SAWITRI BUNJAMIN-MAU
EMERGING VOICES
Here’s What Happened When Sawitri Discovered Her Life’s Work
SAWITRI’S STORY
If you’ve done a lot of “work,” but still don’t know how it fits together, this story is for you.
When Sawitri entered The Program, she wasn’t stuck in the way most people mean when they say that. She was high-functioning, highly-capable and already respected by others as a strong and successful Facilitator. But her whole life she had felt internally lost—like something was still missing.
“I didn’t know my place—what my work was,” she said. “It wasn’t just about not being seen. It was a much deeper existential injury. Who am I, and what am I here to do?”
She was caught in an intense inner battle—trying to figure out her niche, how to put herself out there, how to make coaching the thing. But every attempt felt off, like she was translating something deep into superficial forms that couldn’t hold it. Financial pressure and external advice had constantly nudged her toward safety, but a deeper knowing told her that choosing superficiality over truth would take her further from her real work. In her 50s now, she was unwilling to waste time.
She joined The Program because it was one of the few spaces where the full complexity of that question was welcome—where soul, business, essence, and long-range life mapping were treated not as indulgent abstractions, but as the concrete foundations of a meaningful Life’s Work.
As soon as she began engaging in the work, something fundamental began to shift. Through trajectory mapping, Sawitri began to see the arc of her life as coherent rather than fractured. What had felt like confusion resolved into a pattern and who she is started to become clear.
“Your program helped me locate myself inside my life unfolding—who I am, and the unique thing I am here to bring,” she said.
She finally understood what her Life’s Work was, and the program’s rhythm of voice practice, visibility work, and consistent witnessing gave her a way to let the work move through her body and nervous system, to find the right form for it to take
Over six months, she recorded more than a hundred videos, spoke what was true before it was polished, and stopped isolating with her insight.
“Speaking my truth on video again and again has literally changed my nervous system,” she said.
And as her internal orientation clarified, her external life followed. “My big project is my Life’s Work,” she said. “Everything else reorganized around that.”
The question was no longer how to make a business work, but how to cultivate the conditions for her “Dharma.” The form—memoir, teaching, speaking, income—would emerge naturally, now she understood the correct content of what was hers and hers alone.