Designing Success for the ADHD Brain: The ADHD Blueprint for Regulation, Structure, and Performance
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Jacaranda - In-Person Only
| Monday, September 28, 2026 |
| 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM |
| Jacaranda Room |
Overview
Bart Traynor & Jeff Leech, Atlantis Recovery Centre
Key Learnings
1. Understand the ADHD Blueprint Framework and how it structures intervention across executive functioning, regulation, and environment.
2. Learn practical strategies clinicians can implement immediately to support real-world functioning in adult ADHD presentations.
3. Explore how activity-based and performance-oriented interventions can enhance engagement, self-regulation, and sustainable behavioural change.
Speaker
Jeff Leech
Designing Success for the ADHD Brain: The ADHD Blueprint for Regulation, Structure, and Performance
Presentation Overview
The ADHD Blueprint Framework is an innovative, practice-informed model designed to improve real-world functioning in adult ADHD presentations. The framework explores how structured behavioural, environmental, and regulation strategies may support adults with ADHD alongside, or in some cases as an alternative to, pharmaceutical approaches.
Developed through over two decades of clinical work with ADHD and Autism Spectrum clients, the framework moves beyond symptom-focused treatment and instead focuses on helping people function more effectively in everyday life. The ADHD Blueprint views ADHD as a nervous system profile that benefits from clear structure, practical supports, and intentional systems that reduce friction in daily tasks.
This presentation will outline the principles of the Blueprint and how they translate into practical intervention strategies. Attendees will learn how clinicians can implement structured supports for executive functioning, behavioural activation strategies, movement-based regulation, and environmental design approaches that reduce cognitive load and improve consistency in daily routines.
The framework draws on principles from performance psychology, functional behavioural strategies, and activity-based psychotherapy to strengthen engagement and support self-regulation. Ongoing clinical work is exploring how these approaches may contribute to improved functional outcomes and broaden the range of non-pharmaceutical supports available for adults with ADHD.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, the ADHD Blueprint offers a practical framework for helping adults with ADHD build sustainable systems for functioning across work, relationships, and everyday life.
Developed through over two decades of clinical work with ADHD and Autism Spectrum clients, the framework moves beyond symptom-focused treatment and instead focuses on helping people function more effectively in everyday life. The ADHD Blueprint views ADHD as a nervous system profile that benefits from clear structure, practical supports, and intentional systems that reduce friction in daily tasks.
This presentation will outline the principles of the Blueprint and how they translate into practical intervention strategies. Attendees will learn how clinicians can implement structured supports for executive functioning, behavioural activation strategies, movement-based regulation, and environmental design approaches that reduce cognitive load and improve consistency in daily routines.
The framework draws on principles from performance psychology, functional behavioural strategies, and activity-based psychotherapy to strengthen engagement and support self-regulation. Ongoing clinical work is exploring how these approaches may contribute to improved functional outcomes and broaden the range of non-pharmaceutical supports available for adults with ADHD.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, the ADHD Blueprint offers a practical framework for helping adults with ADHD build sustainable systems for functioning across work, relationships, and everyday life.
Biography
Bio coming soon...
Mr Bart Traynor
Director/ Clinical Psychologist
Atlantis Recovery Centre
Designing Success for the ADHD Brain: The ADHD Blueprint for Regulation, Structure, and Performance
Presentation Overview
The ADHD Blueprint Framework is an innovative, practice-informed model designed to improve real-world functioning in adult ADHD presentations. The framework explores how structured behavioural, environmental, and regulation strategies may support adults with ADHD alongside, or in some cases as an alternative to, pharmaceutical approaches.
Developed through over two decades of clinical work with ADHD and Autism Spectrum clients, the framework moves beyond symptom-focused treatment and instead focuses on helping people function more effectively in everyday life. The ADHD Blueprint views ADHD as a nervous system profile that benefits from clear structure, practical supports, and intentional systems that reduce friction in daily tasks.
This presentation will outline the principles of the Blueprint and how they translate into practical intervention strategies. Attendees will learn how clinicians can implement structured supports for executive functioning, behavioural activation strategies, movement-based regulation, and environmental design approaches that reduce cognitive load and improve consistency in daily routines.
The framework draws on principles from performance psychology, functional behavioural strategies, and activity-based psychotherapy to strengthen engagement and support self-regulation. Ongoing clinical work is exploring how these approaches may contribute to improved functional outcomes and broaden the range of non-pharmaceutical supports available for adults with ADHD.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, the ADHD Blueprint offers a practical framework for helping adults with ADHD build sustainable systems for functioning across work, relationships, and everyday life.
Developed through over two decades of clinical work with ADHD and Autism Spectrum clients, the framework moves beyond symptom-focused treatment and instead focuses on helping people function more effectively in everyday life. The ADHD Blueprint views ADHD as a nervous system profile that benefits from clear structure, practical supports, and intentional systems that reduce friction in daily tasks.
This presentation will outline the principles of the Blueprint and how they translate into practical intervention strategies. Attendees will learn how clinicians can implement structured supports for executive functioning, behavioural activation strategies, movement-based regulation, and environmental design approaches that reduce cognitive load and improve consistency in daily routines.
The framework draws on principles from performance psychology, functional behavioural strategies, and activity-based psychotherapy to strengthen engagement and support self-regulation. Ongoing clinical work is exploring how these approaches may contribute to improved functional outcomes and broaden the range of non-pharmaceutical supports available for adults with ADHD.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, the ADHD Blueprint offers a practical framework for helping adults with ADHD build sustainable systems for functioning across work, relationships, and everyday life.
Biography
Bart is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of Atlantis Recovery Centre on the Gold Coast, and an operational leader in innovative mental health service delivery. He has worked with ADHD and Autism Spectrum clients—both children and adults—across his 20-year career in Government and private healthcare systems. He specialises in making the complex simple and translating clinical knowledge into practical, real-world strategies. Bart has a strong interest in pioneering hybrid approaches that combine functional psychology with activity-based psychotherapy to enhance engagement and outcomes. He has presented nationally and internationally as a keynote speaker on thriving with complex developmental and behavioural presentations
