MTAT Connecting Protocol Ear Seeding to support ADHD and EF Online
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MTAT Connecting Protocol: Ear Seeding to support ADD, ADHD and Executive Function Challenges using a Family Lens.
Online self paced edition. All resources accessed via Google Classroom.
Two versions aimed at:
Children ages 4–10
Adolescent/Teens ages 11–17
This gentle, self-paced course empowers parent/carer and child/adolescent pairs to explore ear massage and ear seeding stepped protocols together to support ADD, ADHD, executive function challenges and family bonding.
Using playful character animation to represent brain structures and neural networks that are evidence based to improve inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, neurochemistry and emotional regulation via auricular stimulation of specific acupoints in specific combinations according to Barkley and Faraone's pathophysiology of the ADHD and EF impacted brain.
Learn at the right time and right pace for you and your family online without time pressure.
MTAT Connecting Protocol brings together families or any supportive adults with children and young people without authority or conflict.
Turn take with each other to apply acupressure ear seeds onto the external ear to reduce emotional overwhelm in both parent/carer and child, strengthen connection, support sleep and ADHD-related challenges through a family focused lens.
MTAT Connecting Protocol follows a four step framework of:
Regulate (self regulation of emotional dyscontrol.)
Relate (coregulation, support each other.)
Rewire (neurophysiology and neuro chemistry of ADHD affected brain)
Restore (maintenance , prevention and routine to encourage brain functioning and wellbeing.)
What’s Included:
- Two age-specific versions (4–10 and 11–17)
- Step-by-step video guides for ear massage and ear seed placement on specific acupoints on the ear.
- Case Studies of real families struggling to cope with ADHD, EF challenges including emotional dysregulation and strained relations and how they have found the protocols beneficial.
- Printable character maps
- Dynamic process map adapting Padesky's 5 aspect model to guide your protocol choice and start from where the recipient is at.
- Seed Tracker to record protocols used and review their benefit with motivational interviewing prompts and Cognitive reframe.
- Breathwork and bedtime routine for sleep and calm.
How It Helps:
- Activates dopamine and norepinephrine pathways to support focus, motivation, and emotional tone
- Builds executive function through brain structures, neural networks and pathophysiology relational turn-taking and sensory integration
- Reduces distress and strengthens co-regulation between adult and child
Restorative focused as an equalising intervention that reduces conflict, hierarchy, is low demand, does not require talking therapy.
No diagnosis is necessary.
Ear seeding is not recommended on very young children due to risk of swallowing.