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ICF Competencies: Summary description: They will be able to research new pockets of potential clients and create a blueprint for meeting the needs of these clients. They will be able to embody the following coaching competencies online using online tools. 5. Active listening; 6. Powerful Questioning; 7. Direct Communication Presenter: Patricia Quinn, MD Title: Unique Concerns of ADHD as a Chronic Condition in Women Description: Although we have come a long way in the last decade towards a
better
understanding of women with ADHD, there remains much to do and many avenues Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenter: Edna Copeland, PhD Title: ADHD, Inattentive Type: A Devastating Deficit in Cognitive Processing and Executive Functioning Description: This session will address the affects of ADHD, Inattentive Type on the broad categories of cognitive abilities that determine cognitive performance—verbal ability, thinking ability and cognitive efficiency—and the underlying neurocognitive processes which contribute to them including auditory processing, short-term memory, working memory, speed of processing, cognitive efficiency, and others. In addition, this session will address the negative impacts of ADHD, Inattentive Type, which continue in adulthood, on learning ability; IQ scores and academic achievement regardless of true intellectual potential; personality development; emotional well-being; social interactions; post-secondary education; job performance; and functioning within the family. A case presentation will accompany the discussion to illustrate how these effects are manifest in one client. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenters: Thomas E. Brown, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine and Bill Dodson, M.D., ADHD Treatment Center, Denver, CO Presentation Title: ADHD and C0-morbidities Description: Research has consistently demonstrated that 70% of children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD will have at least one other major psychiatric diagnosis in their lifetime. Consequently, these comorbid disorders complicate the process of both diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Brown will discuss a new, research-based model of why such high rates of comorbidity occur and the implications this has for life functioning and diagnosis. Impediments to diagnosis such as dyslexithymia and rejection sensitive dysphoria will be discussed as well as features that aid the clinician in delineating whether it is one, or the other, or both conditions that produce the patients chief complaint. Dr. Brown and Dr. Dodson will discuss the current recommendations for treatment of ADHD complicated by various co-existing conditions. Rational guidelines for which condition should be treated first and with what techniques or medications will be discussed. The problems of treatment compliance and continued lifelong management in this notoriously disorganized and forgetful patient population will be addressed. Co-existing conditions to be discussed include:
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenters: ADDed Dimension Coaching Group (Kate Kelly, Dave Brattain, Mary Jane Johnson, PCC, Steven Ledingham, Paul Ravenscraft, Cameron Gott and Peggy Ramundo) Title: Welcome to the ADD Family Description: This interactive session will touch on the following elements: basic self care for the conference and at home; diversity of thinking styles; realizing that you are a part of a supportive **Note: This session is free and is a non-credit session. Friday Presenter: David Giwerc, MCC Title: The Science, Spirit & Source of the ADD Being Description: As part of his farewell address, David Giwerc will talk
about what he has witnessed: Over the last three years as president of ADDA;
his last 12 years as both a coach, trainer of ADD coaches; and as an Objectives: Participants will
Presenter: Steven Copps, MD Title: Medication: The Cornerstone of Therapy. (But, It’s Not the Whole Story.) Description: Medication: “glasses for the mind”. Its use fosters success where there’s been deprivation in the past. One has a vision problem. Solution? Put on glasses! The person sees better, BUT has to do something with what is seen. When one has an attention problem, one puts on medication. The person attends better, BUT he has to do something with that to which one is attending to. That takes work—real effort. BUT, the medication gives one a chance for that effort to be successful. The real tragedy of ADD is the effort expended for the meager rewards often obtained without therapy. With appropriate therapy, ADD is a manageable condition. Contentment is possible Objectives: (pending) Presenter: Wilma Fellman, M.Ed., LPC Title: Career Choices: The ABC's of a Good Career Match with AD/HD Description: Know a graduate who has no clue what career to choose? Making a career transition yourself and hoping not to repeat past failures? Working with someone who consistently gets fired from jobs? Hoping to "save" a job by tweaking the environment for better productivity and success? This workshop will explore these situations and discuss the ABC's of making a good career match with AD/HD. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Chris Zeigler-Dendy, MS Title: Fathers Know Best – Panel Discussion Description: A panel of fathers will describe the realities of living day-today with children and teenagers with ADD or ADHD. These four men will describe the joys and challenges that accompany parenting children with attention deficits. They will discuss their children’s strengths plus the importance of educating yourself about ADHD and learning to reframe “ADD behaviors” more positively. Two of the fathers also have ADHD themselves and two fathers do not. Don’t miss this lively and entertaining discussion. This session is aimed at helping parents and professionals understand the unique challenges fathers with and without ADHD face as they parent children and grandchildren who are struggling with this disorder. