RECON
RECON is a 90-day, structured feedback coaching experience.
RECON is structured as a 90-day coaching experience.
HOW IT WORKS
RECOGNIZE THE CHANGE
Notice what's happening before rushing to explain it.
EXAMINE THE PRESSURE
Investigate what may be influencing the situation.
CONNECT THE DRIFT
Identify where pressure and changing conditions are showing up in behavior, decisions, habits, relationships or performance.
OPERATE DELIBERATELY
Select and test a targeted adjustment.
NOTE THE RESULT
Observe what happened, learn from it and adapt.
WHAT CAN RECON LOOK LIKE?
RECON is built around situations that occur in your actual life. You report what you're observing. Your coach helps investigate the pressure behind it and, when appropriate, identifies a practical application to test.
THE PARENT
“I've noticed I'm snapping at my kids almost every night when I get home from work.”
Your coach explores when it happens, what precedes it, and whether the pattern may be connected to workload, fatigue, or the transition between professional and parent roles.
Test a short role-transition routine before entering the home environment and observe whether the pattern changes.
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
“Nothing major happened this week, but I'm exhausted and don't want to talk to anyone when I get home.”
Rather than assuming the problem is motivation, your coach examines workload, vigilance demands, recovery, sleep, and accumulated operational pressure.
Test a structured post-shift decompression protocol and track what changes.
THE BUSINESS LEADER
“By late afternoon I'm avoiding decisions that normally wouldn't bother me.”
Your coach looks at decision volume, interruptions, competing priorities, cognitive load, and when the change begins appearing.
Test a decision-prioritization framework that moves higher-consequence decisions earlier and reduces unnecessary decision load.
THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL
“I can handle work, but lately I have almost nothing left when I get home.”
Your coach examines whether sustained demands, inadequate recovery, role transitions, or accumulated emotional and cognitive load are creating a predictable pattern.
Test a recovery and transition strategy between the professional and home environments.
THE VETERAN IN TRANSITION
“I have more freedom now, but without the structure I used to have, my days are all over the place.”
Your coach explores the loss of external structure, changes in role and identity, competing priorities, and where inconsistency is appearing.
Build and test a simple personal operating structure around priorities, routines, and responsibilities.
THE COACH
“I spend so much energy on everyone else's performance that my own training and recovery keep getting pushed aside.”
Your coach examines competing roles, boundaries, workload, recovery, and the repeated decisions that cause personal priorities to lose ground.
Test a priority-protection strategy that establishes specific non-negotiable recovery or training windows.
THE WORKING PROFESSIONAL
“I keep telling myself I'll work out after work, but when the time comes, I skip it.”
Instead of labeling the problem a lack of discipline, your coach examines when the decision is being made, energy levels, environmental friction, schedule demands, and recurring patterns.
Test an environmental adjustment that reduces the number of decisions and obstacles between finishing work and beginning training.
That continuing cycle—Investigate → Apply → Observe → Adapt—is what turns everyday experiences into useful information for coaching.
Examples are illustrative. Individual coaching responses and applications vary based on the circumstances, information provided, and appropriate scope of coaching.
BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE UNDER PRESSURE
RECON wasn't created from one coaching certification or a single theory.
It comes from a career spent observing people, systems, behavior, and decision-making under pressure.
As a retired NYPD Sergeant, United States Marine Corps veteran and performance coach, Center Fidelis founder John Buthorn brings several disciplines together.
Law Enforcement
Taught him to observe, gather information, recognize patterns, and investigate before reaching conclusions.
The Marine Corps
Reinforced discipline, adaptability, accountability, preparation, and operating effectively when conditions change.
Social Work
Provided the perspective of understanding the person within the larger environment surrounding them.
Psychology and Behavioral Science
Help explain how cognition, emotion, habits, attention, and behavior respond under sustained demand.
Performance Psychology and Physiology
Provide frameworks for understanding capacity, recovery, attention, stress, and execution.
Leadership Models and Military Doctrine
Provide tools for decision-making, prioritization, adaptability, after-action analysis, and command under uncertainty.
Stoic Philosophy
Contributes principles of judgment, responsibility, perspective, disciplined action, and distinguishing what can be controlled from what cannot.
Real-World Application
Brings those perspectives together around real situations, observable evidence, practical responses, and adaptation.
Pressure Is Already Giving You Evidence.
The question is whether you can recognize it early enough to investigate the pattern, select the right response, and adapt before the drift becomes larger.
RECON gives you 90 days to train that capability.