No miracle promises. I don’t sell a “guaranteed transformation in six sessions”. Every journey is unique, and what changes also depends on your involvement.
- No manipulative marketing. No fake urgency, countdowns, supposedly limited places or guilt to make you buy.
- A clear line with therapy. Somatic coaching is not treatment. When a situation goes beyond my scope, I refer you to a health professional.
- Confidentiality. What is said in a session stays between us.
- An honest guarantee. If the first session really doesn’t suit you, I refund the rest of the programme.
Individual and collective responsibility
I’m not trying to make people more productive in the service of what exhausts them. Inner work is not an end in itself: it’s about regaining the ability to choose your life consciously, and to act where you are.
Many difficulties we experience individually — overload, loss of meaning, burnout — also have collective causes. I refuse to make each person responsible for fixing everything alone. And I refuse powerlessness just as much: reclaiming sovereignty over your life is already a way of taking part in the world you want.
That’s why I mainly support people who carry responsibilities or projects that matter to others: what is freed in one person has effects far beyond them.
Robustness rather than performance
The culture of performance teaches us to optimise, accelerate and never falter. Living systems work differently: they last because they keep margins, diversity and slowness.
I find a compass in this, for the people I support as for society: favouring what is robust — able to get through uncertainty — over what is merely efficient. Biologist Olivier Hamant explains it very well in Antidote au culte de la performance. La robustesse du vivant (Gallimard, 2023, in French).
Digital sovereignty, in practice
My technical choices are part of my ethics. Here is where this site stands, without embellishment:
What is in place
- Site hosted in Switzerland by Infomaniak, an independent company that powers its data centres with renewable energy
- No advertising or advertising trackers; anonymous, cookie-free audience measurement (Matomo), hosted on the site’s own server
- Fonts and images hosted here: your visit doesn’t go through Google or an image bank
- Invoicing (Indy), ticketing (Billetweb) and newsletter (Brevo) entrusted to French companies
- A light, accessible site, with a display panel adapted to visual needs
What still needs improving
- Appointment booking (zcal) and video calls (Zoom) go through American companies. I’m looking for European alternatives
- My presence on Instagram and LinkedIn depends on platforms whose model I don’t share
Details of the data and its recipients are in the privacy policy.
Algorithms and attention
Big digital platforms are designed to hold our attention as long as possible. Our nervous system pays the price: constant stimulation, comparison, difficulty settling.
I’m present on social media, because that’s where many people are. But I don’t post content made for the algorithm, and I favour formats you choose to read: this site and my Substack.
What about advertising?
To make my work known, I sometimes run ads on social media. I do so with honest messages, without fake urgency or miracle promises, and without tracking visitors to this site.
Making this work accessible
- A solidarity rate for workshops, no proof required.
- Online sessions, wherever you are.
- A site readable by as many people as possible: dark mode, text size, higher contrast, adapted font.
What I don’t do
- I don’t diagnose or treat mental health conditions
- I don’t guarantee results
- I don’t do performance coaching in the service of productivity at all costs
- I don’t sell or share your data for commercial purposes
- I don’t install advertising trackers on this site (Meta or Google pixels…)
These commitments evolve with my practice
If something seems contradictory or worth discussing, write to me at contact@clementmarceau.com. This dialogue is part of the approach.