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Translating

executive

functioning

About

EFToolkit

Translating EF so that your curious kid (and you - my curious adult friend) can understand and use it.


Fact: EF develops beginning at birth.


Also Fact: we do not need to wait until the teen years to begin to build and scaffold EF.


Congrats on finding us. We begin - now.

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Kid / Human first

Connection over Compliance

We believe kids come as “full ​humans,” meaning -

  • making systems + rules with them
  • honoring their asynchronous ​development
  • celebrating differences and ​nurturing self-advocacy

Know thy brain

My lived experience / identities ​[former + current] include: ​neurodivergent, parent, partner, ​BIPOC, speech therapist, public ​educator, unschooler.


What are some of yours - if you ​feel safe to share?


Does it matter? Yes. Do we need to ​be the same? No. Do we all add to ​the conversation - so much yes.


[and body]

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Meet your team

Belly Wong

Chief Regulation Officer

Iris Wong

EF Team Player 2

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You

EF Team Player 1

We strategize ​because EF = life

How? We co-create as peers - a low demand, ​easeful safe container - to play + experiment with:

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Executive Function

We can experiment with EF skill concepts - while ​also holding the duality that we are not deficit-​minded, nor are we broken.

We are whole as we are.

Nervous System Regulation

Regulation, first. Rest - first. There is no shame in ​resourcing, counting our spoons, inventorying ​demands - and also noticing what’s happening ​in ​our systems. Our wellness depends on it.

Our innate creativity

We are amongst peers. You know your context ​best. I know mine. We share lived experience - as ​we feel safe to do so. We ping-pong ideas - ​infodump, explore artistically - whatever comes up. ​So that you can hold the complexity of you and ​yours and that which is everyday life.

How

we do this work

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Asynchronous

low-demand

safe

creative

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Value 1

Accessibility -

you share what you feel safe doing so - what would ​make this more accessible for you?

[and taking it a step further - even, joyful, glimmery?]

Value 2

Experimental -

recognizing how different this looks - it’s not ​coaching. it’s a container. to explore. what comes ​up. believing in innate creativity and wisdom. and ​you knowing your context best. but belief also- in ​the power of coming together.


Value 3

Flexibility -

don’t believe here in one-size-fits-all- for kids or ​adults. belief in resourcing the adults in the ​situation- so that we can hold the incredible and ​oft- beautiful complexities that are our lives. some ​of the similarities. some of the differences. and ​build better.

Why

asynchronous?

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Why not?

Plus 1

Async collaboration allows us to honor each other’s ​life seasons, changing capacities and spoons.

Let’s​ be real. ​

How often have you bought a thing and couldn’t​ show up the way you wanted to? ​

Not here.​

Plus 2

It doesn’t matter what time zones we are in.

If your schedule changes.

It matters that we give space to different ways + ​paces of processing information.

If you like to learn + simmer + return again -

this is the way to do it.

Plus 3

Async allows for flexibility -

just like the kind we desire for our nervous systems!

You decide when this container inspires + when it stops ​serving you. Can pause anytime - no judgment.

The best creativity and growth do not come all at once o​r under pressure.


Curious for ​something kid-​direct?

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ta-da!

[as my littler one would say]

Co-create with us

currently building -

low demand, safe + creative containers

what’s up?

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