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 a changing environment 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 offerings
There are three main ways in which I am supporting people and teams to grow their capacity for change:
I work with whole organisations over a period of six months to two years to build the conditions for a shift in culture so that the unspoken norms and dynamics that stifle you can be named and transformed through daily actions to enable more ease, connection, creativity and a greater sense of belonging.
Expand your individual capacity to be present when things get rough using simple, body-based tools from The Resilience Toolkit and participate in growing our collective ability to change the conditions that are causing our stress in the first place.
Learn some of the key principles of equitable facilitation, what it is and isn’t, and what tools and approaches you can use to have more engaging and effective conversations in your workplace, movement, school or community with greater clarity and confidence.
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.”