Team Facilitation - Experiential learning - Nature walks - Berlin
Working with real team questions through engaging, hands-on experiences
Using nature-based learning, improv, play and breathwork.
I support teams in:
Opening familiar questions to unexpected possibilities
Putting bolder ideas into the room and building on them
Bringing more voices into shaping what comes next
Cultivating collaboration through shared experiences
Keeping energy and purpose alive through change.
Questions I can help you work with:
How can a team experience its mission again, rather than only talk about it?
How do we stay creative when we don’t yet know what the answer is?
How do I get my team more involved in the change process?
How can we keep collaborating effectively when plans change?
How can I get my team to speak up, really listen and build on each other’s ideas?
How do we stay effective under pressure without burning through the team?
How I See Change and Creativity
My work is rooted in a long-standing interest in change making: how change happens within us, between us, and in the organisations and systems we are part of. I’ve explored this through Greenpeace, coaching impact founders around inner change, my own founder journey, and nature-based guiding.
I see my approach as lovingly “stirring” the pot of organisational learning, often delivered through PowerPoints and screens, by adding aliveness, play and direct experiential learning: Let’s tinker and experiment. Let’s test the rules of the games we play. Let’s change the setting and see what becomes possible.
Creativity is relational
Ideas, decisions and solutions do not come to life through individual thinking alone. They emerge through interaction between people, tools and environments that we rarely grant agency to.
Why this matters: Novel perspectives and ideas have a much better chance of emerging through changing the configuration — who is involved, where the work happens, what tools are present, and how people interact — rather than through another brainstorming process.
Uncertainty calls for robustness
We live in times some call polycrisis, while biologist Olivier Hamant describes as planetary burnout — a reminder that uncertainty is part of the fabric of life, perhaps even more so as we enter an era of growing fluctuations.
Why this matters: Direct experience with living systems is one way we learn robustness and adaptability, while loosening the grip of constantly being in a state of performance. This is why nature-based learning is central to my approach, supported by practices such as improv, nervous-system regulation, deep rest and recharging.
New lives at the edges
Novelty feels invited when seemingly unrelated or even contradictory ideas, formats and people meet. Let’s explore AI in nature. Let’s deliberately block familiar routes. Let’s invite more voices from the “periphery”.
Why this matters: My passion is designing settings where experimentation feels possible, play opens new routes, and people can contribute the craziest ideas without worrying whether they will fit. It also makes more room for less obvious or peripheral ideas to enter — and for more people to shape what emerges.
Experience is how we know
Learning happens through doing, and bodily experience is more important than we usually give it credit for. Something stays with us differently when we have felt and sensed it. Doing and tinkering are also how we create something before we fully know what it is.
Why this matters: As more learning becomes digital and AI-mediated, there is a risk of flattening how we learn and create. Intentionally designed experiences involving play, non-verbal communication, breath and sensory stimulation help learning stay with individuals and organisations. This is how I am here with this invitation to move and play.
Methodologies I draw from:
Long Form Improvisation · Group Flow · Way of Council · Wilderness Education / 8 Shields, Coyote Mentoring & Designing for Peace · Emergent Conversation · Emergent Futures Lab · Art of Hosting · Coaching · Breathwork & Somatics
“Human creativity is the skillful participation in and collaboration with dynamic systems and emergent phenomena.”
— Iain Kerr, Co-founder of Emergent Futures Lab
Work with me!
I work with mission-driven teams under pressure to find new solutions, passionate about change, and open to new ways of engaging with work and the world. My work sits around creativity, collaboration and uncertainty: how we stay responsive when plans change, build on each other’s ideas, and co-create when we don’t yet know what comes next.
Coaching and Mentoring
For people navigating change, uncertainty or bigger questions that do not fit neatly into a linear coaching process.
I’m trained as both a coach and a teacher, and I also work as a mentor, bringing various creative modalities into the work. Depending on what the inquiry needs, we might work with breathwork, nature-based learning, dreams, deep imagination or somatics — with thinking as only one of the ways we make sense of the world.
Facilitation for Teams and Organizations
We can test the waters through a Walk for Work or a Playing with Uncertainty workshop and, from there, discuss ways of integrating this into the rhythm of your team and work. It can take the form of regular team walks, a half-day robustness or team-building lab, a series of sessions, or working alongside a project over time.
