Monday Evening - Leaning Into ADHD: A Warm, Strengths-Based Path with Xanthe Parker

Living with ADHD can feel exhausting. Many adults spend years trying to stay one step ahead of it: correcting, compensating, pushing harder, or quietly wondering why everyday life seems to take so much effort. This workshop offers a gentler, more supportive way forward.

Instead of trying to outrun ADHD, we’ll explore what it means to slow down, understand it, and lean into it - with curiosity, compassion, and respect for how ADHD brains are wired.

This ongoing workshop, with new exercises each month, is designed specifically for adults with ADHD (diagnosed or self-discovered). It recognises the emotional realities that often come with ADHD: frustration, overwhelm, shame - alongside creativity, empathy, humour, and resilience. Together, we’ll explore ADHD not as something to fix, but as a difference that benefits from the right kind of support.

Through stories, reflection, and practical reframes, you’ll learn how many ADHD challenges are not signs of failure, but signals - cues that your environment, expectations, or supports may need adjusting. We’ll focus on creating conditions where your strengths can show up more easily, and where you can feel understood rather than constantly self-correcting.

This workshop also makes space for the emotional side of ADHD - the grief, self-doubt, and the pressure to “get it right.” You’ll be supported in shifting from self-criticism to self-understanding, and from pressure to partnership with yourself.

In This Workshop, You Can Expect To:

• Feel seen, understood, and less alone

• Learn a compassionate, strengths-based way to understand ADHD

• Discover how your ADHD traits can be supported rather than suppressed

• Explore ways to reduce daily friction at work, at home, and in relationships

• Build language that nurtures confidence instead of shame

• Practice responding to yourself with curiosity rather than criticism

Who This Workshop Is For:

• Adults living with ADHD (diagnosed or self-identified)

• Adults who suspect they may have ADHD

• Adults who want a more compassionate, practical way to work with their brain

• Anyone looking for a more creative and hopeful way to navigate ADHD

Things to bring/materials required: No equipment needed. Please come as you are

Date of event: Monday 11 May 2026

Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm

Cost: £15

No of places 10

We never want cost to prevent anyone attending our events so please reach out to the class practitioner if you require a subsidised ticket

Biography:
Hi, I’m Xanthe - an accredited ADHD coach (ADDCA) with a background in working alongside both adults and young people since 1998.

I work with clients of all ages, offering coaching that’s grounded in experience, empathy, and neurodivergent insight. As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult (ADHD and Autism), I  understand the value of creating spaces that are compassionate, understanding, and above all — celebratory of the unique ways our minds work.

For more information please reach out to me or check out my website at www.squigglyminds.co.uk