Join Our Mailing List for
2009 Conference Updates and Previews!

Name
Email

 

• Home |
• Agenda
|
• Podcasts |
• Registration |
• Sponsorship/Exhibit Opportunities
|
• FAQ |
• Contact Us

 

All The Benefits. None of the Hassles.

The Virtual AD/HD Conference™ is different from physical conferences and other virtual events for two significant reasons:

1. The Virtual AD/HD Conference™ cuts your costs by up to 686.6%*! You pay only the registration fee. No worries about planes, hotels, and meals. And you save about $1449* in the process. (*See "Reason Number 5" below for exact calculation.)
2. The Virtual AD/HD Conference™ is AD/HD-friendly! You can pick and choose from tons of sessions. Attend them all, or just a few—your choice! You can miss the live sessions and catch a recording later. You can participate from the comfort of your own living room, kitchen, office, or anywhere else you like. You can save a bundle of cash. And, best of all, you can sleep in your own bed at the end of the day.

 

Join Ned Hallowell, Sari Solden, Daniel Amen, Patricia Quinn, John Ratey, and Many More for the First Annual Virtual AD/HD Conference™

 

Dear Friends,

Hi, there! This is Jennifer Koretsky of the ADD Management Group and Terry Matlen of ADD Consults. We’re both adults with AD/HD and, between the two of us, we have over 15 years of experience servicing the AD/HD community.

We attend a lot of AD/HD conferences.

What we love most about attending conferences is connecting with other people who have AD/HD while learning from and interacting with the top experts in the field.

But what frustrates us most about the conferences we attend is that they’re not very AD/HD-friendly. If you’ve ever been to a conference—any conference—then you know that you’re expected to:

Shell out tons of cash. It costs money to attend a conference! There's the registration fee, the travel costs (not to mention the travel hassle), the hotel costs, and then the food costs. Add it all up, and you're looking at about $1449 just to attend one conference. (Double that if you bring another family member along!)

Attend all the sessions. Okay, maybe the conference organizer doesn’t require you to attend every session, but you feel like you HAVE to! After all, you paid good money to attend, right? You feel guilty if you don’t take advantage of all there is to offer.

Absorb and utilize all the information. Easier said than done! On the contrary, many of us with AD/HD leave a conference feeling completely overloaded with information, and unsure of how to apply it.

Be alert, perky, and friendly, even when you’re overwhelmed and exhausted. You want to have a pleasant experience and maybe even make some friends, but attending a conference is hard work! It tires you out and has you longing for your own bed, or even your own couch, just to get a minute’s peace.

But we also know that there is tremendous value in attending conferences. People with AD/HD—and their parents, spouses, and others in their lives—often feel unbearably isolated. It sometimes seems like no one understands:

How hard you try to keep it all together. That you don’t want to be late for appointments. You don’t mean to forget. You don’t like to be disorganized. You never mean to lose interest. But it happens, and it makes you feel awful about yourself.

Or how much your well-intentioned child struggles in school and at home…and how much it hurts when you feel frustrated, helpless, and alone in your quest to make things better.

Or how hard it is to move forward with AD/HD when you feel like pieces of the puzzle are missing.

We understand these challenges because we’ve been there. And we also know that conferences offer an opportunity to break out of this isolation and connect with the AD/HD community—the people who genuinely understand you—and learn from the top experts in AD/HD while doing so.

So we put our heads together to find a way to offer the benefits of an AD/HD conference without all the hassles. And we're thrilled to present you with the First Annual Virtual AD/HD Conference™!

 

 

Here are just a few reasons you'll want to attend:

We're proud to present 20 of the world's leading experts in AD/HD, including:

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., psychiatrist and author of the legendary books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, presenting on Finding the Buried Treasure in ADHD.

Daniel Amen, M.D., psychiatrist and author of books such as Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Healing ADD, presenting Healing ADD: Using Brain SPECT Imaging in the Diagnosis and Treatment of the 6 Types.

Sari Solden, M.S., L.M.F.T., therapist and author of Women with ADD and Journeys Through ADDulthood, presenting on Successfully Navigating the Journey of Adult ADHD.

Plus many more of the top authors, doctors, therapists, coaches, and leaders in the AD/HD community!

Reason #2: Get All the Tools You Need to Succeed with AD/HD

Our expert presenters will provide you with the latest information and strategies on the most important topics in AD/HD to help you:

• Find a career that works for you
• Learn time management and organizational skills
• Effectively parent your AD/HD kids
• Discover success strategies for teens and college students
• Leverage the AD/HD resources that are available online
• Discover the link between AD/HD and addiction
• Improve your social skills
• And so much more!

