Expand your capacity for connection, complexity and change

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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’m a big fan of flowers – particularly orchids. They are highly sensitive to their environment, but when the conditions are right, they create stunning and deeply resilient blossoms that can 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 or family depends on the culture and environment 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.

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My services

Organisational work

Organisations hire me to design culture change processes, build effective feedback cultures, boost team resilience and run trauma-informed facilitation training.

I help organisations create the conditions for a cultural shift so that unspoken norms and dynamics can be named and transformed, which makes room for more ease, connection, creativity and alignment.

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Embodied resilience

I teach people to expand their capacity to navigate life’s challenges without collapsing, burning out or turning on themselves or other people.

I use a mix of systemic frameworks and embodied resilience, a trauma-informed, somatic approach to real-time stress navigation based on The Resilience Toolkit.

I offer sessions and courses for people in peer groups and 1-to-1.

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Some of the organisations I have worked with

What clients say

"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."

—Sufina Ahmad, Director, John Ellerman Foundation
"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