OFF/SCRIPT
When your professional path takes you off the beaten track, you need support on the way.
I help people navigate the messy in-between of professional and life transitions. This wild stretch is both a threshold and an invitation.
It’s an invitation to move toward deeper alignment with yourself and your environment—to open up to new sensitivity and insight. When we listen, we begin to hear the quiet wisdom and gifts that have been waiting beneath the surface. We notice how they’re woven into our lives, and where they might want to lead us next.
As you move through this off-script stage, you develop the capacity to author your professional life more boldly. Your work becomes a living form—something you make and remake, again and again, as you learn and grow. You step into your “such-ness,” working with your system, your network of meanings and people, just as it is. You find yourself more deeply embedded with your community, your clients, and the places around you.
I offer orientation, a practice kit, and a community for navigating these off-script stretches. Explore my current offerings or subscribe to the newsletter for updates.
It’s an invitation to move toward deeper alignment with yourself and your environment—to open up to new sensitivity and insight. When we listen, we begin to hear the quiet wisdom and gifts that have been waiting beneath the surface. We notice how they’re woven into our lives, and where they might want to lead us next.
As you move through this off-script stage, you develop the capacity to author your professional life more boldly. Your work becomes a living form—something you make and remake, again and again, as you learn and grow. You step into your “such-ness,” working with your system, your network of meanings and people, just as it is. You find yourself more deeply embedded with your community, your clients, and the places around you.
I offer orientation, a practice kit, and a community for navigating these off-script stretches. Explore my current offerings or subscribe to the newsletter for updates.
Guided sensing journeys through liminal spaces
I am currently offering three hands-on 90 minute workshops that take your through three stages of professional and life transitions. You can come to one or all three, content does not repeat. Sessions are live and there is no recording.
Workshop 1: Stepping into Change. Wed, Nov 12 at 1300 CET. 90min on Zoom.
Every life and professional transition begins with an ending. It may seem counter-intuitive, but without acknowledging what's ending, we can't truly move forward into new beginnings, regardless of how positive the change might be. What makes endings especially challenging is they often begin with heaviness, with subtle signs of disconnection - sense of misalignment, frustration, or a vague feeling something is not right about us. And yet, acknowledging endings bears wonderful gifts - a clearer view on what is already emerging and an open field for exploration.
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Workshop 2: Navigating the in-between. Wed, Nov 19 at 1300 CET. 90 min on Zoom
Every transition comes with a messy in-between stage. In the words of Hermina Ibarra, an INSEAD professor who studied career change over many years, it is the time when "we try on the “possible selves” we might become". While this phase often feels disorienting, it is not merely something to endure - it's the essential crucible of transformation. And thankfully, this stage is comes with greater availability of intuition, wisdom and an openness to a journey towards authentic self. This session is designed to help you navigate it with more ease.
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Workshop 3: Moving into action. Wed, Nov 26 at 1300 CET. 90 min on zoom.
This workshop is for you if you feel that you've been in the in-between stage for a while, but are still harbouring a lot of doubt and confusion. How to move from "trying on possible selves" to committing to something with all the uncertainty that this process entails? This session is designed to guide you through this process.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on the “possible selves” we might become.
Coaching offers
I offer online coaching sessions for clients who are dealing with any kinds of professional transitions. For the past 2 years I have been working with clients changing sectors, locations, recovering from difficult endings and going solo, a total of over 600 coaching hours. My work is a blend of the systemic approach to offer inner clarity and the design thinking approach to support active experimentation. You can work with me in two ways - in a single clarity session or a package of 4 sessions.
For those seeking a fresh lens on a specific issue. In these sessions I use systemic constellations approach to map your situation as it is and look at it from different perspectives. This approach is very transparent for the client and is both analytical and intuitive. You can discover things you have been overlooking, develop a greater sense of what matters to you, and generative ways forward.
Sessions last 90 minutes and are done via Zoom using a Miro board.
Sessions are priced as follows: 250 EUR corporate pay, 200 EUR incomes 100K+, 150 EUR incomes 50-100K, 125 EUR incomes below 50K.
Please sign up for a free 15-min intro call if you are interested.
Sessions last 90 minutes and are done via Zoom using a Miro board.
Sessions are priced as follows: 250 EUR corporate pay, 200 EUR incomes 100K+, 150 EUR incomes 50-100K, 125 EUR incomes below 50K.
Please sign up for a free 15-min intro call if you are interested.
- Four 70-minute 1-1 coaching sessions
- Iterative, client-driven agenda
- Open for ongoing or repeat engagement
- Outcome: Develop new perspectives, experiment with new actions, build sustainable change
I want you to be satisfied with your coaching. I will issue the invoice for the package after the first session, once you tell me you are happy to continue. Your have the choice to pay just for that session or to go forward with the package.
Please sign up for a free 15-min intro call if you are interested.
Book an intro call
If this sounds interesting, please book a free 15-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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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come fully alive."
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Client testimonials
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Off/Script was born on the Camino de Santiago along the Atlantic coast in Portugal. A few days in, I had to walk the "wild stretch" - a day with no route markings. I started off at a gas station motel, walked along a highway, turning into a small village and soon finding myself in a dead-end created by a stream that I could not cross. Trying to get out of there, I ended up in someone's backyard and soon found myself walking directly on the windy Atlantic beach. At first I was stumbling on shaky gravel, then wading my way through sand dunes, and then I found myself walking ankle-deep in chilly Atlantic water, with sun reflecting in myriads of splashes until my feet were numb, my heart joyous and my head emptied by the wind. And then I got lost in the suburbs again.
