About Maria Clara
A Visionary Orientation
Where Presence, Strategy, and Leadership Converge
I work between presence, perception, and lived experience.​​
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My life has unfolded between worlds: structure and intuition, responsibility and inner freedom, strategy and silence, city and nature. This way of standing did not emerge from adopting a philosophy or following a predefined path. It developed through experience - by moving across cultures, systems, and professional and personal roles, and learning how to remain internally anchored while everything external changed.
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I was born in Argentina and my life has unfolded across cultures, languages, and ways of living. I learned from an early age to navigate different environments and codes of meaning. I have lived and worked across Argentina, Germany, Mexico, the United States, and now the Netherlands. Each context required recalibration - linguistic, cultural, relational, and situational. Through this process, I developed an ability to move between perspectives, to listen across differences, and to recognise what is shaping situations beneath what is immediately visible.
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This capacity to bridge worlds - inner and outer, visible and invisible, rational and intuitive - became a defining thread of my life and work.
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I stand where movement is already happening.
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Authority does not arise when everything is resolved, but when one stops acting from ambiguity. It is not a matter of believing more in oneself, but of locating oneself with precision - not as self-assertion or withdrawal into the individual “I,” but as an inner coherence grounded in shared human values. When this happens, confidence and authority no longer need to be produced; they follow on their own. Orientation names the position from which one speaks, decides, and acts - in respect, reciprocity, and responsibility toward oneself, others, and the larger whole. It is not certainty, nor emotional reassurance, but stance. In this sense, orientation precedes confidence not as a superficial sequence of “before and after,” but ontologically: without orientation, confidence becomes performative or defensive. Here, confidence does not refer to self-esteem, but to stability in action - the capacity to remain grounded in one’s position while acting. Authority, then, is neither power, role, nor external validation. It is not authority over others, nor the defence of a personal position. It is the capacity to sustain one’s place with integrity - without dominance, without withdrawal, and without the need to impose or justify oneself. It is not granted or learned as a technique; it develops as a consequence of lived clarity. To inhabit one’s own clarity is not to possess mental certainty, but to live from it - even when it is uncomfortable.
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My work is informed by a strong intuitive and perceptual capacity. I understand intuition not as instinct or mystique, but as attentive perception: the ability to recognise when direction is emerging before it can be fully articulated; to notice threshold moments, when a familiar way of operating has reached its limit; and to sense when a structure no longer serves what is trying to take form.
Over time, this evolved into a refined way of seeing: distinguishing what is essential from what is habitual, what is emerging from what is being repeated, and where clarity is already present but not yet named.
My intuitive sense is not used theatrically. It functions as discernment - listening for what is not being said, recognising where energy is leaking, and perceiving the structure beneath the story.
I am interested in what is essential: what is true beneath justification, what is aligned beneath ambition or fear, and what is ready to be named beneath silence. This is the basis of my work -not mystique, but clarity.
Life refined this perception through real transitions: migration, cultural displacement, motherhood, long-term commitment, separation, professional reinvention, and decisions made without external guarantees. These were not moments of collapse, but of responsibility -learning to act without certainty, to decide without validation, and to remain present when familiar reference points disappeared.
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Alongside my own life transitions, I have spent over a decade accompanying individuals and groups through moments of deep change, decision, and reorientation - across personal, organisational, and existential thresholds.
Grounded in my own lived experience, my practice has developed through long-term, full-time engagement in educational, leadership, and reflective settings, both in person and internationally.
This continuity between how I live and how I work is what allows people to feel oriented, safe, and able to place their trust in the space they enter with me.
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I work with individuals who find themselves at thresholds -not because they lack competence or experience, but because their next step cannot be taken from old maps. External success may still be present, but its meaning has shifted, and something essential remains unnamed. Decisions require inner authority rather than confirmation.
My role is not to direct or define. I do not offer answers or impose direction. I hold a structured and attentive space where discernment can occur, perception can sharpen, and one’s own voice can become audible again. I work from lived presence and direct experience.
My work includes a spiritual dimension expressed as ethical attunement and attentive awareness, without doctrine or external validation.
I am not interested in shaping people into something else. I am interested in supporting them to inhabit themselves more fully -with honesty, discernment, and respect for their own rhythm.
What matters to me is ethical coherence, attentiveness, and the dignity of autonomy.
I trust subtle perception more than performance, and discernment more than persuasion. I believe that depth does not need decoration to be real.
I speak in my own name, from presence. My work emerges from discernment and the capacity to hold space where clarity becomes a grounded orientation.
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Working Format
I offer individual and group mentoring, both in person and online.
I work internationally and am fluent in English, Spanish, and German.