Executive Functions – a major piece in the ADHD coaching puzzle
Event Information
There is no doubt about the importance of executive functions in modern life. To get anything done, we need to have solid skills that allow us to manage all aspects of life: organise, plan, prioritise. Initiate tasks, sustain our attention, persist in our goals. Manage time, control our emotions, inhibit automatic responses. And stay flexible… and more…
Often people only understand the importance of these skills when they are impaired, like in ADHD. The fallout of limited or impaired executive function is huge for the individual as well as their family and loved ones.
This presentation looks at a holistic approach to explaining and supporting executive functions. We will explore Russell Barkleys quest of tracing their development as an adaptive advantage in evolution.
PCC Markers addressed:
3.4. Coach partners with the client to define what the client believes they need to address to achieve what they want to accomplish in this session
4.1. Coach acknowledges and respects the client’s unique talents, insights and work in the coaching process
5.1. Coach acts in response to the whole person of the client (the who)
5.4. Coach demonstrates curiosity to learn more about the client
6.5. Coach inquires about or explores how the client currently perceives themselves or their world
Presenter
Swantje Lorrimer
Swantje is a professional ADHD coach and consultant based in Sydney. She is passionate about understanding the human condition from all possible perspectives and brings this into her coaching practice.
Prior to becoming an ADHD Life Coach, Swantje applied her postgraduate degree (Philosophy) in academia. She is also a trained Bespoke Tailor with many credits in the film and theatre industry to her name.
Swantje is a graduate of ADDCA and her coaching approach leverages her visual and creative experience and practice. She loves making wordy concepts visually available (and memorable).
Swantje is mother to three creative neurodivergent young adults. She has got lived experience of the complexities and multitude of challenges that ADHD poses for individuals and their families at all stages of life.
Key Learning Takeaways
Providing an explanation about the far-reaching benefits of EF skills that define our humanity, we will
- discuss fun and motivating ways of engaging ADHDers in our coaching practice to find their unique EF strategies to manage life not only better, but on their own terms
- Build competency for coaches to identify and scaffold executive function weaknesses to help clients in setting and achieving their goals
