Welcome to our DISTRACTD event for August in our new event space in Miami Marketta, 'The Gin Parlour'. We are meeting tonight on the lands of our Kombumerri people ( the salt water people ) and we pay our respects to their elders past and present and emerging as they hold the memories, traditions, culture and hopes of our Indigenous people.
Thankyou so much for coming along tonight. If its your first night here, WELCOME. If you have been before Thanks for returning. It's because of you and the regular attendees we are able to make this happen. If no one came to these events there would be no DISTRACTD.
DISTRACTD events are information sessions on topics surrounding ADHD diagnosis, presentations and treatments followed by a Q&A session with the experts on the panel. It's not a support group of Group therapy session but more so an information session . Please treat our experts with respect. They have donated their time to help us all.
Tonight is the first time we have had a Professional Organiser in the house and to say we are excited is an understatement. SORT my Space do just that .Led by Tamara Speedie. Certified KonMari consultant. Profesh organiser and Stationery addict.
I am really excited to learn how to keep on top of these things. My life is complete chaos at times and I can honestly say I've never been tidy. My room as a child was the cause of many an argument. I would often re arrange my room too with detailed floor plans and sketches. Then once it was clean and tidy it was heaven. Something I think that is important to note for me . Im not sure if this goes for others is that I DO NOT want or LIKE having things untidy. It stresses me out . BUT I always end up running out of time to do it or think it's too big of a job to start now. Once I start I am like a hurricane . Some of my happiest memories of my bedroom as a child are sitting in my newly rearranged and styled room in complete peace. Im keen to bring some of that back into my life.
Enjoy tonight and please keep in touch. My personal email is amanda@amandagormanartist.com
Amanda xx
Tonights schedule
6:00 pm: Amanda DISTRACTD Founder to do official intro and welcome.
6:10 pm : Amanda talking about Above Ground Map Checklist
6:25 pm : Tamara Speedie Overview of what a professional organiser does
6:40 pm : Live chat with an Audience member about their issues
6:55 pm : Amanda Intro to Insight Timer
7:00 pm : 10 min break
7:10 pm : Q & A officially starts
8:30 pm : Event Officially concludes
10:00pm: Miami Marketta Closes for the evening
DISTRACTD : Event code of conduct
Terms of Participation for the Event.
The Code establishes the behavioural standards to be observed by DISTRACTD staff and event attendees, contractors, volunteers and suppliers in connection with the Event. It aims to ensure that high levels of safety and professional conduct are maintained from and towards all personnel attending such DISTRACTD supported activities and events. The standards set out in the Code apply to any activity or communication that occurs face to face, as well as on any virtual event platform.
Standard of behaviour
Show respect towards others at all times, including being considerate, cooperative and collaborative;
Present and behave in an appropriate manner including in communications, actions etc;
Take all reasonable steps to ensure own safety, including in relation to the responsible consumption of alcohol.
Follow the reasonable rules, policies, directions and other practices required by DISTRACTD and any venue hosting the Events.
Alert security personnel or DISTRACTD staff if a potentially unsafe situation is observed or suspected.
Prohibited behaviour includes any behaviour that is unacceptable or unwelcome, and includes without limitation:
Harassment whether direct or indirect (words or actions directed at a person that annoys, alarms or causes substantial emotional distress);
Discrimination whether direct or indirect (treating someone unfairly because of race, colour, sex, sexual preference, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin);
Sexual harassment (unwelcome, uninvited conduct that is offensive from the view of the person harassed, regardless of intent; unwelcome sexual advances, unwelcome request for sexual favours, any other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature);
Physical abuse and uninvited physical contact; • Intimidation, threats (implied or real) of any form whatsoever, as well as verbal abuse including any unwelcome or discriminatory comments in relation to an individual;
Defamatory comments of any nature;
Displaying, sharing, sending or discussing inappropriate material e.g. offensive words, images or media in any form whatsoever, suggestive comments or jokes of a sexual nature;
Disruptive or anti-social behaviour;
Consumption or possession of illicit drugs;
Inability or unwillingness to conduct oneself correctly, including as a result of drunken behaviour;
Any unlawful behaviour of whatsoever nature;
Any damage to property of whatsoever nature.
Should any prohibited behaviour be observed, anticipated, suspected or reported, DISTRACTD may take any reasonable measure that it deems necessary to ensure the safety of others, and/or the maintenance of a professional environment. Such action may include refusal of entry to, or removal of one or more individuals from the Event, and any future activities undertaken by DISTRACTD, at its sole discretion.
