Navigating ADHD: The Masterclass · Focus Forward ADHD
Navigating ADHD · The Masterclass
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July 13 to 17, 2026

ADHD is not the problem.
Navigating it without the full picture is.

For parents of college students with ADHD.

Having the full picture means understanding what is happening inside your kid’s brain so you can stop being the thing standing between them and collapse, and start trusting they can hold themselves up.

You cannot fit between the mini fridge and the mattress pad anymore. But you can change how you show up when they call.

You have probably tried the strategies. You have backed off when they asked you to. You have watched the semester fall apart anyway. You have monitored what you say and how you say it because when things are going well you do not want to be the one who breaks it. And somewhere in all of it you started wondering if you were the one getting it wrong.

You were not getting it wrong. You were working without the full picture.

I want the full picture Begins Monday July 13

Meet your host

Tyler, founder of Focus Forward ADHD Tyler Dorsey

Tyler Dorsey was the kid who failed. Her report cards proved it. She turned her ADHD from a crutch to a superpower.

What makes this different.

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A framework that gives you a starting point.

This week hands you a framework refined across 7,000+ ADHDers and the families who love them since 2014. With that framework in place, the strategies you have already tried start working. They have something to sit on top of. The years of trying start adding up to something.

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Coaching that goes home with you.

Whether the question in the room is yours or someone else’s, the answer is yours to use.

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This is not about willpower.

Not capability. Not laziness. Not something more discipline would fix. This week starts from a different place. The kind where you stop pushing harder and start knowing what to do next.

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Started serving ADHDers
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Years coaching
7,000+
Lives touched
The Masterclass

A week to find the full picture.

A masterclass on how ADHD works, and how to apply that understanding so you can help your kid when they call, without being the thing standing between them and collapse. The difference between trying to manage it for them and knowing how to navigate it with them.

Here’s how the week works.

Watch the training videos. Join the live coaching sessions. Bring what’s happening in your home right now. Choose how deep in you want to go.

01Training videos

5 prerecorded sessions to decode the brain.

To help you decode the brain, the patterns, and what has been missing in everything you have tried. Yours to watch and rewatch through the 1-week access window.

02Live coaching

5 live Zoom sessions in real time.

Apply what is in the videos to real homes, real questions, real situations.

01
Why the Wheels Come Off
Monday, July 13
12 PM ET
02
How to Stop Being Their Manager
Tuesday, July 14
12 PM ET
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Supporting Them Toward Independence
Wednesday, July 15
12 PM ET
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College Is the Training Ground
Thursday, July 16
12 PM ET
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Here Is What Comes Next
Friday, July 17
12 PM ET

Videos release Monday through Friday the week of July 13. Access ends Sunday, July 19. One week to watch, rewatch, and let it land.

Platinum

You bring your real questions. You get coached on your home, your child, your situation, by name.

General Admission

You watch the room. ADHD shows up in similar patterns across every family. The question someone else asks is likely to turn out to be your question too. And the answer to that question is likely to fit your home also.

5 training videos 5 live Zoom sessions 1-week access window

Who this is for.

You have probably been playing all the scenarios over in your head. What happens if nothing changes. What it looks like for your child a year from now, five years from now. Maybe your partner sees it differently, or does not see it at all. But the decision to show up, even alone, even unsure, might be the most important thing you do for your child this year. As We Bought a Zoo put it:

“Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

We Bought a Zoo

This is for you if you are the parent of a child in college with ADHD, or a child heading to college soon, and even one of these is your life right now.

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You are not sure they are going to make it, and you cannot stop thinking about it.

Maybe they are still in high school and the countdown has already started. Maybe they are three states away in a dorm right now and you hold your breath every time the phone lights up. Either way the fear is the same. You watch them blow off the assignment, sleep through the alarm, fall apart over something small, and the thought lands before you can stop it: how is this going to work, or keep working, when I am not there? Everyone keeps telling you they will rise to it, that college forces them to grow up. You want to believe that. But you have seen what happens when the support disappears. You do not want to hover. You want to use whatever time you have to give them what they will actually need to make it.

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The wheels came off the moment you were not there to hold them on.

You were the structure. The morning alarm, the deadline manager, the one who quietly kept it all from falling apart. Then they left for school, and within a few weeks the calls started coming. Grades tanking. Classes skipped. Some days they did not leave the room at all. The scaffolding came down, and so did everything it was holding up. You are not looking for one more app or planner. You need to understand what is actually happening in their brain, so the next call does not blindside you.

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They start every semester strong, and then they vanish.

