Julia Karmo - Systemic coach, mediator, journalist

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

I work with leaders, founders and professionals who are working towards 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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Do you find yourself in a situation where strategies that worked thus far no longer serve you?
Are you struggling with conflict and complexity that feel beyond your ability to solve them?
Are you and your organisation facing systemic disruption that is hard to make sense of?

Systemic coaching is a lens that becomes particularly suitable when optimisation strategies no longer work, when the problems themselves feel stuck, messy and unclear. This approach is transparent for the client, results-oriented and analytical. It helps to externalise the situations and examine them relationally, to see patterns, misalignments and to uncover fresh perspectives. Ultimately, it helps to see the reality more clearly - and this, paradoxically, unblocks creativity to explore the ways of moving forward. Through our coaching process, clients tend to develop 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 is a highly empathetic person with an exceptional ability to understand how others think. She quickly grasps the logic behind the way you operate and, from there, helps you see your potential in a realistic and authentic way. In addition, she uses very thoughtful and relevant techniques and exercises that support a deeper understanding of our inner world and how it influences the way we see ourselves professionally.

Eva, Climate change researcher and expert

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

I facilitate group sense-making Experiences as one-off workshops or longer Strategic and team-building processes with a systemic lens.

Facilitation client testimonials

It was very important for our team to see and talk through our difficulties. We argued, sometimes things got really hot, but thanks to Julia we managed to find consensus every time. We also were able to put together an action plan for our organisation and assign roles in it. This was hugely valuable for our team in this moment.

Strategy Facilitation Client, Social impact non-profit organisation

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, 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 strategic 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 ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

David Graeber, Anthropologist, writer, activist and organiser

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 take a view 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.