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For clinicians

ADHD Answers

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​​What You'll Learn:

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  • The Science of ADHD: Clear, easy-to-understand explanations tailored for professionals.

  • Daily Realities: How ADHD influences work and day-to-day life for your clients.

  • Beyond Medication: Evidence-based strategies for managing ADHD in your unique professional context.

  • Practical Tips: Build a personalised success plan that aligns with your profession.

  • ADHD Strengths: Discover how to harness the unique ADHD abilities to excel in the context of your profession. 

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We understand the challenges of navigating an ADHD diagnosis, from long waiting times to limited support. This course provides the clarity, confidence, and tools you need to reduce shame, embrace neurodiversity, and focus on what matters most—your client's success.​

Empower Those with Neurodiversity

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If you are a therapist, teacher, coach, HR professional, or work in a helping profession and want to understand the neuroscience of ADHD in more depth, this 6-session online course is designed for you. Education is as transformative as medication, and this program equips you with the knowledge and tools to help your clients thrive personally and professionally. ​​

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Course Overview:

1

Welcome to the ADHD group: Slow Down, Be Aware, Be Kind, Take Care

  • Intro to ADHD and the group

  • What's the “secret sauce” to managing ADHD well?

  • Slow down: ADHD is tidal, stand on the shore together

  • What is a neurotransmitter

  • Noradrenaline tides: slowing down and speeding up

  • Strengths: understanding NUTS, urgency and exercise

  • Struggles: burnout and stress

  • Strategies: Developing the observer- the tide comes in and out

  • Using the space between sessions: practice

2

The Pez and the Piñata: ADHD & Neurotransmitters 

  • Why ADHD is tidal: dysregulation of dopamine

  • The empty Pez, learning, boredom and restlessness

  • Pinata hunting: seeking stimulus and interest

  • Strengths: Hyperfocus, flow and creativity

  • Struggles: Addictions and distractions

  • Strategies: Using hyperfocus and gamification

  • Practising awareness: the tide comes in and out

4

Returning to the Path: ADHD and Executive Function

  • What is executive function and how do we improve it? 

  • The central executive network: a vulnerable circuit

  • The salience network: the switch

  • Why slowing down and being mindful brings us back to the path

  • Why a well cared for puppy can bring us back to the path

  • The Five W’s technique to oil the switch

  • Practicing and automating focus: movement and the cerebellum

5

The Compass Spinning: ADHD, Emotions and Sensory Sensitivity

  • Emotion regulation is part of executive function.

  • Emotion is motivation: Relying on emotion to focus and speed up.

  • Hyperempathy is a form of sensory sensitivity

  • Slowing down for long enough to cool down.

  • Raising emotional awareness: Name it to tame it.

  • Building in self care: What does the puppy need?

  • Practicing compassion: Kindness cools the engine.

  • Take Care: finding our boundaries and saying no

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The Puppy and the Path: The Default Mode Network - Staying Focussed

  • From neurotransmitters to neural networks

  • What the heck is the default mode network?

  • What strengths does the puppy have?

  • How do we care for the puppy?

  • How do we keep it on track?

  • What happens to a puppy who’s beaten?

  • Creating a puppy care plan

6

Puppy Training: Bringing it all Together and Using ADHD Strengths

  • Strengths and struggles are two sides of the same coin

  • Knowing and using your strengths.

  • Recognising patterns we struggle with

  • Strategies to use in the moment.

  • Training the puppy, coming back to the path

  • Reflections on the group and next steps

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