A Blog about Adults with Attention Surplus Condition (aka ADHD) by Adult ADHD Coach Pete Quily

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.

For the curious types, I’ve got an overview on what Adult ADHD coaching is all about on my website including comparisons to therapy and consulting, articles on ADHD coaching, benefits of ADHD coaching, coachability quiz (not everyone is coachable at every point in time), and notes from a live coaching session I did.

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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.

Some of us ADHD Adults (like myself) self medicate with information. I love learning about new things and ideas. Quite stimulating and a great way to boost dopamine, the neurotranmitter that does many things but helps us focus & is the reward chemical among other things. ADDers have lower levels of dopamine so we do positive and negative things to help increase it.  Read more...

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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.  Read more...

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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.

Show was very entertaining, informative & fast paced. Perfect for ADDers. I liked Thom Hartmann’s comments near the end “I think probably the most effective treatment for ADHD I’ve seen is coaching” As an Adult ADHD Coach, I agree:)  Read more...

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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 Canadian Documentary

Here’s their description of their film. You may want to let others know about this.

ADD & Loving It?! is a refreshing, witty and inspiring documentary about adult Attention Deficit Disorder  Read more...

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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

12 September 2009 :: 4:00pm – 7:00pm

Cause: BC Childrens Hospital Foundation – Be a Superhero
Donations will go toward the Foundation’s “Campaign for BC Children”

Currently there’s nearly $4,000 in prizes

Buy your Tickets here

If you want to follow me on twitter I’m @petequily  Read more...

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