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5th Annual International
ADHD Coaches Conference

The Many Faces of ADHD

March 23—March 25, 2012

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Conference chair, Judith Champion, talks about what’s coming up in Atlanta at the
5th Annual
ADHD Coaches International Conference:
The Many Faces of ADHD

ADDing in the Spirit to Empower Success

Self Care for Clients & Coaches

Peggy Ramundo and Madelyn Griffith-Haynie

“We are not human beings having a Spiritual experience.
We are Spiritual beings having a human experience.”
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How can you tap into the potential of your Spirit in your role as a professional ADD coach? How can you enhance your effectiveness by integrating Spirituality into your interactions with clients?
Join us in exploring the amazing connection between the Mind, Body, and Spirit and in learning how “ADDing in the Spirit” to your coaching relationships can transform lives—yours, and your clients’.

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The ADHD Harm Reduction Project

Innovative Approaches and Successful Models

Kyle Dopfel and Pat Wood

The ADHD Corrections Program is committed to reducing recidivism by tailoring rehabilitation plans to meet the specific needs of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with ADHD. Join us to learn more about the first re-entry initiative of its kind in the state of Delaware, and to discuss both the successful outcomes and many challenges involved in the development of such a program.

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Advocacy in Elementary Schools:
Leading to self-advocacy and success

ADHD Communities

Reinforcing the link between coaching and the school system in order to promote client success with Karen Lowry

Karen K. Lowry

It is clear that not enough of our children are receiving adequate support in the school systems to achieve a healthy self-esteem and academic success. Even for with those who have IEPs and 504s, support can be vague and lack a clear understanding of ADHD and resulting impairments and academic struggles. We as coaches must reach out to pre-K, elementary and middle schools in order to provide information that will lead to effective support. As we advocate for them, they in turn will begin to learn self-advocacy that is necessary to move forward successfully.

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Beyond Medication…Beyond Possibility:
Energy Medicine for Challenges of ADHD, ASD & You

Self Care for Clients & Coaches

Shift your energy and shift your life for the rest of your life – for free! Listen to Chana Klein

Chana Klein

How would you like to have at your fingertips a way to heal stress at a moment’s notice, a way to clear your thinking, a way to have more energy and protect yourself from negative energy, both emotional and physical?
Beyond Medication…Beyond Possibility: Energy Medicine for Challenges of ADHD, ASD, & YOU is a hands-on demo and how-to presentation that will share Chinese medicine points and postures to alleviate many of the challenges of ADHD, Autism Spectrum (ASD), and daily life challenges for you and your clients.

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Bright Lights and Hidden Struggles:
Juggling the many faces of the Inattentive ADHD adolescent female

ADHD Communities

Knowing the inner turmoil of the inattentive ADHD adolescent female, increases your success and hers. Joan Teach can tell you how.

Joan Teach, PhD

Have you ever met an effervescent adolescent female that lighted up the room when she entered? Then you noticed she never stopped talking. Later her eyes scanned the room like a deer in the headlights. Was she scared, was she hiding her fears? Come be enlightened and entertained as you learn the many faces of the Inattentive ADHD adolescent female. Experience her: BRIGHT LIGHTS AND HIDDEN STRUGGLES. You are challenged to understand her, and to help her grow.

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Building Bridges in ADHD Families with Positive Communication Strategies

Advanced Coach Training

Carol Gignoux

While it is well known that ADHD relationships are often challenged by poor communication, not as much is offered about how to support families in overcoming these unhealthy patterns. Communication difficulties in ADHD families can destroy relationships unless interrupted. Join us for this lively interactive breakout session! Come away understanding the communication challenges of ADHD families, the unique needs of each family member and how to help families achieve greater harmony by adopting alternative positive communication strategies.

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Caring for YOUR ADHD:
Understanding—Embracing—Celebrating

Self Care for Clients & Coaches

Learn the importance and specific tools for balancing the mind, body and spirit for self care of both coach and client. Listen to 2 minutes with Sherry Clarke and Beverly Rohman

Sherry Clarke and Beverly Rohman

This powerful and energizing session—co-presented by an accomplished Family Therapist / ADHD Coach and a long time Learning Consultant / ADHD Coach—will provide coaching professionals with effective tools for empowering clients to find balance between Mind, Body and Spirit, get into action, and bring calm to a chaotic life. Participants will experience and take home activities, inventories, processes, inspiration and information to help clients better Understand, Embrace and Celebrate their ADHD.

