Thresholds
The threshold doesn't change you. It reveals you.
At the Point of Transition
For a new life stage, a career change, a divorce or separation, a loss, the end of a chapter, a major decision, or starting something of your own.
Do you recognise this?
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A divorce or separation has altered the ground beneath you.
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A career or a role has been outgrown, or has quietly come to an end.
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A new life stage is beginning, and the old ways of organising your life no longer fit.
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A loss has changed what matters, and what comes next is still taking shape.
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Something still functions outwardly, yet has lost the meaning it once carried.
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An important decision is approaching, and the question feels larger than the options in front of you.
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You want to build something of your own, and its shape is still forming.
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Life is stable, and a quiet shift is asking for your attention.
You may already understand the facts. What often remains is seeing how the parts relate: what your experience shows you, and where you stand.
What is Thresholds?
Thresholds is a structured reflective space for people navigating significant transitions. It offers time to live and understand a transition, and to let the answer arrive in its own time.
A transition may begin because a chapter is completing, something new is becoming possible, or an important decision is opening unfamiliar territory. Sometimes the change is already visible. Sometimes it is only beginning to be felt.
Often the practical side of a change is settled long before the inner side has had its time.
This in-between time can feel uncertain, because what follows is still out of sight. It can also be generative.
When momentum slows, experience can be seen differently and integrated more fully.
Orientation begins with recognising where you stand, before knowing what to do. The process holds depth with lightness: there is room for silence, humour and careful questioning.
Thresholds follows a careful sequence through the territory of transition: less a formula than a way of giving language to what unfolds when there is time to attend to it.
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Recognising what has already shifted.
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Seeing where familiar reference points have reached their limit.
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Pausing habitual movement long enough for perception to widen.
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Integrating what experience already holds.
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Recognising a clearer place from which to speak, decide or act.
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Allowing movement before certainty is complete.
Ways to experience Thresholds
Online Programme
Some questions only become clear in the presence of others facing the same territory.
Alongside dialogue and reflective enquiry, simple rituals in nature open a space for individual reflection, experienced by each person in their own way.
The programme unfolds through six live online gatherings, held in confidence. The time between sessions leaves room for observation, ritual and what emerges along the way.
Available in English, German and Spanish.
Dates for the next cohort are announced in advance.
Register your interest for the next cohort
In-person Retreats
Three days.
A concentrated time together, for sustained attention, shared enquiry and integration.
Locations and dates are announced for each weekend.
Enquire about upcoming in-person intensives
Private
Thresholds Private is a confidential, one-to-one accompaniment for situations that call for continuity and complete privacy. Some transitions are too specific, complex or personal for a group setting. Everything remains between two people, within a relationship that can hold what unfolds over time.
Thresholds Private follows the same principles as the programme.
Duration, continuity and attention are shaped around your particular situation.
Particularly suited to major personal transitions and difficult decisions.
Six sessions Online or in person Up to three months English, German, Spanish
Enquire about Thresholds Private
Talks and institutional engagements
Selected aspects of Thresholds are also available through talks, seminars and institutional engagements, online or in person.
Who this is for
For people willing to look closely at their own situation. Many arrive having already done a great deal of thinking, reading or inner exploration, and sense that something essential is still waiting for words. They value depth over speed, and their own discernment over a fixed method.
What becomes possible
People often describe a clearer, more grounded relationship with their own experience.
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A view of what is completing, what fits differently and what may be beginning.
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A settled sense of your own ground.
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Greater access to what you actually know, separate from what others expect.
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A position from which a decision or a new direction can take form.
Meaning, judgement and direction remain with you.
Where to begin
If something here speaks to where you are, you are welcome to reach out.
Relationship, Reciprocity, and Ayni
What begins to emerge enters into relationship: with people, with circumstances, with nature, and with the wider world.
Within the Andean worldview that also shapes this work, Ayni names a living quality of reciprocity. It invites attention to the relationship between a person and life: what is received, what is given, and what asks for response.
In Thresholds, Ayni is present as a guiding principle.
Simple rituals informed by these traditions are part of the programme. They are shared with respect for their cultural origins, and each person meets them from their own experience, with the name they give to what is sacred. Thresholds is open to everyone, whatever their path.
What people say
"A naturally deepening path of aligning with yourself."
"My own presence, my own inner voice, my own desire, my own core, my essence — welcomed to speak up not from pressure but from love and sacred witnessing."
Thresholds, May 2026
“Ich fühle mich ganz mit mir verbunden, fühle mich angekommen bei mir.”
Thresholds Online · Germany
How Maria Clara accompanies
Maria Clara brings a precise quality of attention to each encounter, rather than a method to apply.
Her approach begins with what is already present: what the person brings, senses, or has not yet found language for. She listens beyond the presenting question.
She holds the specific and the wider picture at once, noticing relationships, tensions and patterns that are hard to see from inside a situation.
People describe her accompaniment as warm and unhurried. Her questions tend to open space rather than narrow it.
Everything moves at the pace of what is real.
Before It Had a Name
Maria Clara has accompanied individuals and groups across cultures, languages and life circumstances, from one-to-one conversations to cohorts of more than one hundred, online and in person. She has held senior teaching and faculty roles in international educational institutions. → Knowledge
Her experience spans professional reinvention, profound personal change and moments that call for orientation. The same territory has crossed her own life, which gives it a particular congruence.
This territory was present in her teaching long before it had a name. Across many years, one way of accompanying became clear. That way is Thresholds. It is built from the convergence of lived experience, reflective practice, perceptive attention and relational ways of knowing, and it keeps developing with every person she meets.
Terms & Professional Frame
Thresholds is offered within an educational and reflective context, focused on inquiry, awareness, orientation, symbolic reflection and autonomous decision-making. Participation is voluntary and self-directed. Each participant remains responsible for their own decisions and actions.
Thresholds does not constitute psychotherapy, psychological counselling, medical care or regulated therapeutic treatment.
Where such support is needed, working with an appropriately qualified provider is encouraged.
No specific outcomes are promised.
Programme-specific terms, including cancellation and refund conditions, are provided before registration.