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Peggy Bonsee, PCC Title: Confronting Conflict with “ADDitude”: A Toolkit Description: Do you struggle with CONFLICT – avoiding it, precipitating it or being overcome by it? You are not alone and the reasons are various including personal history, environmental expectations, temperament and “wiring.” AD/HD can contribute to or intensify one’s difficulties around conflict. This interactive session is designed for participants to learn more about the nature and source of conflict avoidance, precipitation and overwhelm. In addition, you will have an opportunity to discover how to leverage your AD/HD strengths and neutralize your AD/HD challenges to marshal an effective Conflict “ADD-itude,” which includes useful constructive conflict tools. This “ADD-itude can significantly improve your ability to navigate conflict constructively in the future. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenters: Roland Rotz, PhD and Sarah Wright, M.S., A.C.T . Title: FIDGET TO FOCUS: Discovering your Natural Rhythm to Manage your ADD Day Description: The dysregulated and underaroused ADD brain craves stimulation and interest to avoid boredom and to stay focused. If we are unaware, our ADD brain is likely to daily fluctuate from paying attention to absolutely everything, to the other extreme of hyperfocusing on only one thing. This appears to others as distracted, impulsive, restless, and not listening. The choice for self-management comes with the knowledge and awareness that our sensory system is already operating as an incredible natural resource for keeping us interested and focused. In this presentation we will explain how “fidgeting” or the rhythm of our senses (Simultaneous Sensory Stimulation) is used to counter the tedium of repetitive daily events. Discussion will focus on identifying specific fidget strategies that can be applied at work, in school, at home and in relationships to assist focus and choice. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenters: Holly Hamilton and Ken Zaretzky Title: Sticky Wickets in Coaching: An Interactive Ethics Workshop Description: As a coach, have you ever found yourself in an ethically 'sticky' situation with a client? Learn about the ICF and ADDA guidelines and ethical standards for coaches. Do you know the difference between principle ethics and virtue ethics? How about the difference between ethical, legal, and professional standards? Discover the answers to these and other issues in this interactive workshop. The session begins with an introduction to the topic and definitions of ethical terms, followed by a panel of senior coaches tackling a couple of ethical sticky wickets. Then attendees will divide into small groups to tackle ethical sticky wickets guaranteed to raise the temperature in the room. Back in the large group we will share highlights from small group conversations. You're guaranteed to leave with a better understanding of these vitally important professional tools every coach needs in her or his tool box than you arrived with. Objectives: Participants will:
ICF Core Competencies Met in This Presentation: Meeting Ethical Guidelines and Professional Standards– Understanding of coaching ethics and standards and ability to apply them appropriately in all coaching situations. a. Understands and exhibits in own behaviors the ICF Standards of Conduct. b. Understands and follows all ICF Ethical Guideline) Presenter: Dan Pavel Title: Usefulness of Brain SPECT for Evaluation and Treatment of ADHD with Co-existing Conditions Description: First hour : High Resolution Brain SPECT : The general purpose
of the talk. Imaging and the comorbidity conundrum.Definition,
implementation, logistics of the procedure, instrumentation, rationale and description of
the various display modalities and their respective usefulness. The functional
image concept and its importance in Psychiatric disorders in general. Normal Second hour: Review of specific cases: 20 min; Q&A: 10 min; Review of additional cases 15 min; Q&A: 10 min Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenter: Robin Bond, Esq. Title: Legal Issues Involving ADD and AD/HD in the Workplace Description: This presentation will address the following: Is ADD a disability under the ADA? Other federal laws, such as Social Security? Under state laws, such as Workers Compensation? Can ADD be reasonably accommodated, and if so, how? What are an employer’s duties under the ADA? How employers can make it easier for employees with AD/HD or ADD to function successfully in the workplace. Objective:
Presenter: Don Baker, MA, LMHC Title: AD/HD and Boundaries: 3 Clear Steps to Powerful Boundaries Description: Time and again, clients in my practice have requested clarification and work on boundaries. What are boundaries? How do they develop? You’ll have the opportunity to discuss how the diagnosis of AD/HD influences establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries, the manifestation of some of the boundary issues we face, and finally, 3 concrete steps to improve your skills no matter where you are on your journey. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenters: Kate Kelly, MSN, ACT and Paul Ravenscraft, BS, MBA Title: Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: Basic Self-care for Adults with ADD Description: In this session you will learn the basics of self-care for adults with ADD. In our years of experience coaching ADDults, we have found that the vast majority have underdeveloped self care skills. This has a major impact on every area of life. The good news is that there are specific strategies you can learn and apply to produce immediate results, as well as lasting gains over time. Of course, good self care is more than just a matter of skill development. In most cases, there is also a problem with giving yourself permission to put self care first. We will also discuss the common thoughts and attitudes that get in the way of maintaining a routine that supports optimal functioning. Objectives:
