Julia Karmo - Systemic coach, mediator, journalist

Hi, I am Julia Karmo - coach, facilitator and journalist.

I work with leaders, founders and professionals who are in search of a more intentional and self-authored life that benefits them and their communities. If that sounds like you, sign up for a discovery call!

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Are you looking for a path that holds a deeper meaning for you professionally?
Are you moving into a new role and are looking to develop a clearer vision for yourself within the organisation?
Are you a seasoned leader in a need of clarity about the complex reality of your ongoing and future challenges?
Are you looking for a change within your organisation and are struggling with finding ways of effectively enacting it?
Are you grappling with challenges around communication, leadership and organisational relationships?
Are you looking for more ease, clarity and alignment in your work and life more generally?

Systemic coaching is a modality well-suited to people who like deepen their insight into how they construct and give meaning to their own reality. It is effective when working with situations that feel stuck, messy and unclear. This approach is transparent for the client, results-oriented and analytical. It uses spacial tools and maps to represent situations and issues in relational ways that allow to see changes, repeating patterns, misalignments and to uncover fresh perspectives. This is also intuitive and somatic work, where we deal with reality as is, with all its unresolved complexity. We stay in the structured sense-making process until new clarity emerges along with congruent steps into the emergent future. Through our coaching process, clients tend to move forward with more clarity, self-trust, agency and aliveness.

Systemic approach uses maps and applies relational lens to inquiry. This widens perspective AND opens the field for new possibilities. I act as a guide for your own process.

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It takes two to know one.

Gregory Bateson, Systems thinker, anthropologist and philosopher

1-1 client testimonials

I started coaching with Julia because I was stuck in a professional situation that felt really blocked. The sessions helped me unlock new perspectives, and I came out of them with concrete action ideas and a much more positive outlook. Julia's approach is both empathetic and insightful, allowing me to explore my thoughts freely.

Gabrielle, Consultant

Julia was very effective at creating an open space for me to explore a major career change. She’s smart, sympathetic, and knows how to motivate her clients in their personal and professional explorations, without judgement or projecting her own viewpoint. As a result, I was able in a very short time to go from uncertainty about my next career move to developing a business plan.

Matteo, Communications Strategist

Coaching with Julia was an invaluable experience. Over the weeks, there was a very noticeable shift in my outlook in terms of work, life in Germany and motherhood all together. My sessions with her gave me the space and time to explore my intentions, find intense clarity in my past educational and professional experience and adopt a can-do attitude for the future.

Eesha, Marketing and Communications Manager

I'm truly thankful for this month of coaching with you, it was very helpful and I can see really positive impact already! I really appreciated your ability to formulate my professional and personal topics and issues, the first essential steps towards seeing a resolution! Thank you for your kind support and direction, I feel pretty empowered and confident for the future now.

Jeanne, Architect

I also facilitate systemic constellations and systems sensing exercises in groups — from a single session to a longer process.

Group workshop client testimonials

I'm happy to have attended a workshop that was truly eye-opening and genuinely useful.

AR, Workshop participant

My gift as a coach and facilitator is my ability to think deeply and intuitively, to offer meaningful reflections while holding a warm, empathetic, nonjudgemental space and being an ally to my clients. I see coaching as a process of intentional unfolding for the client held in a safe container. I am trained as a mediator and mindfullness teacher too, which helps me to apply a conflict resolution lens to relational dynamics and gives me the ability to hold things in a wider container of attention and possibility.

Ultimately, coaching is a bespoke thought partnership and I bring the entirety of my life experience into this practice. My work as a coach comes from a varied professional background, with 15 years as a journalist, producer, editor and film director with top media companies like the AP, Sky News and RTL Media group, reporting from 20 countries around Europe and beyond, as an independent communications consultant working with the European Parliament, the London School of Economics and others and as a founder where I co-founded an award-winning non-profit newsroom in Berlin that focuses on thought leadership and education in the field of migration.

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If this sounds interesting, please book a free 20-minute info call with me to discuss your interest and to see if we are a good fit to work together.

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The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

Peter Block, Author and Consultant in organisational development, community building and civic engagement.

The question I often pose to my clients is “What does this relational system ask from me to make the first step towards better?” I have a belief that an individual’s attunement to one’s relational system and taking action from this grounded and meaningful place creates reverberations with other people and systems around us. I like the concept of “Islands of Sanity” by renowned organisational and systems expert Margaret Wheatley: doing what we can, where we are, to create conditions for ourselves and others, where our “basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love can be evoked, no matter what”. Creating these islands for ourselves sends signals to others that this is possible. Connecting them creates more possibility. I feel like this is the work of our time.

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By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout.

Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, Active Hope

Associate Coach

The German Federal Association of Coaching e.V. (DBVC) is the leading association in German-speaking countries that focuses on business coaching and leadership. The DBVC is home to over 700 experts from the areas of coaching practice.
Qualified Mediator

MI is a non-profit initiative driving transparency and standards in mediation, worldwide.There are currently over 550 IMI Certified Mediators in 45 countries.