The Midlife Call® · For women 40+ in responsibility
You hold it all together.Now it's your turn.
Four months to more clarity, inner sovereignty and a next chapter that feels like yours. In a small circle of up to 12 women, without throwing everything away.
- Reconnect with who you are beyond your job title, your achievements and the roles you’ve carried for others, as leader, mother, daughter, partner.
- Recognise what keeps you circling: old expectations and protective patterns that no longer serve you.
- Trust yourself more deeply: your needs, your judgement, your boundaries and what genuinely matters now.
- Shape your next chapter with freedom, intention and aliveness, rather than responding to what life expects of you.
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4 months
From orientation to lived change
Live portals + open circles
Plus audio journeys, workbooks and a buddy
Women at most
An intimate, confidential circle
Personal session with Julia
90 minutes for your own transition
Something has shifted inside.
Maybe your role at work is shifting. Maybe the children are leaving, a parent needs care, or your body is asking for something new. From the outside, everything looks dependable. Inside, questions won’t quiet down:
Is this your moment?
“My role is changing, at work or at home. Where does that leave me?”
A restructuring, a contract ending, a sabbatical, children moving out. A structure that held you is loosening.
“Everyone needs me. My team, my children, my mother. Where am I in all this?”
Caring for others has become second nature, and there is little left for yourself.
“My body is speaking louder than it used to.”
Sleep, energy, the menopause, sometimes a diagnosis. What used to work no longer does, and you can’t simply push through.
“Do I still want the life and pace I spent decades building?”
What once felt fulfilling now makes you wonder if it still fits who you’re becoming.
“What matters to me now, beyond being successful and needed?”
A quiet longing for work, relationships and a life that feel alive, rather than merely expected.
“From the outside it all looks fine. So who do I tell?”
Few people around you understand the question, and you’re often alone with it.
You are not broken or failing. You are in a significant transition.
“Maybe what is shifting right nowis not a problem, but a call.”
You’ve done the coaching. You understand why.And you’re still the one who says yes.
You’ve read the books, maybe done therapy. You can explain exactly why you take on too much, why you hold it all together, why you come last on your own list.
Insight was never the problem. What has been missing is a space where your head, your body and a circle of women meet, and where something actually moves.
In The Midlife Call you don’t collect more knowledge about yourself. You practise living as yourself.
How exactly does The Midlife Call help you?
A four-month guided journey for women in responsibility whose roles are changing, in work, family, relationships or their own body. In a small circle of up to 12 women.
Becoming who you are: clarity about what is truly yours, inner sovereignty in how you decide, and a next chapter you shape yourself, with the first lived steps towards it. Not a plan on paper.
Five live portals take you from stillness to recognising your patterns, remembering what matters, choosing and anchoring. Between them, open circles, audio journeys and a buddy help you test small, concrete steps in everyday life.
Women in The Midlife Call avoid …
- slipping into the next role that is the same thing with a new title
- giving everything to others until their body makes the decision for them
- analysing endlessly without moving, because insight alone hasn’t changed anything
- carrying the whole question on their own
Instead, they combine mind, body and a circle of peers, and move from achievement to alignment, at their own pace, in their work and their life.
What can change for you
When so much is shifting, you can find direction within yourself, and begin shaping your work, your relationships and your everyday life around what matters now.
Clarity: know what is truly yours
A clearer sense of who you are beyond what you achieve and carry for others, and more room for your body, your creativity and the people you love.
Inner sovereignty: trust yourself
Confidence in your own voice and judgement. The freedom to say no without guilt, to set boundaries at work and at home, even when others see things differently.
Your next chapter: make your move
A clear view of what could come next, and the courage to start an important conversation, with your boss, your partner or your family, or take a real step.
Whatever your choice turns out to be, it will be yours:
Becoming who you are
Many women come into The Midlife Call …
- functioning well, and no longer feeling alive
- holding everything together, for everyone
- tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix
- knowing their patterns, and still living them
- clear about what is expected, unsure what they want
- alone with the question
After four months, they leave …
- knowing what is truly theirs, and what they can let go
- saying no without guilt, and yes with conviction
- using their body as a compass, not just a vehicle
- with more lightness, creativity and joy
- with a clear choice for their next chapter
- carried by a circle of women who saw them change
“I came away with a new sense of clarity, and trust in my own ability to shape my life.”
Christine O. · participant in a SOULWORX group programme
The journey in five steps
Five portals. Four months. One journey.
Transformation is not a checklist. It is a natural movement from stillness to recognition, remembering, choosing and unfolding.
Portal 01 · 9–10 February 2027 · online
The Stillness Portal · Becoming honest
From functioning → to feeling what is true
Slow down enough to listen. Tell apart where you feel alive and where you’re merely functioning.
Portal 02 · 2–3 March 2027 · online
The Mirroring Portal · Recognising patterns
From living your patterns → to seeing them
See the roles, expectations and survival strategies that shaped your past choices.
