ADDA Annual Conference for Adults with ADD, ADHD

Presenter(s): Barbara Luther, MCC, Pam Milazzo, Tom Dooley, Michael Charest, MCC

Description: This session provides tools and strategies for creating a successful coaching practice and is tailored to be useful for both newer and experienced coaches. The first half of this session is dedicated to our Special Guest speaker Michael Charest. Michael is not only a dynamic and motivational presenter, but he is an expert in building a successful coaching business. He provides a comprehensive and effective approach that has helped thousands of coaches create and maintain a thriving practice. The second half of the session will be focused on “Finding and Developing Your Coaching Niche”. MCC Barbara Luther will facilitate a discussion with ADD Coaches Pam Milazzo and Tom Dooley as they share their personal experience with applying specific Michael Charest’s niche-building strategies and techniques to their own marketing efforts. This will be an interactive session during which attendees and presenters will discuss together how niche-building techniques can apply to our own practices.

1. Develop a clear and immediate “action plan” for creating a successful coaching practice

2. Shift the perception of marketing from an intimidating process to an exciting and motivating process

4. Interact and share ideas, strategies, successes and challenges in building a coaching

A workshop for women with AD/HD who work in the field as mental health professionals, doctors, coaches, organizers, or educators.

Description: Even though you have found a way to “focus on your strengths,” you may have paid a price for this success by overworking, ignoring your relationships, or holding yourself back from creating what you want to achieve. Many women in the field do not get the same quality of support or guidance they are giving to others. Explore how to ask for help yourself when you are the one everyone turns to. Begin to form your own personal definition of success as a woman and a professional with ADD and develop criteria to help you choose between many possible directions to pursue. In other words, welcome to the “journey” the presenter calls the “Crisis of Success. “ This is a chance to share in a safe, supportive, instructive atmosphere and make connections before the conference begins.

2. Understand how to form criteria for making good decisions professionally and personally in light of their ADD.

Title: When Too Much Isn’t Enough: Ending the Destructive Cycle of AD/HD and Addictive Behavior.

Description: This advanced workshop is for those who have a good working knowledge of ADHD. Interview techniques will be discussed to aid in diagnosising ADHD, co-occurring substance use disorders, eating disorders and behavioral addictions, such as sex, gambling, day trading and internet addiction.. You will come away with cognitive and behavioral interventions to treat ADHD and co-occurring conditions. You will also learn more about comprehensive treatment programs, and the use of medication in the recovering population. Working with the addiction community and medical community will be discussed as well as techniques for reducing and presenting relapse.

Presenters: ADDed Dimension Coaching Group (Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo, Dave Brattain, Cameron Gott, Paul Ravenscraft, Steven Ledingham)

Title: Welcome to the ADD Family (this is a free session)
(topic not approved for CME)

Description: This "free" pre-conference session is designed to provide a warm "welcome home" experience for people new to the ADDA community, however all are invited to participate. Those of us who have been connected with the community for many years know first hand of the love and acceptance to be found in ADD-land. Together, we create a culture of forgiveness, where our differences are not only accepted, but celebrated. You are probably saying to yourself "sounds good, but I want to know what, exactly, we are going to be doing in this session." There will be an orientation to the conference itself - what to expect and how to take care of yourself now and when you go home. It is our experience that ADDA conferences are about a lot more than gathering practical information. It is a healing experience to connect with a lot of people like yourself, and powerful emotions often surface. We will explore some of the common issues that come up for conference participants and tell stories from past gatherings. We will also provide an opportunity for you to share your own stories and connect with others in small groups. There will be a narrated slide show of the human side of past conferences. Last, but not least, we will invite you to participate in an initiation ceremony. The ceremony is entitled "Welcome to the ADD Tribe." We will include elements from native American ceremonial tradition, as well as traditions from other native peoples. Humor, of course, will be an important ingredient - we are ADD, after all. Be prepared to learn the password and secret handshake. We intend to have a great time, but the ceremony will not be treated as a joke. The intention is to honor the power of joining an awesome community. This pre-conference is led by members of The ADDed Dimension Coaching Group, the first group ADD coaching practice. The ADDed Dimension Coaching Group offers sensitive and comprehensive services to adults and teens with ADD. Our staff is listed in the bio section, with the exception of Mary Jane Johnson, ACT, PCC, who will be far too busy organizing the conference to add this pre-conference to her plate (www.addcoaching.com).

