Expand your capacity for change, complexity and conflict
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I’m Julia Oertli (she/her), a facilitator, consultant and somatic practitioner based in London and Zürich who specialises in creating courageous cultural containers for systemic transformation.
I love flowers – particularly orchids. They are highly sensitive to their environment, but when the conditions are right, they create stunning blossoms that last for a long time.
Humans are a lot like that. Whether we feel a sense of belonging, safety and dignity in a group, organisation, workplace, community, family etc. depends on the culture that holds it together.
For more than a decade, I have supported organisations in the non-profit sector to align their cultures with their values and missions and adapt to change with intention and courage.
My approach is collaborative, embodied and practical, grounded in a fierce belief in everyone’s ability to shape change. I weave warmth, humour and playfulness into my work while maintaining a deep commitment to shifting normative power dynamics.
My services
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Organisational work
I support organisations with culture change processes, team resilience building and trauma-informed facilitation training.
My focus is on creating the conditions for a shift in culture so that unspoken norms and dynamics that get in the way can be named and transformed through collective processes to enable more ease, creativity and alignment.
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Embodied resilience
Embodied resilience is a trauma-informed, somatic approach to real-time stress navigation based on The Resilience Toolkit.
It expands people’s capacity to navigate challenges and change the conditions around them without collapsing, burning out or turning on each other.
I offer sessions and courses for people in peer groups and 1-to-1.
Some of the organisations I have worked with
“Julia is a highly credible, hard working and compassionate practitioner. She provided us with flexibility, a real willingness to do what was needed, and ensured that the people we work with felt well supported and confident in the organisation’s continued ability to deliver during a time of change.”
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