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Coaching College Students in an Academic Setting:
How to collaborate with your college or university

Business Building Opportunities

Joyce Kubik

A mandatory college orientation was restructured to assist students with ADHD. This was a cost-effective course for the college and was taught by an ADHD coach, supported by disability staff, and established through the Enrollment division. Incorporating coaching methods/skills training, students take ownership of their academic success through a clear understanding of their ADHD and the strategies needed for success. Learn how to collaborate with your college or university and expand your coaching business.

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Create an ADHD Retreat—Taking Coaching to a New Level

Business Building Opportunities

How-to guide to facilitating your own ADHD retreats: advice from a veteran retreat coach with Linda Roggli

Linda Roggli

Facilitating a retreat is something like ADHD coaching on steroids – instead of coaching for 45 minutes, you’re “On” for two or three days! But retreats can be an exceptionally rewarding opportunity for you and your clients (and profitable, too). If you’ve ever wondered about whether retreats could be part of your repertoire, don’t miss this interactive, practical session on creating your very own ADHD retreats. You’ll walk away with the first-ever ADHD Retreat Guide and a “next step” plan of action.

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Creating Successful Group Dynamics in Coaching Groups

Technology for Group Coaching & Education

You can successfully multiply your time, help more clients and increase profits through group coaching with Linda Walker

Linda Walker

ADHD adults seek affordable coaching options that effectively deliver results, and when done right, this describes group coaching. Linda Walker has successfully marketed and delivered over a dozen coaching groups to almost 100 clients. Group coaching is the fastest growing, most profitable aspect of her practice, and demand is rising. The key to her success is her ability to create cohesive groups, and in this session, she shares her recipe for creating effective group dynamics.

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Empowered Voices

ADHD Communities

Listen to Wendy Lippard talk about overcoming ADHD barriers to live our dreams and inspiring others—even the imprisoned—to live theirs.

Wendy Lippard

This inspiring session includes an ADHD speaker’s passionate story of transformation through the power of coaching. The speaker, now an ICF certified coach herself, went from being afraid to speak to volunteering in a prison to traveling North America speaking professionally. She will reveal how to coach in prisons and the profound impact this has on the inmates, their community, and the coach. In addition, she will discuss statistics and show a video of an inmate sharing his testimony. In this session you will also get to experience a few key elements of her transformational program first hand, walking away with insights of your own as well as life tools for your clients. The presentation combines informative speaking with interactive training to make it both fun and engaging.

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Exercise and ADHD

Self Care for Clients & Coaches

Kari Lewis

Kari Lewis, ADHD coach and university physical education instructor, invites you to attend her session on exercise and ADHD. Join her to learn about recent research on the effects of exercise on the brain. Then participate (or watch) with her in a variety of exercise routines to enhance attention, motivation and learning.

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How to Build a Thriving Coaching Business:
Developing a Brand, Finding a Loyal Audience, and Communicating Effectively

Business Building Opportunities

Learn from a highly successful coach how to build your business with authentic marketing techniques. Listen to Jennifer Koretsky

Jennifer Koretsky

This session is designed to teach you exactly what you need to know to market yourself effectively and build a thriving coaching business. You’ll learn how to identify your best audience, and how to effectively reach out to and communicate with that audience in such a way that inspires trust and respect. We’ll also discuss why optin list building is so important for a coaching business, and how you can market your services to that list without being pushy or “salesy,” and without compromising your values.

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iLs: A MultiSensory Approach to ADD/ADHD

Innovative Approaches

Enhance your practice by offering this cost effective, home-based tool that improves brain function. Listen to Dr. Ron Minson

Ron Minson

Dr. Minson presents an exciting, easy-to-implement intervention to improve attention, focus, concentration, memory and emotional regulation called Integrated Listening system (iLs). His presentation will include the neurological basis for the effectiveness of the iLs Method and how to include it in an ADHD Coaching Program.
He explains how simultaneous, multisensory input improves higher brain function through improved subcortical processing. This effective intervention can be used at home, as well as in clinics and schools.

