Social responsibility
Give support to people who struggle to organise themselves
Many people with ADHD find it hard to organise their own lives. On top of that, they feel shame about it.
Through a sponsorship you can lower the psychological friction of seeking help, and of receiving it.
How you can help
Relatable helps people by offering them
- Software: a structure for organising themselves
- Coaching: an outside view of how that organising is done
By sponsoring people’s memberships and check-ins, you help make it legitimate to put time, focus and care toward something people with ADHD rarely get help with — and therefore have enormous friction around moving toward.
A sponsorship says: this is something you are allowed to spend time on. It is allowed to receive.
Why it matters
When you struggle to keep hold of things, and feel shame about it, asking for help becomes a double threshold. First you have to admit you need it. Then you have to bear someone seeing it.
A sponsorship takes some of that threshold away. The support is already there. Then it is less about proving you deserve help, and more about having a place to put your life — and someone who can see how you organise it.
It lands where the shame sits: in seeking, and being met in, the need for support.
What happens when this help is not offered
When the support does not get through, the organising difficulties stay hidden. People postpone. They try alone. The shame grows.
They can get help with work, school or health. Rarely with organising their own life, day by day. Without a place to organise, and without someone who sees how it is done, moving toward support is something they push ahead of themselves.
The friction stays. The overview stays in the head. Shame towers over them.
How to take the next step
Would you like to help support people with ADHD, either inside your own organisation, as part of the company's social responsibility (CSR), or from a philanthropic motive?
Get in touch, and we will explore the sponsorship possibilities together.
Eirik Alfstad Johansen