Dragos Radu

I'm Dragos, a guide based in Amsterdam. I work with people moving through burnout, life transitions, and the kind of internal shift that doesn't show up on a resume but changes everything underneath it.

I don't fix people. I sit with what's actually there, the parts someone learned to hide or armor over, and help them stay present to it instead of managing around it. What lingers in the shadow tends to run the show from underneath. My work is bringing light to that, patiently, without forcing it open before it's ready.

I built my own armor before I learned to sit with mine. Two burnouts, one in hospitality and one in corporate, before my body made the decision my mind kept avoiding. I know what it costs to keep pushing past the signal.

I'm trained in Compassionate Inquiry, somatic work, and nonviolent communication, and I draw on Jung, Campbell, and Michael Meade for the psychological and mythic side of this work. I also run the Orion Project, a men's circle in Amsterdam.

Topics I can speak to: burnout recovery, shadow work, somatic approaches to chronic stress and pain, men's work and masculinity, and what it actually takes to rebuild after collapse instead of pushing through it. Happy to go deep on the personal story or stay practical, whatever the show needs.