Free Back-to-School Parenting Event

August 15-18, 2025

Parents, help your struggling student Shine

TEFOS, The Executive Function Online Summit

✔ Help your child do back-to-school right, so they can have yearlong success

✔ Help them improve grades, motivation, focus, and confidence

✔ Parents get expert tools to bring more peace, joy, and connection

What is TEFOS?

TEFOS, The Executive Function Online Summit, is a Free weekend event for compassionate and proactive Parents & Teachers.

It's an immersion into learning how to help struggling students who have Executive Function challenges. Parents who immerse themselves in these expert lessons have massive success in helping their child the entire year.

TEFOS is the original EF summit, and 2025 is our 7th annual event! It airs Free August 15-18, for 100,000+ families, from 130 countries around the globe.

Don't want to wait, or be limited to the weekend? Upgrade to the VIP Pass to get lifetime access today.

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"10-Days To TEFOS" mini series to teach you 10 ways to support your child's EF

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Teacher Tips to support EF

Inspirational messages FOR STUDENTS, straight from the experts

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TOPICS

✅ Manage Schoolwork + Overwhelm

✅ Motivation, Attention, ADHD

✅ Mental Health, Stress, Anxiety

✅ Tech Addiction

✅ Study Skills

✅ Relationship Building

✅ Social Skills

✅ Neurodiversity

✅ Having More Freedom and Fun!

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2024 Experts

Our 2025 lineup will be announced this June!

+ Bonus Day

Enjoy a 4th day, with Free access to ALL workshops, for an extra 24 hours. This special day is your chance to catch up on anything you missed.

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It's About Implementation

Parents often say, "I just want my child to be happy and successful."

But knowing HOW to help a neurodivergent child who struggles can be baffling. Especially if they resist help.

TEFOS isn't about your typical "Parenting Tips". It is about eye-opening, unconventional, and practical tools designed to help revolutionize how you support your child.

And it's about implementation: You won't just walk away with a head full of information, you'll actually know what to DO to help your child, from experts who get it.

You can learn more in 3 days than all of last year:

1. Get game-changing, practical strategies you can actually implement to support a student who struggles with the EF Skills needed for success in school & life.

2. Build an exceptional understanding of your child's EF needs.

3. Learn how to not waste precious time trying to figure out how to help your child all year.

What People Are Saying

...TEFOS takes a complex topic and makes it accessible and fun!

Year after year Seth gathers an incredible cadre of experts to help parents and educators understand and gain actionable strategies to support students struggling with EF challenges. The most amazing thing about TEFOS is how laser focused it is on Executive Functions and how it features presentations and interviews that shines different lights on the same topic - there is truly something for EVERYONE!

Julie Skolnick,

2e Expert, With Understanding Comes Calm

...it focused on empowering my child to lead their own learning...

TEFOS covered topics such as sensory processing, ADHD, study skills, reducing stress through self-regulation, dealing with my child’s inner critic, creating a growth mindset, how to deal with complicated or negative emotions related to learning... Additionally, it focused on empowering my child to lead their own learning, eliminating physiological problems that might interfere with learning, and SO MUCH MORE!

Jolene S.,

Mom to a 7th Grader

...It's a lifeline for families navigating the complex world of EF challenges.

Seth's unwavering dedication to empowering parents of neurodivergent children shines through every aspect of TEFOS. I've witnessed firsthand how this summit transforms lives by offering real, implementable strategies that go beyond typical parenting advice. TEFOS isn't just an event; it's a lifeline for families navigating the complex world of executive function challenges.

Emily Kircher-Morris,

The Neurodiversity Podcast

...I loved the creativity, passion, competence, and caring [SPEAKERS] brought for our families...

TEFOS is amazing and so very helpful.
As a parent, partner, and professional fully immersed in 2e issues, I learned so much from the speakers. I loved the creativity, passion, competence, and caring they all brought for our families. All of these talks were so helpful and some were downright mind-blowing.

Riah T.,

SLP and Parent of a 2e 6-year-old

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...Engaging and interesting...

TEFOS is one of my all-time favorite summits! Seth brings together an incredible collection of experts and interviews them with curiosity, intelligence, and humor. He keeps the sessions extremely engaging and interesting. It's always a great pleasure and true privilege to participate!

Dr. Sharon Saline,

ADHD Expert & Author

This weekend has been a rollercoaster...

