Jason Geoffrion
Dr. Jason Geoffrion is the founder and director of Becoming Self: Institute for Human Development, a sanctuary for transformational growth rooted in developmental wisdom and holistic practice. For more than 25 years he has worked as a guide, psychotherapist, life coach, teacher, and transition specialist, supporting discarded youth, neurodivergent people, adult seekers, growing students, and evolving professionals as they reclaim connection to self and others. He builds spaces where authenticity is discovered, narratives are rewritten, and gifts are offered with clarity and compassion. His work holds a persistent belief that restored connection transforms families, workplaces, communities, and broader social systems.
Research and Theoretical Work
Jason’s doctoral research focused on human development and the ways development interacts with larger systems. His dissertation, a phenomenological study examining the impact of men’s retreats, investigates identity, embodiment, and transformational experience. That academic foundation informs a steadily evolving theory of human growth shaped by decades of clinical practice, community work, and reflective inquiry. These combined sources gave rise to The Becoming Framework, a holistic developmental model that maps cyclical life phases, honors timing, and centers the reclamation of missed milestones as opportunities for new growth.
Approach and Practice
At the core of Jason’s approach is one generative developmental truth: recognizing we are right on time reframes life from broken timelines into living cycles. Insight alone is not enough, so his practice intentionally integrates narrative reclamation, ritual, phenomenological embodiment, symbolic exercises, and developmental sequencing. He helps people move beyond naming patterns to inhabiting them, turning intellectual understanding into embodied change. His method emphasizes compassion, practical tools, and practices that people can carry into relationships, workplaces, and daily life.
Personal Journey and Leadership
Jason’s own life models the work he teaches. Shaped by Generation X expectations to figure things out independently, he knows the ache of disorientation and the stubborn resilience that curiosity and grit create. His story is not a tidy answer but an ongoing inquiry lived in real time. Crossing from Phase 1 of life: The Gathering into Phase 2: The Offering clarified how personal narrative can inform a collective structure. He now offers a developmental model that invites people to become more fully themselves rather than to replicate his path. His leadership is grounded in lived experience, humility, and an insistence that transformation is a communal, iterative process.
Programs and Community
Jason leads workshops, personal and professional trainings, online courses, retreats, and consultative work that integrate developmental sequencing, somatic practices, ritual, and community-based learning. He cultivates reflective tools and symbolic exercises and mentors practitioners and organizations in applying the framework to education, clinical work, and leadership development. His teaching style blends rigorous theory with embodied practice and accessible exercises so participants can translate insight into sustained action.
Guides, Mentors and Elders
My earliest guides were decisive teachers who shaped my direction: Joel Squadroni and Jack Harlan in literature; Shelly Roland and Michael Walsh in music; Tracy Hagstrom-Durrant in theater. College writing professor Joey Horstman sharpened my expressive voice. At the graduate level, Francie Murray modeled inclusion as practice, Valerie Bentz embodied rigorous phenomenology, and Miquel Guilarte insisted on disciplined critical thinking.
The first mentor to truly see and affirm me was my Uncle Jeffry Dwight, who modeled wholehearted self-acceptance. In my late twenties, Jeffrey Duvall’s Stories of Men, Meaning and Prayer changed my trajectory; his conversations and nature walks helped me believe I was enough and that my truth was beautiful. He, along with Tom Daly, Keith Fairmont, and other leaders from the Men’s Leadership Alliance, became enduring mentors and elders. During my Saturn return and subsequent years, Melissa Michaels of Golden Bridge taught me embodied presence. A few years later I met my wife, Ellen, in one of Melissa’s programs, and for thirteen years now Ellen has been my primary supporter and clearest mirror. Together we are taught daily by our neurodivergent daughter, who expands my capacity for joy and surrender.
Life and Commitment
Jason lives in the mountains of Lyons, Colorado on the edge of a flowing river with his wife, his autistic daughter, two Maine Coon cats, and a tortoise. His home life reflects the values he brings to his work: rootedness, rhythm, and reverence for the unfolding. He remains committed to evolving the Becoming Framework in active dialogue with the people who engage with it, offering growth as a living invitation to walk the spiral of becoming together.
