This is the Tree of Life – even in winter and the start of New Life, in the Light.
Walk in Peace;
Walk in Beauty
until we meet again…
A MERRY CHRISTMAS & ABUNDANT NEW YEAR!
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The Use of Cards in Coaching
I’ve always been interested in how cards can be used in coaching sessions, some directly and in-directly.
In my personal practice I normally work on a new client about 30 mins before they arrive not necessarily knowing what the problem is yet. One of the first things I do is draw an angel card and I see how this relates to the client’s issue that day, but without telling them about the cards. I’ve been working like this for the last 17 years. I think of it as observational research and the cards always without fail relates to the clients situation in some way. Cards have been a great aid for asking insightful coaching questions that then lead to very creative sessions.
Recently for a new client, I drew the angel card of Fun, next I pulled the Trickster from the Native American Path cards, which is also as it happens to be about laughing at the realisation of the crooked path one is on and not to be so serious. The next card I pulled from the Medicine Cards deck was Beaver, which is about working hard and working together. I then let it be and see what opened up during the session.
During the session he mentioned social anxiety (not working together), he was retired and wanted to use his time more effectively but didn’t know what to do with his time, but wanted fun. He also mentioned that he got frustrated with others and gave the example of road rage he gets. So anger became our first piece of change work that session, as the anger also affected his personal relationship with his partner.
When he left, guess what his personalised car number plate was? Ans: FUN
Owl Wisdom Learnings
‘After the darkness and storms of troubled winter, protective snow now blankets the forest with silence. Forest is what the shamans call “the dwelling place of spirits” and it’s the home of the sacred medicine bird, the owl. Aided by the clairvoyant owl, from this quiet, white place our deepest spiritual wisdom rises with hope for the coming thaw, to seek our truth from our compassionate depths.’ (Brooks, Spirit & Destiny, Feb ’14 p.47)
Walk in Peace;
Walk in Beauty
until we meet again…
BIO: Johnathan Brooks MA, PG Dip, MAC is an expert Life/Career Executive Coach with 1,500+ hrs experience, who has trained in a wide range of personal development methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming), has a Postgraduate Diploma Degree in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’, a Master of Arts in ‘Applied Coaching’ and certified Firework Career Coach. He is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Bio Trivia: Johnathan is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe.
He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), full member of the European and Mentoring Council (UK) and a professional member of the Association of NLP.
Season’s Greetings: The Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, which occurs a few days before Christmas, can bring to an end the dark internal learning period, when we needed to face our shadow side and its imbalances and deficiencies and realise that with the coming return of Light, those negativities can now be perceived as an opportunity to choose again how we wish to live our lives and as a rebirth into Greater Wholeness.
M-E-R-R-Y C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S !
’til we meet again,
Walk in Beauty;
Walk in Peace.
‘Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth & Harmony‘
Johnathan Brooks MA, PG Dip, MAC is a talented Life/Career Executive Coach with 1,500+ hrs experience, who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming), has a Postgraduate Diploma Degree in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’, a Master of Arts in ‘Applied Coaching’ and certified Firework Career Coach. He is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), and a full member of the European and Mentoring Council (UK).
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