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The Impact of Digital Story-Telling on ADHD Coaching

Technology for Group Coaching &  Education

Nadine Nassar, Laurie Dupar and Alan Brown

Story-telling from our early ages shapes the knowledge that we have of our world. Digital story-telling can be an important tool for ADHD coaching. It reinforces memory through emotionally-filled content, and enables the client, within a limited time frame, to creatively channel emotions towards a positive and memorable message. It can also contribute to building life skills, by re-creating new beliefs and values, visualizing goals, and creating structure around decision-making.

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Lessons from Cyber-Space:
An ADHD Coaching Internet Startup Shares What Worked & What Didn’t

Technology for Group Coaching & Education

The joys and pitfalls of taking a technology-based, interactive, virtual approach to ADHD coaching. Listen to Elaine Taylor-Klaus

Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster

In 2011, ImpactADHD, an online coaching community for parents of kids with ADHD, went from concept, through development, and to public launch at the CHADD conference last November, where they were selected as an Innovative Program for 2011. Founders Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster share lessons from their journey into cyber-space, creating a support community for parents and a platform for ADHD professionals. Technology-based programs include: an online Membership Community, Online Coaching, Virtual Group Coaching, Tele-classes, Webinars, and a Virtual Classroom.

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Making It Okay to Have ADHD/ADD

Self Care for Clients & Coaches

De-stygmatizing ADHD by creating a fresh context so people can embrace the diagnosis and move forward with Rick Green

Rick Green

Brilliant strategies and a powerful coach won’t make any difference if a client is simply unwilling to consider ADHD/ADD. Forcing someone to seek help never works. ADDers can be very stubborn; we hate what we hate. But we also love what we love. When motivated, miracles can occur. How do you turn deniers into champions? Director/writer Rick Green shares powerful analogies for de-stigmatizing ADHD/ADD, while clarifying the costs, and still offering hope. He offers practical responses to silence the skeptics who may derail progress, and perhaps even turn these ‘saboteurs’ into your client’s allies. Rick shows how humour, creating a bigger context, and reframing the disorder, “…can unleash a client’s power, and have them take on their ADHD with enthusiasm.”

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Making the Connection:
Brain Based Coaching

Advanced Coach Training

Madelyne Griffith-Haynie

EVEN if you understand the impact of an ADDer’s unreliable Prefrontal Cortex, do you know how to tweak your coaching to reflect what you know?
How do the brain’s OTHER areas relate to ADD challenges and how we need to massage our technique so our clients can change can’t into can?
Come learn what’s going on and what it means—in plain English—and explore ADD Coaching competencies in light of brain-based understanding.
This session will kick your coaching skills into outer space!

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The Many Faces of the ADHD Brain

Neuroscience and ADHD

Revealed! Neuroscience secrets underlying common ADHD behaviours that will support, or sabotage, coaching strategies. Listen to Candace Taylor

Candace Taylor

This humorous but neurologically accurate workshop is for anyone who would like a better understanding of the neuroscience underlying common ADHD behaviours. Meet Red Amy (Amygdala), PeeCee (Prefrontal Cortex), Dopey (needs no introduction), Hip On Campus (say it fast). These “brainy” characters hold the keys to common ADHD behaviours such as Distraction, Overwhelm, Procrastination, Anxiety, Frustration, or ODD. You will leave this workshop armed with the knowledge, language, and tools needed to raise self awareness, and design truly effective strategies with your clients.

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Neuroscience of ADHD for Coaches

Neuroscience and ADHD

Opportunity for coaches to learn about what is currently known about the neuroscience of ADHD. Listen to Dr. Terry Dickson

Terry Dickson, MD

Have you ever wondered what neuropathways are involved in ADHD? This session is especially for coaches who want to learn more about the neuroscience of behaviors most commonly seen in ADD Coaching. We will specifically look at regions of the brain that are implicated for typical behaviors that lead individuals with ADHD to coaching. We will look at the neurocircuitry thought to be involved with attention and arousal, shifting focus, cognitive control and executive functioning (working memory, activation and sustained attention, affect, planning, organization and self-talk), motivation and reward response, motor control, dysinhibition, fear and rage reactions, avoidance and procrastination.

