Overview of ADD Coach Training Program (A.C.T.)

OFI's "flagship" ADD Coach Training Program (A.C.T.) encompasses in-depth study of ADD presentations and comorbid conditions, etiology, neurology, learning theory & memory management, legal issues, and medication theory as well as non-pharmaceutical alternatives, each through the lens of COACHING highly creative, multifaceted individuals with attentional differences. 

—OFI coaches are taught to coach in a telephone format, which works especially well as an aid to focus.  The need for good ADD Coaching is global, and OFI believes that an individual's best coach is not necessarily the closest coach.   

—Students are required to supplement classroom training with practical coaching experience, coaching labs and to participate in weekly partner-coach sessions.

—The course manual of over 600 pages is amplified by required reading of six books by noted ADD authors.

—Class content has always been delivered in a series of monthly Modules: one hour per week, four weeks per month, with a small group of peers, by telephone.  Each module concentrates on a particular element of ADD and ADD Coaching, taught by some of the best senior ADD Coaches in the field.

—The restructured program will continue to offer the comprehensive content that has been available until ACT-11 WHILE it adds depth of study in ways we have been unable to offer without changing HOW we offer it.  Our new design cleverly accommodates the ADD impulsive nature to "begin immediately" while the class enrollment process proceeds in its own ADD way.

—Approximately a year is spent with a CORE group of Associates who train together during the year that makes up the Core Content Modules
portion of the training. The 12 Core Content Modules take place at the same time each week, one module a month, 4-hours per module, 1-hour per week, supported by Associate Coaching Labs as well as 1-hour Supplemental Labs with open enrollment.

Available to A.C.T. Associates only, Core Content Modules provide 48 hours of coach specific training, delivered sequentially on the same TeleBridge at the same time and same night of the week, and Associate Coaching Labs provide two 2-hour Labs monthly, an additional to 48 hours of coach specific training.  5 Associate Labs are required, part of the requirement for an accompanying coaching lab  monthly during the Core Content segment (monthly labs for the rest of the Core Modules may be chosen from of any 1 or 2-hour Lab).

—The majority of the training is delivered through The Supplementals,
with a catalog of classes reminiscent of the structure of a university, designed to give our Associates more flexibility with scheduling and a greater exposure to the ADD and ADD Coaching community overall.  Modules covering various topics in various formats make up the Supplementals:

• Supplementals include Coaching Labs, Practice Management Modules, ADD Content Modules, ADD Skills Modules, and ADD Coaching Modules, as well as Modules leading to certification and licensing of proprietary tools developed here.
• The scheduling of Supplementals is dynamic & ongoing.  A "catalogue" with classes &  descriptions will be available; class schedules will be posted to the website quarterly.. 
• Similar to the college model
  • Some classes are elective, some are required, and some have prerequisites
  • You will know WHAT is available at the time "the catalogue" was finalized
  • WHEN  changes dynamically and is announced quarter by quarter
  • You will register for Supplementals each quarter
  • Not all classes will be available every quarter
  • New classes will be added with future "catalogues"
  • You do not have to take EVERY class to graduate or to graduate at all
• Supplementals are "open to the public"  (as well as coaches trained or training elsewhere, non-coach ADD professionals, and OFI grads who desire "supplemental" training or need hours for re-certification with ICF.)