ADHD Bootcamp

An Intensive dive into ADHD through a Cognitive Ergonomics from the Inside Out® lens (Cog-Erg for short)

Most ADHD education focuses on symptoms, strategies, behavior management, and skills training. At one level, this is helpful; however, such interventions often fall short.

When you change the lens, everything changes. Cog-Erg is a new ADHD intervention that takes an engineering approach to helping those with ADHD understand ADHD as an executive function Impairment. Executive functions are a collection of mind tools used to work towards a goal over time. More simply, they are used to problem-solve.

Problems have two characteristics; they are multifaceted and have some level of ambiguity. Planning, making decisions, and managing time have these characteristics and, thus, is the reason those with ADHD struggle with them.

This boot camp is an all-day immersive cognitive training educational experience. We will define executive functions individually and collectively. AttentionScope® is used to bring tangibility to the executive functions individually and collectively to understand how they interact as a process.

You’ll gain a deep understanding of executive function, working memory, motivation, attention regulation, and problem-solving via the lens of an impairment, illuminating many anomalies current interventions cannot explain.

Whether you’re an ADHD professional, educator, coach, parent, disability specialist, or adult with ADHD, you’ll leave with a fundamentally different way of understanding ADHD, one that changes not just what you do, but how you think about the condition itself.

This is NOT a skills workshop. It’s a shift in perspective that changes how you see ADHD forever. It is about understanding ADHD via a new lens.

The boot camp is best supplemented with follow-up cognitive engineering and ADHD coaching calls to work through the practical application of the concepts.

ADHD Boot Camp Sample Agenda

Understanding ADHD

  • What is ADHD?
  • Cognitive Training
    • What are executive functions individually and collectively?
    • How do they work together and against each other as a process?
    • Exactly what is impaired?
    • Is it a focus problem or a problem-solving impairment?
  • Shifting your paradigm/mindset.

Objective Observation

  • Understanding your behavior via a cognitive training lens
  • Recognizing the legitimate reason for items listed in your “first list—shallow”—and your “second list—deeper”
  • Understanding the objective root causes that impact your list (emphasizing objective, not subjective observations]
  • Getting a read

Intellectual vs. Emotional Assessment

  • Mutually conflicting executive functions
  • ADHD as an impairment
  • Owning your ADHD? Do you have the “deed” to your ADHD?

Cutting to the Chase

  • ADHD motivation as a two-force system
  • ADHD accommodations hidden in plain sight
    • Intangible accommodations
    • The nature of ADHD accommodations
    • The universal accommodation
  • Managing discomfort (problem solving mindset– why strategies fail)
    • Procrastination/Task initiation/Productivity
      • Boredom
      • Ambiguity
      • Medications
    • Engineering Accommodations
  • Owning ADHD

Workshop

  • Roll up your sleeves

For More information on Cog-Erg:

  • To access intellectual substantiation papers on Cog-Erg,
  • For a more general overview of Cog-Erg and what it is CLICK HERE.

Pricing and scheduling are customized.

To learn more or get pricing CLICK HERE or call Jeff at 762-233-2343.