Any prohibited or unwelcome behaviour that is witnessed or suspected, should be reported immediately to a DISTRACTD representative immediately.
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Meet your speakers:
Host
Amanda Gorman - Founder of DISTRACTD
Amanda Gorman is passionate about building an ADHD community where we can connect with like minded individuals , bring our Boss, Work mates, Friends, Tutor, Coach, Teacher, Parent, Sibling,Neighbour or anyone we we think will benefit from learning more about ADHD and of course for US ourselves to all learn more ourselves. Amanda wears many hats and is as busy as you know an ADHDer can be. She is an Artist, Mother, Teacher and is one of the Directors of the Gold Coast Music Awards.
Her Late ADHD Diagnosis has helped her to understanding why she struggled in certain areas and thrived in others in her life growing up.
ABOVE GROUND MAP from Reflect health
Our Speaker
Tamara Speedie
Owner & Head Organiser
SORT my Space
Studied Psychological Science
Certified KonMari consultant
Professional Organiser.
I am Tamara Speedie.
Certified KonMari consultant. Professional Organiser. Stationery addict.
Yep, that’s my real surname. Quick by name, efficient by nature. That’s partly why I’m good at what I do. So, what is that again?
I’m a professional organiser. I help people from Brisbane, to northern NSW and the Gold Coast declutter and sort their homes into tidy, organised spaces that function in your favour.
My team and I help you simplify your life. We make it easy to see and access your belongings.
We flip those I-really-hate chores into that’s-easy tasks with solutions customised for the way you like to live. Less stress, more time. Extra dollar bucks in your pocket and a lightened mental load. Just a handful of the ways we change your life.
What makes me the real deal?
A person you can feel comfortable inviting in to your house. Sorting your undies drawer. Showing your deepest, darkest pantry depths.
Well, a coupla things...
I’ve always been into structure, neatness and systems. And stationery. Side note – the first time I walked into a Kikki K store when I moved from Darwin to the Gold Coast for uni, I felt like I was home.
I studied Psychological Science at uni and that helps me understand the deep attachment we can have to our belongings. I understand how hard it is to let go of things you might not even like, simply because it emotionally connects you to a person or moment. I get how the mental load of looming chores can feel like such a heavy weight to carry. If you want to talk through these kinds of feelings or memories, I am happy to help you in our session.
We’ll never make you part with things that you adore. We’re here to make your space work better and your life happier.
After a career that combined project work and roles with Queensland Health, I had two babies. Cue the evolving needs, chauffeuring, activities, demands of the mum juggle and you can begin to see the value I bring – and how I’ve honed my organisational skills all my life for this moment.
My lightbulb moment struck while on maternity leave. If I’m away from my kids, it’s got to be doing something I genuinely love. So I started a business printing pretty labels to help people organise their stuff. Before long, I figured out it was the organising part that filled me with joy, not the label part. That’s when I became a certified KonMari consultant and professional organiser.
What lights me up? Finding solutions to make a space work. And when I say “work” I mean solutions designed to suit you.
Organisation is about customising your world to work in your favour.
Resources : THIS IS ADHD Book by Chanelle Moriah
Insight Timer App :
The Additude Organisation with ADHD podcast episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/adhd-experts-podcast/id668174671?i=1000622628904
OurNext Event :
Wednesday September 6
Click the link below to RSVP for next month so we have correct numbers recorded.
TEACHING STUDENTS WITH ADHD: We are going to be doing an event on the Gold Coast ( date tbc) that will be a ticketed. The event is in relation to teaching kids with ADHD. This will be an event held elsewhere and will have multiple experts doing a more formal presentation on their subject in relation to teaching kids with ADHD. Please register your interest below in attendance so we can get in touch with a specific date and ticketing . Also please reach out of you are teacher as we need to survey the teachers on what specific content they would like covered.
Amanda's Ted X talk discussing her ADHD diagnosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AB0NBeTIjY
Miami Marketta is a proud sponsor of DISTRACTD, to see their upcoming gigs and events click here . https://www.miamimarketta.com/
Thank you for joining us . Please follow us, keep in touch and come along to our monthly events.
We would love to hear of your recommended podcasts, books, videos, groups etc to share with the audience. Email Amanda on amanda@amandagormanartist.com or Slide on into the DM's on socials. Promise we wont find it creepy.
TO, YOU for attending, to the very understanding and helpful Tamara Speedie from SORT my Sopace and to MY FAMILY for supporting me with DISTRACTD.
Enjoy your August.
See you next month.
Amanda and the DISTRACTD crew xx
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