What changes in 4 weeks
✅ Mornings that don't need a miracle to get everyone out the door
✅ You respond instead of explode, even on the hard days
✅ Your child starts things without being asked four times
✅ Less conflict between siblings, more moments of real connection
✅ A calm, repeatable rhythm your whole family knows
✅ You stop white-knuckling every day and start feeling capable again
If this is your house right now
The day your child was diagnosed, you probably felt two things at once. Relief. Finally, an answer.
And then, what now?
The diagnosis came with a referral, maybe some reading, possibly a waitlist. What it rarely came with was someone sitting down with your family and saying: here is exactly what to do, and here is how to do it.
So you did what every parent does. You researched. You tried things. Some worked for a week. Most didn't stick. And somewhere in the middle of the mornings, the meltdowns, the transitions, the sibling conflict and the homework battles, you started to wonder if it's always going to feel this hard.
It doesn't have to.
You're not missing effort.
You're missing a system.
There's a difference between knowing about ADHD and knowing what to do about it, inside your actual home, with your actual child, on a Tuesday morning when everything is falling apart.
That's the gap the Quest closes.
Whether you're brand new to an ADHD diagnosis, have been navigating it for years without things clicking into place, or you're in the thick of a specific crisis point right now, this is where you start building something that actually works.
The Quest is a system, not a library
The Quest isn't a pile of information to wade through on your own. It's a practical, systems-focused program built for real families with full lives.
Videos are 5 minutes or less, each with one clear action step you can use straight away. Every checkpoint comes with a beautifully designed playbook and ready-made templates, so the thinking is already done for you.
You're guided through implementation, not just handed more content.
The approach is family-wide, not just strategies for your child but systems for your whole household. This isn't about understanding ADHD more deeply. It's about having a system that works by Tuesday.
"Sharon Collon of the Functional Family is an exceptional, passionate award winning educator who has more credentialed training than anyone I have ever met in the field of ADHD. She is a warm voice who can be trusted as over 40,000 families have already discovered. If you are looking for some support and guidance, look no further than Sharon Collon."
-Maggie Dent
Parenting author, educator and podcaster
Most ADHD support focuses on the child. The Quest focuses on the whole family, because that's where real change happens.
Sharon Collon is a PCC Credentialed ADHD Coach, Parenting Consultant and mum of three boys with ADHD. She's supported over 40,000 families across Australia and beyond. She has lived every bit of what you're going through, and she has more than 18 years building the systems that make it easier.
How the Quest actually works
Four checkpoints. One a week for four weeks, then a Fire Ceremony to close. The templates are already made.
The Friction Map showed you which skill your child is still building. This is where each one gets picked up.
Week 1. The Jungle
You learn to read the brain before you change anything.
You have asked four times. They have not moved. From where you are standing it looks like defiance.
The Jungle teaches you to spot whether the gate is open or closed, so you stop negotiating with a brain that is not available right now. You build a simple bridge to school, because most teachers want to help and very few have had ADHD training. And you run a Compass Check on your own nervous system, because nobody co-regulates from empty.
In your Jungle Playbook: the Spot the Gate quiz, the Compass Check, and the All About Me template you can hand straight to a teacher.
Week 2. Base Camp
You build the systems that hold without you.
Mornings, shoes, bags, water bottles, and the same conversation at 7.40 every single day.
Base Camp starts with the environment, not behaviour, because behaviour is the hardest place to start. You install a Ready Station, so one predictable place holds everything needed to leave the house. A Clothing System, so a week of decisions happens once, calmly, instead of every morning in a rush. A Family Meeting, so the week gets organised together instead of living in your head.
When the environment holds the information, the brain does not have to.
And when a system drifts, and it will, you learn to resparkle it rather than decide it did not work. Systems do not fail. They cycle.
In your Base Camp Playbook: the Ready Station design guide, the Uniform Schedule template, the Family Meeting agenda, and Help Me Helen, a custom GPT built for the mental load you have been carrying on your own.
Week 3. The Rapids
You get a playbook for the loud moments.
The big emotion. The sibling fight that undoes an otherwise good day. The switch off at the end of screen time.
Logic does not land once a child is overwhelmed, so the Rapids gives you what to do instead. Five practical tools for the middle of an escalation. The Zones, so your whole family has shared language for what is happening in a body. Separate, Regulate, Repair for sibling conflict, so you stop refereeing and start coaching inside it. And guardrails around screens, agreed while everyone is calm.
You are not here to stop the river. You are here to learn to steer.
In your Rapids Playbook: the five escalation tools, the CRC method, the Zones visual for your fridge, the Sibling Steering Model, and the screen time guide.
Week 4. The Mountain
You shift from reacting to leading.
The power struggles. The mess afterwards. The relative with opinions about your parenting.
The Mountain is where connection starts doing the work control was doing. Question based scripts that open the gate instead of starting a standoff. A way to repair after a rupture, within 24 hours, that models emotional maturity without removing the boundary. The Advocate, Educate, Detach framework, so you can protect your child's dignity without burning a bridge at every family lunch. And small anchors that build the feeling of I belong here.
