Cognitive Ergonomics From the Inside Out® (Cog-Erg)
A New ADHD Intervention
Consider These Observations:
- Most ADHD interventions focus on modifying behavior, teaching skills, or offering tips, tricks, and strategies. Many with ADHD find themselves drowning in a sea strategies and behavioral interventions that often fall short.
- People with ADHD know what they need to do. Their challenge is executing what they know to do.
- The late Dr. Thomas E. Brown once said “As the need for independent work increases, ADHD productivity decreases.”
- Anni Rogers of ADDitude Magazine once said, “ADHD is amplified or muted based on the environment.”
Change the Lens and Everything Changes.
At DIG Coaching, we believe what is obvious depends on what you are attending to, and if the obvious isn’t working, chances are you are attending to the wrong thing.
ADHD is generally understood to be a behavioral problem. The observations above suggest that the ADHD community is attending to the wrong thing.
Dr. Russell Barkley has framed ADHD as a disorder that involves impairments in executive functioning. Reframed ADHD is an executive function impairment. This explains many anomalies current interventions cannot explain.
A Better Way to Understand and Solve ADHD Challenges
Introducing Cognitive Ergonomics From the Inside Out®… Cog-Erg for short
Developed by cognitive engineer and ADHD coach Jeff Copper, Cognitive Ergonomics From the Inside Out® (Cog-Erg) introduces a systematic engineering approach to understanding ADHD through the lens of executive functioning.
Built on Dr. Russell Barkley’s model of executive functioning and Jeff’s proprietary AttentionScope®, the program makes intangible cognitive processes observable. Participants learn to witness executive functions in action, recognize patterns, and identify the legitimate cognitive reasons behind behavior.
Rather than trying to condition behavior to fit a task or environment, Cog-Erg teaches you to examine how to engineer the task or environment to fit your cognitive capabilities.
The objective is not to teach you to try harder. It’s to help you understand how your brain works, engineer accommodations to relieve the impairment so you can work with your brain, not against it.
The Intellectual Foundation of Cognitive Ergonomics
Substantiating Our Claims
Declarations that Cog-Erg is a new field of engineering and new ADHD interventions warrant skepticism. Therefore, you have a right to be educated, and we have the obligation to educate you on the fundamentals that differentiate Cognitive Ergonomics From the Inside Out® from conventional wisdom and to support or validate it with evidence that was hidden in plain sight due to cognitive bias of the old paradigm. These links will help you judge our claim based on the merits.
- More on What is Cog-Erg
- Substantiation of Cognitive Ergonomics (Intellectual Summaries)
Cog-Erg: An Observational Training Program
(Via a New Lens: AttentionScope®)
In reality, we are cognitively illiterate. Cog-Erg is an observational training program to bring tangibility and literacy to cognition. It is an interactive cognitive program designed for individuals with ADHD and professionals who work with or support them, including ADHD coaches, therapists, counselors, educators, disability specialists, human resource personal and parents.
Through education, guided discussions, simulated experiences using AttentionScope®, participants learn to observe the physical manifestation of executive functions defined by Dr. Barkley, experience cognitive impairments, and learn to accommodate them via a six-sigma problem-solving methodology.
Beware, this isn’t another collection of ADHD strategies, a call for tools, or more ADHD hacks. Cog-Erg is a new lens that enables you to define the problem, identify root cause, and innovate accommodations based on the individual and situational variables.
Who Can Benefit from the Program?
- Being trained as an ADHD cognition engineer can help therapists, counselors, coaches, educators, and anyone with or impacted by ADHD who have found the current paradigm to be ineffective.
- This program has been approved by the Professional Association for ADHD Coaches (PAAC) for continuing education credits. If this applies to you, please email jeff@digcoaching.com for more information.
Who Should Not Enroll in the Program!!!! Please Watch this 1-minute video
The Program Is Designed to Help You
- Understand executive functions individually and collectively and their influence on behavior in a tangible way.
- Make the invisible workings of cognition observable through AttentionScope®.
- Recognize patterns and distinguish symptoms from underlying cognitive impairments.
- Identify what works naturally, why it works, and where cognitive friction occurs.
- Understand how executive functions interact and sometimes conflict.
- Apply a systematic problem-solving methodology to identify root causes using a six sigma approach.
- Recognize opportunities to adapt tasks, environments, and expectations to fit cognitive capabilities.
- Develop cognitive literacy that transforms how you understand and approach ADHD challenges.
MEET OUR AGENTS FOR COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS (ACES)
Our agents are here to guide you through our innovative program, answering your questions and supporting you on your journey. Connect with one of our agents today; your first step toward transformation begins with a conversation.
Jeff Copper, PCC, PCAC, MBA, credentialed coach, founder of Attention Talk Radio and Attention Talk Video, entrepreneur, speaker and ADHD coach trainer, has been coaching for nine years. He has empowered his clients to overcome the invisible challenges of procrastination and create fulfilling and successful lives. To learn more about Jeff, visit www.digcoaching.com/meet-jeff-copper/.
If you have questions, contact us at 762-233-2343 or email info@digcoaching.com today.
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