Here's a link to an article about ADD Coaching: http://www.add.org/articles/what_add_coaching.html

www.addclasses.com is a site where you can hear some ADD Coaches in action through teleclases and audio recordings.

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Imac .. For what purpose ?
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You know, you can always buy a book about adhd coaching.

Try this, "ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the business World" by Thom Hartmann.  You can learn what skills you need to obtain, or you could get some one close to you to read it with you and they can help you by coaching you.  Any one can do it, just as long as that person knows what to do, and the right way to do it.

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Imac .. For what purpose ?
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You know, you can always buy a book about adhd coaching.

Try this, "ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the business World" by Thom Hartmann.  You can learn what skills you need to obtain, or you could get some one close to you to read it with you and they can help you by coaching you.  Any one can do it, just as long as that person knows what to do, and the right way to do it.

All I know is a coach helps you with your ADHD issues. What ever your biggest problems are they give you tools and ideas to help you. Only you know what your biggest problems are. 

I'd say one of them is learning to be patient and maybe you could learn how to control your anger. And learning to do things to do to help yourself...Like go buy a book or search online rather than getting mad that people are snapping to attention because you want answers pronto. 

The following is part stream of consciousness part slightly edited.

First off, most of us our here are in just as much pain and need as you are. We understand you better than you think. Our challenge has only so many facets. If we do not explain things clearly or completely enough, please be understand and accept us and our challenges. Most of us on this site what help and want to help. We offer our best. We are not experts. We are just trying to make it through one more without screaming, without utter confusion, without a mind that cannot think a thought, without a connection to anyone and anything, witout being late, without working aten different projects and not completing any in a satisfactory manner.

Think of who you asking. .

SOME IDEAS AND QUESTIONS:

• I found out about a year and a half ago
• I have suspected for years that one of my challenges is add/adhd.
• I would love a coach but i am nor required by the "professionals.
• Ok, no coach so far.
• Have you read any books about add/adhd?
• The public library may have quite a few books.
• Authors
• Do a google search on "add" and the name of your town/city.
• Do a google search "add coach.” and the name of your town/city?
• Are you in talking therapy? If not, use the yellow pages and call psychologists in your area. Just for information.
• Ask your psychiatrist to be clearer about what he/she means by "coach" hear it from the horses mouth what the horse's intention is.

I have a wonderful therapist whom I see once a week for an hour. that is the structure and extent of our relationship. I bring myself to her space. We talk. I would love a coach but cannot afford one. I do not know why your psychiatrist told you to get a coach. Therefore, i do not know in what capacity your psychiatrist expects your coach to operate. I know my problems. Cannot organize my schedule, my house, clothes, refrigerator, pens and pencil, i procrastinate horribly, late all the time. I do not return calls however I am inundated by loneliness. I have been fired from my last three jobs since 2002. In addition, i cannot substitute teach until the board of education gets a letter from my psychiatrist stating that I am fit to work with children. (You see i am also bi-polar and i had a hypomania attack at school and was totally freaking out while being driven to the hospital by the principal. I have a master degree in I work in a bookstore for about 2/3 less pay than I had received while teaching. At least there is not the stress i had in teaching. Wondering when i will totally space out in front of the class and not know what we were working on. I taught English as a second language to adult learners. I never get along with my bosses/ authority/i see too many glitches

A coach is usually more active in the daily life of the client than a therapist. Therefore, i want a coach to see how I operate, see what i am doing that is derailing me. What am I doing that is has helped me survive all these years. I am almost 50 and was just diagnosed with ADHD after i had suspected this for a long time. Whether my poor teaching performance…teaching.
A coach offers different strategies for accomplishing the big and the little in life, whatever you big or little is. When my challenges seem surmountable, i can call my coach. Analyze that happened to set off this current bout of defeat. Where was i who was i with what was i doing then what would i want the outcome to be, how can i discipline myself to achieve my desired goals. Whether is it job hunting or keeping a job, or divorcing or looking for a partner to hyper-focusing on supposed house cleaning and organizing so much that i do not venture out into this beautiful winter day in Florida.

Offer life tips. Be there to coach in being a better functioning human being, one who can enjoy rather than squandering my life away on worry over event that i cannot control, discipline to take action in that will assist me in getting closer to my goals.

baseball coach,
acting coach
life coach
i believe good parents coach their children to be self-confindent, lead the towards making responsible decisions on their lives. Help make healthy discussions in life. To be good to others.

A coach coaches us in structuring an unstructured life.

2Tone,

Honestly, I have not seen many active or professional "coaches" post on this board besides our regular members who try to help and they are coaches in their own right.

In order to decide if a coach is for you or not you need to look at your life.  What do you wish you could do better?  Do you hold a job or do you wish you could hold a job or do you wish you could change jobs?  What are your dreams? If you are accomplishing everything you want in your life and everything is great then you don't need a coach.

How to find the perfect coach for you will be difficult. Your very picky as you should be! As you pointed out you already have it in your mind a psychiatrist isn't for you.  Your fear of being  "controlled" is unfounded. No one can do that unless you let them. Going to the Scientologist's for help (I can't beleive I'm saying this) is out of the question because they'd want you to give up your medication. I wish I could help you more...just don't know what to suggest.

Yes but do you get my significan question yet imac .. what exactly is the coach supposed to offer .. if i am to seek outr someone who can offer me something i need to kow what it is exactly they have to offer me

its a catch 22 and i need someone to explain to me the purpose of coaching and what it actuially is for and how it goes about achieving it ..


Lets see if this helps at all. A coach is someone who takes a peson and helps that person learn how to achieve at something that they want to improve. The coach will interact with the person to find out what they already know, they look for things like the way a person goes about doing what ever it is that person is seeking the coach to improve. With us ADDERS it would tend to be life skills. They would get to know your strengths and weaknesses. THen they would "help you" to find better ways to acheive the skills needed to get past the obsticals in your way.  A coach would help you to evaluate yur actions and responses to evryday situations, they would help you to weed out the destructive behaviors and thought that have develpoed over a life time of trying to cope with a condition that others have concidered to be ones of personality rather than a physical origines. Over our lives we have been the subjects of a lot of negit6ive feed back from those around us who for lack of knowledge have labled us a the title of book I read most way called something like " So I'm Not Stupid, Crazy or Lazy" ( it may not be word pr word but the meaning is the  same)  Who we are now was created by the world we couldn't quite fit into no matter how hard we tried.

 In order for us to improve we need to relearn a lot of things, I don't mean lose who we are and become puppets, what I mean is we need to unlearn all the self defeating and negitive things we have gathjered till now. All the medication can do is balance out our thoughts and actions bringing them into harmoney with the people we live around and our selves. It is up to us to seek the help we need to isolate to learn to control. So to pin point exactly what a couch would do for you  would be impossable, it depends on your areas of difficuties.  Me I can't get from point A to point B with out passing c through z first, a coach would work with me to help me develope skills/tricks to keep my self on track of what I am doing. A sorta guide to nudge me when I start to stray . Professional coaches would have learned proven ways of correcting the problems and how to individualize coping stratagies  to counter them. Life coaches (I call them) are those around you who you can relate with and can trust and respect enough to allow them to constructively point out areas you need work in and then help you learn how to deal with them.  They are not there to control you but to teach you and help you lhow to cope and succeed in life.