Presenter: Terry Matlen MSW, ACSW Title: Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD Description: This combined lecture and interactive session is geared towards women with AD/HD and will cover the special challenges women with AD/HD face, plus specific tips on things such as: meal planning, organizing, parenting, self-care, workplace issues and more. The focus will be on identifying the stressors and challenges a woman with AD/HD faces on a daily basis; learning strategies for living successfully and utilizing tips and resources provided by the presenter and the audience.Attendees will have a better understanding of how AD/HD impacts women with AD/HD and what they can do about taming typical AD/HD symptoms. Tools will be offered to help women: accept differences; change expectations of themselves; learn to forgive themselves; get the support they need; use specific strategies/tips to make life with AD/HD less stressful. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Ken Zaretzky Title: Coaching The Third Entity, How to Save ADHD Relationships Description: This session will outline a relationship coaching model for ADHD. Using coaching techniques to improve communication, obviate misunderstanding and strengthening your client’s relationships. Specific techniques will be explained for coaching relationships and several case histories will be given. Objectives: Participants will:
ICF Core Competencies Met in This Session: Establishing trust; Coaching presence; Active listening; Powerful questioning; Direct communication; Creating awareness; Designing actions; Planning and goal setting; Managing progress and accountability. Presenters: Bo Roedvig and Rikke Oervad Jacobsen Title: Training for Young Adults with AD/HD Description: Deputy Headmaster Bo Roedvig and Special Teacher Rikke Oervad Jacobsen (assistant Preben Pallesgaard) will present a model program for working with young adults with AD/HD. The project illustrates that education and intensive intervention, including collaborative partnerships with social service, police and health care can increase quality of life and successful outcomes for young adults with AD/HD. The young adults in the project are those more at-risk, often facing multiple challenges coping with daily life problems. The program is explained from a Danish (European) concept of thinking, where educational aims direct the work and assistance the participants receive. In the workshop we will discuss our program in comparison with international experiences. Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenter: Pamela Milazzo, JD, ACG Title: CREATE A LOCAL SPLASH! Discover How To Organize A High-Profile AD/HD Awareness Event In Your Area Description: ADDA’s National Awareness Day Committee invites interested advocacy and support groups and AD/HD professionals to sponsor their own AD/HD Awareness activities and events, not only on Awareness Day, but throughout the year as well. It is only through the collaborative efforts of national and local organizations, as well as AD/HD professionals that we can hope to end the stigma that surrounds AD/HD and ensure that all individuals with AD/HD receive the proper diagnosis and treatment needed to lead successful lives. Unfortunately, most do not understand how to go about putting together a local event. This presentation is designed to provide groups and professionals with a clear “roadmap” for organizing a high-profile AD/HD Awareness Day Event in their area. Objective:
Presenter: K. Kerchner McConlogue, CPCC Title: Making Decisions: It Doesn’t Have To Be So Complicated Description: All of life is about choices.. making them or not making them and what happens after that. Structure and systems are key in making decisions more easily. While no predetermined system is perfect for everyone, you do have to decide on an uncomplicated system and practice using it, in order for it to be useful when you need it. This session will help you look at how you decide what you do next and how you evaluate what you have done in order to make more efficient choices the next time. It is designed to help you learn to take constructive action as opposed to looking for an analytical identification of problems. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Dana Rayburn Title: Building a Strength Based Life Description: Too often people with AD/HD set themselves up to fail because they center their world around their weaknesses. They focus on things that are a struggle for them rather than tasks at which they can excel. Attend this interactive session to learn a different approach – you'll learn to build your world around your strengths. Orienting your life around your strengths increases your energy and joy. Your self-esteem thrives. The day-to-day becomes seemingly effortless. Join adult AD/HD coach Dana Rayburn as she walks you through the same exercises for discovering strengths she uses successfully with her AD/HD clients. You'll learn how to recognize and focus on your strengths plus how to identify and manage your weaknesses. