ThoughtGathering

You will change your relationship with organization. You will be more confident about organizing because you will understand where you are in your organizational process and where to head next... yes, even when you feel stuck. Confidence paired with new organization know-how will shift your visual environment, productivity and communication, but even more so, your enjoyment of the process of organization and the product it creates.

Likely, yes. This course taps into your innate ability to see connections among things (i.e., associative thinking) and helps you design organization that will work for you. Traditional organization or executive function coaching can make you rely on systems that others create for you. Although many people benefit from this support, a subset of people want to understand the root cause of their struggle, so that they can create their own organizational systems. This course is for this subset of people.

Nope! This approach to teaching the skill of organization was created specifically to help people whose minds swirl with creative ideas find the structure in them, so that they can share them with the world. Once understood, organization can be seen as a back-pocket tool – one to be pulled out as needed.

All people looking to understand why organization, time management, and idea corralling is difficult for themselves or others will benefit from this course. Some people are curious to know why organization seems to be so simple to some people and to be such a struggle for others. Others may have a diagnosed (or suspected) attention disorder (ADHD), executive function weakness, or spoken and/or written language disorder. Some people may also have a weak working memory and/or a processing speed deficit. This course was designed with the adult learner in mind, though insightful and ambitious college students and high school students may benefit as well.

Everywhere: at home, at work, at school, and out and about. Do enough of the exercises, and you'll even start to notice organization when you don't even think you need to be organizing anything. It's pretty cool. I promise.

The course is eight modules, delivered over the course of six weeks. Each module includes a quick intro to what you'll be learning, a video or series of short videos, an activity, a review of the information, and other learning tools to support your experience.

The answer to this question is a bit up to you. Each module is designed to take approximately an hour, including instruction and activities, although you may want to spend more or less time on individual modules. This is entirely up to you! You will have access to the course for three months: the six weeks the course will take you and an additional six weeks to allow time for review.

This course was intentionally designed, with a nod to learning theory. That is, it's important to space out learning, allowing your brain to chew on one piece of information before attempting the next. This will allow your new learning to stick... and that's my biggest dream.

I'm with you! Thinking about thinking, and more specifically, thinking about bottom-up organizing is super interesting. A book is in the works, but it's not out yet. In the meantime, these topics might point you in the right direction: information processing, cognitive load theory, executive function, language disorders, relational categories, cognitive communication, inductive and deductive reasoning, and universal design for learning. There's a lot of good stuff out there. I'll point you to some of it directly in the references page of this course.