This course is for anyone with ADHD wanting to create a sustainable relationship to their ADHD and become more effective in their daily life, work, and relationships. People with ADHD have spent their lives being forced to fit into a neurotypical world, with neurotypical expectations. They learn that if you keep shoving that round peg into the square hole, eventually it will fit and if it doesn’t, it’s the round peg’s fault. It becomes hard to not feel either helpless or ashamed. This course is about agency and making informed decisions from a place of acceptance and compassion. This starts with being able to identify tasks that are challenging for people with ADHD and why they are difficult. Instead of trying to force your brain to be neurotypical, we will instead learn how to structure tasks in a way that works for your brain. Then, we will identify which tasks can’t be structured in that way and learn to scaffold those tasks instead of avoiding or setting yourself up for failure

My fundamental rule in understanding psychology is that “people have to learn to live in the world”. Whether it’s a difficult childhood or a neurodiverse brain, people learn to compensate and work around their challenges. Unfortunately for most people with ADHD, when you live in a world defined by neurotypical norms everything you learn about productivity doesn’t make sense for your brain. ADHD brains have different incentive structures to neurotypical brains, and this leaves people with ADHD feeling frustrated, exhausted and ashamed when trying to force their brain into being neurotypical. If you are like so many of my clients who have learned to compensate for your ADHD by using anxiety, avoidance, last minute panic, deprivation of enjoyable activities, punishment, or living a life on the verge of burnout, you aren’t just making your life unnecessarily miserable, you are fundamentally misunderstanding what motivates an ADHD brain – dopamine.

Have you or someone in your life been diagnosed with ADHD? Are you wondering whether you should investigate getting diagnosed? Are you a professional who works in mental health or support services? This 2 hour course provides research-based, up to date, and easy to understand information about what ADHD actually is, and how it affects people on a day-to-day basis. No lists of symptoms – this seminar is about what it means to have, know people or work with ADHD. Upcoming dates: Thursday 25th September at 7pm Friday 17th October at 10.30am You will receive a zoom link via email