Portal 03 · 23–24 March 2027 · online
The Remembering Portal · Reclaiming your essence
From what is expected → to what is yours
Retrieve the gifts, vitality and longing beneath the surface. Remember who you are today.
Portal 04 · 13–14 April 2027 · online
The Shift Portal · Deciding and choosing
From knowing → to choosing
Turn inner clarity into conscious choices. Set boundaries, declare your yes and step forward.
Portal 05 · 4–5 May 2027 · online
The Celebration Portal · Unfolding together
From choosing → to living it
Two closing evenings to honour, embody and anchor your next chapter together.
Everything included in your four months
5 live portals
Facilitated two-evening group intensives online, including the Celebration Portal.
4 open circles
90-minute integration sessions between the portals
10 audio journeys
Guided somatic practices to integrate insights
1:1 session with Julia
90 minutes for your individual transition
BuddyWorx companion
A dedicated peer partner for reflection between sessions
Reflection materials
Workbooks and journaling exercises
Orientation call first
A personal conversation with Julia before you decide
Small circle, max. 12
Safety, depth and personal visibility
Will this fit into my life?
Plan for about 3–4 hours per week: live portals, open circles and your own time with the audio journeys and journaling. The journey is designed to sit alongside work and family, not to add another layer of pressure.
women have taken part in The Midlife Orientation
of Midlife Call participants leave with a clear choice for their next chapter
guiding women through transitions
walking and talking
Your guide
Julia von Winterfeldt
Former Managing Director AKQA Germany · TEDx speaker · Top 50 over 50 Women to Watch
Systemic therapy · Embodiment · Trauma-informed coaching
Hi, I’m Julia. For more than 20 years I led teams and companies in London, New York and Hamburg. Today I guide women through the transitions you won’t find on any CV.
When I ask women what brings them to me, I almost always hear the same sentence: “From the outside everything is fine. But it no longer feels like mine.” These are women who have carried responsibility for decades, for their team, their family, their parents. And who at some point notice that there is hardly any room left for themselves.
This is exactly where The Midlife Call begins.
My promise to you:I hold the space in which you can find out, in your own time, what is truly yours. At the end of the four months there is no theory, but a clear choice for your next chapter and the first steps you have already taken.
We pause, talk honestly and work with the body: meditation, movement, embodiment. And between sessions you try out small things in your everyday life, carried by a circle of women who understand what you are talking about.
You have been there for everyone else long enough. Give yourself permission to take these four months for you.
I look forward to meeting you.
Voices from the journey
“For the first time in years, I stopped living by other people’s expectations, and started listening to myself again.”
“Julia was fully present throughout the journey. Her questions helped me understand myself more deeply and gave me the courage to move towards a path I had wanted to take for a long time.”
Clara W.
SOULWORX Circle
“There is something incredibly powerful about making this journey together.”
“Julia brings an authenticity, warmth and positive energy that creates a space of genuine empathy, appreciation and trust.”
Amelie H.
SOULWORX Circle
“Some of the things that have carried me this far may not be the same things I need moving forward.”
Frances R.
The Midlife Orientation
Schedule overview
Programme schedule: January – May 2027
All sessions are live online · Times in CET
Your investment
Pay in full or 4 × €465 per month · Enrolment closes 24 January 2027
Can my employer pay?
Many participants book The Midlife Call as professional development. Take the one-page summary into the conversation with your manager or HR.
Is it right for you?
Who The Midlife Call is for
It’s for you if …
- you carry a lot of responsibility at work and at home, and sense that something is changing
- you don’t want to jump to the next solution, but first understand what is calling you
- you understand your patterns, and want to live differently
- you want a clear structure and a small group that walks with you
- you’re ready to consciously make time for yourself for four months
It’s not the right moment if …
- you’re in an acute crisis and need therapeutic support first
- you’re mainly looking for a quick career plan or help with applications
- you expect ready-made answers rather than finding your own
- you don’t have the time or energy for four months right now
The moment you say yes
Book your 30-minute orientation call with Julia, by 22 January 2027.
We look together at whether it fits. Then you decide in your own time, by 24 January.
Welcome: onboarding on 26 January, your buddy and your first audio journey.
Clear answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Clarity is the outcome, not the entry ticket. Most women begin with a sense that something is shifting.
Follow the call
Curious whether The Midlife Call is right for you?
You don’t need to have figured anything out before we speak. Let’s have a quiet, personal conversation about where you are and whether this space is right for what comes next.
30 minutes · Confidential · Directly with Julia · Calls until 22 January 2027
The stories shared on this page come from women who participated in other SOULWORX programmes and voluntarily shared their experiences. They were not compensated. Every experience is individual; the stories and outcomes described are not typical or guaranteed results.
THE MIDLIFE CALL is a personal development and self-exploration programme. It is not psychotherapy and does not replace medical, psychological or psychotherapeutic treatment.