Culture change, trauma-informed facilitation, embodied resilience

Expand your capacity for connection, complexity and change

Create a culture that matches your vision

How people are with each other shapes what they are able to do together.

Culture change looks like moving from…

…fear and avoidance to grounded feedback
…burnout and overwhelm to embodied resilience
…awkward meetings to playful facilitation
…short-term adjustments to holistic culture change

If we can change how we work, things we couldn’t have imagined before become possible.

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My services

I support people and organisations to align their behaviours and cultures with their guiding values and visions. This is practice-based work that is embodied and collaborative. I offer it in two main ways:

Skills-based culture change work

I help you develop foundational interpersonal skills for building connection and navigating complexity and change:

  • Feedback skills

  • Embodied resilience

  • Trauma-informed facilitation

Process-based culture change work

I lead you through a holistic culture change process designed for teams, organisations or networks. I do this through:

  • Facilitated culture change process

  • Narrative-based research

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Meet the facilitator

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I’m Julia Oertli (she/her), a facilitator, culture change consultant and embodiment practitioner based in London and Zürich.

For 15 years, I have supported organisations in the non-profit sector to align their cultures with their visions and adapt to change with intention and courage.

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I’m proud to have supported the following organisations in their culture change work:

What clients say

  • "You helped us understand deep rooted issues and find ways forward"

    "Thank you for working with us and showing grace, expertise and wisdom. You helped us to form language and understanding around complex and deep rooted issues that we are grappling with, and you supported us to find ways forward that ensured we established/retained boundaries whilst making important, much needed and much valued progress."

    —Sufina Ahmad, Director, John Ellerman Foundation

  • "Practical strategies to navigate complex conversations"

    "Julia provided me with practical strategies to navigate complex conversations senior leaders and those who hold institutional power."

    - Juan Romero-Casillas, Society for Research in Child Development

  • "Welcoming, open & friendly"

    “Julia creates a welcoming, open & friendly atmosphere on Zoom - highly recommend!”

    - Hannah Short, Greenpeace

  • "Unique blend of expertise and relational intelligence"

    "Julia is an exceptional colleague, researcher and skilled facilitator who can bring her unique blend of expertise and relational intelligence to bear on a wide range of challenges and issues. She has the ability to galvanise change wherever she works – and I would strongly recommend her facilitation and foresight services to others who are working in this space!"

    —Iason Gabriel, Lecturer, Oxford University

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