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A New View:
Behavioral Coaching for Prevention of Delinquency and Recidivism; Implications for Public Policy

ADHD Communities

Trudi Gaines, EdD and Leasha Barry, PhD

Very little information is available on the outcome of youth in terms of delinquency and recidivism prevention who received various interventions for ADHD. It is relatively unknown, but often assumed, that intervention for ADHD symptoms also prevents later criminal activity and thus incarceration and recidivism. The purpose of this presentation is to examine the relevant literature in these areas and to propose a behavioral coaching model for ADHD as adapted from traditional coaching models.

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Online Technology for ADHD Coaches:
Connection, Collaboration and Clients

Technology for Group Coaching & Education

Tara McGillicuddy

There are millions of people across the globe in need of support and education for ADHD. This session will help you learn to connect and support people with ADHD across the globe with the use of online technology. You will learn about the most effective tools and strategies and also which mistakes to avoid making. This session is must for all ADHD coaches who are looking to connect and support people affected by ADHD.

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Permission to Proceed

Advanced Coach Training

Dramatically raise your clients’ self-esteem and inspire activation of their strengths to create positive momentum and success. Listen to David Giwerc

David Giwerc

The practical tools presented in this presentation were forged through years of research, education and David’s own personal struggle with the challenges of ADHD. This presentation will draw on a combination of inspiring personal tales, hands-on exercises and dynamic, proven coaching models, making it a must for ADHD coaches who want to empower their clients, of all ages, to give themselves permission to proceed and create the life they truly desire.

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he Power of Mind Mapping for the ADHD Brain

Innovative Approaches and Successful Models

Mind Mapping is an extremely effective tool for unleashing a client’s creativity and increasing productivity.  Jay Carter knows how.

Jay Carter

ACO and Adult ADHD Coach Jay Carter developed his mind mapping expertise over a period of 20 years. He has been featured as an expert presenter on MindJet’s customer webinar series and his company was the subject of a case study done by MindJet. Participants will learn how to mind map for themselves and their clients. Mind Mapping is a great tool to add to your coaching toolkit.

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Recurring Revenue, Rock Star Results:
Online Accountability Groups for ADHD

Business Building Opportunities

Create predictable, leveraged and even passive income: a proven accountability system that helps clients change! Listen to Gina Hiatt

Gina Hiatt, PhD

How much would you love to have predictable, leveraged, and even passive income? How about a way to add a high-value, reasonably priced service for your clients who have ADHD—one that provides structure, daily accountability and a small group format online? Learn how to reach these goals from someone who has developed and put into action a unique system that provided $250,000 in passive income last year. Use out-of-the box methods to increase the effectiveness of your groups or membership sites. Proven techniques and innovative technology make it possible for you to easily attract and retain clients, without having to continuously create new classes and content!

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Redirecting ADHD Youth From the Juvenile/Criminal Justice System

ADHD Communities

An effective coaching model to redirect at risk youth with ADHD away from the juvenile/criminal justice systems with Robert Tudisco

Robert Tudisco, Esq

Individuals with ADHD are at a significantly higher risk to engage in anti-social and even criminal behavior. As a result there is a much higher percentage of individuals with ADHD in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This problem can be addressed through education and redirecting these individuals through treatment and specialized ADHD coaching programs. This workshop will explore several model programs that greatly increase the percentage of at risk youth with ADHD to enter and graduate college and become productive members of society and avoid becoming troubling statistics.

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The Social Injustice of Untreated ADHD

ADHD Communities

Evelyn Polk Green

ADHD coaching—and ADHD coaches—have the potential to make a huge impact on a variety of underserved populations and systems such as urban, poor and/or minority populations; those currently or previously involved in the criminal justice system; single parents and children and adults involved in the child welfare system. Unfortunately making the connection to individuals in this population is not always obvious to some; for others, learning how to make those connections becomes the roadblock. This presentation will help coaches identify some populations that they may not even have considered and open their eyes to the many ways they can use their talent and skills to make a huge positive difference for individuals who might not ever have opportunities for success without that assistance. The presentation will also discuss the obligation all individuals have for “paying it forward” and the intrinsic and external rewards that can result if they move beyond their current “safe” clientele to make a difference in the lives of others.

