Dandelion Hub

19/08/2026

Does your child ever act before they think, get distracted despite their best intentions, or struggle to pause in the moment?

It can be easy to see these moments as poor choices, but often they reflect a challenge with inhibitory control, an important executive function skill that helps us pause, think, and manage impulses.

In our latest blog, we explore:
What inhibitory control is
Why some children find it harder to access
Practical ways to support it at home and school

Read the blog here: https://www.dandelionhub.com.au/blog/inhibitory-control

12/08/2026

Registrations for our Executive Function workshop for parents and carers closes tonight!

This workshop is run live by zoom. If you can’t make it live, the recording is available to all participants for 30 days.

This workshop is designed for parents and carers of neurodiverse children and teens. Often executive function difficulties show up as your child constantly needing reminders to start or stay on tasks, is always running late, has trouble organising themselves to hand things in on time….

Join us for a 90-minute practical workshop to build knowledge and strategies on executive functioning you can use immediately with your child.

Together, we'll explore how to work with your child to create meaningful supports that fit their strengths, needs, and goals at home and school.
In this 90-minute workshop, you will discover:
• How to look beyond behaviour and understand what may be getting in the way
• Greater confidence in knowing how to respond when your child is struggling
• Practical next steps you can begin implementing straight away
• A framework for approaching executive function challenges in everyday life

Cost: $69 per ticket (inc GST, booking fee applies).
Partners are warmly welcome - no second registration required.

Register here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1557004

Bookings close midnight Wed 12th August

07/08/2026

Did you know children aren’t born with executive function skills?

Many people are surprised to learn that executive function skills - like planning, working memory, self-control, and flexibility - develop gradually throughout childhood.

Understanding these milestones can help you better support both neurotypical and neurodivergent children as they grow.

Curious to learn more and discover practical strategies?

Join our upcoming Parent Workshop on Thursday 13th August (next week!) for practical, evidence-based approach to executive functions that can help your children to thrive! Perfect for parents and carers of neurodivergent children and teens.

Workshop: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1557004

05/08/2026

Every child experiences the world differently. For many neurodivergent children, lagging executive function skills can impact their ability to organise themselves and their belongings, be ready for school on time, keep their attention focused, planning their homework, getting started on tasks such as chores or homework…

"Helping Your Child Thrive: An Executive Functioning Workshop for Parents and Carers" helps parents not only understand how executive functioning develops, but practical ways to support their child at home by increasing their independence.

Parents who attended our last workshop had the following to say:
💬 “Extremely practical advice and information”
💬 “I feel more confident to work with my child”
💬 “This is the practical information we've been searching for”
💬 “Every parent should attend this workshop”
💬 “It helped me think more deeply about what's underneath behaviours”

Our workshop is running live via zoom next week! 7pm, Thursday 13th August. Attend live or watch the replay.

Book your spot now: https://www.dandelionhub.com.au/parents-hub

29/07/2026

I love this great explanation from the amazing team The NeuroEducation Project. Well done folks!

29/07/2026

Executive function challenges are often misunderstood as problems with motivation, effort or compliance.

In this live 90 minute parent workshop, we'll explore how executive functions influence everyday tasks, emotions and behaviour, and what you can do when things aren't working.

In this workshop, you will learn:
• How to look beyond behaviour and understand what may be getting in the way
• A practical framework for making sense of executive function challenges in everyday life
• Why strategies often don't work unless they make sense to the child using them
• How to work collaboratively with your child to develop supports that fit their strengths, needs and goals
• Practical ideas you can start trialling at home

Learn more and registrations here: https://www.dandelionhub.com.au/parents-hub

27/07/2026

Registrations close next week for my 4-part Executive Function Workshop for Allied Health Professionals.

One of the things I hear most often from clinicians is that executive function support can feel difficult to translate into practice. We understand the theory, but figuring out what to do with an individual child, in an individual context, is often the challenging part. And then there is the obstacle of getting a child or young person motivated to use the strategy!

This workshop takes a neuroaffirming approach to executive function, focusing on understanding the interaction between the young person, their environment and their current capacity, and using that understanding to guide intervention.

This training is designed for psychologists, OTs, speech pathologists, educators and other professionals supporting children and young people.

As reflected in the feedback from allied health professionals who attended the recent free webinar, the focus of my training is on making complex information easier to understand and providing practical ideas that clinicians can apply in their work straight away.

Across four live online sessions, we'll explore executive function through a neuroaffirming lens, moving beyond explanations based solely on motivation, effort or compliance, and towards a truely collaborative approach that builds motivation, engagement, and executive functioning skills.

If you've been thinking about joining, registrations close soon (next week!)

Here is the link for more information and bookings: https://www.dandelionhub.com.au/from-understanding-to-action

22/07/2026

If you work with children or young people with executive function differences, you’ve likely experienced this:

Strategies that make sense in theory, but don’t hold in practice.

Often, the issue isn’t the strategy itself — it’s how it’s designed and implemented.

This is something I’ll be going into in more depth in my upcoming workshop:

From Understanding to Action: Supporting Executive Functioning in Clinical Practice. See the link here for more details: https://www.dandelionhub.com.au/from-understanding-to-action

20/07/2026

"I know what I need to do... I just can't do it."

Many children (and adults!) experience this when executive functions are stretched.

Executive functions are the brain-based skills that help us get started, stay organised, manage our emotions, remember information and follow through on tasks. When these skills are challenged, everyday activities can feel much harder than they appear from the outside.

In our latest blog, we explore why executive functions matter, how they develop, and why stress, overwhelm, fatigue and other factors can make these skills harder to access.

Understanding executive functions helps us move beyond asking "Why won't they do it?" and start asking "What's making this difficult right now?"

🔗 Read the full blog here: https://www.dandelionhub.com.au/blog/executive-functions-why-they-matter

17/07/2026

Thanks The NeuroEducation Project for your great fact sheets! A great way to digest information! If you have not checked out their new resources, I encourage you to take a look!

ADHD brains have an interest-based attention system, which means focus is pulled to things that feel interesting, exciting, or urgent. If a task feels boring or non-urgent, ADHD brains have a much harder time focusing, even if they want to.

This is why an ADHD’ers attention can look very different depending on what they are doing. They might have laser-sharp focus on one task and then be super-distracted on another task. This is not a conscious choice, it’s how the ADHD attention system works.

For free ADHD factsheets, head to www.neuroeducation.com.au