Adult ADD Strengths

There’s going to be a 4 Day Conference Focusing on Adhd and Stress in Vancouver BC.

The 2nd biennial, international conference on Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the Science will be held on july 12-15, 2008 in Vancouver at the Sheraton Wall Center hotel.

Two main focus areas of the conference will be ADHD (executive function and prefrontal cortex) and stress (including trauma, depression, anxiety, and resilence).

It’s an interdisciplinary conference devoted to improving children’s lives by making cutting-edge research in neuroscience, child psychology, & medicine understandable & applicable to those who work with children on a daily basis.

ADD guru Dr. Ed Hallowell will be doing a workshop for children and teenagers with ADHD in Vancouver on November the 8th, and in Calgary November the 7th. He’s brought here by Jack Hirose and Associates who do mental health workshops all across Canada.

More details including fees here.

He’s the author of several books on ADHD, ie Delivered from Distraction, Driven to Distraction, and other mental health topics.

Delivered from Distraction is the first book I suggest my ADD coaching clients read.

He taught at Harvard medical school and is a great speaker (I’ve seen him speak in Seattle). He also doesn’t see ADD as 98% pathology unlike some ADD authors. He sees the negatives and positives of people with ADHD.

ADD Resources is having their 5th annual conference in Seattle October 13th. The Keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Brown. He’s done extensive research on ADHD and has written several books on ADHD, his latest is Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults. It will only cost you $25 for members of ADD Resources and $50 for non–members before October 7th, quite a good deal. After that  it’s $65 at the door.

Here’s a list of the topics that will be covered at the conference

• AD/HD and Relationships: Essential Facts and Essential Strategies
• AD/HD: A Doctor’s Perspective
• Conquering Clutter with Clarity
• Natural Approaches to Healing ADD/ADHD