Why It's Good to Have ADD

So I’m Back from ADDA…..

The ADDA conference was fantastic! Great people, great time, great food (I like food), great resort.

I got to spend some time with Mike Charest, David Giwerc, Sandy Maynard as well as a bunch of other new and old friends of mine.

I wish I could come up with a general theme or idea which was running through the conference in Tucson. But there wasn’t.

One thing that I found that was interesting to me was that there appear to be several groups interested in a seperate certification for ADD coaches.

I am generally quite in favor of this as long as it isn’t a “trick” for someone who wants to “control” ADD coaching to thier own end.

I believe that the ICF credentials (ACC, PCC and MCC) are certainly very meaningful and I think I would generally oppose ANY movement to credential ADD Coaches which didn’t first require the coach to be ICF Credentialed before being able to be ADD Coach credentialed.

What I’m saying is that even though a Life Coach and an ADD Coach are different things an ADD Coach is a coach first and THEN becomes an ADD Coach. For that reason I think that credentialing ADD Coaches prior to, or independent of ICF credentialling would be counter productive and in general bad for the profession.

Ken Zaretzky, MCC