Advanced ADD/ADHD Coach Training

What is the PC ACG Program?

This exciting new advanced ADD Coach training program is the only one of it’s kind and is a distillation of our one-year long comprehensive ADD coach-training program.

If you are already confidently coaching your clients, using the core ICF competencies, then our PC ACG program will be perfect for you!  This program will introduce you to ADDCA's  proven, proprietary coaching models and strategies that will add powerful new tools to your current coaching skill set.

Why should I join the PC ACG Program?

In fifty hours of class time (1/3 the time of the 12 month ACG program) you will learn the key ADD coaching skills, models and strategies from David Giwerc, MCC, Founder/ President of the ADD Coach Academy who has been training ADD coaches and coaching ADHD clients, exclusively, for over a decade. David  has the knowledge, depth and level of diverse experience to skillfully teach you the proprietary skills and models that he developed and created through years of dedicated coaching with ADHD entrepreneurs, parents, adolescents, executives, educators, corporations , organizations and more.

If you want to be one of a specialized group of well- trained ADHD coaches that can make a significant difference in the lives of individuals with ADHD, than you won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn from the leader in ADD coach training, the ADD Coach Academy. We are truly transforming the ADD perspective; one well-trained ADD coach at a time.

If you are an ..

• ICF certified coach
• Experienced Coach from an established school or an
• ADD Coach Academy Graduate (ACG) and

you want to add powerful, proven ADD Coaching tools and strategies to your current set of coaching skills then you will want to enroll.

If you do not meet any of these criteria, we will be happy to grant you an interview to determine your eligibility.

Whose looking for an ADD Coach?

There are approximately 12 million individuals challenged by ADHD, in the U.S.A., alone.  Many of these individuals could benefit from the support of a well-trained ADD coach, who is knowledgeable about how ADHD impacts their lives.

What support does  the ADD Coach Academy provide their students?  

Training manual:
ADDCA provides an extensive, well- organized training manual divided into four separate modules. Each module integrates visual models and maps with large type fonts for improved legibility and comprehension and are also organized by individual session objectives so that you can prepare for each class session.

The manual also contain ADDCA's proprietary coaching models, strategies, and skill sets as well as information on the brain's executive functions, AD/HD challenges and important strategies and questions to empower clients to make important choices that that will positively change their current situation.... and more....
ADDCA's DVD, Me, My ADD Coach and I: (DVD coming soon!)
The only educational DVD that explains ADD coaching as an integral part of successfully managing the challenges of ADD-AD/HD. The DVD can also be presented to potential clients to help explain the coaching partnership and process.
 
ADHD: Not Just a Child's Disorder DVD
This informative DVD produced by the Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine
will help you better understand ADHD and the importance of proper diagnosis and treatment.

Teleclass/Lab Audio recordings:
You will have the ability to review all their general teleclasses & labs twenty-four hours, seven days a week.

Password-protected student website
You will receive all the information to access the site once your registration is complete

Buddy Coaching
You will be matched with a classmate "buddy" and be given weekly coaching exercises to practice each skill in greater depth, in addition to  receiving important  feedback.

Support for PC-ACG Coach Graduates

• Receive a free ADDCA Basic Listing promoting your coaching practice  on our highly visited, resourceful and easy to navigate ADDCA website.
• Multiple referral sources including Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine, ADD Consults and more...

What is the curriculum of the PC ACG program?

The 4 Core Curriculum courses are:
Module PC101: Introduction to AD/HD and ADD Coaching

Module Overview

This module introduces you to  ADD-ADHD coaching, the traits and challenges of ADD, and how to listen for and appreciate the importance of context when exploring a client’s ADD.  This module also introduces the ADDCA Coaching Foundational Principles and invites you to incorporate them into your coaching.  We will be exploring the difference between regular coaching and ADD coaching and what sets a well-trained ADD coach apart. 

Module Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Appreciate the paradox that is ADD
• Listen from an understanding and appreciation of the ADD traits and challenges
• Articulate the differences between ADD coaching and regular coaching
• Discuss how you’ve integrated the ADD Coaching Foundational Principles into your coaching to support your client in moving forward
• Learn why clients need to hire a well-trained ADD Coach
• Introduction of ADD Coaching Skills & the typical ADHD Challenges
• Case Studies:
• Module PC101: Review Questions
• Resources for Module PC101
  

Module PC102: Introduction to ADDCA Models for Greater Understanding

Module Overview

This module introduces you to the brain, memory, and learning styles as they impact our ability to coach.  Then we introduce and explore several ADDCA models you can use to contextualize ADHD and move the client forward.  Finally, we present some ADDCA ADDentifiers and how we might use them within coaching.  The module concludes with a lab where we practice the models learned.