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So You Expect Them To Leave Home?
Transition Pitfalls to Independence

ADHD Communities

Daniel Pruitt and Sheryl Pruitt

Many adults, parents, teachers, and coaches learn that some of their emerging adult clients, who have done well while living at home, become very unsuccessful in their post-secondary placements, e.g., college, vocational school, job. The adolescent has no idea that the adults were assisting in his daily functioning to the degree that they were. Strategies and resources will be presented to assist coaches to aid teenagers and adults with neurological disorders to transition with more success from high school to post secondary placements and independence.

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Strategic Behavioral Inquiry:
Full-Body Attention and Motivation Support

Elicit your clients’ brain-based motivational blueprint and help them take full advantage of it.  Listen to 2 minutes with with David Nowell

Neuroscience and ADHD

David Nowell, PhD

Strategic Behavioral Inquiry is a process of eliciting clients’ motivational blueprint, a key skill in developing client-specific treatment interventions. We do not experience the movement of dopamine across synapse—but we do experience the body-based sensations and variations which are unique to each of us. Understand my blueprint—that is, really come to know what I feel in my body when I’m passionate and engaged—and we’ve got a huge “leg up” on our efforts at managing important coaching goals.

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The Temperament of Teen Adult ADHD:
A Strategic Perspective

Advanced Coach Training

Increase your understanding of ADHD Temperament and learn effective tools for anger management. Listen in to Rudy Rodriguez

Rudy Rodriguez

Many professionals are familiar with the most common ADHD traits of inattention, distractibility and restlessness. However, the Temperament of ADHD is a trait frequently overlooked yet accounts for a pivotal ADHD challenge. This workshop will explore the ’temperament of ADHD’ in teens and adults and review specific strategies for anger management. The workshop will also examine the perspective of Thomas Phelan, PhD and the ADHD research of Russell Barkley, PhD.

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The Time of Our Lives: Positive Psychology Coaching and ADHD

Advanced Coach Training

Improve clients’ relationship with time. Coach the Strengths Trio: Narrative, Gratitude, and Savoring. Listen to Virginia Hurley

Virginia Hurley

Issues with time often trouble ADHD coaching clients. In this session, attendees can explore the question: What if ADHD came to mean “Attentional Differences, Highly Developed”? This presentation suggests that rather than focus coaching on managing time, coaches may wish to consider some strategies for savoring time as well. Appreciative narrative exercises and gratitude practices also add coaching opportunities. The Time of Our Lives offers support for a coaching process that reworks clients’ relationships with their past, present, and future. Attendees will become familiar with coaching strategies related to overcoming procrastination, improving productivity, and initiating and completing the work process

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Top Three Medication Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Neuroscience and ADHD

Take the mystery out of supporting clients to better manage and maximize the effectiveness of ADHD medications with Laurie Dupar

Laurie Dupar

Medications, the right ADHD medications, can be one of the most effective strategies to minimize the symptoms of ADHD. Unfortunately, even when working with a medical professional, many of our clients are still confused about their medication options and whether or not they are getting its full benefit. Join Laurie Dupar, trained Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Senior Certified ADHD Coach, and learn about the three most common problems that prevent your clients from experiencing the full effectiveness of their ADHD medication and how to avoid these pitfalls so they can get the most out of their ADHD medication.

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Useful New ADHD Biomedical Discoveries:
Brain, Meds and Neurotransmitters

Neuroscience and ADHD

Mind science and common sense will differentiate your practice – useful at any age level. Listen to 2 minutes with Charles Parker

Charles Parker, MD

The informed medical world is a very significant part of ADHD treatment, but often appears to reside only in the confines of each different medical office – and oftentimes not even there. Coaches regularly see these conundrums, but as a group have been overlooked by medical practitioners as contributory to the process of recovery. Coaches who understand the basics of brain assessment and biomedical treatment strategies for their clients will significantly contribute to the changes evolving with ADHD medical treatment, both today and in the future. New biomedical Rules work, if you know them.

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Working on Career Issues with the ADHD Client:
Gaining Expertise in Assisting ADHD Individuals in making good career decisions

Increase your ability to coach ADHD clients through career development expertise and work-related strategies. Listen to 2 minutes with Wilma Fellman

Advanced Coach Training

Wilma Fellman

If you are a coach with Advanced Coach Training and wish to gain expertise in the “Career Piece” in working with individuals with ADHD, this session is for you! Participants will learn basics of career development practices, and receive specific tools needed to assist individuals with ADHD in making good career decisions, given their strengths and challenges.

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