Executive Functioning Coaching
What is Executive Functioning?
Imagine that your brain is an exceptionally busy airport, with all sizes of planes taking off and landing at various times on hundred of runways. Something has to manage these activities or there would be mass chaos and carnage.
Enter the Executive Functioning (EF) part of your brain – the air traffic control tower. Air controllers are able to focus, hold and work with information in memory, filter and block distractions, and switch gears quickly and fluidly from one flight to another in order to ensure that the tasks at hand – safe and efficient takeoffs and landings – are performed effectively.
Executive functioning SKILLS enable us to plan ahead, focus our attention, remember instructions and juggle multiple tasks successfully. While everyone – even brain surgeons and rocket scientists – can struggle with executive functioning from time to time, it is important to know that EF is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and developed.
Blending the use of working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control, executive functioning is used to complete all tasks successfully, from brushing your teeth to taking a calculus test.
EF skills are critical for positive academic performance, and Katie Kimberling can help you unearth and cultivate yours.
Executive Functioning Coaching includes:
A semester package of an agreed upon number of sessions each week with Katie throughout the semester.
- Initial evaluation of the student’s core motivation
- Identification of personal values and goals
- Development of a Personal Education Policy (PEP)
- Learning methods to identify and tackle limiting beliefs
- External accountability
Progressive development of skills and abilities for:
- Planning and time management
- Self-regulation
- Meta-cognition
- Attention control/focus
- Organizational skills
- Strengthening working memory
- Cognitive flexibility
- Self starting
- Personal accountability
- Asking for help