In your Mountain Playbook: the communication scripts, the repair phrases, the task breakdown tool, the extended family framework, and the Family Anchor Builder.
The Fire Ceremony
You decide who you are as a family.
You have made real changes by now. Nothing has told your child what they add up to.
The Fire Ceremony is ten minutes. Not a meeting, not a lecture, not a place to solve anything. It is the moment your family names who it is, even on the hard days. Not behaviour based. Identity based. Your child walks away with I belong here, I am safe here, we are a team.
In your Fire Ceremony Playbook: the step by step guide. And it stays ten minutes.
Wherever your first domino sits on the Friction Map, it gets handled at one of these four checkpoints.
And you do not have to work out which one on your own. The Quest starts with a private onboarding call with Sharon, where you map your family's biggest friction points together and decide where you start. So day one is not a guess.
The September ✨Spotlight✨
The Quest is open now. Join in the first week of September and one extra thing comes with it, a live session with Sharon we don't run at any other time of year.
Join between Tuesday 1 September and 10pm AEST Tuesday 8 September and you also get:
BONUS: The Friction Map Working Group Session with Sharon (live, 10 September, 12pm AEST)
We help you map your family's daily executive function friction points, then we sit with you and work out exactly what to do about them. This is hands on support to turn the map into a plan. Replay available if you can't make it live.
The bonus closes at 10pm AEST on Tuesday 8 September.
The Quest stays open after that, the bonus does not.
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This is for you if . . .
> You've just received an ADHD diagnosis for your child and you don't know where to start
> You've been navigating ADHD for a while but nothing's sticking and you need a reset
> You're parenting a primary-school-aged child with ADHD and daily life feels harder than it should
> You're ready to take action with guidance, not just consume more information
Who this is not for:
This isn't the right fit if you're looking for therapy, a diagnosis, or a one-size-fits-all parenting program.
The Quest is for families who are ready to do the work, with guidance, not alone.
BUTLER FAMILY ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sharon truly cares and brings such rich practical strategies, stories and skills to the families and communities she supports. She not only lives and breathes what she teaches, but is genuinely one of the most experienced ADHD coaches I've come across. She's been in the trenches herself and brings extensive lived experience from raising her own beautiful family, alongside coaching thousands of others navigating ADHD and neurodivergence. What stands out most is her deep understanding of the many challenges, highs and lows that come with parenting neurodivergent kids, teens and adults. Her insight, compassion and real-world experience help you feel truly seen, heard and understood, without judgement. I feel so lucky to have found her.
KATHRYN ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The amazing support provided by Sharon Collon from The Functional Family has been life-changing. The workshops run by Sharon and the guest experts she interviews have, and continue to, educate my husband and I on how to best support our child with ADHD. Sharon is both an ADHD expert, advocate and very experienced as a family with ADHD. She totally understands the difficulties families with ADHD face, both at home, at schools and in public. My husband and I have a much more enjoyable relationship with our child, and our family life has greatly improved. I highly recommend The Functional Family and Sharon Collon to every ADHD family.
KATIE ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In a sea of information and pretenders, Sharon is a highly experienced, legitimate and credentialed ADHD coach with a lot of practical advice and positivity to share. Her advice delivered directly and through the calibre of guest educators she attracts are high quality, useful and delivered in a warm and no nonsense manner.
AMANDA ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
After my sessions with you, I feel like I can be a much better mum. My patience levels and empathy are so much better.
ALICIA ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
That was super easy! The Quest is absolutely amazing!!
Two AI helpers, built for ADHD families, included
Help Me Helen, your admin brain. A custom GPT you set up in week two. Give her the brain dump, the week ahead, the school email you have been putting off, and she turns it into clear next steps. So the mental load stops living in your head.
Donna, dinner without drama. A custom GPT for the question that arrives at 5pm every single day. So the hardest hour in an ADHD house has a plan before it starts.
Both are set up for you inside the Quest, and both are yours to keep.
About the investment
$997 covers three months of access. That is about $77 a week, or around $11 a day.
A single appointment with a specialist often runs $500 to $600. This is less than two of them, and you keep the systems, the playbooks and the templates afterwards.
It is also worth counting what is already in your house. The charts, the planners, the timers, the beautiful printables. Most of them needed you to keep them running. These are built so they do not.
Why start now
Picture the December school holidays. Six weeks, no timetable, everyone home.
If you start this month, your Ready Station, your family meeting and your playbook for the hard moments are already in place and already tested by the time the holidays land. If you start in December, you are building them in the middle of it.
Four weeks from today is the difference.
HAVE A QUESTION?
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some common ones that people ask before joining The ADHD Family Quest.
If you still have more, go ahead and email [email protected]
How much time does this take each week?
Do I need to attend the coaching sessions live?
What ages is this designed for?
Is this therapy?
Does my child need a formal diagnosis?
Can both parents participate?
What if I want to continue after the Quest?
What is the refund policy?
Can I just work with Sharon one to one instead?
What if I don't finish it?
Why isn't this free?
Your family does not need you to try harder.
It needs the right systems, built around how ADHD brains actually work.
That is what we build together, inside the Quest.
