ADDCA Continuing Education for Coaches

What is the P ACG Program? This program will introduce you to ADDCA's  proven, proprietary coaching models and strategies that will add powerful new tools to your current coaching skill set. If you are already confidently coaching your clients, using the core ICF competencies, then our PACG program will be perfect for you!  Why should I join the P ACG Program? If you want to be one of a specialized group of well- trained ADHD coaches that can make a significant difference in the lives of individuals with ADHD, than you won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn from the leader in ADD coach training, the ADD Coach Academy. We are truly transforming the ADD perspective; one well-trained ADD coach at a time.

What is the curriculum of the P ACG program?

The Core Curriculum courses are:
Module 99: Simply ADHD -An Introduction to ADHD and ADHD Coaching
 
Module Overview
This module introduces you to ADHD and ADD coaching, the traits and challenges of ADHD, and how to listen for and appreciate the importance of context when exploring a client's ADHD

Module Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Learn the most recent definition  of ADHD
• Be familiar with the diagnostic criteria for children as well as adults
• Be able to recognize common ADHD scenarios and clues
• Appreciate and be able to articulate the paradox of ADHD
• Understand and be able to recognize the primary challenges of ADHD
• Learn the impact of ADHD and current knowledge about genetics and ADHD
• Be able to articulate a strengths context of ADHD
• Understand learning modalities
• Learn 6 ADDCA models for helping persons impacted by ADHD learn about their brains
• Understand what sets ADD coaching apart
• Know the 6 R's of ADHD Coaching
• Recognize the value and benefits of working with a trained ADD coach

Module 208: ADDCA Models

Module Overview
This module introduces you to the brain, memory, and learning styles as they impact our ability to coach.  Then we introduce and explore several ADDCA models you can use to contextualize ADD and move the client forward.  Finally, we present some ADDCA ADDentifiers and how we might use them within coaching.  The module includes interactive role plays and case studies.

Module Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Appreciate how our clients’ brain and memory work
• Recognize clients’ learning styles
• Coach using the ADDCA models and ADDentifiers, as appropriate
• Appreciate how the ADDCA models support the ICF core coaching competencies

Module 209: Stages of a Client: LEAP

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to a basic ADDCA coaching model.  The LEAP model serves as a foundation for your coaching -- informing and guiding you and the client throughout every coaching session you hold.  First, we’ll discuss the LEAP model and what we mean by stages of a client.  You’ll learn the stages of LEAP and how to recognize which stage your client may be working in.  We’ll also review another model to see how it supports the ADDCA LEAP model and refines your thinking.  We’ll review ADDCA tools you and the client might use within each stage of LEAP.  The module includes interactive role plays and case studies.

Module Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Explain the stages of a client and the LEAP model
• Recognize what stage clients are in at the moment
• Offer questions and tools appropriate to the client’s current stage
• Appreciate unique stage differences for ADD clients
• Understand how the LEAP model relates to the ADDCA Foundational Principles
• Demonstrate use of the LEAP model within coaching
• Appreciate how LEAP supports use of the Core Competencies

Module 210: The ADDCA QUESTVERSATION©

Module Overview
This module will present the concept of an ADD coaching conversational model and the ADDCA QuestVersation©.  Each step of the conversation will be studied and reviewed, integrating ADDCA models and tools, and practiced with case studies.  The module will conclude with practical labs.
We’ll explore the value of a coaching conversation model and how it supports the core coaching competencies.  Then we’ll study the steps of the QuestVersation© model.  Finally, we’ll review how LEAP and QuestVersation© work together to support your coaching and your client’s growth.  The module includes interactive role plays and case studies.

Module Objectives
Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:ts

• Understand the ADDCA Coaching QuestVersation© Model
• Know the steps of the QuestVersation© and why we offer this model in coaching
•  Recognize how the core skills and models fit into LEAP and QuestVersation©
• Understand how LEAP and QuestVersation© work together
•  Identify how to make the models a part of your coaching
• Practice using the models in your coaching
• Practice offering and explaining the QuestVersation© Model to client

What support does  the ADD Coach Academy provide their students?  

Training manual:
ADDCA provides an extensive, well- organized training manual divided into four separate modules. Each module integrates visual models and maps with large type fonts for improved legibility and comprehension and are also organized by individual session objectives so that you can prepare for each class session.

The manual also contain ADDCA's proprietary coaching models, strategies, and skill sets as well as information on the brain's executive functions, ADHD challenges and important strategies and questions to empower clients to make important choices that that will positively change their current situation.... and more....
 
Teleclass/Lab Audio recordings:
You will have the ability to review all their general teleclasses & labs twenty-four hours, seven days a week.

Password-protected student website
You will receive all the information to access the site once your registration is complete

Learning Partners
You will be matched with a classmatelearning partner and be given weekly coaching exercises to practice each skill in greater depth, in addition to  receiving important  feedback.

Support for PACG Coach Graduates

• Receive a free ADDCA Basic Listing promoting your coaching practice  on our highly visited, resourceful and easy to navigate ADDCA website.
• Multiple referral sources including Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine

The Present and Future for ADD Coaching has Never Been Better!!!

Next Program Begins
January 12, 2010
Tuition: $2795