Booklist from the original ADD Coach Training

ACO Conference Binder 2012 –
Blog expanded Speaker Content
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – Part 4d

“It takes a village to educate a world.”
~  Madelyn Griffith-Haynie

“If the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t blame the FOOT!”
~  Madelyn Griffith-Haynie (the motto of OFI’s ADD Coach Training)

Required Reading
for OFI ‘s ADD Coach Training

The following were the Required Books for the original ADD Coach Training I delivered through my first company, The Optimal Functional Institute™ [OFI]

I chose these books initially because they contained information that I intended to refer to throughout the  Coach Training modules that made up the certification-compliant, ADD-specific coach training that I began in beta way back in 1994  —  the training that started a field.

To keep my student’s initial investment low, I chose the following books as ones I would refer to often because they were (and are) approachable, written in simple language, with great lists and descriptions of what these new ADD coaches would encounter with attentionally challenged clients.

Specific sections of these books were  required as background information for class discussions, in addition to the module content that I developed.

I required the following books specifically because they had already languaged beautifully many of the elements that I felt it important to point out in specific areas of their training.

Two of the original choices, Susan Setley’s Taming the Dragons and
Thom Hartman’s Focus Your Energy, subsequently went out of print,
but if you can find them used, nab them!

As time marched on, other excellent books became part of the bibliography that those enrolled received with their course materials.

A Notebook as a System to Fulfill

Creating “A System to Fulfill”

by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
In support of The ADD in the Spirit Coach Training Program Series

Setting it up so that you get to WIN!

The priciples of setting up a tracking system for a brand new coaching practice generalize — so don’t skip this article, simply because you won’t be setting up a notebook for coach training.

Beginning with the END in mind

There’s a lot to track when you’re setting up a brand new system for a brand new business!

If you are like most of us with ADD, that tracking part doesn’t land anywhere close to your centers of competency, so don’t make it harder than it needs to be.

Start out organized!

Don’t play games with this – do it right away!

• You know what will happen to the notes taken in all those tattered legal pads and spiral notebooks – or on the little scraps of paper – or on anything else you grab to write on “for now,” don’t you?
• Somewhere deep inside you KNOW that the “tomorrow” where you will finally get everything together and filed for easy retrieval-on-demand will NEVER turn into today — don’t you?
• Yep! The task will loom larger and more daunting with every scratch of the pen and tick of the clock.

Class notes, handouts, contact sheets, practice management tips, tricks and brain-children, medication references, bridge numbers and access codes (and who knows what else?!) – OH MY!

Your best defense against overwhelm and Boggle

. . . is to make it “easy by default.”

ADDing in the Spirit

^{ADDing in the Spirit to Allow Success to Emerge}

by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie and Peggy Ramundo,
content of the ACO conference binder, from
joint presentation at the 5th Annual ACO convention

The ADD Coach’s Dilemma . . .

“How do I manage strengths-based coaching when I’m dealing with deficits?”

With the necessity of time spent on “functional pragmatics” and ADD/ADHD information in our niche, ADD coaches often struggle to find a way to implement what is often referred to as “whole person coaching.”

Whole Person Coaching:

Partnering with clients to facilitate the process of designing a life of power, beauty and fulfillment: aligned with client standards and values, meeting client needs, and maintaining client-appropriate boundaries;

Championing growth and development as clients move from goal to goal to fashion an experience of living that is an increasingly greater expression of the client’s life purpose.
—————-
from OFI’s ADD Coach Training Program reference materials, written by founder
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CMC, MCC, SCAC; ^©1994, 2006, 2011, all rights reserved.

 And the Solution  .  .  .   

ADD in the Spirit Resource List

Peggy Ramundo and I promised we would post The ADD in the Spirit Coach Training Resource List so that it would be available to prospective students online.  We decided to make it available for anyone interested.
(Feel free to pass it on in any format — source credit appreciated) You can also find a slightly more abbreviated version in the ACO 2012 Conference Binder with our speaker materials. 

The ADD in the Spirit Resource List:
Books, Blogs, and Web Sites

from Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
and Peggy Ramundo, BS, A.C.T., STCL, DT, SCAC
In support of The ADD in the Spirit Coach Training Program Series

ADD in the Spirit Coach Training
Required Reading List

• Coaching with Spirit, Teri-E Belf
• Financial Spirituality, Bill Rowland
• How Can I Help? Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
• Organizing for the Spirit, Sunny Schlenger
• Making Peace with the Things in Your Life, Cindy Glovinsky
• The ADHD Effect on Marriage, Melissa Orlov
• You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?! 2nd Edition,
  Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

About the “Stuff”

More Good Stuff!

The pages found in this category will consist of short descriptions with links to content housed “offsite” – TeleClasses, Downloads, eBooks, Podcasts, and Class Materials — ALL will be listed on posts in this category.

As I launch this particular site, it sure looks a lot like overkill, doesn’t it?

As the ADDCoach.com family of sites grows, this section will populate. Knowing what’s coming,  I have attempted to separate potential areas of interest so that you won’t have to wade through a long list of stuff to locate a download or a sign-up link to the particular stuff you’re interested in, and you won’t have to remember what lives where!

If you are seeing the excerpt version (grey box only, no list below), as you roll over “Read more of this post” at the end of the box, it will turn dark red (yep, a link to the rest of the page!). Click on it  to view a list of categories, each of which will have a corresponding page.

Descriptions and links will be found on the individual pages listed (as they become available online!)

[If you already see the list below, you will NOT see the link since you can already see the page.]