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Denslow Brown, MCC Title: Coaching Skills:Using Metaphor & Symbolism for Transformation Description: How can we support our clients' commitment to new systems and life changing goals? Specific, critical coaching skills for this task enable the coach to identify and use the metaphors and symbolism which have meaning to the client. Listening for cues to the client's inner language and landscape is the starting place. The client's experience and clarity continues when we ask the questions that elicit inspiration and an immersion in a meaningful and positive state of mind. Metaphors and symbols also link in a client's memory more thoroughly and more effectively than does a direct rush to logical action steps (although those eventually follow). The usefulness of an ongoing metaphor in the coaching relationship is evident in its ability to channel feelings constructively between sessions, and contain and sustain focus and action. Objectives: Participants will:
ICF Core Competencies Met in This Session are: Active Listening; Powerful Questioning; Direct Communication; Creating Awareness; Designing Actions; Planning and Goal Setting; Managing Progress and Accountability. Presenter: Patricia Quinn, MD Title: From Chaos to Clarity; Helping Adults Deal with Their ADHD Description: This presentation will discuss the significant impact of untreated and under treated ADHD on adults and offer suggestions to help them recover from the chaos to a place of clarity and control through a multimodal approach to success. Diagnostic issues that cloud the picture will be discussed as well as common symptoms and difficulties. A balanced view of ADHD will offer that allows the adult to take charge of their ADHD. Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenter: Fran Parker Title: Promoting Success/Preventing Academic Failure in College Students with AD/HD Description: The college process begins with transitioning and preparing oneself for independence, adulthood, and being the conductor of one's own education. For many AD/HD students, the diagnosis came once they plummeted to get on academic probation or failed out of college. For others who know along with their parents about their AD/HD, neither fully grasped or understood the impact of an unstructured environment without parents' supervision would have on the learning and social environment. Procrastination, time management issues, lack of organization and critical thinking along with not having a realistic plan with self-imposed time frames and limits leads to academic dysfunction. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: D. Steven Ledingham Title: Men and ADHD Description: “Men And ADD” is a workshop meeting a vital need for men with ADD and men who “learn differently”. Understanding characteristics and causes of ADD is a must for adults who have or are involved with men with ADD. Learning about male ADD can help move us “to the next level” of understanding ADD. Learn how ADD uniquely affects men on a hormonal level and with the expectations other men, and society have of us. Men and ADD uses an active, “hands on approach” to help men discover some of the ways we are uniquely effected by ADD, how your personal behaviors and choices are effected by ADD, and lastly, how to focus on your ADD/Male strengths and minimize behaviors that may be holding your back. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Jennifer Koretsky Title: Time Management Systems for Business Professionals Description: This interactive, hands-on presentation will provide proven time management strategies for the business professional with AD/HD. Emphasis will be placed on establishing structure within the work day, despite the fact that most professionals today are forced to work within erratic and unpredictable schedules. We’ll also explore a proven system for daily planning that specifically addresses common AD/HD time management challenges, like running late for meetings and appointments, procrastination and hyper focus. Finally, we’ll discuss how to deal with overwhelm in the office to avoid burnout. Participants will leave this session armed with a working plan for establishing structure within their work day, creating time management systems, and dealing with overwhelm. This session is appropriate for executives, office workers, the self-employed, entrepreneurs, and business owners. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Regine Pfeiffer Title: The Connecting Power of Juggling Description: Since the Delivered from Distraction appeared we know that juggling has the power to make unwilling little boys start reading. But juggling is more than cerebellar stimulation. In Europe we have a wonderful juggling culture that you American ADDers might profit from (after we have profited from you so greatly.) Juggling essentially means connecting: connecting the two sides of the brain, connecting he two sides of the body, connecting people. A German ADD expert - who used to be a circus clown before he started teaching at the university - recommended juggling for ADDers in 1999 already. You will see what is explained in little film spots and at the end you will be shown the (very, very basic) rules of juggling with the help of simple bean bags. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Sarah Wright, MS, ACT Title: Group Coaching: A powerful way to build your practice and keep your clients in action. Description: Coaching is considered by many experts to be one of the most effective interventions for people with ADD. Yet working with an ADD Coach is beyond the financial means of many, if not most, of an ADD Coach’s potential clients. One way to make coaching financially accessible while keeping it financially feasible for the coach, is to coach people in groups. Group Coaching is a quickly growing dimension of personal coaching. ICF’s Mentor Coach Training offers training in coaching groups. Coachville has made Group Coaching part of it’s core curriculum. Group Coaching offers significant benefits to both client and coach. It can become a significant income generator and reputation builder for the coach, as well as being an attractive alternative or adjunct to individual coaching for the clients. The additional synergy, energy, and accountability can keep clients in action as effectively as a coach can alone, and it’s fun! Objectives: Participants will:
