Background: Shimmer’s ADHD Coaching System
Shimmer was born from my personal frustration when I was diagnosed last year & wasn’t able to find an affordable, quality ADHD coach. True hyperfocus mode, I joined up with the top ADHD experts, the ADHD community, and an incredible team to build the first Affordable ADHD Coaching Platform, built by and for people with ADHD.
Our vision: a world where every person with ADHD reaches their full potential, their way.
This last year has been a whirlwind of an adventure to say the least. Since then, we’ve built an incredible ADHD community of 60K+, onboarded 20+ coaches, launched our ADHD Coaching Programme, and served over 1,000 members through it.
A bit on how Shimmer works:
- The science:
- ~Shimmer’s program is rooted in Health & Wellness Coaching and closely linked to it’s sister discipline of positive psychology
- ~Your coach will help you focus on your horizons and the opportunities ahead, and not solely on diagnostics and deficits. You’ll work together to build skills, develop awareness, and institute habits and routines that work for your life
- The day-to-day:
- ~Get matched w/ an expert ADHD coach, meet weekly
- ~Set goals & experiment with skills, strategies, and routines each week
- ~Stay accountable to progress, learning and growing through the Shimmer platform
The Why: Driving Force Behind the Web Platform
Contrary to the prevailing notion of pushing mobile usage and competing for attention, our core purpose has always centered around addressing the unique needs of people with ADHD and prioritizing coaching outcomes. So we ask ourselves the question: What are the key obstacles or voids preventing our members from fully realizing their coaching goals? We then reverse-engineer solutions from these challenges. Here are a few primary hurdles we tackled and how the web platform elegantly resolves them:
🙈 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
For those of us with ADHD, when things are not in our view or realm of attention, it’s very difficult to retrieve this information. Our members, predominantly spending their time on laptops, often find that Goals, Actions, and even their Coach fade into the background until they later pick up their phones.
The new mobile-web system introduces diverse entry points, empowering users to engage with their coaching journey across an array of devices, extending beyond the confines of smartphones.
🤿 Desire to Go Deeper
Shimmer is a lot more than an app, it’s a holistic Coaching Experience that requires deep thought and reflection. Our members have been itching for the web app to be able to better engage in the in-app Experiences that require a deeper level of thinking, typing, and consuming information.
The web platform is purposefully crafted to enable deep exploration. Not only does it offer expanded typing space for introspection and the convenience of keyboard input, but it als
