LIVE WEBINAR: Understanding Adult ADHD and Your Brain with Barb Cook Saturday 10th June 2023

Understanding Adult ADHD and Your Brain

with Barb Cook Developmental Educator / Adult ADHD Coach

WHEN: Saturday 10th June, 2023

START: 10am – 2.30pm (QLD AEST) / 11am – 3.30pm (NSW/VIC AEDT)

DURATION: 4.5 hours (including breaks and Q & A)

WHERE: Online – Webinar link will be sent one (1) day prior to event start

On completion of this workshop, a certificate will be provided with 4 hour personal development.

A copy of the recording of the event will be available for you to watch for 30 days.

Realising you have ADHD as an adult can be literally life changing. It gives validation as to why you may have struggled with executive functioning, organisation, planning, managing time, procrastination, and getting everyday tasks done.

Trying to do all the things that appear easy for typical people can be really overwhelming and impacts on your self-worth and self-esteem. It can lead to negative internalised thoughts where we often beat ourselves up, at what we think we should be able to do.

Alternatively, we can become exhausted with our ever thinking and distractible brains and wonder why at the end of the day it feels like we haven’t got anything done, but our brains feel like they have run a marathon!

This webinar will look at how the ADHD mind works and how to engage and motivate a brain that often feels like it has a mind of its own, is stubborn, resistant, or just downright refuses to do what you want it to do.

Understanding how the ADHD brain is different, knowing what will work best for you, recognising your areas of strength and maximising your potential to help you through challenging situations.

Your presenter Barb Cook was diagnosed as an adult with ADHD 14 years ago and has a wealth of personal experience and clinical experience as a Developmental Educator and Adult ADHD coach to share with you on how to make peace with your ADHD brain, learn how to be not so hard on yourself and to maximise your potential.

Topics covered:

• What is ADHD and what type are you
• What’s going on in the brain
• Dopamine and friends – how neurotransmitters and hormones affect our thinking
• Health and wellbeing – how food choices and lifestyle impacts the ADHD brain
• Organisation and planning – doing it differently
• Distractions – internal and external
• Clutter and choices – decluttering the environment and your mind
• Delegating – get someone else to do it
• ADHD and education – avoiding last minute cramming and pulling all-nighters
• ADHD and employment – how to get the work done, including the boring stuff.
• Career choices, am I in the right job?
• From habits to rituals – there is a difference
• Procrastination and task inertia
• All or nothing approach – why is the grey so hard
• Making peace with your brain

This webinar will provide practical tools, tips, and strategies for ADHD / neurodivergent adults, teachers, employers, allied health professionals, their parents, support workers and carers.