It opens the same way every time. The plan. The fresh schedule. The “I’ve got this, I promise.” And for a couple of weeks you let yourself believe it. Then the updates go quiet. The work piles up somewhere you cannot see it. By the time you find out how far behind they are, they are already underwater, scrambling to pull off a miracle in the last two weeks. And you hold your breath wondering if this is the semester the miracle does not come.

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There is help right in front of them, and they will not reach for it.

The tutor. The office hours. The coach you are already paying for. The text that would take ten seconds to send. It sits there untouched. They would rather take the bad grade than raise their hand, rather carry the whole thing alone than admit they are drowning in it. You can see exactly what would help. You just cannot reach across the distance and make them do it. And you are starting to understand that you were never going to be able to.

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You have started monitoring everything you say.

You pick your moments. You watch your tone. You rehearse it in your head before you bring it up, because the wrong word and they go quiet, sometimes for days. When things are finally going okay, you do not want to be the one who breaks it, so the hard things stay unsaid. You are not tiptoeing because you are weak. You are tiptoeing because you do not yet have the one thing that would let you say the hard thing and still be let back in.

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You cannot tell where support ends and enabling begins.

Everyone told you to step back and let them fail. So you did. And the semester fell apart anyway. Now you are caught in the middle, afraid that if you help you are keeping them from growing up, and afraid that if you do not, you are watching them sink. You still want to help. You have always wanted to help. You just need to know how to do it in a way that reaches them, without becoming the thing they cannot function without.

If that is you, you belong in this room.

Real shifts from the room.

What you’ll walk away with.

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Finally understand why the wheels came off.

The blowup is not bad behavior. The shutdown is not giving up. The avoidance is not laziness. Once you see what is happening under the surface, the next hard moment makes sense before you react. The person across from you feels seen. What used to spiral into an argument starts turning into a conversation.

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How to stop being their manager and pass the torch.

In Platinum, you bring your real questions and get coached on your home, your relationship, your real life. In General Admission, someone in the room asks the question you did not know you had, and the answer fits for you too. You walk out with ideas built for your situation, ready to use the next time it gets hard.

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The words and questions that support them toward independence.

A way of asking that uncovers the truth instead of the surface answer. The kind of question that has been missing from your conversations. They start to believe you want to understand them. And that kind of trust is what makes the people you love come to you in the hard moments, instead of hiding from you.

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Proof that college is the training ground, not the finish line.

The parent next to you had the same dinner-table fight last night. The parent across the room is carrying the same weight you have been carrying alone. The struggle you thought was just yours, the exhaustion, the self-doubt, the fear that this is just how it is going to be, is shared by every person in this room. You walk in feeling alone. You walk out as someone navigating something hard, alongside everyone else doing the same.

Sound familiar?

You are not failing.

You have been the scaffolding. And you cannot go with them.

And somewhere underneath that is a fear that this is just how it is always going to be.

You know something deeper is driving the struggle but you cannot figure out what.

And the energy you keep pouring into it is never adding up. Every hard moment you cannot make sense of chips away at your trust in yourself, your time, and your belief that this can change.

They rise like the phoenix at the end of every semester. And then they are back to square one.

And underneath, the belief is forming that the good days are not going to hold.

You backed off because they asked you to. The semester fell apart anyway.

And some part of you has started to wonder if this is just as good as it gets.

That is not ADHD being hard. That is ADHD being navigated without the full picture: the brain, the life around it, and how the two are working together or against each other.

You are done surviving this. You are ready to navigate it.

Understanding ADHD changes what you know.
The live sessions change what you do with it.

Every session is a real room. A space where you bring what is happening in your home right now and work through it in real time with someone who understands what they are looking at.

The kind of room that gets you a piece of the puzzle you have been missing for years.

From past Platinum rooms.

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From the room

A parent had been trying to figure out why their child would not come down for dinner. One curious question got them the answer they never would have guessed. The food was bland. That week they connected over a meal they made together because of it.

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From the room

A parent realized mid session that every time their child acted out they had been focused on stopping the behavior instead of understanding what was causing it. They left the room and tried a different question that same evening. For the first time in months the conversation did not spiral.

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From the room

A parent discovered they had been trying to solve for motivation when the real layer was shame. Their child was not refusing help because they did not want to do the work. They were refusing it because asking for help felt like proof they could not do it themselves. Walking out they had a completely different place to start.

General Admission.

General Admission puts you in the room for all five live sessions.

You hear everything. Every question. Every answer. Every moment where the pieces start coming together for someone else. You will leave with answers to questions you never would have thought to ask. And more often than not one of them will be the answer you did not even know you had.