Reason #3: Break the Bubble of Isolation and Connect With Your Peers

It doesn't matter if you're:

• An adult with AD/HD
• The parent of a child with AD/HD
• The spouse or partner of an adult with AD/HD
• A professional service provider for people with AD/HD
• Newly diagnosed with AD/HD
• An AD/HD management "pro"
• The teacher, employer, or family member of a person with AD/HD...

You WILL find other people just like you to connect with!

We've taken special care to make the Virtual AD/HD Conference™ super-friendly to people with AD/HD.

All participants get:

• An interactive, participant-only website just for conference attendees, which means that everything you need to participate in the conference and connect with the community is located in one, easy-to-use online space.
• Access all 20 presentations via phone, which means that you can participate live from anywhere in the world.
• Downloadable presentation notes and handouts submitted by each speaker, which means that you can choose to follow along while the speaker presents or review the materials later.
• Recordings of all presentations as downloadable MP3 files, which means that you don't have to attend each session in order to reap the benefits.
• Dedicated forums for each presentation, which means that you can discuss sessions with your peers to process the information and plan action steps.
• Networking sessions in live chat rooms, which means that you can casually connect with your peers from the comfort of your own home.
• Links to each speaker's website and products/services, which means that you don't have to waste time searching online to learn more about your favorite speakers and the topics they present on.
• A virtual exhibit hall of AD/HD products and services, which means that you can browse the available resources at your leisure with no pressure.

And, you'll have the opportunity to get an audio CD set of all presentations, plus printed transcripts of all sessions, which means even more AD/HD-friendly ways to engage with the presentations.

Attending a physical conference gets expensive quick! Take a look at this chart and compare. Note, the expenses listed under "Physical Conference" are actual expenses that Jen incurred to attend a recent conference.

	Physical Conference	Virtual AD/HD Conference™
Registration Fee	$325	$247 or $347
Air Travel	$439	n/a
Airport Parking	$90	n/a
Hotel	$592	n/a
Meals	$250	Normal cost of meals at home
Total	$1696	$247 or $347

That's a difference of up to $1449! Not to mention the stress and frustration that one usually experiences when traveling and being away from home for 3 days.

Why not save $1449? And skip the stress, too!

One of the fun things about attending a conference is getting that goodie bag when you check in! The organization, along with sponsors and speakers, offer little gifts for the registrants to enjoy. And the Virtual AD/HD Conference™ is no exception!

We're providing conference attendees with a virtual goodie bag of valuable (and free) gifts from our presenters, sponsors, and friends.

All registrants will benefit from and enjoy these free gifts!

The Virtual Goodie Bag includes:

1. An interactive lesson on ADD-friendly Packing & Travel, including Interactive Web Presentation, downloadable Packing Checklist, and downloadable Packing Tip Sheet. Donated by Conference Co-host Jennifer Koretsky and The ADD Management Group.
2. A Transcript of an Online Conference with Dr. Ned Hallowell. Donated by Conference Co-host Terry Matlen and ADD Consults, Inc.
3. A special report on 7 Strategies to Help Your Child with ADHD Succeed in School. Donated by Rory Stern and The Truth Behind ADHD.
4. A coupon for One Free Month in the ADD Book Club. Donated by Conference Speaker Tara McGillicuddy and The ADD Book Club.
5. The downloadable eBook 'Take Charge of Your Paper'. Donated by Ariane Benefit and Neat & Simple.
6. Downloadable Audio Excerpts from the CD "Women with ADD". Donated by Conference Speaker Sari Solden and sarisolden.com.
7. A special report on School-Based Management Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Donated by Conference Speaker Hal Meyer The A.D.D. Resource Center.
8. A special report on How ADHD Symptoms Manifest in Adults. Donated by Conference Sponsor ADHDCentral.
9. The Novotni Social Skills Checklist. Donated by Conference Speaker Michele Novotni, Ph.D. and michelenovotni.com.

Remember, these 9 amazing--and free--goodies are for conference delegates only!

 

 

Here's what you get when you register:

Virtual AD/HD Conference™ Registration options	Option #1: Standard registration	Option #2: deluxe registration
Full Access to All Live Sessions	*	*
Downloadable MP3 Recordings of All Sessions	*	*
Downloadable Handouts Provided by Speakers	*	*
Full Access to All Participant Forums and Networking Chat Rooms	*	*
Full Access to the Virtual Exhibit Hall	*	*
Virtual Conference Goodie Bag	*	*
Printed Transcripts of All Sessions Mailed to Your Home		*
Audio CD Set of All Session Recordings Mailed to Your Home		*
Register for Your Preferred Option	2008 Registration is now closed	2008 Registration is now closed

Join Our Mailing List for
2009 Conference Updates and Previews!

Name
Email