BUSINESS
Career & Business Coaching | Team & Business Mediation | Systemic Counseling & Mentoring | Training
KAREN JULIA KORFMACHER
Mediator l Personal & Business Coach l Couples Counselor l HR & Outplacement Consultant l Attorney

I use different methods to guide and support you in the best possible way.
Which of these will come into play? That's up to you and your needs.

I do what works for you.
Your topics and challenges are the focus, not the method.
Career & Business Coaching
Individual Setting
We already carry the answers to our questions within us - but sometimes we need a little support to discover and decode them.
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Systemic Coaching aims to activate existing resources. As an expert on your own situation, you enter a non-judgmental space in which you can deal with the current challenges in your life in a structured, goal- and solution-oriented way. The focus lies on your individual strengths and opportunities.
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I support you with systemic questions and interventions to find new perspectives and creative solutions. I always keep an eye on the process and guide you on the path to greater clarity, connection and growth.
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Key Facts: ​
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Focus: Activating resources, new perspectives, creative solutions
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Present + future
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Short to medium-term support (usually 3-5 sessions)
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Fostering long-term growth and personal development: Systemic Coaching not only addresses current challenges, but also aims for sustainable development
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I particularly enjoy working with these systemic interventions:
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Science and tool-based personality analysis (based on the BIG FIVE): "LINC PERSONALITY PROFILER"
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Career with purpose: “IKIGAI”
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Analysis of strengths & competencies: “Success Stories”
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Wisdom and advice from inner mentors: “Mentor Meeting”
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Activating skills and resources: “Specialist Hill”
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Change work with inner parts, relationship with oneself: “Inner Side Model”
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Inner Beliefs: “The Work of Byron Katie”
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Creative solutions: “Disney Strategy” & “Miracle Question”
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Activating resources: “Timeline” & “ Resource Journey”
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Decision-making, life balance: “Tetralemma” & “Wheel of Values”
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Conflict clarification: “Iceberg Model” & “Conflict Grid”
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Communication and conflict patterns: “Four-Ear Dialog”
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Role clarity within a team: “Team Player"
Systemic Counseling & Mentoring
Individual Setting
In your phase of professional reorientation - with many opportunities, challenges and possibly a rollercoaster of emotions - I support you in regular virtual check-in meetings that can give you a “safe space” as well as structure, orientation and commitment.
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I am your “Sparring & Cheer-Accountability Partner”: I give impulses, answer your questions, have an open ear for your concerns and topics, cheer you on from the sidelines and keep an eye on how you are doing with your next steps and goals.
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Let's use this time together as your opportunity for development and positive change. Because this time, although not always easy, holds a lot of potential: to get to know yourself better and shape your future in a way that suits your abilities, interests and needs.
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Systemic Counseling & Mentoring aims to empower people to make good decisions for themselves. This means becoming more aware of yourself, developing reflective thought processes and using them to form an authentic approach.​
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Key Facts:
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Focus: Sparring & Cheer Accountability
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Present + Future
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Medium to long-term support (usually 5-8 sessions)
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Comprehensive: First point of contact for questions and challenges
Team & Business Mediation
Group Setting
Team & Business Mediation is a confidential and structured process to help resolve conflicts within teams and organizations voluntarily and independently. As a certified mediator, I guide you through the process in a structured, independent, impartial manner and without decision-making authority.
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Mediation aims to resolve specific challenges in the present and simultaneously create the basis for a better future together. The focus lies on the creative and sustainable resolution of specific conflicts, with short to medium-term support.
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Mediation is not only time and cost efficient, but also flexible. It offers a valuable alternative to court proceedings for resolving conflicts sustainably.
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Key Facts:
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Focus: Specific current conflicts, context-dependent challenges
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Present + future
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Short to medium-term support (usually 3-5 sessions)
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Time- and cost-efficient: Mediation is generally faster, cheaper and associated with a lower cost risk than court proceedings
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5 Phases of Mediation (5-Phases Model):
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The mediation process is divided into 5 essential phases. At the beginning, you establish the basis for further cooperation by means of a working agreement. You then describe your view of the conflict one after the other and collect topics that you would like to discuss together. We then look at the underlying interests and needs. Finally, you develop and work on solution options and, if you wish, bring these to a final agreement.
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In the first session, we focus on the working agreement, assessing the current situation and collecting topics. Whether we already address your interests and needs in the first or second session is very individual and depends on you and your objectives.
Communication & Conflict Training​
Group Setting
Good cooperation is a skill that can be learned - it requires transparent, emotional communication and the development of safe communication and conflict rules. In communication and conflict management training courses, I teach the basics of non-violent communication (NVC) and provide relevant concepts and helpful tools.
This involves not only how to resolve conflicts, but also how to build an open and supportive corporate culture. Practical exercises and interactive methods strengthen the ability to manage conflicts in such a way as to ensure that they are not destructive, but can be used as an opportunity for personal and collective growth.
Key Facts:
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Focus: Learning transparent and emotional communication, developing safe communication and conflict rules
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Future
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Short-term support (usually 1-3 sessions)
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Practical exercises and interactive methods: What you have learned can be applied directly and practiced in realistic scenarios
I particularly enjoy working with these models:
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Nonviolent Communication
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4-Ear Model
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Feedback Model