What Flavour Is Your ADHD? The Touring Edition

How ADHD turns up on the road, and when you get home.

This is a three-hour workshop for artists, crew, tour managers and managers. It looks at how ADHD shows up on tour, why the road can hold you up and hold you back at the same time, and what happens when the tour ends and the scaffolding goes. You’ll explore your own patterns and find practical ways to take more control, on tour and at home.

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Available where you are, in a suitable space arranged locally, or as part of a residential in Dorset. Selected workshops can also be delivered online.

What Flavour Is Your ADHD? The Touring Edition can also be delivered as a residential, with more privacy and more space around the work. See how residentials work.

At your place
The workshop is brought into your own setting.
Somewhere nearby
A suitable local space is arranged.
As a residential
One, two or three days in Dorset, with more privacy and space.
Online
Selected workshops only. Ask whether this workshop suits an online format.

Life on the road

Somebody else runs your day.

On tour, somebody else runs your day. You’re told when to eat, when to sleep and when the bus leaves, there’s a day sheet for who you’ll talk to, and there’s a sign on the wall in case you’ve forgotten which city you’re in. On a lot of buses you’re not even in charge of when you can go to the toilet.

For many people with ADHD, that’s the first time life has felt manageable. The catch is that you don’t get much practice at running your own days, so when the tour ends and you get home to the post, the bills and an empty fridge, it can land all at once. That’s true whether you’re the one on stage or the one loading the truck.

What we’ll explore

The road can hold you up and hold you back.

This workshop is a music industry edition of What Flavour Is Your ADHD? It looks at the tour as an institution, at living by the timetable rather than by what your body needs, and at how the old messages (“you can’t be trusted to manage yourself”) get louder on the road. It also covers the few places left to grab some control back, and the gap between who’s on stage and who’s in the bunk. Then we get practical, with small, realistic ways of taking a bit of agency back while you’re still out, and before you come home.

From the road

Experience, alongside research.

As manager who went on tour with the artists, my bunk was an absolute catastrophe. But on tour I barely had to remember anything, because somebody else ran the day, and I didn’t notice how little practice I was getting at running my own until I came home to the unopened post and the chaos I’d left behind. When I tried to be Tour Manager for the weekend, it was a bigger disaster than my bunk.

It’s built from more than twenty years in the industry and my work since then as an ADHD and addiction coach. I’ll always be clear about what’s research and what’s experience from the road.

Who it’s for

Anyone who lives by a day sheet.

Artists, crew, tour managers, managers, and anyone who lives by a day sheet.

Three hours with a break, with worksheets you can keep entirely private. Nobody has to share anything.

It’s psychoeducation, not therapy, and nobody is asked to disclose anything.

The workshop can run in-house for a band and crew, a management company or a label team. If it would be useful before a run of dates, get in touch.

Interested in What Flavour Is Your ADHD? The Touring Edition?

Start with a conversation.

Tell us who is involved and what is happening. We will talk through whether it fits where you are, in a space arranged locally, or as a residential.