Monday Morning - Leaning Into ADHD: A Warm, Strengths-Based Path for Adults & Parents

Living with ADHD - or loving someone who has it - can feel exhausting. Many adults and parents 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 workshop with new exercises every month is designed for adults with ADHD and parents raising children with ADHD, and it recognizes that ADHD shows up differently at every age, yet carries many of the same emotional experiences: frustration, overwhelm, shame, and also creativity, empathy, humor, and resilience. Together, we’ll look at ADHD not as something that needs to be fixed, but as a difference that benefits from the right kind of support.

Through stories, reflection, and practical reframes, participants will learn how many ADHD challenges are not signs of failure, but signals - cues that the environment, expectations, or supports need adjusting. We’ll focus on creating spaces where ADHD strengths can show up more easily, and where both adults and children feel understood rather than constantly corrected.

This workshop also makes room for the emotional side of ADHD - the grief, the worry, the self-doubt, and the deep desire to “get it right.” Parents and adults alike will be invited to replace pressure with partnership, and criticism with connection.

In This Workshop, You Can Expect To:

• Feel seen, understood, and less alone

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

• Discover how ADHD traits can be supported rather than suppressed

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

• Build language that nurtures confidence instead of shame

• Practice responding with curiosity - to yourself and to your child

Who This Workshop Is For:

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

• Parents and caregivers of children or teens with ADHD

• Parents who recognize ADHD traits in themselves through their child

• Anyone wanting a more creative and hopeful way to support ADHD brains

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

Date of event: Monday 13 April 2026

Time: 9.30am-11.30am

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