Offscript

OFF/SCRIPT

When your career takes you off the beaten track, you'll want some support on the way.

I help people navigate the messy in-betweens of professional and life transitions. This liminal place is a threshold and an invitation. This invitation isn't just about figuring out the "right" path. It is about learning to walk the off-script path itself. It is an invitation to move towards a deeper alignment with yourself and your environment. It is about discovering what self-trust is made of. It is about working with the wisdom, exchange and form - experimenting and iterating at every step. It is about learning to trust your pull and your intuition. It is about becoming more discerning about your gifts and more committed to continuous action. Your destination becomes a changing form that you make, and remake, again and again, as you learn and grow.

I want to offer you an orientation and practice kit for navigating off-script stretches on your path. We'll work to explore the terrain exactly where you are on the journey and learn to navigate it together. Our aim is highly practical - it is to move onward with more clarity and commitment. I offer group formats to chart the course together as well as individual coaching to help you navigate your specific situation with more clarity and to see the concrete congruent next steps you can take.

Current offerings

Group transition navigation sessions, practical journey sensing explorations and individual coaching. Take your pick.

Transition navigation sessions

In these 90 minute live sessions we go through three stages of transitions: beginning, messy middle and ending. They combine a systemic view on the forces at work in each stage and ways to work with them in a practical way. They are my teaching format that offers a distillation of my expertise in navigating transitions. In each session I also guide you through an exercise that you can do on your own. This is for you if you, like me, get clarity and comfort from understanding what's happening to you. You can take part in just one or all three and you also get a recording.

Transition sensing sessions

In these 90 minute live sessions we do the practical work of navigating three stages of transitions: beginning, messy middle and ending. This is a group sharing format, where I provide systemic sensing exercises that are done by each person individually with optional sharing in the group. These sessions mirror the content of the navigation session but offer minimal theory and maximum guided self-discovery. This is for you if you want to develop practical inner clarity at any stage in transition.There is no recording.

Individual off/script coaching

This is an offer only for those who have attended any of my group formats. It will make out work together more productive. If you want to have a coaching session individually, please look into my offers. I offer online single sessions of 75 mins as well as packages of four at lower rates for my Offscript clients.

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Contrary to popular wisdom, career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on the “possible selves” we might become.

— Hermina Ibarra, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Insead, Working Identity

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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come fully alive."

— Howard Thurman, American theologian and civil rights leader

Client testimonials

I’m very grateful for this experience with Julia and a small group of strangers. It helped me flip some pretty stubborn scripts in my head but, more importantly perhaps, left me feeling relaxed and curious, not my usual vibe when confronting the idea of change.

Ania, Workshop participant

The combination of structured frameworks, reflective questions, and embodied practices created a meaningful space for insight and growth. I especially appreciated the chance to slow down and tune into my body—something I often overlook. If you're looking for a moment to cleanse, recalibrate, and step into your next chapter with purpose, I highly recommend it.

Sara, Workshop participant

Julia was very effective at creating an open space for me to explore a major career change. She’s smart, sympathetic, and knows how to motivate her clients in their personal and professional explorations, without judgement or projecting her own viewpoint. As a result, I was able in a very short time to go from uncertainty about my next career move to developing a business plan.

Matteo, Communications Strategist, 1-1 coaching client

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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

— Alfred Adler, Founder of the school of individual psychology, Understanding Human Nature

Off/Script was born when I walked on Camino de Santiago along the Atlantic coast in Portugal. A few days in, I had to walk the "wild stretch" - a day with no route markings. I started off at a gas station motel, walked along a highway, turning into a small village and soon finding myself in a dead-end created by a stream that I could not cross. Trying to get out of there, I ended up in someone's backyard and soon found myself walking directly on the windy Atlantic beach. At first I was stumbling on shaky gravel, then wading my way though sand dunes, and then found myself walking ankle-deep in chilly Atlantic water, with sun reflecting in myriads of splashes until my feet were numb, my heart joyous and my head emptied by the wind. The intention for the Camino was to take time to reflect on my path and its next steps. And I was struck how this off-script stage mirrored my own journey, particularly over the last five years - false starts, detours, annoyance and big highs of having hit upon something that feels really good. And so the idea of this offering specifically around the idea of working with transitions was born. Wild stages are an invitation to shift from outer navigation to inner, and this can be experienced as a crisis, but it is ultimately a liberation. This experience can be lonely but its universal and deeply connected. I spent the next days plotting the outlines of what the Offscript offerings can be. I spent the next nine months developing the curriculum, testing it against my own experience, my own journey and working with others. It's time to offer it more widely.

A few words on the approach

We use systems mapping, sensing, and collective conversations from inside the transitions process to help you develop self-trust, intuition and focus. Rather than fixing yourself in some way, you get support to see your system more widely and discover ways to move into greater flow and alignment. The work is supported by the principles of how living systems behave: that everything belongs, that energy flows through reciprocal exchange and that there is a natural order to things that needs to be recognised for the system to flow. As we get clearer on our own system, we develop our capacity to do the work that's already inviting itself to sustain us, whether it's easy or hard. A different kind of resilience, clarity and self-trust are born in this process. I believe we all are facing invitation to take charge in how we move in the world as our systems out of alignment. This is the challenge of our time and we are made for these times.

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Rootedness is perhaps the most important and least known human spiritual need. It is one of the hardest to define. A human being is rooted though their real, active and natural participation in the life of a collectivity that keeps alive treasures of the past and has aspirations for the future.

— Simone Weil, French philosopher and political activist

About me

My own offscript professional journey spans economics to journalism to NGO founder to systemic facilitator / coach.

I spent 15 years in international journalism, working across Europe, Russia and the Middle East. I reported on major news stories, told people's stories as they went though upheavals and conflicts, interviewed political and business leaders, ran big media projects for Sky News and RTL Network, producing and directing short films Europe-wide. I also co-founded Migration Matters, an award-winning non-profit newsroom in Berlin focused on migration, and to develop content for universities, think tanks and social entrepreneurs. Alongside I worked as a freelance communications consultant in academic and impact sectors.

This work gave me a broad outlook on life and deep appreciation for how people navigate change across cultures and contexts. What drew me most, always, were the human stories behind the headlines - tales of ingenuity, agency, survival and off-script paths. How do people construct meaning and take action? How can I help them tell their story?

I also know first-hand what it feels like to be between chapters. I often lingered in the in-between in deep confusion, which, in retrospect I am grateful for. While preparing to guide others, I went back, retraced my steps and learned what was going on for me and how to work with this better. I developed my work practice to support and hold space for others on the same paths. Instead of telling stories about people, I now help people construct their own stories that give them meaning and make use of their potential.

Now I'm a certified systemic coach, conflict mediator, and mindfulness teacher based in Berlin. For the past 18 months, I've worked full-time guiding people of all professional background through major professional transitions, spending over 800 hours on this work, individually and in groups. There is a lot more about me here.

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"Care is anything we do that helps the freedom of another—in the sense that their freedom is our freedom. The new world, if there’s going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. It will be the result of a long process of experimentation."

— Silvia Federici , Feminist activist and a renowned political theorist