Module Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Appreciate how the brain and memory work as they relate to ADDers
• Learn the portions of the brain that affect a client’s processing and memory
• Understand how short and long-term memory works
• Learn powerful tool for remembering successes
• Recognize clients’ learning styles to improve their processing and understanding
• Listen from an understanding and appreciation of the ADHD traits and challenges
• Learn to coach using the powerful ADDCA models and ADDentifiers ( examples: can't vs. won't, react vs. respond, perfection vs. excellence)
• Learn the ADDCA proprietary coaching models:

  The Machine, Mind, and Mission: How the Brain and Beliefs need to  .be in harmony for the unique human Being to be present

  The Six Phases of Attending Model: The Six areas of Attention that are affected by situations & ADHD

  The Barriers to Attention Model: What We pay attention to Grows. The major obstacles that ignite the challenges of ADHD.

  The "I" Model: The Power of Interest and its important relationship with Attention, Impulsivity, Motivation and Intuition.

  The Choices Model: The positive patterns we choose can consistently create momentum.  

• Appreciate how the ADDCA models support the ICF core coaching competencies
• Case Studies:
• Module PC102: Review Questions
• Resources for Module PC102

Module PC201: The Stages of a Client:  LEAP

Module Overview

Introduce the ADDCA LEAP Model and explain the stages of an ADHD client and how the LEAP model helps the coach and client identify where they are in their growth

Module Objectives

Identify the four client stages of LEAP that focus on:

1. Learning about their own ADHD and launching what they learn
2. Exploring what they learned to see what works
3. Action based tasks, projects that are of high interest that will give them clues to their
4. Passionate pursuit of a plan

Discuss self-development and self awareness stages, tools, languages, and strategies

• Recognize what stage clients are in at the moment
• Offer questions and tools appropriate to the client’s current stage
• Appreciate unique stages and differences for ADD clients
• Understand how the LEAP model relates to the ADDCA Foundational Principles
• Demonstrate use of the LEAP model within coaching
• Appreciate how LEAP supports use of  ICF's Core Competencies
• Case Studies
• Module PC201:  Review Questions
• Resources for Module PC201

 
Module PC 202: The ADDCA QuestVersation©

Module Overview

This module will present the concept of an ADD coaching conversational model and the ADDCA QuestVersation©.  Each step of the conversation will be studied and reviewed, integrating ADDCA models and tools, and practiced with case studies.  The module will conclude with practical labs.

 We’ll explore the value of a coaching conversation model and how it supports the core coaching competencies.  Then we’ll study the steps of the QuestVersation^© model.  Finally, we’ll review how LEAP and QuestVersation© work together to support your coaching and your client’s growth.  We’ll conclude the module with a practical lab.

Module Objectives

 Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Understand the ADDCA Coaching QuestVersation© Model
• Know the steps of the QuestVersation© and why we use this model
• Recognize how the core skills and models fit into LEAP and QuestVersation 
• Discuss the value of a Coaching Conversation Model 
• Identify the ICF core competencies that a Coaching Conversation supports & introduce the 5-steps of the QuestVersation© (1) Receiving (2)Witnessing (3) Filtering (4) Activating (5) Reinventing 
• Review the client and coach roles for each stage of the QuestVersation© conversation
• Understand how the LEAP and QuestVersation^©  Models work together in the coaching process to move your clients forward      
• Identify how to make the models yours   
• Practice using the models in a coaching conversation with a client
• Practice explaining the QuestVersation^© Model to your clients with ADHD in ways they will understand
• Case Studies:
• Module PC202: Review Questions
• Resources for Module PC202

The Present and Future for ADD Coaching has Never Been Better!!!

PC ACG Program
ADDCA Program	PC ACG Program
Teleleader:	David Giwerc, MCC
Dates:	Block I :  January 24 – May 23, 2007 Block II : June 6- September 26, 2007
Days	Wednesdays
Time:	12:00 - 1:30 PM ET
Duration:	90-minutes
Cost:	$1597  (for both Block 1 and Block II) $1497 (EB discount if register before December 15)
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