Mindfulness for ADHD has been adapted to combine useful educational content and techniques, with a variety of shorter mindfulness meditation practices. Mindfulness is explored through a playful and curious approach. Participants are encouraged to find their own ‘sweet spot’ by varying and adapting practices, to tailor them to their needs, with guidance and support. Each session will use a variety of teaching techniques to keep participants engaged, with frequent movement breaks. Group sessions last an hour and a half and individual session are 50 minutes long. All course materials are made available, including any educational content, worksheets and audio recordings.

In these sessions, we can find a common connection with others, while noting and celebrating our own differences and needs. Each individual is valued and respected, and encouraged to find their own way of making the most of all the information and skills shared. No practice is compulsory and participation in discussions is entirely optional, with each person’s feelings and needs respected at all time.

Course Content and Delivery for ADHD

Sessions 1 to 3

Moving Away From Automatic Pilot Mode, Strengthening Control and Monitoring of Attention

Session One: Becoming More Present

  • Attention and Rediscovering the Five Senses

  • Introduction to ADHD and mindfulness

  • How can mindfulness help with ADHD?

  • Reframing of ADHD

  • Introduction to the course

Session Two: Focus the Wandering Mind

  • Awareness of ADHD patterns and finding anchors

  • Mindful awareness of ADHD patterns

  • What is my ADHD like?

  • How can mindfulness support my ADHD?

  • What might be the barriers?

Session Three: Directing our Awareness and Finding Anchors

  • Mindfulness of sound, breath and body

  • Noticing shifts in our attention along with body awareness

  • Fostering the role of curious, non-judgemental observer

Sessions 4 to 8

New Relationship to Inner Experiences; Deepening Awareness and Ability to Choose Responses (Self-Regulation)

Session Four: Being in the Body

  • Mindfulness of sound, breath and body

  • Mindful awareness of body sensations

  • Bringing curious awareness to the body

  • Working with discomfort, agitation and pain

  • Repecting, accepting and communicating our window of tolerance

  • Finding comfort

Session Five: Mindful Awareness of Thoughts

  • Mindful awareness of body sensations

  • Working with judgemental thinking

  • Noticing choice points and indecision

Session Six: Mindful Awareness of Emotions

  • How do we feel notice emotions in the body?

  • How quickly do they pass?

  • Working with emotions non-judgementally

Session Seven: Mindful Awareness of Interactions

  • Building our curiosity of interactions, with open awareness

  • Mindful listening

  • Finding a 50:50 attention anchor

  • Communicating needs

Session Eight: Mindful Awareness - a Life Journey of Discovery

  • Building and maintaining informal practices - how to make them a habit.

  • Applying acceptance – changing our rhetoric

  • Renewing intentions and motivation

  • Keeping connections

  • What do we do now?

  • Seeing the end as a new beginning

Note: This course is both trauma and neurodiverse informed