Navigating Adult ADHD

One hour power session using body doubling. Ok to use for work or personal progress!

Bring that item you've been procrastinating on. Maybe something that needs a good pencil to paper brainstorming session. Or maybe you need to sit down and write an essay, or balance your checking account, or plan out a better laundry schedule, or put together lunches for the week. It doesn't matter. If you need to focus your attention, let's use the pack mentality to help give us an incredibly productive hour. Please plan to stay on screen the whole time, the point is to not wander mentally or physically.

We will start with a short introduction where you just give your first name and what your intention is for the hour. For example "I'm Meredith and I want to create 8 slides for my next presentation". Once our intentions are set, we work independently, together, creating a focused atmosphere to help smooth the way.

Intention setting will happen right away (which is a powerful part of this whole thing), so feel free to sign in a few minutes early. I will do my best to let you back in if you do get disconnected mid-session for any reason.

Doors close as soon as intentions have been set by the group, sometimes as early as 3 minutes into the meeting. If that happens, you're welcome to wait in the Zoom waiting room and join us at half past, when we take our 2-minute break. This is not at all a punishment for being late, just a protection for everyone's attention during the hour! No one will be let in after break.

One hour power session using body doubling. Ok to use for work or personal progress!

Bring that item you've been procrastinating on. Maybe something that needs a good pencil to paper brainstorming session. Or maybe you need to sit down and write an essay, or balance your checking account, or plan out a better laundry schedule, or put together lunches for the week. It doesn't matter. If you need to focus your attention, let's use the pack mentality to help give us an incredibly productive hour. Please plan to stay on screen the whole time, the point is to not wander mentally or physically.

We will start with a short introduction where you just give your first name and what your intention is for the hour. For example "I'm Meredith and I want to create 8 slides for my next presentation". Once our intentions are set, we work independently, together, creating a focused atmosphere to help smooth the way.

Intention setting will happen right away (which is a powerful part of this whole thing), so feel free to sign in a few minutes early. I will do my best to let you back in if you do get disconnected mid-session for any reason.

Doors close as soon as intentions have been set by the group, sometimes as early as 3 minutes into the meeting. If that happens, you're welcome to wait in the Zoom waiting room and join us at half past, when we take our 2-minute break. This is not at all a punishment for being late, just a protection for everyone's attention during the hour! No one will be let in after break.

One hour power session using body doubling. Ok to use for work or personal progress!

Bring that item you've been procrastinating on. Maybe something that needs a good pencil to paper brainstorming session. Or maybe you need to sit down and write an essay, or balance your checking account, or plan out a better laundry schedule, or put together lunches for the week. It doesn't matter. If you need to focus your attention, let's use the pack mentality to help give us an incredibly productive hour. Please plan to stay on screen the whole time, the point is to not wander mentally or physically.

We will start with a short introduction where you just give your first name and what your intention is for the hour. For example "I'm Meredith and I want to create 8 slides for my next presentation". Once our intentions are set, we work independently, together, creating a focused atmosphere to help smooth the way.

Intention setting will happen right away (which is a powerful part of this whole thing), so feel free to sign in a few minutes early. I will do my best to let you back in if you do get disconnected mid-session for any reason.

Doors close as soon as intentions have been set by the group, sometimes as early as 3 minutes into the meeting. If that happens, you're welcome to wait in the Zoom waiting room and join us at half past, when we take our 2-minute break. This is not at all a punishment for being late, just a protection for everyone's attention during the hour! No one will be let in after break.

When you have an epiphany in the shower about something you weren’t really thinking about, that’s your DMN!

Basically, any time you are having thoughts swirling around your brain, but they aren’t from concentrating on something… that’s your Default Mode Network.

Some of us with ADHD feel like those are the only thoughts we have, it can feel like being in one of those flying cash boxes, trying to grab as many thoughts as we can, stuffing them into our shirt and pockets as they zoom around us.
Tonight we find out why!

Scanning for activity levels in the Default Mode Network is a fascinating way neuroscientists can "see" ADHD happen. We will talk about the science but also how it applies to our everyday experiences and what we can do about it!

This knowledge can be really helpful in understanding how and why we get distracted, especially if we get more distracted the more we try to focus! We will also chat a little bit about treatments, medical and non-medical.

This meeting will start with a presentation on the topic and then we will open the floor to discussion with the group where we can talk about our experiences. My hope is that everyone will walk away with a better understanding of how their ADHD brain performs.