AD/HD COACHINGAs a founding member of The Institute for the Advancement of AD/HD Coaching (IAAC) Jodi helped to develop The IAAC Definition of AD/HD Coaching, which states:
“AD/HD coaching is a designed partnership that combines coaching skills with knowledge of Attention Deficit Disorder, a neurobiological condition. The coaching process enhances quality of life, improves performance and supports growth and change.
The purpose of AD/HD coaching is to provide support, structure and accountability. Coach and client collaboratively explore strengths, talents, tools and new learning to increase self-awareness and personal empowerment. Together they design strategies and actions and monitor progress by creating accountability in line with goals and aspirations.”Combining her training, skills, passion and experience, Jodi offers a coaching style that embraces the ideals and core competencies of both life coaching and AD/HD coaching. This approach provides the structure and strategies needed to create success for clients with AD/HD while honoring the clients as creative and resourceful individuals.
AN AD/HD COACH CAN:
- Meet with the client to assess the environment, identify needs, set goals, and offer suggestions and guidance.
- Set structure, provide support and help implement strategies for skill building.
- Assist in arranging family meetings to help educate and involve the whole family in the goal setting and support system.
- Team up with other professionals (physicians, psychiatrists, counselors, and teachers) to ensure that services are coordinated at home, school and in the workplace.
- Provide an outside source of structure that is non-confrontational, relieving stress from within the family unit.
- Teach organizational skills to clients and their families.
- Develop a plan to improve an office/home work or study space and an organizational system that works best with the client's learning style and environment.
- Educate the family and friends, reduce the focus on the difficulties of the person with AD/HD, and eliminate blame and ridicule.
- Teach and foster appropriate social skills, self-discipline, self-reliance and self-advocacy.
- Schedule regular phone or e-mail "check-ins" to monitor progress and goals.
- Build self-esteem and confidence, as well as be a friend, mentor, and "cheerleader".
- Promote a positive ADDitude - there is an "up" side to ADD!!!!
Call Jodi today for details on how coaching can make a difference in your life!
20th Annual CHADD International Conference
Jodi Sleeper-Triplet will be presenting twice and leading the coaches networking sessions.
Nov 12-15 2008
Anaheim, CA
Click here to register.
"It is useful for you to have a coach, for some person near to you to keep after you, but always with humor. Your coach can help you get organized, stay on task, give you encouragement, or remind you to get back to work....... a coach is someone who stays on you to get things done, exhorts you as coaches do, keeps tabs on you, and in general stands in your corner. A coach can be tremendously helpful in treating ADD."
From Driven to Distraction, Edward Hallowell, M.D. and John Ratey, M.D. 1994