And sometimes that one answer is the thing that rewrites the whole story you have been telling yourself about what is going on. And a different story is what drives what you do next.

Choose your experience.

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Platinum
$197

For the person who is done with general answers and ready for specific ones. You bring your situation. Your child. Your home. And you work through it in real time with someone who can see what you have not been able to see yet. And even if you do not have a specific question yet, you are the kind of person who is going to squeeze everything they possibly can out of every single session.

  • All five prerecorded training videos
  • 5 live Zoom sessions, bring your real situation and ask your questions directly
  • One full week of access (ends Sunday, July 19)
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General Admission
$97

For the parent who knows they need the understanding but is not quite ready to put their situation in the room yet. You want to learn. You want to observe. You want to leave with clarity without having to be the one asking.

  • All five prerecorded training videos
  • A seat in all 5 live Platinum sessions
  • One full week of access (ends Sunday, July 19)
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You have questions.
We have answers.

You have not tried everything. It just feels that way because what you have been trying has been missing a piece of the full picture. This week is not another thing to try. It is the understanding that makes everything you have already tried start to fall into place, so that when they call, you know how to show up in a way that actually reaches them.

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You do not need them to be willing. You just need to be. Research shows it only takes one person consistently showing up with a different understanding to shift the entire dynamic around them. Not because anyone agreed to change. Because calm and clarity are contagious. This week gives you what you need to be that person.

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Yes. If you knew exactly what you needed you would not be here. That uncertainty is not a problem. It is the starting point. You will not leave with all the answers. You will leave with the clarity to start finding them. And that is the skill that keeps working long after this week ends.

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Output is not the measure. What it costs to produce it is. Whether it is a child holding it together at school while crashing at home, or an adult managing on the outside while running on empty on the inside, that is the signal. The time to build the foundation is before the scaffold disappears. Not after.

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Coaching is not classified as therapy so insurance does not cover it. However HSA and FSA accounts both do. Try your HSA or FSA card at checkout first. If it does not go through you can pay with your regular credit or debit card and submit for reimbursement.

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Platinum is for the person who is ready to bring their specific situation into the room and get coached on it directly. You have questions. You want answers that fit your exact circumstances. You are ready to be in it. And even if you do not have a specific question yet, you are the kind of person who is going to squeeze everything they possibly can out of every single session.

General Admission is for the person who knows they need the understanding but is not quite ready to put their situation in the room yet. You want to learn. You want to observe. You want to leave with clarity without having to be the one asking.

Both get the full week of content and a seat in every live session, with access through Sunday, July 19. The difference is how deep in you are ready to go right now.

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All videos are prerecorded and release on a schedule. You have one full week to watch at your own pace. Access ends Sunday, July 19.

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Come to as many as you can. Each one covers different situations and different layers. And sometimes one question in that room is all it takes.

Think about a plane flying from New York to Los Angeles. If the nose shifts just one degree in the right direction at the start the plane lands exactly where it needs to be. One degree the wrong way and you are 40 miles off in Los Angeles traffic, or somewhere over the Pacific Ocean trying to figure out how you got there. One degree the right way and you land. One question in that room can be that one degree shift in the right direction. Small. Almost invisible in the moment. But it changes where you land entirely.

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Yes. If your kid is in college and you are watching them shut down the moment things get hard, rise like the phoenix at the end of every semester, or tell you they need you to let them fail — this week is for you. You cannot be in the dorm room. You cannot fit between the mini fridge and the mattress pad anymore. But you can understand what is happening in their brain well enough to show up differently when they call. And that is what changes the trajectory.

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Yes. And here is why. ADHD at its root looks remarkably similar across ages and circumstances. The details of your situation are yours. But the patterns underneath them show up in every room. Someone will describe their situation and you will think that is exactly what is happening in my home. Someone will ask a question you did not know you had and the answer will land like it was meant for you. The group is not what makes this less specific. It is what makes it more powerful.

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Many parents of children with ADHD have it themselves. This week is built for you too. Understanding your own brain alongside your child’s changes everything: how you respond in hard moments, how you build systems that actually hold, and how you give your child the understanding you never had. You are in the right place.

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A note from Tyler.

You have spent years being the structure. Now they are gone and so is the structure. And you are sitting here trying to figure out how to help someone you cannot reach, from a distance you were not prepared for.

This week is where that changes. Not by handing you all the answers. By giving you a way to understand what is happening.

There is a way forward.

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Platinum $197 · General Admission $97 · July 13 to 17 · One week access