Curriculum and Graduation Requirements: ADD Coach Training Program    

The focus of the ADD Coach Training Curriculum is to:                                       

1. Present a comprehensive/holistic-coaching model of AD/HD that can be used to identify an individual's challenges and strengths.
    
2. Educate coaches about the various brain systems that are involved with AD/HD and the associated co-morbid conditions. 
    
3. Create an awareness of the various belief systems and patterns of thinking that AD/HD individuals tend to focus on.
    
4. Learn how to identify a client's learning styles (modalities), in a variety of different situations, in order to improve their focus and comprehension.
    
5. Provide coaching tools to educate the client about their AD/HD so that they can clearly communicate their impairing challenges to a qualified diagnostician.
    
6. Provide a methodology for developing a customized client plan that will convert natural talents into daily strengths.
    
7. Identify and integrate the essential planning elements necessary to manifest important goals, desires, and dreams.
    
8. Present and practice ADDCA's proven coaching models, strategies and skill sets for the purpose of empowering clients to take action with important tasks, goals, projects, and concepts.
    
9. Reinforce beliefs and patterns of success that remind clients of their past success and their ability to create more success in the present.
    
10. Co-create a client vision statement that is a passionate reflection of their heartfelt desires.
    
    

Curriculum Overview

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Module 101:
INTRODUCTION TO COACHING

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to coaching. We’ll define coaching and discuss what it means to be a coach. We’ll also look at how coaching is distinguished from other professions. We’ll get our first look at the ADDCA Coaching Foundational Principles and the International Coach Federation’s Core Coaching Competencies. This module will also introduce you to the ADDCA coaching process and the models you’ll be learning here. It’s important right from the beginning of your training to introduce you to coaching ethics and standards, and we’ll review those and study a few possible scenarios. Finally, we want you to begin thinking about what coaching can do for clients, how they will benefit, what you’ll deliver, and just what kind of coaching business you wish to create.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Be able to give your own definition of coaching
  
• Appreciate and be able to articulate how coaching is unique from other professions
  
• Know the qualities of a masterful coach
  
• Be familiar with the ADDCA Coaching Foundational Principles
  
• Have a beginning appreciation for the core coaching competencies you’ll be learning
  
• Be familiar with coaching ethics and standards
  
• Have a context for the ADDCA coaching process and models
  
• Have begun thinking about your coaching business and the benefits of coaching
  

Module 102:
INTRODUCTION TO ADD AND AD/HD COACHING

Module Overview

This module introduces you to 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. This module also introduces the ADDCA Coaching Foundational Principles and invites you to incorporate them into your coaching. We will be exploring the difference between regular coaching and ADD coaching and what sets a well-trained ADD coach apart.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Appreciate the paradox that is ADHD
• Listen from an understanding and appreciation of the ADD traits and challenges
• Articulate the differences between ADD coaching and regular coaching
• Discuss how you’ve integrated the ADD Coaching Foundational Principles into your coaching

Module 103:
LEAP AND THE ADDCA COACHING QUESTVERSATION© MODEL

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to two basic ADDCA coaching models. These models will serve as a foundation for your coaching, informing and guiding you 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 is working in. We’ll also review other models to see how they support the ADDCA LEAP model and refine your thinking. We’ll quickly review ADDCA tools you’ll be learning which you can use within each stage of LEAP.

The second model introduced in this module is the QuestVersation© model. 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 these two models work together to support your coaching and your client’s growth. We’ll conclude the module with a case study.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Learn the stages of a client we call LEAP
• Understand the model and why we use it
• Be familiar with other models similar to LEAP
• Learn the ADDCA Coaching QuestVersation© Model
• Know the steps of the QuestVersation© and why we use it
• Recognize how the core skills and models fit into these 2 models
• Understand how LEAP and QuestVersation© work together
• Identify how to make the models yours
• Have a foundational context and structure for learning the skills and tools of coaching
• Practice using the models
• Practice explaining the QuestVersation© Model to clients

Module 104:
Establishing the Coaching Partnership

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to the coaching relationship and how we establish it. We’ll define what a coaching partnership is and discuss the related core competencies. Then we’ll explore how to lay a foundation for the coaching partnership. As part of that foundation, the coach and client must determine how they will work together, and we’ll look at elements to include in that early conversation. There are tools we’ll use to initiate and sustain the relationship, and we’ll be creating some during this module. Finally, we’ll explore how the QuestVersation© model provides a powerful, sustaining foundation for the coaching partnership.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Understand what makes the coaching partnership unique and special
• Be able to articulate roles in the relationship
• Identify your expectations of your clients
• Have a process for learning about the client and the client’s first goals
• Have a process and a checklist for establishing the partnership
• Have your first Welcome Packet developed and ready to use
• Have begun your coaching business operations manual
• Appreciate how the QuestVersation© model supports and sustains the coaching partnership

Module 201:
Receiving the ADHD Client

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to the QuestVersation© skill of Receiving. This is the first and foundational skill you'll use as a coach, and it is an essential element for powerfully impactful coaching. First, we'll explore what it means to powerfully receive a client. That includes what we do to be fully present with our clients. You'll learn how we receive, the levels of listening, other ways we receive besides listening, and what we listen for first. Then we'll study the key things a coach is always listening for and what we can do to fully receive each of these things.

