ADHD/Executive Dysfunction Skills and Support Group
Living Well With “Now-Brain”:
A Virtual Skills and Support Group for ADHD and Executive Dysfunction.
Are you a lifelong procrastinator, putting off everything from doing the dishes to actualizing your greatest passion project?
Are you chronically embarrassed and self-critical about forgetting appointments, missing deadlines, and losing important items?
Do you find yourself highly sensitive to feeling rejected, judged, or controlled, so that even minor emotional injuries can send you spiraling?
If you answered yes, chances are, you’re living with “Now-Brain”.
Now-Brain is a non-pathologizing term for what has traditionally been called Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or executive dysfunction. Rather than viewing it as an illness, in this group, we’ll explore ADHD as a brain type, with its own unique strengths and challenges.
What Does Living with Now-Brain Mean?
Every brain type has certain strengths and weaknesses - skills that it’s naturally good at and others that require extra effort to develop. What are some of the common strengths of Now-Brain? To name a few: creativity, innovation, empathy, sensitivity, spontaneity, humor, and willingness to take risks. I could go on. Basically, these are things that involve the ability to tune in to what’s right in front of you or right inside you at this moment to discern what feels good, relaxing, exciting, or interesting for you and those around you right now.
But as you know too well, there are other parts of being a person that don’t come as naturally with Now-Brain. And they’re almost always related to the ability to take care of things that will set us up to feel good in the future.
These are often referred to as the brain’s executive functions:
Paying close attention to what you’re hearing or reading so that you’ll have the memory when you need it later.
📚 Memory & Attention
💼 Mobilizing Tasks
Mobilizing yourself for important tasks that seem boring, effortful, too long, or overwhelming.
Sticking to projects or routines once they are no longer new and exciting.
🔄 Sticking to Routines
Bothering to organize rooms, bags, notes, desktops, inboxes, calendars, etc., so that you can find what you need later.
✍️ Organization & Clarity
Embracing Your Strengths and Support
Deciding to get on top of these issues is a way of honoring yourself and your right to live happily and comfortably. In Living Well with Now Brain, you’ll join a community of fellow travelers, learning, sharing, and working together to create a more joyful and less stressed way of living.
Here’s what you can expect as a part of this group:
Learn about your brain - what makes it different from neurotypical brains, and how to work with its specific needs to create stability and purpose in your life
Develop new tools and strategies that draw on your natural strengths and compensate for natural weaknesses
Find healing and compassion for the parts of you that have felt most broken, sitting with a community that understands your experiences from the inside out
Cultivate practices to soothe your nervous system and be less susceptible to chronic overwhelm, using embodied mindfulness, movement, and self-compassion
Experience the power of mutual accountability - see what happens when we stop trying to tackle life alone and instead let friendly companions encourage us to make the changes we seek. The relationships you form in this group can continue being of service for years to come!
This unique offering combines evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with body-centered relaxation training and interpersonal support. A stressed nervous system is by nature defended and closed, and not easily able to learn new habits and let go of old ones. Deep psychological change takes risk and resilience, and depends on our feeling safe, grounded, and open. By doing this work in a container of warm, supportive relationships and with the help of self-soothing techniques that bring balance and flow, our efforts to learn and integrate new skills will be much more fruitful.
Group Details:
Length: 12 sessions
Session time: 1 hr 30 min
Timing: Mondays at either 10:00 am or 1:00 pm, depending on response (eventually both)
Start date: Rolling
Cost per session: $80
Click the button below to get started and, in your message, let us know that you’re interested in this group.