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Program Overview

This 6-week ADHD Skills & Strategies Group is designed to help you understand your ADHD brain and build practical tools to make life easier. Each week focuses on a specific challenge and gives you concrete, real-world strategies you can start using right away. You can attend all sessions for the full experience, or choose the weeks that address your biggest challenges.


Session 1 – Foundations & Goal Setting

  • Learn how ADHD affects focus, memory, planning, and emotions.
  • Set personal goals for the program so you can track your progress.
  • Understand how ADHD is neurologically based (not a willpower issue).

Session 2 – Emotional Regulation & Impulse Control

  • Learn why ADHD makes emotions feel more intense.
  • Strategies to pause before reacting.
  • Tools to manage frustration, overwhelm, and rejection sensitivity.

Session 3 – Managing Distractions & Focus

  • Identify your biggest distraction triggers.
  • Learn focus-boosting techniques like time-boxing, body doubling, and environmental tweaks.
  • Practice ways to stay engaged without burning out.

Session 4 – Time Management & Planning (optional if you don’t need time strategies)

  • Understand “time blindness” and why ADHD brains lose track of time.
  • Learn flexible, visual planning tools.
  • Build daily “anchor points” to keep your day on track.

Session 5 – Working Memory & Organization

  • Learn why ADHD makes it hard to remember steps and keep things in order.
  • Create a “second brain” system to store and retrieve important info.
  • Declutter your physical and digital spaces to reduce overwhelm.

Session 6 – Integration & Maintenance

Plan how to keep using them long-term so progress sticks.

Review all strategies learned and combine them into a personal toolkit.

Identify which tools work best for your lifestyle.

Canada

Alberta

  • Calgary
  • Edmonton

British Columbia

  • Vancouver
  • Kelowna
  • Victoria

Ontario

  • Toronto