ADHD Emotions & Behaviours

About our Event:

This seminar provides details of understanding and supporting the emotional regulation of individuals with ADHD. We examine emotional dysregulation, the impact of hormones, and the associated support.

We recommend attendance at our "Understanding ADHD" and "ADHD Key Advice & Support" events before this talk to understand better why the advice given works. Our other talks address core issues with advice specific to the various challenges being focused on by those talks. All the talks combine to provide a full perspective of all the support that needs to be implemented.

It is an ideal event for ADHDers (Teens & Adults), parents/guardians, family, teachers & LSA's, and those training for employment roles involving children.

This event looks at how individuals with ADHD, their families and those who work with them can help support them in their day-to-day lives, at school and at work.

• Our speaker is inspirational, motivational, and humorous, with a unique understanding and extensive personal experience of ADHD and coexisting conditions;
• Our events are always conducted in small groups, have a personal touch and are very informal;
• It is ideal for those who have anxieties over meeting new people or being amongst crowds.

Areas Covered:

• ADHD & Behaviours;
• Emotions & Regulation;
• Impacts of Hormones for Men & Women with ADHD;
• Advice & Support;
• Q&A Session;

Refreshments are provided.

Speaker: Stephen Challen

BIO:

Steve was first diagnosed at the age of 13 with a condition they called "Food Related Hypersensitivity Disease" which was later combined with other condition titles into a new title of ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder). He has personal experience with coexisting conditions such as Tourette's Syndrome, OCD, ODD, Dyslexia and more. He has been married to his wife, Madeline, for 27 years and has three girls and a son aged from 15 to 26. They also have two granddaughters. have is wife suffers from Chiari Type 1 and fibromyalgia. All four children are in various positions along the diagnosis/treatment for Tourette's Syndrome, OCD, Dyslexia, and Scoliosis. He is a key speaker for the National Education Union (ATL Divison) and works tirelessly with families and schools to help improve the outcomes for young people and adults in Essex and across the UK.

Steve and his family use the advice given to control their symptoms to a significantly beneficial level. It has been proven time and time again to help others with ADHD, making families' lives much, much better.

What do others think of us?

Feedback from ADHDers, family members, teachers, LSA and others who attend our meetings is always very positive. Here is some paraphrasing of comments we've had back from parents who have followed the advice given:

"Steve told us that adjustment would take 2 weeks through to 2 years to see the full benefit; however, after 24 hours of introducing the changes, my son's teachers asked what we'd done to help him improve his attention and over behaviour. Two weeks later for the first time ever he asked to go to a restaurant, then invited a friend and despite my reservations in going we had a wonderful time and I even managed to go to the toilet with leaving him alone with his friend and came back to find that restaurant hadn't been trashed!"

This was great feedback. It is not uncommon for us to hear but we also recognise that many others take longer to work around many of the associated issues they face. Whether your child is helped quickly or over along period we aim to be here for the long haul.

Here are some feedback messages from our talks:

"We attended the "What is ADHD?" meeting tonight. I would like to say thank you. It was very informative and to hear from someone who has experienced and is living through ADHD as opposed to a consultant who has studied it through a textbook was so much more helpful to us and gives us much more insight into our son and his behaviours. It has given us a lot more hope regarding our and his future than we have had so far. Thanks again!"

“Superb presentation, extremely informative. The presentation was a great mix of background info on the ‘neuro’ science and helpful explanations of behaviour traits. Made me think about our practice in school. Thank you very much. Great to see such quality outreach is available for parents and teachers.”

"A number of our teaching staff attended, and we were all very appreciative of your honesty and also highly impressed by what you have achieved. The impact it has had on the staff was so great, management have recognised that ALL the staff need training to recognise the difficulties and implement strategies into their classroom in order to provide equal educational opportunities to vulnerable learners."