Description: Hang onto your chair... and your heart! Living with adult ADD often brings with it many questions, concerns and even regrets about our past. But the past has passed. Life is about Choices. New Horizons. Right here and right now. And some choices are key to our lives. Join educator, songwriter and motivational trainer Jerry Mills for an entertaining and challenging journey introducing the three critical choices we each must make in order to succeed in life.

This dynamic, captivating presentation of music, visuals, research and personal stories will inspire you and leave you ready to choose.

Description: During this powerful and inspiring presentation, David Giwerc, MCC, President of ADDA and the Founder/President of the ADD Coach Academy will continue the journey we started with Jerry’s wonderful keynote presentation. Using metaphors and personal stories, David will show you how ADHD education and important life experiences, from our past, can lift the ADHD veil of darkness that has concealed your unique you.You will also learn how ADHD is a unique brain wiring replete with divine sparks of talent and creativity that can transform unrealized dreams into magical moments of passion and purpose.

Description: This presentation focuses on the other new frontier to keep exploring, the constantly unfolding inner worlds and emotional lives of adults with ADHD. As these men and women discover the reasons for their difficulties and begin to move ahead, they may also begin to confront powerful interpersonal and emotional barriers they have developed along the way. Just like in any exploration, it requires ongoing courage and struggle to continue on through uncharted territory. Taking the risk to confront your inner obstacles holds the key to healing your wounds a nd the power to transform your life.

1. Understand that in order to continue to be successful in their treatment they will have to confront internal barriers that might be keeping them stuck

2. Identify what some of their internal barriers might be that have been keeping them stuck even after diagnosis and medication and new organizational techniques.

Description: This session will cover meds, exercise, gender differences, etc

Title: AD/HD Medication Update: Current Medications; Medications Used to Treat Comorbid Conditions; AD/HD Medications Under Review

Description: This lecture will focus on AD/HD medications. It will review the commonly used medications, stimulant and non-stimulant, and other medications not officially approved for AD/HD treatment. The discussion will extend to the medications used in the treatment of comorbid conditions, such as antidepressants, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers and cognitive and wakefulness enhancing medications. Medications under development will also be discussed.

2. To discuss medications approved to treat comorbid conditions associated with AD/HD.

Description: This lecture will focus on clinical evaluation of AD/HD. Typical AD/HD presentations will be demonstrated. Comorbid conditions will also be outlined. The importance of the clinical interview will be emphasized. The use of rating scales, psychoeducation and family history will be explored.

4. To update current treatments, including psychostimulant and non-stimulant medications.

Description: Recent research indicates that undiagnosed ADDults comprise 27-50% of the disordered eating patient population.. The cumulative trauma of undiagnosed ADHD can be fertile soil for addictions. At present, few professionals understand the impact that ADHD can have on the successful treatment of disordered eating. In drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs, it is understood that ADHD must be treated concurrently. Clients treated for ADHD and trauma resolution respond well and are better able to function in all areas of life. This model is a comprehensive 5-step process fundamental to the successful treatment of disordered eating and ADHD clients.

1. Explain how growing up with undiagnosed or untreated ADHD creates chronic trauma and increases the risk of addiction.

2. Describe how, as with drug and alcohol recovery, ADHD must be treated concurrently in relation to disordered eating systems: dieting, compulsive overeating, binging and purging, and food anorexia.

3. Apply new strategies and techniques to support or transform existing disordered eating programs to successfully meet the needs of ADHD clients.

Description: Trying to overcome persistent disorganization, clutter or compulsive hoarding is one of the most difficult challenges we face in life. Working through these traumatic life challenges are best managed through a combined effort to impact not only the cluttered environment but also our attachment to the "stuff" in our environment. Participants will learn how simultaneous changes within us and within our environment contribute to lasting clutter removal and significant stress reduction. Understanding that one is not isolated, but supported by the combined efforts of a therapist or coach and an organizer, can be very helpful in overcoming the most difficult of situations. This class is relevant for those who provide services as well as all adults who struggle with persistent disorganization.

1. Learn how to identify those who suffer with persistent disorganization, clutter, and hoarding.

3. Learn a method of working together as a team with a therapist or coach and an organizer to facilitate lasting personal and environmental change.

4. Become informed about national organizations and resources to access those most likely to work in a collaborative environment.

