Life Coaching with Spirit Bear's Native American Indian

Johnathan

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   Spirit Bear's Johnathan Brooks

 

Brooks, PG Dip, CBT, MNLP, EFT is a Cognitive Behavioural Coach who has trained in a wide range of

treatment methods including the “Power Therapies”. Based in Tunbridge Wells,

Johnathan has had an unconventional upbringing and has a truly fascinating

background.

With many years

of personal development behind him, you couldn’t choose a better coach to see

you through a personal crisis, or loss of confidence in the work place. 

Johnathan’s original birth name was Troy Lynn Fisher and he

was born to Native American parents from the Northern Cheyenne (the ones, along

with the Sioux, that did in General Custer) and Cree tribes of Montana, USA. At an early age he

was adopted by a German mother (Countess von Bismarck- Schönhausen) and a

Hollywood Executive American father. The exchange took place between the two

mothers in a hotel lobby in San Francisco.  A

transaction unthinkable since the Native American Indian Welfare Act of 1978.

Johnathan Brooks with a new identity and a weighty history; he was now the

great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, direct descendant of Germany's

"Iron Chancellor" the first chancellor of the German Empire, became a

seasoned traveller, his adopted father’s film career taking the family far and

wide. Finally his adopted mother decided that it was time for a more settled

family life and they planted their roots in London. 

Johnathan came across coaching when a relationship fell apart and he

seeked help from a local NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner.  After recalling his current situation the NLP

practitioner identified a recurring pattern in Johnathan’s unsuccessful

relationships; he was regularly dumped having embarked on unsuitable affairs.

It was suggested that this pattern of behaviour was somehow linked to the

awkward relationship Johnathan had with his mother.  

Johnathan’s adopted mother had died ten years previously in 1986 yet he

was going to have to revisit this relationship with his dead mother and not

just forgive her but more importantly

forgive himself if he was ever going

to experience a happy family life himself.

It was a long journey. Attraction is a tricky business you can’t always

chose who you fall for, they either do it for you or they don’t. This apparent

lack of power in choosing a suitable partner led Johnathan to become a personal

development course junkie. During this time he learnt and expanded his

awareness and consciousness, and still is as it’s a never ending process. He

says it’s a beautiful journey of self discovery, learning about people, life

and healing. Johnathan believes coaching is a form of healing. He can now look

back at his life and see purpose in all that he has experienced and lived

through.  It all fits into place. Successfully

out the other side he is now a shiny wounded healer who makes a difference to

other people’s lives and feels there is no better reward.

The Personal

Coach His coaching is about giving you the tools you require to make lasting

changes so that you can manifest abundance in all areas in your life, bring

forth your true self, and achieve the greatness within you.

The Executive Coach When an employer employs someone, the employer takes on the whole person. The

fact is that a high percentage of busy executives and staff do have families

and stress, anxiety, loss of confidence and productivity can affect their performance

as they juggle work and home life. The consultancy provides a range of coaching

support for both employees’ professional and personal lives.

The benefits allow employees to work more efficiently for a work-life

balance, increase staff loyalty, reduce absenteeism therefore there is a real

benefit to the bottom line.

A Recent Case Study

‘Ed Orange’:

A Case Study of Anxiety and Depression

Case

Presentation

Ed is a 35 year

old family man who works full time. He was being treated by his General

Practitioner for depression with anti-depressants and had recently just had his

daily dosage doubled. Ed had been seeing a psychiatrist for over ten years. 

Presenting

Complaints

Ed was feeling

very anxious/depressed when he referred himself to me. He had a secret debt

which he had kept from his wife but who had recently just found out and was

furious.

Ed having been

divorced once before didn’t want to go through being left alone again he loved

his wife and their three children. 

He considered

the whole situation as hopeless and had the belief that he was both worthless

and useless. As a result he suffered from insomnia and was stressed from his

workload at work.

Ed’s History

Ed’s ex-wife had

run-off with the ‘Best Man’ from their wedding. He felt that not only had he

lost his wife but had lost his best friend as well.

Ed had been very

ill with a heart condition when he was born and wasn’t expected to survive. His

mother seemed to have detached herself in readiness and neglected her nurturing

responsibilities as a mother. Ed had decided as a child that he must be

worthless as his mother never supported him.

The Wound

There seemed to

be a pattern. Ed had two wounds, main wound of being Rejection showing up as

Panic Attacks, the fear of being pushed away. And Abandonment showing up as the

fear of Solitude (left alone).

Coaching Plan

First we worked

on his emotional state and brought down his anxious feelings to a manageable

level using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). This would put him in a more

resourceful state for clear thoughts to take place and could practice at home

or when required.

Using Cognitive

Behavioural Therapy (CBT), we then looked at Ed’s negative thinking styles and

found he had two: “extreme thinking” and “mind reading” and looked at

alternative positive thoughts. Seeing the big picture of how his thoughts

affect his emotions which affect his behaviour he found enormously

helpful. 

CBT is a self

hep treatment which focuses on changing how we feel now, a practical form of

psychotherapy. It gives people the tools to make changes. 

Ed began the

process of un-learning unhelpful beliefs and learning to catch the negative

thoughts as they occurred and after six weeks Ed is now FREE from

antidepressants, is still happily married, sleeps well and as has more of a

work-life balance. To his surprise his relationships with his children are

noticeably better, he has more quality time to play and really be with them.

He has a twinkle

back in his eyes and a slide in his stride. He’s now exploring new potential

career paths that express who he really is and of course, always was.

“Johnathan

has been a very strong influence in my life in past few months. I was depressed

and could not see any way out of the dark depression. I had been to see my

doctor who had put me on antidepressants and wanted me to see a psychologist,

from past experiences I was reluctant to see a psychologist as I found it a

very short term fix and unhelpful. I went for my first session with Johnathan

and found it to be such a positive and motivating session, I started seeing him

on a weekly basses and grew stronger in myself week by week, the tools that

Johnathan taught me to use have been excellent and have helped me to reduce my

dosage of antidepressants with an aim of stopping them all together, which I

did after six sessions with Johnathan. The tools I have been given are not the

short term fix I was avoiding but will remain with me for life and help me

maintain the strength I have found within myself.” ~ Ed Orange

Johnathan

Brooks, PG Dip, CBT, MNLP, EFT is a Cognitive Behavioural Coach who has trained in a wide range of

treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural

Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro

Linguistic Programming) and has a postgraduate diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ -

passed with a ‘Commendation’.

Specialties: Support in Executive Coaching, Goal Setting, Team Management

& Leadership, Life/Work Balance, Life Purpose and various issues and

wellbeing issues such as depression and anxiety.

www.spiritbearcoaching.com - 01892-525029