Your Attention Coach

Practical Tools for Management of Life's Tasks

  • Home
  • Therapy
    • Brainspotting
  • ADHD Coaching
    • ADHD Screening Tool
    • sign in and get these links
  • Parents
  • About
  • Contact

February 12, 2013 By Maureen

Who Sees a Changed Mind?

Coaching Guides Change in Clients

Changing

Changing

Do you remember the statue game? Someone would be It. The rest of us children would become the statues taking our positions around the yard. At an undetermined time, the It person would shout out ‘change!’ Then the children statues would change their position very quickly. Someone would be out – I think the one thrown out wouldn’t have heard the command or would be too slow or didn’t change enough. The winds of time have blown the details away.

What I remember though was the importance of changing. It was a physical shift that counted in the game. If I changed my mind it wouldn’t have counted. Who can see a changed mind?

People living with ADHD seem to have problems with change both mental and physical. Either they change behavior or their mind too much, too fast, or they change in ways that irritate people around them. The world expects their change to be smooth and easy and NOW.

Who is taught to change?

My Irish grandmother called every new behavior a stage. ‘Oh, it’s just a stage she’s going through.’ But stage or not, change is the point of living. Coaching teaches people how to change in ways the client chooses. Reported in an article on coaching in the ADHD Coaches Organization newsletter:

Coaching helps people in three ways:

1.A coach allows leaders to reflect about their decisions, and about themselves. A great many coaches used the term ‘awareness’ in describing the benefits of coaching.

2. People usually avoid difficult truths. Coaching brings reality front and center. As one coach put it: “Executives [ed. note: and many people with ADHD also] don’t have anyone to trust and tell the truthabout where they need development. ”

3. People don’t know how to change. A coach can guide a client to find replacements for behavior that’s not working.

Are you ready to change? Now? Now? OK, then when?

For ‘Change!’ call Maureen Nolan, Your Attention Coach

404-713-0488 maureen@maureen-clone.mystagingwebsite.com

Filed Under: ADD/ ADHD, ADHD Whisperer Tagged With: ADHD, Atlanta ADHD Coach, business, change

« Attracted to Brains – Feeling Like a Zombie?
Babies are the Bellwether of a Society’s Health »

Search

Follow Maureen…

Sign Up Today!

Get our straight forward tips to help you build a strong foundation

Categories

  • ▼ADD/ ADHD (19)
    • ADHD and Wheat/Gluten Sensitivity
    • ADHD AWARENESS GROUP for PRACTITIONERS: COACHING, COMMUNITY, AND COMPASSION
    • CAN PARENTING REALLY BE SANE? YESSSS!
    • Coaching for the ADHD Whispers
    • Decisions Based on Old Dreams
    • Does the Dalai Lama Live with ADHD?
    • Follow Threads of Attention: Find the Creative Beginning
    • Maureen Muses on Attention
    • Mindfulness and Attention - Are They Compatible?
    • My Personal ADHD Challenges - FYI
    • Napping Impacts Attention
    • School and Calendars Are ADHD BFF
    • Spirituality and ADHD - Oldest Known Written ADHD Reference
    • Summer Bored? Assess Your Access to Summer Success!
    • The Five Senses of Time
    • Therapy, ADHD Coaching and Consulting
    • Transitions are an ADHD Challenge Right in Your Own Home
    • What is ADD Coaching?
    • Who Sees a Changed Mind?
  • ►ADHD (2)
  • ▼ADHD Whisperer (2)
    • Coaching for the ADHD Whispers
    • Who Sees a Changed Mind?
  • ►Attention (18)
  • ►Events (2)
  • ►Everything Else (31)
  • ►Head Injuries (3)
  • ►Health (1)
  • ►Important Posts (3)
  • ►Mental Health Practitioners (1)
  • ►Musings (4)
  • ►New Clients (3)
  • ►Parent Training (1)
  • ►Tips and Tools (6)

Former Board of Directors Member, ADHD Coaches Organization

Copyright © 2022 · Maureen Nolan · Website Design by · Log in