ADHD Coaching Blog

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Introduction: ADHD Coaching

Hello my name is David Giwerc. I am the Founder and President of the ADD Coach Academy, http://www.addca.com.  Since becoming a coach in 1994, I have been privileged and honored to witness thousands of adults and families with AD/HD take amazing leaps and bounds to become more fulfilled human beings.

This only can begin to happen when you become educated about your own ADHD. I don’t mean a general, textbook education of ADHD with medical language about the brain and the corresponding imbalance of neurochemicals. Unfortunately, that is how most health care professionals may have explained ADHD to you.

The kind of education that will empower people with ADHD to move forward is the kind of customized, individualized education that encourages you to explore and discover the specific situations where your own impairing challenges (inattention, impulsivity and hyper activity) of ADHD have impeded your ability to move forward.

To find out how you can get educated about your own ADHD in powerful proven ways, please go to Simply ADHD Program

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Monday, March 08, 2010

Our 4th Professional ADHD Coach Training program Began Today

Our fourth Professional ADHD Coach Training program began today. We have a great group of coaches from around the world coming to learn ADDCA’s proprietory models and expand their ADHD coaching skills.

We want to welcome coaches from Denmark, Belgium, Turkey, Canada and the US. They all are dedicated to empowering those with ADHD to live their life to the fullest. It’s going to be a great few months.

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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Great Free Intro class on Monday

We had a great Free Intro class on Monday.  It was really exciting to hear from a number of new people, from all over the world, who will be joining our Advanced and Professional programs. The level of enthusiasm for ADHD coach training continues to expand while the need for well-trained ADHD coaches is greater than ever.

David

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

What Percy Jackson and the Olympians Can Teach Us about ADHD

When you watch a movie you have the power to suspend reality and imagine anything you want: nothing is impossible. You can even be a demigod with ADHD and dyslexia.

In the debut movie “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” Percy is a 17 year old high school boy with ADHD and dyslexia struggling with school, and getting into lots of trouble. Unbeknownst to him, he is also the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

The character Percy illustrates the real-life paradox facing individuals with ADHD and dyslexia. He has unique strengths that are way above average but also has some noticeable weaknesses. I have worked as an ADHD coach for over 10 years, and found often that there is no middle ground for ADDers. Percy’s ability to get things done in some situations is superior, and in other situations is very inferior.

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Interview with Attention Talk Radio today!

I had a great time being interviewed by Jeff Copper of Attention Talk Radio today about the difference between Coaching and ADHD Coaching. The conversation also got into some interesting topics about attention. beliefs, strengths and more. I hope you find it valuable.  www.blogtalkradio.com/attentiontalkradio/

David

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Monday, February 08, 2010

Identify Your Strengths and Make Them Stronger

By David Giwerc, MCC, Founder and President, ADD Coach Academy

We live in a performance-oriented world.  It’s also a world where too much emphasis is placed on identifying a person’s weaknesses and then focusing on improving the performance of those weaknesses. This negative focus can take its toll on a person’s innate strengths, which may be downplayed or overlooked in the quest for “improvement.”

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Focus on one Piece for Peace of Mind

Many of you, who have ADHD, quite often feel as though you are being bombarded with millions of ideas. You feel as though they are all hitting your brain simultaneously. Ideas seem to erupt when you least expect them and are usually triggered by some association, word, picture or comment that links a message with a strong connection to the creative parts of your brain.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Interest, Stimulation and ADHD (V)

ADHD is first and foremost a challenge of brain stimulation.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

What’s Your New Story for the New Year?

What’s the theme of your story going to be this year?
You are probably aware that the power of your mind can either propel or prohibit you from taking focused, forward- moving action.  You are probably aware of what positive messages can do for your brain.

Yet, most of you never go to a “proactive place” because you have established strong patterns that you actually feel comfortable living with every day. You feel safe with the story that you have created, even though you know it does not serve you well.

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Awaken Your Buried Treasure

Successful, fulfilling events in your life have brought you great joy and strengthened your self confidence. Although you know these experiences exist, you have not been able to conjure them for a long time. You have the ability to bring back these events, about yourself at any time, but the knowledge of how to do so is buried in the depths of your subconscious; you have been totally unaware of its existence.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

David Giwerc Speaks at Muskingum College

David Giwerc, MCC, Founder & President of the ADD Coach Academy speaks at Muskingum College. 

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Michael Phelps and the Power of a Mom’s Love

Michael Phelps recently was in the news again breaking another world record, swimming the butterfly stroke. Michael Phelps also has a mom who always believed in his ability to do something well. Not everything, but at least one thing. She never let up letting him know that you don’t get satisfaction from working on making your weaknesses stronger. She never let him use his ADHD to keep him down.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

ADHD is a Unique Brain Wiring (V)

ADHD is a Unique Brain Wiring

This video supports our foundational principle that ADHD is a unique brain wiring. It is your special way of understanding the world around you.

Having ADHD does not mean you are broken, it means you have a unique brain wiring.

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