Saturday Presenter: Tom Brown, PhD Title: The Unrecognized Role of Emotions in ADHD Description: Although DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for ADHD include no
reference to problems with emotional regulation, many researchers and
clinicians report that most children and adults with ADHD report significant Objectives: After this presentation, participants will:
Presenter: Phil Parker, MD Title: Medication Issues in Men with AD/HD Over the Adult Lifespan---Some Practical Clinical Approaches Description: This interactive seminar will take a practical approach to examine medication issues that occur over the course of the lifespan in the treatment of men with AD/HD. Starting with a family case history, we will examine clinical approaches that can be used to minimize the negative effects of the various disruptive factors that might interfere with the successful treatment of these adult male patients with AD/HD. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: J. Russell Ramsey, PhD Title: Getting the Most Out of Psychotherapy for Adult ADHD Description: Increasing numbers of adults with ADHD are seeking help in psychotherapy in order to develop ways to cope with ADHD. Although preliminary research suggests that psychotherapy can be helpful for adults with ADHD, consumers have little guidance in what to expect when they are referred for therapy and how to get the most out of their investment of time, money, and effort. The goal of this seminar is to serve as “Psychotherapy for Adult ADHD 101” by demystifying psychotherapy, discussing how therapy for adult ADHD works, and helping consumers feel better informed about therapy. This session will use a combination of lecture and questions-and-answers conducted by a clinical psychologist who is experienced in both the practice and research of therapy for adult ADHD. Objectives:
Presenter: Chris Zeigler-Dendy, MS Title: Launching Teens into Adulthood – Panel Discussion Description: A panel of young adults will speak about the challenges they faced after high school graduation. Two students are currently in college and the other three young adults are actively employed. Come hear these wise young people who were previously featured in Chris Dendy’s books. They have grown up right before your eyes. They will tell you about their school and work experiences plus the challenges of making those tough career decisions. If rock radio, radio traffic reporting, the Marine Corps, and 50 caliber ammunition sound interesting to you, don’t miss this entertaining session. These panel is aimed at helping parents and professionals understand the challenges that teens face as they transition into adulthood. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Arthur Robin, PhD Title: Survival Guide for Couples Description: This presentation will provide survival tips for couples with AD/HD spouses. Suggestions will be given for coping with the following types of AD/HD problems in marriages: doesn’t remember being told things, zones out in conversations, doesn’t respond when spoken to, says things without thinking, has trouble dealing with frustration, has trouble getting started on a task, under-estimates the time needed to complete a task, doesn’t finish household projects, leaves a mess, and doesn’t plan ahead. Dr. Robin will show couples how maximize medication, develop more effective communication, work as a team using structuring techniques, rebound from “ADHD moments,” and enhance their intimacy. Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenter: Yvonne Vickery Pennington, PhD Title: Unveiling the Issues Underneath ADD & What to Do About Them Description: Dr. Yvonne Pennington, mother of the star of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ty Pennington, shares some of the underlying issues she was able to discern in her son and others and intervene to change them to positives. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Pamela Milazzo, JD, ACG Title: Self-Advocacy Coaching: Expanding the Science of Working with Individuals with AD/HD to Accelerate Motivation, Independence and Productivity Description: Despite their training and expertise, coaches, counselors, educators, and other professionals can become frustrated and lost as to how to best motivate individuals with AD/HD to follow through on their goals and perform to their potential. Research shows that when individuals with AD/HD become more proficient in self-advocacy, their levels of motivation, independence and productivity increase dramatically. This presentation is designed to introduce participants to self-advocacy coaching: the unique self-advocacy challenges individuals with AD/HD experience on a daily basis; the impact these challenges have on these individuals; and the importance of focusing attention on self-advocacy when working with individuals with AD/HD. Through the use of lecture, role- play and case studies, this presentation will also provide an overview of the components of self-advocacy coaching, and will introduce participants to the tools and strategies used to enable individuals to conquer their self-advocacy challenges and create the positive results they want. Objectives: Participants will:
