I’ll be doing an interactive presentation on Adult ADHD coaching at The Vancouver Adult ADD support group this Tuesday, February 2nd from 6.30-8.30 at Ravensong Community Healthcare Center, 2450 Ontario St, near Main & Broadway.

As part of the presentation, I will also be doing a short live demonstration of Adult ADHD coaching of someone that I haven’t coached before.

If you want to be coached at the meeting, please come with an openess & willingness to change yourself and 1, not 3, very specific practical goal or problem. I.e., get organized, get focused is too general and vague. Be very focused and specific, i.e.,  location, context, people etc.

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Information Overload in 1755

by Pete Quily on December 15, 2009

Information overload is not a new thing. Here’s a piece from Stowe Boyd’s thought provoking /message blog

Denis Diderot, “Encyclopédie” (1755)
As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

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What Has Helped Me with Adult ADD

by Pete Quily on November 12, 2009

This is from someone I coached. Thought some of you might find it helpful.

Pete

What Has Helped Me with Adult ADD

Hi,

I don’t know if you have adult ADD or ADHD (I have ADD), but I sure feel for you. I was diagnosed this summer, shortly before I was fired for the second time. Looking back I realize it’s been going on for 10 years. It’s caused huge financial and family turmoil that we’re still working through. I was doing good work on individual projects, but missed I appointments, was late on important documents, and felt mentally cloudy – like I was in a shower with fogged up glass around me. In some ways the worst part was that I never felt that I accomplished enough of the items on my To Do list, and felt panicky and like a failure – even when I was being productive.

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ADD and Loving It! Adult ADHD Documentary Now Online

by Pete Quily on September 22, 2009

Update: ADD and Loving It! is still available online. Please let others know about it to reduce the stigma about Adult ADHD. If you think you may have Adult ADD,  see the 3 next steps at the bottom of this post

ADD and Loving It! is a Canadian Adult ADHD Documentary made for Global TV by Canadian Actor/Comedian Patrick McKenna (Traders, The Red Green Show) and Comedian/Director Rick Green is now available online until this Friday Sept 25th (still up) to watch. Heard this from Heidi Bernhardt, the National Director of the CADDAC, The Centre for ADHD Advocacy Canada  who was one of the people who helped to make the ADD & Loving It!  documentary happen. Here’s the team that made the video possible.

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Update ADD and Loving It! is still online, right here pass the word, reduce the stigma. If you think you may have Adult ADD,  see the 3 next steps at the bottom of this post. Was a excellent video.

Just a heads up. There’s a new documentary on Adult ADHD  called ADD and Loving It! tonight Friday at 8pm (7 pm in Winnipeg, Regina & Saskatoon) on Global TV staring comedian and actor Patrick McKenna – Marty Stevens from the TV show Traders (who I greatly enjoyed watching) and The Red Green Show. It’s written, produced and directed by fellow comedian, Rick Green.

The film’s website is TotallyADD

patrick mckenna and rick green from ADD and Loving it documentary

Patrick Mckenna and Rick Green from ADD and Loving it Canadian Documentary

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Win A Month of Free Coaching From Pete and Help Charity

by Pete Quily on September 11, 2009

Or do something good for others and get a chance to get something good for yourself.

I’m donating a month of free coaching cost $300 to Twestival Vancouver 2009. I did the same to Twestival Vancouver in 2008 where the charity was charity:water. While I do mainly focus on adults with ADHD, my initial training was as a life coach and I do sometimes coach non ADDers.

Twestival’s slogan is tweet meet give

A Twestival or Twitter-Festival is a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales, which bring people offline for a great cause.  Twestival is run 100% by volunteers and independently from any not-for-profit

Vancouver Twestival 2009 is at Ceilis Irish Pub   670 Smithe (@ Granville) on the Rooftop, Vancouver

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Finally an ADHD Support Group in Newfoundland

by Pete Quily on August 3, 2009

There’s finally an ADHD support group in the province of Newfoundland. I have a list of list of Canadian ADHD support groups by province for several years, but haven’t ever had a listing for Newfoundland. Here’s the details.

ADD/ADHD Family Member Support Group
Location:Paradise Community Centre
Paradise, NFLD
Contact:Bernie Gauthier, Child/Youth Care Worker at 747-2523

So if you know of anyone in Newfoundland with ADHD, you might want to let them know about it.

If you know of any other Canadian ADHD support groups, please let me know. Here’s my US ADHD support groups meta list, and my list of International ADHD support groups if you’re outside Canada and looking for one near you.

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