Alo my foolish friends.
As I we continue our journey through the fog of contemporary culture, I’d like to let you in on a new project I’m working on:
This is a program for young men with ADHD who are struggling to launch.
Not everyone ‘fits in’ with contemporary culture.
Not everyone is suited to get trained by a therapist to mask up, fit in and pretend to be normal.
In a era where social values and the rules of the herd change overnight, people with ADHD can find these extra layers of complexity paralyzing. Even with support we, find that we’re often zapped by the electric fences and cattle prods of those who know better.
The support itself is frequently the fences and cattle prods that shock us.
So much of ADHD coaching is provided by some dude in a tie or a well put together lady. Their clothes and soft dispositions seem to indicate a successful, compliant domesticity.
I’m fed up with these well intended attempts at domestication .
Others with ADHD are also highly sensitive to this prescriptive domination. We defy those who beg us to shut up for our own good. We oppose those who are always interfering in our lives. Sure, it’s tough to live this way, but when someone else is always criticizing us for our neurodiverse shortcomings it’s almost impossible to stand your ground, let alone even find it.
That’s why I’ve created OutsideADHD. We take a bushcraft approach to ADHD. Here, clients learn to create their own accommodations, find their own path and light a fire within themselves to thrive as animals in an overly domesticated world.
I’m starting with a clinical coaching practice here in Nova Scotia. I’m also available to travel to give talks and workshops and to train clinicians to use my methodology in their locations.
If you have ADHD, sign up for the weekly OutsideADHD newsletter here.
Or, if you know someone with ADHD or serves those with it, please ask them to sign up as well.
Each week you’ll get a thoroughly edited newsletter.
Many of the stories there will be familiar to regular readers here. I’ll also feature a weekly ADHD fact or tip as well as an offering for locals that distant clinicians or people with ADHD can adapt to their specific needs.
Thanks for your time.
Jim
I wish you much success in your approach! Sounds like you have a good plan.
Bushcraft sounds like a great idea, good luck with it. I hope you get an interesting cohort to try this out.