ICF Core Competencies Met in This Session: Establishing trust and intimacy with the Client – with particular emphasis on the following: shows genuine interest and concern for the client’s welfare and future; demonstrates respect for client’s perceptions, learning style, personal being; provides ongoing support for and champions new behaviors and actions, including those involving risk taking and fear of failure; asks permission to coach client in sensitive, new areas; Creating Awareness; Designing Actions; Planning and Goal Setting; Managing Process and Accountability Presenter: William W. Dodson, M.D., and Bernadine Merker, MSW, ACG Title: Update on ADHD: What Works Description: Now that the diagnosis of ADHD and its initial treatment with various medications have been established beyond any reasonable doubts significant effort has been placed on the determination of the optimal non-medication based treatment of the condition. Initial research with children has yielded surprisingly poor results for all behavioral interventions (MTA Study, NYU-McGill Studies). This session reviews the current status of the question "What do we do after the medication is right?" and offers a review of the most promising lines of inquiry. Special attention is given to the cognitive therapies and most of all to the newer emphasis on ADHD as a strictly neurological disorder. Practical examples of theory will be provided. Objectives: Participant will be able to:
Presenter: Michael Sandler Title: A.D.D. Secrets to College Success! – Learn the key tools, techniques, and strategies to bring out one’s best in college. Description: Come learn the secrets to using ADD to your advantage in college. College is often a difficult and challenging time for ADD students. Yet it need not be a nightmare. Armed with understanding, new tools and techniques, A.D.D. students can thrive in college, both in and out of the classroom. Coach Michael Sandler is an ADDer who rebuilt his life around ADD, recently completed two simultaneous masters degrees, and achieved recognition for riding solo 5000 miles across the US for ADDers. While running The Creative Learning Institute, he’s compiled many key ways to help students achieve in college. Through stories, humor, and anecdotes, he’ll show students and parents how to use the ADD mind for college success. Topics to be covered include: organizing one’s time and environment, classroom mastery, study success, acing tests, surviving projects, stress-management, and self-advocacy. Objective: Participants will:
Presenter: Denise E. Davis, MS, MFT Title: Intimacy, Sexuality, ADD/ADHD, and the Invincible Human Spirit Description: This workshop addresses the issues of intimacy, sexuality, sexual addiction as self-medication, ADD/ADHD, and our invincible spirits that continually quest for balance. It will cover topics such as: “What is intimacy and how does it differ from sexuality?” “How do I/we distinguish between what is normal and what is ADD behavior?” “I am a hetero /gay /lesbian /bisexual, transgendered individual/couple and ADD/ADHD! How will I/we ever have a “normal”, intimate, sexual relationship and HOW will we keep our spirits up and not get discouraged?” It will also address how to talk about the ADD/ADHD diagnosis, how different medications may affect sexual desire/performance, how to reach compromises (the “middle ground”) when needed, how our brain chemistry is involved, and strategies for striving toward balance in our lives. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Wendy Richardson, M.A. MFT Title: When Food Can't Fix It: ADHD and Problem Eating Description: Similar to alcohol and other drugs, food can be used to calm
AD/HD restlessness, soothe emotional pain and increase attention. Research
suggests that foods high in carbohydrates and sugar activate the release of
serotonin and dopamine in the brain. Identifying and treating AD/DH, under eating, Objectives:
Presenter: Kristi McClanahan Title: “Tune In” to Overcome Frustrating Challenges—Lifting the Human Spirit through MUSIC and ADD Coaching Description: As an experienced ADD Coach, Kristi McClanahan has witnessed the diminishing effects that the ADD challenges have on the human spirit. However, she has seen first hand the power of ADD coaching—a relationship that enlightens and empowers the human spirit to rise up and try again. In this session, she will coach audience members around some of the most common challenges that ADDers face to help them understand how the ADD gets in the way of their performance and to uncover the strategies that would work for them. Coach Kristi uses another powerful tool that positively affects the human spirit: MUSIC. An avid songwriter, she has written upbeat songs with fun lyrics to help ADDers learn strategies that have worked for her clients. Best of all, the music will help the participants pay attention and remember what they learn, long after the convention is over. Objectives: The participants will be able to:
Presenter: Linda Anderson, MCC, Tom Dooley, ACG Title: Coaching the Challenging Client: Techniques For Getting You And Your Client Unstuck Description: As AD/HD coaches, we sometimes find that our partnership with a client has reached a stuck place, where progress seems amazingly slow or stopped altogether. What causes this stuckness for the client, and where does the coach get stuck? This interactive session is designed to address the challenges for the client and the coach, identify some of these common challenges and explore the tools and strategies to move over, around and through them. Objectives: Participants will:
ICF Core Competencies Met: Active Listening; Powerful questioning; Creating awareness; Designing Actions; Managing progress and accountability; Creating awareness. Sunday Presenter: Wendy Richardson, M.A. MFT Keynote Title: You Are More Than Your Disorder: Feeling Your Power & Finding Your Place Description: This inspirational keynote will empower you to move beyond the limitations that others have put on you, and you may still be putting on yourself. Find out what beliefs are stopping you from realizing your dreams, and how to adapt your unique abilities as you find your place or places. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Sari Solden, MS, MFT Title Effective Long Term Counseling for Adults with ADHD Description: Counseling adults with ADHD frequently results in frustration for both the mental health professional and the client. This happens especially after the first phase of diagnosis and treatment with medication is completed. Then questions such as “Where do we go from here?” surface and often both the therapist and the client feel stuck because they are unsure of the process and the goal. This workshop, a combination of lecture and group discussion, elucidates both of these and allows the participants to share experiences, ask questions about long term counseling issues such as treatment planning, prioritizing needs, and frequency of contact in individual, couples, and group settings.. Also explored is the significance of whether or not the therapist has ADHD him or herself and how that affects the counseling relationship. Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presenter: Peggy Bonsee, PCC Title: Baby Boomers – RE-WIREMENT OPTIONS: Retirement Ain’t What It Used to Be! Description: If you are a Baby Boomer, the word “retirement” can conjure thoughts from – “only months away” and “nirvana”, to, “a huge muddle”, “ nightmare,” “don’t go there!” Curious about discovering some of the proven factors important in crafting a retirement that reflects your dream and purpose in life? No matter what your current view of “retirement” may be, this session will give you some new perspectives on “rewiring for the second half of life.” The presenter, a certified Retirement Options Coach, will engage you in some mini-exercises helping you can begin your re-wirement awareness during the session. You will identify important factors that need to be addressed to increase your success in crafting the unique, add-friendly retirement you desire. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Michael Sandler Title: Gadgets, Software, and Techie-Toys to Help the ADD Mind! Learn how the coolest gadgets and software, some of which you already have, can help you to perform at your best. Description: Learn how the latest in technology can help you through your day! Ever feel like a Ferrari mind in a school-bus world? This is an exciting time to have ADD, for technology today helps us turn our ADD challenges into advantages. We’re often excellent multi-taskers and quick thinkers, but bore quickly. Gadgets help us to juggle, focus, stay on-task, keep organized, and get more done in a day than a gaggle of geese. Even if you’re not tech savvy, you’ll learn simple and easy ways to use technology to your advantage. From the latest in cell phones, PDA’s, MP3 players and Ipods, to Tablet PC’s, Multi-Monitor Displays, Digital Voice-Records, Speech Recognition Software, Text-to-Speech Software, Pill-Minders, Zen Alarm Clocks, GPS units, in-car electronics and navigation, to software, hardware and more, find out how the latest in technology can help us be more efficient, effective, and have more fun throughout each day. In a fun and entertaining environment, learn about new technology and technology that’s already in your home, from Michael Sandler, author of the new Mr. GADDGETS column in ADDitude magazine. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Jennifer Koretsky Title : Self-care for Women with AD/HD: Popping the Bubble Bath Theory Description: Self-care for women is not about taking a bubble bath in the evening! Self-care is an essential life skill that many women with AD/HD have difficulty mastering. When you take care of yourself, you function at a higher level. When you function at a higher level, you find yourself less overwhelmed and more prepared to deal with your AD/HD challenges. And when you are able to better manage and balance your life, there is much more ‘quality you’ available to those around you. In this interactive presentation, we will explore what it means for a woman with AD/HD to practice excellent self-care, and discuss strategies for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, getting good medical care, and making time for self-expression. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Steven Copps, MD Title: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going. Description: Unless one understands where one has been, it is difficult to know where one is, and impossible to know where one is going. Travel with Dr. Copps as he explores the history of Attention Deficit Disorder. There is evidence of its presence in antiquity, but likely God didn’t have ADD (reason to be explained!). Thestory of the professional awakening to the presence of this condition, the volatile opposition by some, and the discovery of effective treatment will be told. “Where we’ve been” will be followed by where we are today. What is the present state of the science and the art of ADD? What is bogus? What’s proven, and what’s conjecture? Lastly, the future will be explored: what’s likely to happen and what just doesn’t seem to be in the cards? Despite setbacks, our present understanding and the effectiveness of our treatments are better than we could have dreamed of in the1970’s. With the help of organizations such as ADDA, the future appears even brighter. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: Terry Dickson, MD Title: Neurobiology of AD/HD Description: This session, intended primarily for professionals working in the field of AD/HD, will cover a review of the basic neurobiology of AD/HD. We will discuss the basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the parts of the brain linked to AD/HD from a clinical and practical standpoint. Visual aids will be used for the discussion (brain models and power point slides of brain structures). In addition, we will discuss how brain imaging has helped in our knowledge of AD/HD and will cover topics of current research in the neurobiology of AD/HD (i.e., genetic research). Objectives: Participants will:
Post-Conference Sessions Presenters: Holly Hamilton and Dee Doochin Title: Facilitating Excellence Through Learning Modalities Identification Featuring the VOCKATIV Learning Modalities Inventory (Post-conference) Description: Part 2, participants will learn how to use their own dominant learning modalities to create powerful results in school, work, and at home. They will become more familiar with the language cues and practice using them both as a listener and as a communicator. We will utilize coaching demonstrations, small groups, and role-playing to facilitate participant experience during the session. Objectives: Participants will:
ICF Core Competencies Met in This Presentation: B. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP: 3. Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client – Ability to create a safe, supportive environment that produces ongoing mutual respect and trust. d. Demonstrates respect for client’s perceptions, learning style, personal being C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY: 5. Active Listening – Ability to focus completely on what the client is saying and is not saying, to understand the meaning of what is said in the context of the client’s desires, and to support client self-expression 6. Powerful Questioning –Ability to ask questions that reveal the information needed for maximum benefit to the coaching relationship and the client a. Asks questions that reflect active listening and an understanding of the client’s perspective. 7. Direct Communication – Ability to communicate effectively during coaching sessions, and to use language that has the greatest positive impact on the client. d. Uses language appropriate and respectful to the client (e.g., non-sexist, non-racist, non-technical, nonjargon) e. Uses metaphor and analogy to help to illustrate a point or paint a verbal picture (This was definitely written by someone whose primary learning modality is visual.) D. FACILITATING LEARNING AND RESULTS: 1. Creating Awareness – Ability to integrate and accurately evaluate multiple sources of information, and to make interpretations that help the client to gain awareness and thereby achieve agreed-upon results. f. Helps clients to see the different, interrelated factors that affect them and their behaviors (e.g., thoughts, emotions, body, background) . g. Expresses insights to clients in ways that are useful and meaningful for the client. 9. Designing Actions – Ability to create with the client opportunities for ongoing learning, during coaching and in work/life situations, and for taking new actions that will most effectively lead to agreed-upon coaching results. a. Brainstorms and assists the client to define actions that will enable the client to demonstrate, practice and deepen new learning. d. Promotes active experimentation and self-discovery, where the client applies what has been discussed and learned during sessions immediately afterwards in his/her work or life setting. 10. Planning and Goal Setting - d. Helps the client identify and access different resources for learning (e.g., books, other professionals allows client to access learning resources in media that are appropriate for their style of learning. Presenter: Yvonne Vickery Pennington, PhD Title: Raising Successful ADD Adults Description: Dr. Yvonne Pennington, psychologist and mother of star of ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Ty Pennington, explains some of her secrets used to help her famous son achieve his potential. Objectives: Participants will:
Presenter: J. Russell Ramsey, PhD Presentation Title: Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Adult ADHD: Conceptualization and Treatment Description: The goal of this workshop is to provide an in-depth introduction to the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) model of psychotherapy and to discuss its relevance in the treatment of adults with ADHD. The basic CBT model will be introduced and its adaptation for adult patients with ADHD will also be discussed at length. Participants will learn about the cognitive case conceptualization and how this conceptualization influences the choice of therapeutic interventions to be employed. Strategies for handling complex clinical situations will also be discussed. Material will presented through a combination of lecture, research review, case examples, and presentation of a video of an actual session of CBT conducted by Dr. Ramsay with an adult ADHD patient. Questions and case examples from participants are encouraged. Objectives: Participants will:
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