Title: Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Adult ADHD: Conceptualization and Treatment

Description: The purpose of this session is to present a cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) approach for conceptualizing and treating ADHD in adult patients. The components of a CBT conceptualization and specific treatment strategies will be presented through both lecture and case examples. Research support for CBT for adult ADHD also will be presented.

Title: When Home is Not Enough: Therapeutic Placement Strategies for Young Adults with AD/HD and Co-morbidities

Description: Many individuals with AD/HD also struggle with other issues, such as ld, depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, and/or substance abuse. Sometimes, outpatient treatment is not sufficient to meet the needs of people with AD/HD and co-occurring disorders. In this program, participants will come understand when a therapeutic placement is necessary, and will also learn about the different types of therapeutic placements (such as wilderness programs, transitional independent living programs, and residential treatment centers).

Title: Assisting those with AD/HD in Finding a Good Career Match: Tools to Understand and Guide ADDers in Career Development

Description: This workshop will explore the techniques necessary to find the best career fit possible for individuals with ADHD. Steps of appropriate career development will be detailed.

2. Identify and understand the 12 pieces of the puzzle for good career development.

Description: 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? The principal objective of this program is to empower employers, human resource professionals, psychologists, counselors, coaches, clinical social workers, EAP providers and others who work with employees with AD/HD or ADD, with creative new successful ways to create win-win scenarios for success in the world of work. Participants will learn the legal rights and obligations of both employers and adults with AD/HD under federal and state laws. Employers are striving to reduce costs associated with employee turnover and legal costs related to terminations. This seminar will help employers reduce turnover and associated costs through development of effective work environments that retain employees with AD/HD or ADD as functional, contributing members of the workforce.

1. Learn the legal rights and obligations of both employers and adults with AD/HD under federal and state laws.

2. Reduce turnover and associated costs through development of effective work environments.

Description: We are just beginning to understand the impact of AD/HD in the workplace. It is now known that significant money is lost each year due to untreated and under treated AD/HD. Jobs are lost, productivity is compromised and self-esteem is negatively impacted many times when AD/HD goes into the workplace. -Mental health and human resource professionals can assist adults with AD/HD to be more effective and efficient in the workplace by recognizing the impact of AD/HD in the workplace. Professionals can identify the specific AD/HD challenges in the work environment and design accommodations to address those needs. In addition, strengths can be identified and utilized to the fullest advantage to create success. With structure and support job turn over, efficiency and productivity can increase and self-esteem can flourish creating a “working” work environment. -Most accommodations cost little in terms of money and/or time and can result in significant increases in effectiveness and efficiency. Numerous case studies will be provided. The bottom line-- money can be saved and the impact of AD/HD managed through proper diagnosis and treatment in the workplace with the help of knowledgeable professionals.

3. Learn specific strategies, structures and skills to accommodate AD/HD in the workplace.

4. Understand the skills necessary to work effectively with adults with AD/HD around workplace issues.

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).

1. Review the basic neurobiology of AD/HD using lecture and discussion as well as visual aids.

2.Gain a better understanding, based on current research findings, of the role of different areas of the brain in the symptomatology of AD/HD.

3. Gain a better understanding of current topics of research in the neurobiology of AD/HD.

Description: If you enjoyed the keynote, you won’t want to miss “the rest of the story…

Join Jerry for an unforgettable multi-sensory journey into the stressful, confusing and complex world of AD/HD. This dynamic, award-winning presentation will inspire you to look deeper; to find understanding and awareness; and to rethink what you see when faced with challenges. More importantly, it provides tools we need to immediately begin making real changes in our own lives and the lives we touch. Focusing on practical insights his programs sparkle with a mixture of research, media, heart rending stories and music that communicate in a way no "speech" ever could.

Description: This presentation will introduce the audience to the common challenges experienced by college students living with AD/HD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). This presentation will highlight specific challenges faced by AD/HD College students, examine the role of the prefrontal cortex in academic success and look at the importance of key neurotransmitters involved in AD/HD. Five key strategies for collegiate success will be presented. These strategies include self-advocacy, awareness of legal rights, and utilization of campus and community support. Suggestions as to how educators and support systems might best assist the learning needs of college students with AD/HD will be followed by a question and answer period from the audience.