The intention for the Camino was to take time to reflect on my path and its next steps. And I was struck by how this offscript stage mirrored my own journey over the last five years. False starts, detours, annoyance. Big highs of hitting upon something that feels really good, then losing it and re-finding it again. All while grappling with practicalities of life and making a livelihood.
And so the idea of this offering around the idea of working with transitions, was born. Wild stages are an invitation to a shift from outer navigation to inner, and this can be experienced as a crisis, but it is ultimately a liberation. This experience can be lonely but it's also universal and deeply connecting.
I spent the next days of my Camino plotting the outlines of what the Offscript offerings can be. I spent the next nine months developing the curriculum, testing it against my own experience, my own journey and working with others. It's time to offer it more widely.
The intention for the Camino was to take time to reflect on my path and its next steps. And I was struck by how this offscript stage mirrored my own journey over the last five years. False starts, detours, annoyance. Big highs of hitting upon something that feels really good, then losing it and re-finding it again. All while grappling with practicalities of life and making a livelihood.
And so the idea of this offering around the idea of working with transitions, was born. Wild stages are an invitation to a shift from outer navigation to inner, and this can be experienced as a crisis, but it is ultimately a liberation. This experience can be lonely but it's also universal and deeply connecting.
I spent the next days of my Camino plotting the outlines of what the Offscript offerings can be. I spent the next nine months developing the curriculum, testing it against my own experience, my own journey and working with others. It's time to offer it more widely.
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When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realise that we are on the edge of something.
A few words on the approach
We use systems mapping, sensing, and collective conversations from inside the transitions process to help you develop self-trust, intuition and focus. Rather than fixing yourself in some way, you get support to see your system more widely and discover ways to move into greater flow and alignment. The work is supported by the principles of how living systems behave: that everything and everyone belongs, that energy flows through reciprocal exchange and that there is a natural order to things that needs to be recognised for the system to flow. As we get clearer on our own system, we develop our capacity to do the work that's already inviting itself to sustain us, whether it's easy or hard. A different kind of resilience, clarity and self-trust are born in this process. Our social systems, including the world of work, are out of alignment and are undergoing massive change. I believe that we all are being given an invitation to take charge in how we move in the world. This is the challenge of our time and we are made for these times.
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Rootedness is perhaps the most important and least known human spiritual need. It is one of the hardest to define. A human being is rooted though their real, active and natural participation in the life of a collectivity that keeps alive treasures of the past and has aspirations for the future.
Julia Karmo
My own offscript professional journey spans economics to journalism to NGO founder to systemic facilitator / coach.
I spent 15 years in international journalism, working across Europe, Russia and the Middle East. I planned, produced and directed coverage of major news stories, told people's stories as they went though upheavals and conflicts, interviewed political and business leaders, ran big media projects for Sky News and RTL Network, producing and directing short films Europe-wide. I also co-founded Migration Matters, an award-winning non-profit newsroom in Berlin focused on migration, and to develop content for universities, think tanks and social entrepreneurs. Alongside I worked as a freelance communications consultant in academic and impact sectors.
This work gave me a broad outlook on life and deep appreciation for how people navigate change across cultures and contexts. What drew me most, always, were the human stories behind the headlines - tales of ingenuity, agency, survival and off-script paths. How do people construct meaning and take action? How can I help them tell their story?
I also know first-hand what it feels like to be between chapters. I often lingered in the in-between in deep confusion, which, in retrospect I am grateful for. While preparing to guide others, I went back, retraced my steps and learned what was going on for me and how to work with this better. I developed my work practice to support and hold space for others on the same paths. Instead of telling stories about people, I now help people construct their own stories that give them meaning and make use of their potential.
Now I'm a certified systemic coach, systemic constellations practitioner, conflict mediator, and mindfulness teacher based in Berlin. For the past two years, I've worked full-time guiding people of all professional background through major professional transitions, spending over 800 hours on this work, individually and in groups. There is a lot more about me and my trainings on my main page.
This work gave me a broad outlook on life and deep appreciation for how people navigate change across cultures and contexts. What drew me most, always, were the human stories behind the headlines - tales of ingenuity, agency, survival and off-script paths. How do people construct meaning and take action? How can I help them tell their story?
I also know first-hand what it feels like to be between chapters. I often lingered in the in-between in deep confusion, which, in retrospect I am grateful for. While preparing to guide others, I went back, retraced my steps and learned what was going on for me and how to work with this better. I developed my work practice to support and hold space for others on the same paths. Instead of telling stories about people, I now help people construct their own stories that give them meaning and make use of their potential.
Now I'm a certified systemic coach, systemic constellations practitioner, conflict mediator, and mindfulness teacher based in Berlin. For the past two years, I've worked full-time guiding people of all professional background through major professional transitions, spending over 800 hours on this work, individually and in groups. There is a lot more about me and my trainings on my main page.
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"Care is anything we do that helps the freedom of another—in the sense that their freedom is our freedom. The new world, if there’s going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. It will be the result of a long process of experimentation."
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