Seth, I’m sitting here watching Mike Postma’s session and I’m crying. I'm trying to hold back the sobs. It’s not even so much the sadness of past failings for my child but overwhelming hope and relief that I have more insight to help my son going forward. After watching Jessica McCabe’s session I hugged my husband and apologized for forgetting that he has ADHD and things can be hard for him. Oh my. This weekend has been a rollercoaster. Thank you Seth - so much - for putting this together. I bought the VIP Pass and can’t wait to show my son the student videos. :)

Melanie K.,

Mom of a 10-year-old girl

How To Have A

Great School Year

Executive Function has everything to do with how our brain helps us to create a great quality of life. EF Skills are what we all depend upon to build and maintain happy, healthy, and successful lives. Register now and join 100,000+ people worldwide.

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What is Executive Function and Neurodiversity?

Executive Function refers to the many skills our brains use to get things done. Everything from homework, studying, and chores, to getting ready for school or tackling responsibilities, to playing video games or with toys.

In other words, it's about how we execute complex tasks through to completion.

It's also how we prioritize the important things over the fun or preferred things, when it matters for our future well-being, quality of life, and bigger goals.

If a child struggles with: starting or finishing important tasks, focusing, organizing, managing time, schoolwork, resisting distractions, prioritizing, remembering details, overwhelm, emotions, realistic self-awareness, making good decisions ... they're still developing EF skills. And the right support is makes all the difference.

Neurodiversity is About Learning Differences

It's about how our brains are unique in how we think, process, feel, and experience the world.

This perspective allows us to use strength based approaches to educating and raising kids, rather than focusing so much on deficits, disorders, weaknesses, or noncompliance.

Supporting kids effectively requires compassion, empathy, kindness, and strategies that understand brain development.

This can be challenging because there is a lot of misunderstanding around EF, and because ineffective, top-down approaches are the norm. TEFOS helps you help your child!

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Meet Your Host

I'm Seth Perler, former Teacher turned Executive Function, ADHD, Neurodiversity & 2e, Activist, Speaker, Coach, and Advocate.

My life is dedicated to helping struggling students learn to navigate school and life, so they can have a great quality of life now, and a fantastic future, full of possibilities, choices, and opportunities, where they can achieve their goals, develop their strengths, and contribute in ways that matter to them.

Executive Function is THE key to this, and I created TEFOS to give you exceptional tools to support kids who struggle.

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Schedule & Lineup

Topics

Here are some topics from 2024. Our 2025 topics wil be published this June.

How to Get Ahead of Test Anxiety
Create a Realistic Homework Routine to Avoid & Minimize Zeroes
How to Help Kids with the Dreaded Writing Assignments!
How to Have the Best Semester Yet
How to Defuse Emotional Charged Conversations and Improve Communication with One Simple Tool!
How to Set Up Your Home to Practice and Use Coping Skills
How Body Doubling can be an Effective Strategy in Helping Kids with EF Challenges
Unstoppable: Help Your Child or Teen Win at Life
How to Use Stories to Teach Executive Function Skills
How to Magnify Your Child's Emotional Intelligence Skills No Matter Their Age
How to Prevent and Heal Trauma in Kids with EF Deficits
Support Kids With EF Challenges from a Parenting Perspective
Prepare Your Student for Independent Functioning at College
The Small & Narrow ADHD Comfort Zone
The Magic of Flashcards
How to Get Your Neurodiverse Child's Needs Met
How to Develop Your Child’s Social Executive Function
Make It Visual! Setting Kids with EF Challenges Up for Success
How to Tweak Your Parenting to Optimize Your Child's EF Skills
How to Support Kids Who Show Up Differently In The World
Impulse Control and Response Inhibition
How to Build a Task Management System using AI
How to Build EF Skills Using Your Child's Strengths
Cognitive Boot-Up: What Parents Need to Know
How to Understand Your Child's Psych Report Using AI
How to Strengthen ADHD Brakes to Achieve Breakthroughs
Making Your Home & Work Environments EF Friendly
Agreements and Expectations
5 Simple Steps to Stop Your Boy's Aggressive Behaviors
Shifting from Frustration Tension to Connection & Empowerment
Your Child’s Story Isn’t Your Story
How to Teach Your Student Smart Study Skills
How Small Movements Can Impact Your Child’s Executive Function
Finding Executive Function Skill in Everyday Scenarios
Collaborative Goal Setting For Success
How to Nurture Neurodiversity and Confidence
Understanding ADHD as a Delay in Executive Function
How to Use a Practical Four-Step Model for Executive Function Improvement
How to Talk to Kids with EF Challenges About Tough Topics
How to Set Up Visual Routines to Support Anxiety and Independence
How to set up an incredible personalized SSS, Sacred Study Space, optimized for focus and minimized for distractions

