upalong - wayfinding and intentional gathering
Team and Leadership Pathways
The world is fast. This is not.
Slow down, my friend.
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 — 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳?
Wherever I turn, I meet people worn out by the old way of working. Yet the constant pressure makes it feel nearly impossible to slow down or change course. I create spaces that restore energy, ease the strain of stress and burnout, and spark connection and change. If you or your team are ready for a reset, I’d love to explore it with you.
I help heart-led leaders, changemakers, deeply feeling individuals, and organizations navigate transformation from the inside out. To slow down — not to fall behind, but to finally catch up to what matters. To foster psychological safety. To lead with integrity and build value based, emotionally intelligent, safer communities of positive growth in a world hungry for wholeness.
With a background in the arts & culture, education, and facilitation, I support people who know the old models aren’t working — and are ready to build something different.
Blending neuroscience, somatic awareness, neurosystem literacy, and transformation facilitation, I guide individuals, communities and organizations back to their inner compass, toward deeper, more sustainable change rooted in connection and care: with themselves, each other, and the planet.
People's personal journeys toward healing, planetary health, self-knowledge and love are close and tender to my heart.
My key themes are: inner development, paradigm shifts, personal growth & self-awareness, leadership beyond hustle culture, sensitivity, neurodiversity, trauma-aware, environmental stewardship, safer places of work.
I believe that highly sensitive people (HSPs) & neurodivergent minds carry the deep perception and relational intelligence needed to bring about the transformation our times are calling for — to initiate cultural and organizational shifts, to hospice what’s no longer working, and to midwife emerging futures.
Let's challenge the stories we’ve been told about leadership, growth, and change.
We don’t need more strategies. We need more safety.
We don’t need more speed. We need more truth.
We don’t need to do more. We need to feel more.
We don’t need to perform better. We need to belong again.
Let’s talk. I can't wait to hear from you.
Love & Warmth
Katharina
🌿 There are spaces and ways of being we oftentimes didn’t even know we needed — to live, lead, and care for the world without burning it down. Let's find them to become whole again.
Not watching the stream I stepped in, and it took me. Now I am the flow.
There's a moment in every leader's journey that asks for more than observation. Not another strategy. Not another pause at the riverbank. But the willingness to get wet. Leadership today isn't about staying dry. It's about entering the river of life with our full selves. It asks us to cross the threshold between control and surrender. Between knowing and listening. Between managing outcomes and trusting emergence.
ROBIN ALFRED
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This Is About Us.
SOMETHING TRUER IS CALLING.
I believe we’ve forgotten something essential.
How to listen for what truly matters.
How to feel ourselves – even in the noise.
How to lead in connection – not through control, but through clarity, presence, and courage.
We chase goals that never really satisfy.
We function in systems that systematically disconnect us from ourselves.
And we call it “success.”
I believe a paradigm shift is needed.
Not another tool for time management – but a new relationship to time.
Not more efficient leadership – but more human.
We talk a lot about transformation.
But in the Western world, as a society, we’re hardly equipped to move through change in real ways.
We’re brilliant at optimizing systems –
but we often lack the inner tools to let the new emerge and lead the change,
or let the change lead us.
Real change requires more than strategy.
If anything it requires letting go.
It requires spaces where we can unlearn what tightens us –
and remember what holds us.
Perhaps for the first time.
My work is an invitation to stop.
To stop the constant striving.
To stop the self-worth-through-performance game.
To stop functioning and start feeling.
Because performance is not the problem.
But it needs to come from a different place: from clarity, not urgency.
From connection, not constriction.
Maybe the strongest organizations are the ones willing to rethink what performance even means.
I create spaces – in nature, in organizations, in groups –
where people come back into real contact with themselves.
With what they feel.
With what they need.
With what they’re truly here to bring into the world.
Not as a method.
But as lived experience.
Because we have to feel again before we can create.
Because silence and stillness are often the loudest answer.
And because real change doesn’t happen in to-do lists – it happens in real moments.
If something in you knows: We can’t go on like this –
it’s not a failure.
It’s the sign that something new wants to be born.
Something true.
Something that’s been waiting for you all along.
Let's do this.
xoxo
Katharina
Knelt down by the water
She told me I am the soil's daughter
And though I look just like my father
My roots, they extend much farther
But we don't respect each other
Although we depend on one another
And if we don't form a band of brothers
Our strength will remain uncovered
We are the echoes of those before us
And all our stories, they form a chorus
Our stage is the earth below us
But we destroy it till she can't hold us
So let us travel into the forest
To see without it then there is no us
Become protectors of the waters
'Cause they will nourish our daughters
Soil's Daughter by Aisha Badru
