Pulang: go home, return (pronounced pull-ahng in Bahasa Indonesia)
Reflective practice and career coaching for people navigating workplace power dynamics
Pulang Studio is a creative practice exploring experiences with power and control in the workplace:
informed by Narrative Therapy, powered by mindfulness, and grounded in corporate reality.
Do you have a highly resonant body for power dynamics?
Do you notice, feel, and absorb more from your work environment than most people — especially when power, tension, or unspoken dynamics are at play?
I’m Sarah, a reflective practitioner, career coach and People & Culture leader with over 15 years working deeply inside organisational complexities — the politics, emotional load, and cultural undercurrents no one names. Informed by Narrative Therapy, powered by mindfulness, and grounded in corporate reality, I work with people who are living in highly resonant bodies in the workplace.
Challenges we can explore in career coaching and reflective practice
Some workplaces operate like closed belief systems — rewarding loyalty, overwork, and silence. In career coaching, we unpack how these environments affect your judgment, confidence, and choices, and how to regain a sense of agency.
Career change is rarely just about choosing a new role. It often emerges from burnout, misalignment, and shifting values. Career coaching helps you make these decisions with clarity rather than exhaustion or panic.
Feeling lost in your career can come from long periods of adapting to unhealthy dynamics. Together, we rebuild trust in your own judgment.
Many clients come to career coaching feeling like they are failing impossible roles. We make the system visible so you can stop blaming yourself.
A core part of my career coaching work is helping people understand and navigate workplace politics without losing themselves.
Career coaching also explores how health, stress, and work expectations interact — and how to create sustainable ways of working.
Take the quiz to learn more about your highly resonant body
There are so many ways that issues of power and control can show up in our work lives. Unfortunately, there are few places to talk about it deeply. Pulang Studio offers 1:1s for individuals who want to change their experience of the workplace, and Circles for People & Culture practitioners who are navigating the complexity of their role. Informed by Narrative Therapy, mindfulness and grounded in the reality of corporate experience, the work of Pulang Studio is to help other possibilities exist.
Find a place to return — to clarity, steadiness, and self-trust — inside your career.
1:1s
Format: Individual · 60 mins · Online
A space for us to talk through your experience in the workplace and to help other possibilities exist. This is career coaching approached as a co-research process — where there is no expert–client hierarchy, only two people thinking together about your working life.
During the conversation, we can explore current work challenges and your relationship with them, the power dynamics at play, and how you are coping. We might consider how this all fits within wider systems in the workplace and society, and the identity you want to hold in your work.
Got an idea for some other way you’d like to collaborate for yourself or your team? Let’s talk.
Nice to meet you
I’m Sarah, a reflective practitioner, career coach and People & Culture leader with over 15 years working deeply inside organisational complexities — the politics, the emotional load, the cultural undercurrents no one names. The workplace is an endlessly fascinating topic that intersects with power, control, manipulation, abuse, self-determination, defiance, success, belonging, and identity – plus so much more!
To complement the skills I bring in work conversations, I am also a student of Narrative Therapy, and am currently studying the Masters of Narrative Therapy with University of Melbourne.
My strengths are in sharing curiosity with people to:
– Make sense of power dynamics
– Find clarity about interactions that feel ‘off’
– Release unrealistic expectations
– Recognise the systems surrounding us
– Apply imagery and metaphors to experiences
– Sit in the discomfort of holding competing truths
My work blends structure and soul; analysis and care; professionalism and artistry – plus a whole lot of pragmatism, because the bills still have to be paid! In summary, there’s no ‘4 hour work week’ fantasy here, nor a hustle mindset to do more. Following the wisdom of Narrative Therapy: you are not the problem, the problem is the problem. I would be honoured to explore whatever challenge is showing up in your work-life with you.
The kinds of things I hear after people talk with me
“You’re like having private access to the People and Culture leader who is willing to call a spade a spade. Since putting words to what is going on, I have been able to find a way forwards – I don’t feel so stuck anymore.”
“Very few people know what it’s like to be sitting in front of the Board while having a colleague undermine you. It’s so good to have someone that gets it and can problem-solve with me.”
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“…these kind of complex problems are actually not problems that we solve,
but paradoxes that we manage…”
From Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do