Cultural & Creative Coaching
Phi is named after the golden ratio φ, the proportion in which the parts and the whole find their balance. That is exactly what my work is about: bringing people, teams and organizations into the right relationship through intercultural understanding, systemic guidance and arts-based interventions.
Sophia Carvalho Werrstein · M.A. in Cultural Economics · 5 languages · Gauting near Munich
Why Phi
The golden ratio describes a proportion we perceive as harmonious in nature, art and architecture: the whole relates to the larger part as the larger part relates to the smaller. In organizations, we look for this balance between the individual and the team, between cultures, between structure and creativity.
Services
Three fields of practice, one common thread: bringing people, cultures and organizations together so that change succeeds and feels right.
Workshops, training and teaching on intercultural competence for companies, university teams and leaders. Practical, multilingual and experience-based.
Creative interventions drawing on music, art and scenic work as door-openers for development, methodically grounded in my training at IKT München (Institute for Art and Therapy, Munich) and the Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung.
Supporting teams and leaders through change: strategy translation, workshop facilitation, team development. Systemic and people-centred.
Qualifications
I combine practice and teaching and deliberately deepen my craft through accredited, institution-based training programmes. Supervision and peer consultation are an integral part of how I work.
IKT Institut für Kunst und Therapie, Munich · training in progress
Experiential forms of learning in which artistic and psychological perspectives and ways of working come together.
Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung · starting 2027, aiming for DGSF certification
An arts-based systemic approach: action-oriented methods, creative interventions, a systemic stance.
Universität Passau · 2020–2024
International Business (B.A.), IBAT College Dublin · Lecturer in intercultural competence at the University of Koblenz.
I work in accordance with the ethical guidelines of my institutes. What I offer is coaching, consulting and organizational development, not therapy. For first-time clients, I offer supervised formats within my training context (at a transparently reduced rate).
“Life is art, make sure it’s colorful.”
About me
I am Sophia Carvalho Werrstein, M.A. in Cultural Economics, and I work at the intersection of art, culture and organizations. My conviction: lasting transformation does not come from presentations, but from experiences: from encounter, creativity and genuine relationships. That is why I combine methodological depth (strategy, project management, HR) with artistic and systemic formats.
As a lecturer for “Management in a Global Context: Intercultural Competence” at the University of Koblenz, I pass this knowledge on. With my project Peace of Art (“Art creates peace”), I organize benefit concerts and art initiatives for non-profit organizations. And as a musician (Phiya Helena), I know the power of artistic work first-hand.
I work in
“Cultural & artistic interventions in people & organizational development, so that transformation is actively shaped and experienced.”— Sophia Carvalho Werrstein, Phi Coaching
Background
Ongoing
Institut für Kunst und Therapie · experiential, arts-based forms of learning
Starting 2027
Arts-based systemic approach · aiming for DGSF certification
March 2026 – December 2026
August 2024 – September 2025
Since 2022
2019 – 2022
2015 – 2024
Contact
Whether it’s a workshop, a teaching assignment, transformation support or an artistic project, I look forward to hearing from you.