Event Sessions
Let me design a custom session for your event — be it a conference, gathering, learning programme or offsite — that helps people fully participate and create meaningful connections.
The format and duration are tailored to the programme and audience. It could be a walk, breathwork, an improv game, or a mix of practices that helps people connect, exchange ideas, recharge and return with renewed focus to the rest of the programme.
“Improvisation is a pedagogical tool in the service of robustness.”
— Olivier Hamant, Biologist and INRAE Research Director
What working together can look like
Nature-based team experiences
Easy to step into. If you are in Berlin, I will often advocate for taking the work outside. A Walk for Work can begin right outside your office or in a nearby green space. The format is light, experiential and easy to join. It can also become a half-day offsite or a regular series.
A change of setting changes the conditions. Movement, changing surroundings, breath, observation and play bring in more of us than a meeting room usually does — and can make room for ideas and conversations that do not emerge in the same way at a desk.
This is where some of the deeper work can happen: reconnecting with the mission, seeing a question differently, noticing patterns, having conversations that do not normally happen, and experiencing complexity and interdependence directly.
Indoor and online experiential labs
Flexible in format. An experiential lab can be a half-day session, a series, or something integrated into ongoing team or project work. It can happen indoors or online.
Built around a real question. I design bespoke experiences for teams facing real organizational work: navigating change and uncertainty, communication breaking down under pressure, innovation stuck in familiar patterns, mission-driven teams losing connection to purpose, cross-functional collaboration.
Learning through experience. Expect play, guided experiments, improv, breath, movement, non-verbal communication and reflection. The aim is to question familiar assumptions, deepen attention and listening, play with collective ideas, and create learning that stays with you.
What Some Participants Said:
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“I never realized uncertainty could be a gift. But it makes so much sense. I understood something big around coping with anxiety.”
MySalesCoach · Staying Creative When the Next Move Is Not Clear
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“It's the first time I fully participated in a workshop. It was fun too. A lot of insights on how to welcome all kinds of ideas, own your own but not be bound by them.”
Nonprofit Builder · Co-creating New Ideas in Uncertainty
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“I had an experience that was very different to any experience that I've had in my life up into the mid forties and I've done lots of different things. How can you be so relaxed and so inspired at the same time... This was cool."
Nature Flow Lab · Breathwork and creativity group session
About
Hi there! I’m Yulia, the human behind Nature Flow Lab.
I have been based in Berlin for the past eight years, after living and working in different countries and capacities: in Silicon Valley finance in California, at Greenpeace and later as a consultant and coach in resilience and holistic health in Russia, and in entrepreneurship, coaching and facilitation in Germany.
Across these different worlds, my big question has been: how do we humans change?
MY BIG QUESTION
How does change happen in me, between people, across a group, in an organisation and in the larger systems we are part of?
Much of my research, learning and experimentation has pointed me towards one often overlooked fact: the biggest shifts in me and in people I have worked with were brought about through experiences that involved feeling and the whole mind-body system, rather than mainly verbal paths such as a lecture or traditional coaching.
This is also how I found myself drawn to modalities where we learn through doing: state regulation through my training and work as a breathwork facilitator; creativity and group flow through more than two years of improv in Berlin; uncertainty and systems learning through wilderness and nature-based education. Along the way there have also been wilderness expeditions, vision quests, and a Wim Hof breath and cold expedition.
At the same time, I am grounded in more traditional learning and development as a teacher and coach by training, alongside my ongoing study of creativity and emergence with Emergent Futures Lab. I like keeping my feet in these different worlds and, in the spirit of creativity itself, seeing what happens when they meet.
THE LEARNING PATH
Nature Flow Lab grew from bringing these strands together: analytical work and embodied knowing, strategy and play, human systems and the living world.
Like most of us, I am also engaged with the questions AI brings into our lives and work. I’m interested in what happens when AI becomes part of how we think, remember, create and collaborate, and how we engage with what it makes possible while staying attentive to what might be flattened or lost. For some teams, this becomes a practical inquiry into their own relationship with AI.
Much of my work now sits around robustness (resilience), collaboration and creativity in times of big change and uncertainty, and the increasingly non-human speeds at which these changes happen. I work with teams and organisations through facilitation, and with individuals through coaching and mentoring.
I also host The Breath of Life podcast where I continue many of these inquiries through conversations around ecology, creativity, transformation, the body and different ways of knowing.
WHAT I AM UP TO
