What to do when you don't know what you want next in your career
A live online workshop for ambitious professionals who feel stuck, disconnected, or caught between staying and leaving.
You know something needs to change, but when someone asks "so what do you actually want?" you go blank. Or you give the safe answer. Or you say "I'm figuring it out" for the fifteenth time.
You're not short on ambition or on ability. Yet somewhere between knowing you want more and actually doing something about it, you get stuck.
You save jobs on LinkedIn and never apply. You rehearse what you'll say and then say nothing. You tell yourself "now isn't the right time" and that story has been running for months.
There are protective patterns underneath all of this, patterns you didn't choose, and they've been making your career decisions on autopilot. Until you can see them, they'll keep running the show.
In this workshop, we'll make them visible.
What we'll do together:
→ Understand why you can't access what you want. You're not actually directionless. Something learnt to shut down your wanting a long time ago because wanting things felt risky. We'll look at why "I don't know" is almost never the truth, and what's really going on underneath it.
→ Name the fears that are keeping you frozen. The fear of making the wrong move. The fear of falling behind. The fear that if you leave what's stable, you'll lose everything you've built. These fears aren't irrational but they ARE making your decisions for you. We'll get them out of the shadows so they stop running the show.
→ Do a live exercise to reconnect with what you already know. Underneath the overthinking, the second-guessing, and the "but what if I pick wrong," there's a signal you've been overriding with logic. We'll practise hearing it again.
→ See what actually moves people from stuck to clear. Not more research or a perfect plan. I'll walk you through what I've seen shift in over 100 clients and the four capacities that take you from "I don't know what I want" to trusting yourself enough to move.
This is for you if:
You're successful on paper but something feels off and you can't quite name it
You've been going back and forth between staying and leaving and you're exhausted by it
You have ambition you're not tapping into and it's starting to frustrate you
You undersell yourself and you know it but you can't seem to stop
You're done thinking about this and ready to actually do something about it
This is live, interactive, and designed to shift something. Come with your camera on and a notebook ready.
Details
📅 Monday, August 17th
⏰ 18:00 BST / 13:00 ET
Live on Zoom
About Cristina
Cristina is a coach, facilitator and founder of Play Big Careers. She's worked with global brands like L’Oréal, GSK, and Vodafone, managed million-pound projects, and partnered with CEOs of billion-dollar companies.
Her approach combines career strategy with deeper identity and body-based work: the nervous system, the protective patterns, the internal voices that have been making decisions on your behalf. The result is change that actually sticks, not just a plan you never follow through on.
Outside of coaching, she hosts a weekly Saturday walk in central London and is usually planning her next trip with her husband or to see family abroad.