2. Gain understanding of how unique brain wiring influences college students with AD/HD.

Description: During the teenager years, some children with ADHD struggle terribly and may begin acting out. Typically their misbehavior sends a message that something is still wrong with the treatment plan, e.g. improper medication levels, untreated coexisting conditions, or inadequate academic accommodations. Six of the more challenging behaviors often observed by parents, teachers and other professionals will be discussed. The acronym for this discussion is LADDSS: Legal issues (brushes with the law), Academics, Driving, Drugs, Sex and Suicide risk. Specific strategies for coping with these issues will be discussed.

1. Identify intervention strategies to address challenging teen behaviors listed in the session description.

2. Identify common learning problems related to executive deficits and suggest intervention strategies.

3. Recognize key elements critical for implementing effective behavioral strategies, including awareness of adult actions that may escalate crisis situations rather than deescalate them.

Description: Executive function has a profound impact on memory, organizational skills, management of time, problem solving, writing reports, and planning ahead. This nuts and bolts session offers an overview of the key components of executive function plus strategies for coping with these challenges.

Description: This workshop is designed to address the issues of intimacy, sexuality, sexual addiction as self-medication, and ADD/ADHD. It will cover topics such as: “What is intimacy, anyway?” “How do I/we handle our sex life?” “Oh great. I am a hetero/gay/lesbian/trans-gendered individual/couple AND ADD/ADHD! How will I/we ever have a “normal”, intimate, sexual relationship?” It will also address how to talk about the ADD/ADHD diagnosis, how different medications may affect sexual desire/performance, and how to reach compromises (the “middle ground”) when needed.

2. Identify when intimacy and sexuality are expressions of love versus feeding the ADD/ADHD brain biochemistry to feel “normal”.

3. Recognize that regardless of sexual orientation, ADD/ADHD affects all of us and our sexual selves.

Description: This presentation will be full of practical, simple techniques to help you procrastinate less, and will be presented with large doses of humor; you will be educated about ADHD and our natural tendencies, and you will be encouraged! The presenter has a personal and very complete understanding of this frustrating part of having ADD, and promises that when you leave, you’ll have a full “bag of tricks” to use when you find yourself procrastinating.

3. Learn new ways of thinking to help them address their tendencies to procrastinate.

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.

2. Learn specific strategies for coping: parenting, workplace, household, organizing

Title: Blazing New Frontiers in Learning: Using Music to Help a Person with AD/HD Enhance His Memory and Performance
(topic approved for Elective credit only)

Description: Kristi McClanahan is an AD/HD Coach and an award winning songwriter who has created coaching songs to help her clients learn new skills easily and quickly. Her clients have used these songs with outstanding results. In this class, Kristi and other ADD Coaches will perform many of these coaching songs. The audience will have the opportunity to sing along with us to experience the power and effectiveness of this learning tool. This fun and interactive class will demonstrate how a person with AD/HD can enhance memory skills when music is applied. They will also discover that it can be much easier to remember a concept that is sung in a song rather than one than read in a book or heard in a lecture!

1. Demonstrate how music can help a person with AD/HD learn new skills and remember life enhancing concepts.

3. Illustrate how singing songs over and over can help the person replace negative thought patterns.

5. Write simple songs, using well known tunes, to encourage the memory of important information.

Title: You Are More Than Your Disorder: Feeling your power and finding your place
(topic not approved for CME)

Description: This inspirational talk will help you see beyond the shame and guilt that often accompanies AD/HD and co-occurring conditions so that you can clearly identify your strengths. Finding your place(s) in work, school, relationships and social settings is essential in order to thrive, and move beyond your diagnosis.

1. Understand the shame and guilt that often accompanies AD/HD and co-occuring conditions.

Description: Are you bored? Do you struggle to stay focused when bored? A dysregulated and underaroused brain needs interesting and stimulating events to stay focused. You have 5 senses that are incredible resources for breaking the boredom cycle. This presentation will identify cutting edge strategies in the area of “Simultaneous sensory stimulation” that can help cope with boring and mundane events. This discussion will explore why and how we may benefit from fidget strategies, as well as describe day to day stimulation strategies for best management of those boring and tedious events

2. Identify and build their own sensory strategies based upon their primary sensory modality.

3. Learn the latest research in the area of using sensory activation to facilitate focus.

Title: The Creative Spirit of the ADHD Entrepreneur: Guided panel presentation
(topic not approved for CME)

Description: After a decade of coaching entrepreneurs with ADHD, David Giwerc, MCC, Founder/President of the ADD Coach Academy and President of ADDA will facilitate a guided roundtable presentation that will take you on a journey into the creative minds of three highly successful ADHD entrepreneurs (BIO’s to be provided at the conference). During this interactive and stimulating presentation you will find out how these passionate visionaries were able to:

conquer their ADHD challenges; utilize their unique strengths to become industry leaders; and

Create profitable businesses in a highly competitive business environment. If you want to learn more about ADHD and it’s relationship to the entrepreneurial mind, you won’t want to miss this first ever, one-of-a-kind ADDA presentation.

