The backbone of A.C.T. is a collection of classes in several formats that combine to produce a comprehensive ADD Coaching program that also fosters the development of a strong community.

12 Core Content Modules
- designed to cover the basic elements in areas we believe any effective ADD Coach must have down pat
- providing 48 training hours of the graduation requirement of 136
- each consisting of 1 hour weekly, four weeks a month
- following sequentially, one Module each month
- each module building on the next
- held on the same TeleBridge at the same time on the same night of the week for the duration of the Core Content Modules
- attended with a Core group of colleagues from the same ACT who train together during this segment of the A.C.T. program
The Introductions Module
- designed to provide a format for Associates tobecome comfortable with each other
- to introduce learning and coaching with OFI's targeted modalities approach
- to foster the establishment of community within their Core ACT and the rest of OFI Associate network within the distance learning format
- and to make sure everyone has the necessary information to proceed powerfully through through the remaining Core Content Modules.
Five ADD-focused Core Modules
"The why" of ADD, the underlying neurobiology, is the genesis of OFI's comprehensive approach to ADD Coaching – what differentiates us from non-ADD coaching as well as from some of the others ways of coaching ADD.

What sets OFI graduates apart is that OFI Coaches understand the reasons behind the ADD challenges and learn a variety of ways to "end-run" the difficulties.

ADD Coaching techniques (the particular skills effective with particular ADD presentations) are presented along with the theory and practiced in the required Coaching Labs, but our initial focus is on making sure that ALL OFI Associates really understand ADD. That's what makes OFI Coaches so good, and why some of the best ADD doctors in the country refer their patients to our coaches.

Core & Required ADD Modules: Descriptions & Details

Six ADD Coaching-focused Core Modules
The Coaching Skills Modules explore the coaching techniques that correspond to ADD challenges and provide a variety of ways to "end-run" the difficulties.

You will synthesize the information from any of the ADD Modules into an extremely powerful, comprehensive way of coaching a client with ADD – a style of coaching that works for ANY client, essential for an ADDer.

In each Coaching Skills Module, whether Core or Supplemental, you will learn specific concepts, techniques and strategies designed to make a difference in one or more of the areas identified in The Challenges Inventory™. You will also begin to work with forms and programs in the Coaching Skills Modules.

Core & Required Coaching Skills Modules: Descriptions & Details

11 Core Coaching Labs
- accompanies each Core Content Module after Introductions
- provide a combination of 16 to 22 lab hours required specifically to provide the "practice pool" for the Core Content Modules.
Even students who come to us as practicing coaches need a place to assimilate the ADD-specific information into their approach.

We make it simple to fulfill the Coaching Lab requirement of 30 total Lab Hours,
which continue to sharpen Associate coaching skills.
- In addition to ongoing 2-hour Associate Labs offered twice monthly (attendance at 8 are required for graduation), we offer a variety of one-hour Supplemental Labs to give our students plenty of choices about the kind of coaching they want to practice
- Except for required attendance at one accompanying Lab each month an Associate spends in the Core Content Modules, Supplemental Labs may be taken for credit any time up to three years after enrollment.
- Associate Labs remain available at no additional charge forever
  – even after graduation!

Coaching Lab Detail

9 Required Supplementals
Required Supplementals add depth of understanding in key arenas OFI feels are essential for a comprehensively trained ADD Coach, to explore arenas that don't require a specific sequence of content delivery for assimilation.

Still required for graduation, these Supplementals can be taken in a much more flexible order. They provide an additional 32 hours of ADD Coaching essentials
- 5 Modules concentrating on areas fundamental to ADD Coaching
- 4 Modules concentrating primarily on fundamentals designed to give students an understanding of ADD itself.

Core & Required ADD Modules: Descriptions & Details

Core & Required Coaching Skills Modules: Descriptions & Details

Required Practice Management Supplementals
10 hours of Practice Management Supplementals are also required, so that OFI Associates graduate knowing how to make a living with the skills they master here. Students have a menu of choices in this arena. Individual coaches can tailor their training to how they envision their practices, spending their training time acquiring the skills they feel they need first.
A.C.T. Graduation Requirements
136 Coach Specific Training Hours
A.C.T. graduation requires a total of 136 Curriculum Hours:
48 hours of CORE Content Curriculum
32 hours of Required Supplementals
16 hours of Associate Coaching Lab
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= 96 hours we require specifically
and
• 14 hours chosen from a variety of Coaching Labs
• 10 hours elected from among the undergraduate
Practice Management Supplementls.
• 16 hours elected from any combination of ANY class in the
Supplementals undergraduate curriculum:
(ADD specific, ADD Coaching, Practice Management,
or Coaching Lab)
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= 40 hours chosen by Associates

Additional Graduation Requirements Descriptions & Details

Download Graduation Requirments Table
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But that's just the beginning! A.C.T. tuition entitles our Associates to a LOT more training than the basic graduation requirements.

20 for Free!
From the moment a student has paid his or her tuition until graduation, for three years from the date of registration, s/he is granted a total of 78 hours of S Supplementals – 20 hours beyond the total number required for graduation – without paying another single dime toward the course fees that non-Associates must pay to enroll in those same classes.
Langnaippe 33
Associates may ALSO register for 33 additional hours of C Supplementals, pre–requisites for other classes they will want to take – over and above those additional "20 for free," again at with no additional course fees.
"Langnaippe," as the cajuns say – "a little some thing extra"
Ongoing access to keep skills sharp
Whenever OFI Associates feel they would like a refresher to stay sharp, we WANT them to feel "free" to take one – whenever they want it.
- Although we don't allow anyone who is not part of the Associate community to "sit in" on any of our classes or to listen to class tapes, Associates have the right to audit ANY Core Module from the moment of registration, even AFTER graduation. Associates may choose to listen to taped playbacks of other classes as well.
- Also from the moment of registration, Associates are granted admission to an unlimited number of Associate Labs – FOREVER.
ONLY Core Content Hours must be attended according to a syllabus.
Except for Labs required during the Core Modules, ALL other hours may be taken for credit at any time up to three years after enrollment.

OFI leaves it up to the judgment of individual Associates themselves
to determine how fast or slowly they choose to proceed.
- As long as Associates can keep up with their own appetites for learning, we currently place no restrictions on the number of classes that may be taken at one time.
- Other than the restriction that the "20 for free" must be taken prior to graduation, during a period of three years from the date of A.C.T. registration, we currently place no time limit on the time a student takes to get to that graduation.
We believe that most students will schedule:
- a few classes immediately upon enrollment
- a great many before their Core Content Class fills
- several more during periods of time when life slows down while they are going through their Core Content Modules
- a few more when they have completed their Core Modules, while they are preparing for their written exams and waiting to schedule their Orals.

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