Finally, we'll review what you can do to improve the coaching environment for greater receiving. We'll explore how to remain in not knowing as the coaching relationship matures, and we'll discuss the use of silence and trusting our intuition to improve our receiving.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Know what it means to powerfully receive your client
• Understand the different levels of listening
• Appreciate what can get in the way of being fully present
• Have your own process for being fully present to receive
• Understand how we receive beyond listening
• Know what a coach listens for first
• Appreciate the benefits clients get from our receiving
• Identify the key things a coach listens for
• Understand how to recognize what you're receiving
• Have questions you can ask yourself to receive more fully
• Appreciate the many ways we receive what our clients tell us
• Think how you'll stay in not knowing as the partnership matures
• Understand how to use silence and your intuition within receiving
  

Module 202:
Witnessing the ADHD Client

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to the QuestVersation© step of Witnessing, where we will further our understanding of being an Observer for our clients. First, we'll explore what it means to powerfully witness a client, and we'll identify the four elements we observe and witness. You'll next learn what it is that we witness and be introduced to Barriers to Attention and the C Model of Choices. Eleven witnessing skills will be introduced and demonstrated, and you'll be practicing each skill. Then we'll study how to know when and what to witness and how to deliver a difficult message. Finally, we'll explore how to help our clients learn to witness themselves.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Know what it means to witness a client
• Understand the four elements we observe and witness
• Appreciate how to be an Observer for our clients
• Understand the Barriers to Attention
• Identify what we witness
• Have a practical understanding of eleven witnessing skills and how to use them
• Understand when and what to witness
• Have your own process for witnessing difficult messages
• Appreciate why clients benefit from learning to witness themselves

Module 203:
Questioning the ADHD Client

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to the essential coaching skill of questioning that is used throughout the QuestVersation© process. First, we'll explore what it means to powerfully question. That includes how questioning fits into the core competencies and supports the ADDCA Foundational Principles. You'll learn the elements of a powerful question and review a list of questions.

Then we'll study eight questioning models and apply them in case study scenarios. Finally, we'll explore how to use questions powerfully, apply them to ADDCA models, and learn how to use questions to quantify a client's goal.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Learn what it means to ask powerful questions
• Understand the structure of powerful questions
• Recognize why certain questions are more powerful than others
• Learn eight specific questioning models
• Identify our purpose in asking questions
• Build a repertoire of powerful questions

Module 204:
Filtering thoughts and beliefs

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to the skill of filtering clients’ thoughts and beliefs and provide you with some models and tools to effectively filter. First, we’ll discuss what it means to filter and the related ICF core competencies when we filter. You’ll learn the Machine, Mind, and Mission model as well as gain a working understanding about beliefs and emotions. We’ll also review general and ADDCA models that will assist you in filtering client beliefs.

Finally, we’ll review the impact of filtering on your coaching and your client’s growth. We’ll conclude the module with case study practice.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Understand the QuestVersation© step of filtering
  
• Appreciate the importance of beliefs and emotions for creating change
  
• How beliefs impact ADHD: pests vs. pigeons
  
• Learning the importance of Beliefs vs. Knowing for individuals with ADHD and how to discover them through our past and use them more frequently through the Magical Moment on the Mountain exercise. The foundation of strengths as a unique brain wiring is already hardwired in the brain as fulcrum for forward momentum
  
• Understand the resistance and/or ambivalence to change
  
• Have several filtering models to use with clients
  
• Recognize when we filter
  
• See how Filtering, Activating, and Reinventing flow during a coaching conversation Practice using the filtering models and process
  

Module 205:
Activating a Plan

Module Overview

This module is designed to introduce you to the skill of activating your clients’ plans and provide you with some models and tools to effectively get clients into action and keep them in action. First, we’ll discuss what it means to activate and the related ICF core competencies. You’ll learn about goal setting, as well as identify tools for assisting clients to follow through on their dreams and plans. We’ll also study ADDCA models that will assist you in getting clients into steady, forwarding action.

We’ll also explore activating as a step in the QuestVersation© process. Finally, we’ll review the impact of activating and your client’s growth. We’ll conclude the module with case study practice.

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you will:

• Learn what it means to activate your client
• Understand the activating process
• Be familiar with some ADDentifiers which support activating
• Know how to use the Fruits to Fruition model within activating
• Recognize what gets in the way of activation
• Identify when and how our clients are activated
• Have a set of strategies, systems, and structures for activating AD/HD clients
• Learn and know how to use the S Model
• Practice the activating process and language
  

Module 206:
Reinventing a Successful Picture

Module Overview

The fifth and final QuestVersation© step is Reinventing a successful picture. You might think that we should help clients create their new picture of success before they get going into the doing, but it doesn’t actually work that way. Every action taken and new awareness discovered begins shaping a new picture of success for the client. However, the coach needs to bring the client’s attention to that emerging new picture and help them clarify and solidify it for themselves. The picture isn’t strong and complete until actual successes begin piling up to create a new inner knowing.

Nevertheless, the coach is planting seeds toward the new successful picture in every coaching conversation with observations of progress, acknowledgements, and feedback. The coach also invites the client to notice glimpses and feelings about the new picture even as work continues.

Module Objectives

During this last step in the QuestVersation© model, there are also some steps we take to complete a coaching session as well. Part of reinventing a successful new picture for the client is helping the client to maintain focus and continue with action to keep those actual successes piling up. As the session draws to a close, we want to:

• Invite the client to recap what he learned during the session
  
• Ask the client to list action steps he has committed to doing
  
• Check the accountability structures and supports
  
• Offer any last framework or motivational comment of support
  

Graduation Requirements

ADDCA students are required to:                                                    Brochure

1. Attend at least 80% of the General teleclasses
    
2. Attend at least 80% of the ADD Coaching labs
    
3. Successfully complete & pass all module review questions
    
4. Provide a coaching /client tape for review 
    
5. Complete an oral role play  exam that will be recorded upon completion of the ADDCA curriculum
   
   

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