1. Understand the relationship between Entrepreneurship and ADHD and why entrepreneurship is an excellent direction for ADHD individuals

2. Learn the key components of developing and building a fulfilling and profitable business enterprise.

3. Understand how Entrepreneurs need to identify their talents and delegate their weaknesses to create a balanced life style and maintain profitability in their business.

Title: 40 Days of Focus: 5000 Miles across the US in 40 Days for ADD Awareness!!!

Description: Over the summer of 2004, ADD coach Michael Sandler rode his bicycle 5000 miles across the country in search of peace and understanding while spreading a message of success and ADD for ADD. He began in Portland, Oregon and forty days and 50 flats later pulled into Washington D.C. to talk with legislators about Attention Deficit Disorder. Along the way he met with thousands of people, performed dozens of interviews, and helped raise awareness through local and national T.V. spots. Using stories, anecdotes, and humor, Michael shares his mishaps, misadventures, lessons, and enlightenment gained during this American ADD adventure and time on Capitol Hill.

2. Gain a better understanding of many of the challenges and compensating strategies for people with ADD.

3. Understand how one can make a difference and help others with ADD through activism at home and the local community

Description: Learn how to use ADD to your advantage in college. Coach Michael Sandler is an ADD'er who rebuilt his life around ADD, recently completed two simultaneous masters’ degrees, and achieved recognition for riding solo 5000 miles across the US for ADD'ers last summer. Through stories, humor, and anecdotes, he'll present ways to use your ADD mind for college success. Topics include: organizing your life, building a routine, studying like a pro, mastering the classroom, mid-term and final success, project success, stress management, and getting the help you need.

2. Develop a better understanding of key areas such as life organization, routine building, daily scheduling, classroom mastery, study-skills, test-taking prowess, project success, controlling stress.

Title: Learning Doesn’t Have to be a Brain Drain: How to use the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator) to Adapt Your Learning Style to Any Instructional Environment

Description: Did you know your Myers-Briggs Personality Type can inform you about more than just your personality? In this activity-based workshop you will discover practical educational applications for this research-based personality assessment tool. This totally innovative approach to assessing and understanding learning style will help you work more effectively with peers and adapt to educational environments that do not match your learning style.

1. Describe the eight Myers-Briggs (MB) personality characteristics (Extravert, Introvert, Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, Intuitive, Judgmental, and Perceptive).

2. Determine how to apply the MB type theory to their teaching-learning process.

3. Utilize their understanding of their learning style / MB personality type to work more effectively with peers one-on-one or on small group projects.

4) Implement practical tools designed to help them adapt to any learning environment.

Description: This workshop will help you get clear about the sometimes fuzzy concept of “boundaries” and perhaps, solutions to these questions asked below. 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 (self awareness; setting your boundaries; strengthen your internal boundaries) to improve your skills no matter where you are on your journey.

3. Discuss how the AD/HD diagnosis influences establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries

Description: Keeping track of tasks and time is a problem for lots of people. But people with AD/HD have the added hardship of mental distractibility -- loosing track of stuff and of time. Time management is not only about fitting in appointments with other people but also about making time for the things you want or need to do. One perfect system for everyone just doesn’t exist. You may have a great system today, but tomorrow it’ll be too boring to bother with. In this session we’ll talk about the priorities others set for you and the ones you name for yourself. We’ll layout a week’s worth of your activities and one full day.

1. Layout on paper a personal schedule for a week, given a list of participant’s tasks, meetings and appointments.

2. Layout a single day to include not only appointments with others but also schedule time for self directed activities.

Title: Overview of Alternative Treatments of AD/HD

Description: This session covers alternative treatments including the power drink, EEG, exercise, Dore Centers, etc. (topic approved for Elective credit only)

Title: Breakthrough Coaching Techniques: Part 1 - Discovering Your ADHD Client’s Strengths

Description: Coaches who help ADHD clients to tap into their unique strengths notice immediate improvement in confidence, optimism and self-satisfaction.

