Adult ADHD Self-Management
Learn to understand and accept your ADHD brain, then work with it instead of against it. Support your brain’s ability to function, starting with the basics and building up from there. This class encourages self-awareness and self-compassion as the foundation to a good life with ADHD. Many practical tools are provided. Every class includes a 15 minute break.
Upcoming Sessions
Dates: Tuesdays – August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2026
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: In-person at Access St. Boniface – 170 Goulet St. – Room 394
Register: call 204-940-1150, select option 6
What will I learn?
- What is ADHD
- Practical mindfulness and self-awareness
- Meeting essential body needs comes first
- How to notice and meet sensory needs
- Emotion regulation in ADHD
- Useful DBT skills
- What medications can be used and how they work
- Types of attention
- Common barriers to getting things done and strategies to help
- How to increase or decrease your level of alertness
- Strategies for increasing dopamine
- Different ways to learn and remember
- Schedule management
- How to use routines
- Breaking down complex tasks
- Keeping motivation up
- Self-compassion to prevent burnout
- Available tools and resources and where you can find them
Resources
Peer support
- ADHD support group online for adults (through Learning Disabilities Association of Manitoba)
- ADHD peer-led support groups online for adults, including an option focused on ADHD and substance use disorders
Learning about & living with ADHD
Accommodation requests
- School accommodation resources
- Workplace accommodation resources (scroll down to “In workplace”)
For primary care providers