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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
If you run a group for people with ADHD, keep it to about five or six, or bring in a second facilitator. Past that you spend the session keeping order instead of doing the work.
The limit is not really about behaviour. It is about how many people one person can genuinely track while also holding the thread of the session.…
Sitting in a room with other people who lose their keys, cry at nothing and hate themselves for both does something no explanation can. You find out you were never the only one.
Groups also do encouragement better than a therapist can. When someone with the same trouble asks whether you managed the homework, it does not land…
Connection does not have to be human. A dog will not judge how your week went, and it will get you out of the door twice a day whether you feel like it or not.
If people currently feel exhausting or risky, an animal is often the easiest place to begin. Part of the good is the company and part of it is the…
You can be connected to a thing as well as to a person. A cause, a project, something you are making. On the days people feel like too much, it is still there.
This works best when it asks something of you regularly: a rehearsal, a shift, a chapter a week. The obligation is the useful part, more than the…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.
If you tell people that company is part of their treatment, it is worth noticing whether it is part of yours. Sitting in a training room with colleagues is the same medicine, taken by you.
There is a quiet loss of credibility in prescribing connection from a life that has none in it. It also flattens something that ought to be flat. You…