Bring this vital technique to your clients immediately by attending this informative and interactive session. Expand your abilities in two models; Skill-based Strengths and the Gallup Organization’s Now Discover Your Strengths and empower clients to focus their world around the things they naturally do well.

Title: Breakthrough Coaching Techniques: Part 2 – Applying Strengths; Keeping Clients in ACTION!

Description: Ever notice that your ADHD clients seem to have different abilities to get started, stay in action and then actually complete whatever they set out to do? This experiential learning session will give coaches valuable insights into the role of strengths in the start-stay-complete progression. Applying specific “ramp” and “pull-through” techniques create structures to keep your clients moving forward powerfully.

Presenters: Sherry Clarke, M.A., LCMFT, ACG, Kristi McClanahan, ACG, AD/HD Coach, Laurie Dupar, MN, RN, AD/HD Coach and Educator Holly Hamilton, M.C.C., AD/HD Consultant, (Alternate panel member) Dee Doochin, P.C.C., AD/HD Consultant

Description: This panel discussion which will explore the similarities and differences between coaching and therapy. The overall objective is to provide clarification and better understanding of each for coaches in accordance with the ethics and guidelines of the International Coach Federation (ICF). Panel members have been selected to participate due to their professional experience and understanding of both disciplines. Each panel member will share their views and expertise to educate coaches regarding this topic. The session will conclude with a 15 minute question and answer period between the audience and panel members.

1. Clearly distinguish and communicate the distinctions between coaching and psychotherapy.

2. Effectively discuss with the client the specific parameters of the coaching relationship.

3. As needed, know when to refer the coaching client to another support professional.

4. Better design the coaching relationship by articulating the specific parameters of the roles of coaches and therapists.

5. Determine whether there is a match between coaching or therapy and the needs of the prospective client.

6. Coaches will be able to apply a broader perspective of both disciplines to their clients based on their new understanding of the benefits of both coaching and therapy.

7. Demonstrate genuine concern for the client’s welfare and future by knowing the differences between coaching and therapy.

8. Advocate without attachment the differences and similarities of therapy and coaching as they are aligned with the client’s goals.

9. Reach agreement with their clients re: what is appropriate in the relationship and what is not, what is and is not being offered and about the client’s and coach’s responsibilities.

10. Ask questions that move the client toward what they desire, not questions that ask for the client to justify or look backwards.

Title: Power Connections! How the ADD/ADHD Coach can quickly and effectively create trust and intimacy in their coaching relationships.
(topic not approved for CME)

Description: Good interpersonal skills are a critical success factor in all aspects of life. This seminar/workshop is designed to help the ADD/ADHD Coach be more successful in dealing with ADD/ADHD clients. Drawing on discoveries in many diverse fields, Power Connections! summarizes and presents simple-and-easy to use powerful techniques to co-create the coaching relationship, communicate effectively and facilitate learning. These techniques include establishing trust and intimacy with the client, active listening, powerful questioning and creating awareness within the client.Strategies are practiced in workgroups to deal with these interpersonal situations. The ADD/ADHD Coach can now enjoy a deepened sense of rapport with his/her client!

1. Identify and use the basic components of direct communication to enhance the effectiveness of the coach/client relationship

2. Implement active/reflective listening techniques to increase understanding and direct communication

3. Create awareness of basic male/female differences and how interrelated factors affect their behaviors

Description: This seminar is for coaches who are improving and polishing the skills and tools of their trade. How do we listen with deep attention, and how does our client know that we have heard them? This session will explore true listening, different kinds of listening, the effect of being heard and how the coach’s responses help the client know that they have been heard. We will look at the unique needs and demands of listening to the AD/HD client. This will be an interactive process involving discussion, role play and work in small groups.

4. Identify their client’s ability to supply their own challenges, resources, solutions, values, operating beliefs

5. Explore clear and helpful responses, distinctions, and words, to help the client achieve clarity and know that they have been heard.

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.

1. Employ several powerful new coaching techniques to help their clients have better happier more fulfilling relationships. Participants will be introduced to and observe the relationship coaching process

Title: "How to Make the Best Out of Life with AD/HD: A discussion of new and special topics addressed in Dr. Hallowell’s new book "Delivered from Distraction"

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