The right questions.
Your own answers.
Straight talk, soft landing.
I work with capable people, in Cambridge and online, who keep having the same conversation with themselves and getting nowhere.
You're not broken and you're not behind. You're between chapters. And that's when a coach can help.
A free intro chat to begin. Tell me what's going on. I'll tell you if I can help.
CO-ACTIVE COACHING WITH CAROL FACULJAK
Start with a Curious Hour.
It's for when you're curious about yourself, or just curious about what coaching is like. It's an invitation, a calm, soft place to land, and it won't hurt. You pick one of three hours: Coffee With Future You, What Makes You Tick, or What You're Here For. Knowing things about yourself helps you make better decisions and live a bit more intuitively, and it's also fun. £50, in person or on Zoom.
BEFORE YOU BOOK
“I don't know if I need a coach or a therapist.”
People often ask me that. Sometimes it's one or the other, and sometimes it's both. I've coached people who were seeing a therapist at the same time, and the two worked well together. If you need a therapist instead, I'll tell you.
“We already know each other. Won't that be weird?”
Most people find me through someone we both know or another part of my life, so there's a good chance we've met. It almost never makes coaching weird. Being your coach and being your friend are different things, and I can do both. I can make it normal for us, and if I ever can't, I'll tell you.
“Will anyone else find out what I tell you?”
No. What you tell me in coaching stays between us, and that includes anyone we both know. As a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, I'm bound by the ethics that come with that, and it's written into the coaching agreement we both sign. The only exception is if the law requires it.
“Someone sent me. What now?”
Tell me who when you book. You'll get £100 off The Heart of It or a package, and they'll get a free hour with me.
Nobody hires a coach because life is going perfectly.
They come because some version of this is happening.
“I am answering work emails at dinner and at 11pm. Again.”
“I know I want something different. I just can't see what, or how.”
“I'm starting over, and it's equal parts terrifying and overdue.”
Stuck is a symptom. You've probably known that for a while. What's been missing is momentum, and someone in your corner who won't let you talk yourself out of it.
What coaching actually is. And isn’t.
Coaching is a straight-talking partnership. I ask the questions nobody else in your life will, listen properly to the answers, and then hold you to what you said you wanted.
As a Co-Active Coach®, I don't hand you a five-step plan someone else wrote. We build yours from your values, your life, your personal definition of good. Then we do the work, and I hold your line if you wobble.
Is honest questions, real accountability.
Is listening to yourself in a way no one's allowed you to.
THE FINE PRINT, IN PLAIN SIGHT
Not therapy. And I'll say so if therapy is what you need.
Not someone telling you how to live your life.
Is you, moving. Finally, and on purpose.
HUMAN, FIRST
There is a moment in every session when someone says the thing they have never quite said out loud, and I hear it all the way to the end of the sentence, without flinching and without rushing in to fix it. I'm still in your corner next week, asking, right, what are we doing about it?
Hi, I'm Carol.
I coach people who are ready for something to be different. They might not know what, or how, but they're ready for something. My job isn't to give you the answers. It's to ask the questions that shake yours loose, and then make sure you actually do something about them. I've been coaching since 2005, in Cambridge and online.
Warm, direct, occasionally cheeky. No judgement. No agenda of my own. The only outcome I am attached to is yours.
The same plain language human who co-authored Practical Manifestation: The Magic Formula.
Certified Co-Active Coach. Trauma-informed. Author
Don't take my word for it.
She listened to and really understood what my issues and needs were. She asked the right questions so that I could figure out my own answers. She was supportive and she challenged me.
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B.W.
Real words from people I've coached. Their work together is private, so I've kept them to initials.
You've given me the confidence, clarity and tools. I tell everyone I come across, THIS is what a coach should do.
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C.Z.
I was initially sceptical about coaching before I met Carol, but she has convinced me of its value. She has provided me with some great pointers and helped me find the solutions that were probably right under my nose all along!
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M.C.
Tell me what's going on.
Want to see what coaching is like?
Try a Curious Hour for £50, or book a free introductory chat if you'd rather have a conversation first.