Managing ADHD with Mindfulness Course

ADHD extends far beyond challenges with attention—it impacts a broad range of self-management skills known as executive function. This module provides evidence-based approaches, such as mindfulness, for managing ADHD and to enhance resilience and emotional awareness, laying a practical foundation for supporting individuals with ADHD in everyday life. Mindfulness offers essential support for ADHD care by enhancing key traits like patience, self-awareness, and emotional regulation. Mindfulness doesn’t require stillness or calm; it simply involves the intention to cultivate these traits over time, making it accessible to anyone.

Learning outcomes:

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of ADHD and its effects on executive function and self-management skills, going beyond traditional attention deficits. 
• Learn practical, evidence-based strategies for supporting individuals with ADHD, focusing on interventions that address executive function deficits and promote effective management.
• Empower your clients with practical strategies that cultivate essential traits such as patience, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.

Practices: 

1. Breathing Meditation
2. Mindful Eating Meditation
3. Observing ADHD Worksheet

This module delves into the relationship between stress, executive function, and ADHD, building on key concepts from previous sessions. It introduces practical strategies for managing stress—a crucial element of ADHD care—and offers insights into habit formation. Participants will also explore ways to create supportive, structured systems that sustain mindfulness practices and promote long-term ADHD management.

Learning outcomes:

• Delve deeper into the relationship between stress, executive function, and ADHD
• Learn mindfulness practices specifically designed to help reduce stress, improve self-awareness, and build resilience in individuals with ADHD.
• Explore strategies for creating external structures, routines, and reminders that enhance habit formation, time management, and executive functioning skills, ensuring sustainable ADHD management.

Practices:

1. Body Scan Meditation 
2. Paying Attention to Positive Moments Worksheet 
3. STOP Practice

In this module, professionals will gain strategies to help clients become more intentional and purposeful in daily life, developing their ability to recognize and work with physical experiences, emotions, and thoughts in real-time, improving ADHD management. Additionally, professionals will acquire mindfulness techniques to help their clients manage stress, maintain routines, and set limits, enhancing their personal well-being.

Learning outcomes:

• Identify how unmanaged ADHD symptoms disrupt health routines and learn strategies to build sustainable habits in sleep, exercise, nutrition, and screen time.
• Learn how to support clients in developing real-time awareness of physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts to better manage ADHD symptoms.
• Learn how to equip clients with the techniques to recognize and shift habits that impact stress management and boundary-setting to foster personal well-being.

Practices:

1. Mindful in a Moment - 15 Breaths Practice 
2. Mindful Movement 
3. Mindful Breathing - Noticing Habits of Mind 

For those with ADHD, the experience of ADHD, and life in general, is often impacted by a sense of self-judgment, perfectionism, or self-doubt. These habits can cause stress, affect decision-making, and impact how they treat other people as well.  

This module will introduce proven and practical self-compassion techniques to reinforce a more balanced and compassionate mental habit. Participants will gain practices to help clients cultivate self-kindness and an inclination towards self-care. By cultivating the ability for clients to proactively make self-care decisions without force, professionals can help their clients cultivate a healthier, easier, and more self-compassionate way of living.

Learning outcomes:

• Recognize the impact of self-judgment, motivation, and self-doubt on individuals with ADHD and learn strategies to counteract these habits.
• Implement self-compassion practices that foster self-kindness, resilience and persistence in clients with ADHD.
• Develop skills to help clients make proactive self-care decisions, leading to a healthier and more compassionate approach to life and ADHD management.

Practices:

1. Self-compassion Practice
2. “Loving Kindness” Meditation

ADHD symptoms often impact daily conversations, contributing to heightened stress, misunderstandings, and conflict. In this module, participants will develop an understanding of how ADHD influences communication and learn to apply mindful awareness for more compassionate and effective interactions. Practical strategies will be provided to reduce misunderstandings, enhance conversations, and foster a supportive environment for clients with ADHD.

Learning outcomes:

• Recognize how ADHD symptoms affect everyday conversations and may contribute to stress and conflict.
• Learn and implement mindfulness-based strategies to enhance communication skills in clients with ADHD.
• Develop skills to foster effective and compassionate communication, reducing misunderstandings and improving relationships for individuals with ADHD.

Practices:

1. Communication Exercise
2. Compassion Practice

This module provides strategies to help clients successfully apply what they’ve learned by building sustainable, actionable plans for the immediate future. By fostering an environment where clients feel empowered to understand, trust, and implement these strategies, professionals will be better equipped to offer ongoing, impactful support for clients with ADHD.

Learning outcomes:

• Integrate knowledge of ADHD, executive function, and mindfulness to create a comprehensive care plan.
• Develop practical strategies with clients to apply mindfulness and ADHD care techniques in everyday living.
• Learn to create a feasible and sustainable plan with your client for future/sustaining ADHD management.

Practices:

1. ADHD Management Plan Overview Reflection
2. Creating and Sustaining Mindfulness Worksheet

Yes, the instructors are available to answer your questions via email.

This course is for health service providers, coaches, therapists, facilitators and anyone interested in supporting ADHD clients.

A digital credential is a digital confirmation of your accomplishments. It will enable you to showcase your achievement to your network, validate your qualifications to potential employers, and communicate a detailed description of the work involved in earning your certification.

Since the course is on-demand and online, participants can take it from anywhere in the world at any convenient time.

The monthly membership subscription provides access to 300+ on-demand course and workshop CE hours, live events, resources and member community. There is no commitment, so you can cancel anytime.

After the 60-day trial period, the membership switches to a monthly subscription for continued membership access.

Many of our courses, workshops, and events qualify for continuing education requirements and have been accepted as CEUs. We recommend checking with your association to see if this course qualifies. We are happy to provide any supporting information.

• Access to a member library that includes four comprehensive video modules providing learning and practices in mindfulness-based ADHD care.
• Experienced instructor with a specialized focus on ADHD and mindfulness.
• A digital library of practices, transcripts, readings, and reference materials
• Certificate of completion and digital credential validating your skills and knowledge gained from the course

With any course or membership purchase, we have a 30-day refund policy from the day of purchase.

No. While this course covers material helpful for health professionals, coaches and practitioners, this course is accessible to anyone interested in learning more about mindfulness for supporting ADHD.

Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate of completion and have the option to obtain a digital credential.

This is an on-demand course that provides indefinite access. You can start or finish the course whenever you choose, and there are no time restrictions.

For those who purchase a course, you have lifetime access to the course and a membership is not required.

The 60-day free trial membership provides access to 300+ on-demand course and workshop CE hours, live events, resources and member community.

While the Managing ADHD with Mindfulness course is not a facilitator training course, it does provide you with a digital credential acknowledging that you have learned the theory and have experienced the practices. After taking the course, you can use the practices and activities in your work.