Previous Topics

How to Talk to Your Kid About Their Diagnosis
Keeping the Compassionate Conversation Going
Creating a Shared Language
Big Question- Talking to Children About Their Brains
Learning How to Reframe and Decode
Understanding Disconnection
Big Question- Your Child isn’t Giving You a Hard Time, Your Child is Having a Hard Time
Executive Function is a Brain Issue
The Importance of Prioritization
Big Question- It is Never too Late to Instill Hope
Bridging the Gap Between Planning and Doing
Big Question- Getting Stuff Done is Possible for Anyone
Bringing the Child’s & the Parent’s Needs Together
Big Question- Core Needs
Executive Function 101: How to Help Your Kids Understand Executive Function
Doing the Doing
What’s the Worst Advice You Have Heard?
Big Question- Know Your Child’s Strengths
Nurturing Balance in Ourselves as Parents and in Our Children
Setting Loving Limits
Big Question- Parents, You are the Best People to Help Your Kids
Helping Your Child Set Goals
Managing Technology
Big Question- Attention & Intention
Supporting the Mental Wellbeing of Neurodivergent Children
Understanding ADHD, Autism, and the Potential for Misdiagnosis
Engaging School: Strategies to Get Them on Board
Big Question- Accepting Neurodivergent Authenticity
Embracing Your Own Pace
Building Rituals for Productive Work Sessions
Our Brain has Three Fundamental Needs, Let's Take Care of It
Understanding and Managing Sensory Overload
Navigating and Pre-Empting Lying
Big Question- Your Child is Not Lazy, They're Just Overwhelmed
Study Strategy
Small Tweaks Have Big Peaks
Teaching Self- Advocacy and Personal Empowerment
Unlocking the Potential for ChatGBT to Advocate for Your Child
Big Question- Connection is the Key
Responsible Risk Taking
Big Question- Our Children are Born Geniuses
Shifting Perspective
The “WOOP” Formula for Success
Big Question- Parent Perspective Matters
Nurturing Independence in Complex Kids
Navigating Challenges When Your Child Resists Help
Support vs Enabling
Understanding School Refusal and School Related Trauma
Fostering Independence and Empowerment
Big Question- Fostering Independence in Kids of Any Age (Especially Young Adults)
Body Doubling & Executive Function
Big Question- It's Not About the Behavior, It’s About the Need Driving the Behavior
Understanding and Embracing ADHD
Five Approaches to Inspire and Nurture Creativity
Exploring the 5 Phases of the Creative Process
Big Question- You are Love
Navigating Transitions
Big Question- There is Dignity in Struggle
Empowering Children with Strong Communication Skills
Nurturing Self Advocacy in Your Child, Empowering Their Voice and Independence
Big Question- There is so Much Hope
Navigating Adulthood: Empowering Young Adults
Enhance Learning Through Homework
Big Question- You are Not Failing and Your Child is Not Broken
Unlocking Your Potential Through Visualization
Big Question- Don't’ Mistake a Skill Problem for Manipulation
Nurturing Independence For Emerging Emerging Adults
Labels & Children: Examining the Why, How, and Where of Categorization
Making Executive Function Fun
Big Question: Self Love it’s Where it’s At
Overview of Special Education
Understanding Eligibility and Accessing Available Resources
Giftedness has No Boundaries
Navigating Resources in the Neurodiverse Space
Tools to Improve Executive Function, Emotional Regulation and Focus
Creating Emotional Safety
Shifting Our Focus from External to Internal Skills
The Art of Backing Off
How to Gamify Executive Function
Screen Overuse
Anxiety & ADHD

Testimonials

"Thank you so much, Seth! What a totally wonderful summit - it should be made mandatory in all teacher training curricula around the world!"

- Dee

"Thank you so much for putting TEFOS together! This year, my biggest take-away was instead of ADHD, it's Executive Function Delay. It really does take the negative stigma off. Learning from TEFOS makes me a better parent and teacher! Your summit really makes a positive difference for kids and families!

Also, thank you for allowing free access. Last year I was able to buy the access pass; but couldn't this year. It means a lot that I could participate for me and for my students! I also promoted it with gifted families at my school and my gifted teachers."

- Hope L, mom of 2e kiddo

"Thank-you so much to you and your team for the amazing work you have done in this amazing, leave me speechless summit.It is the first Tefos I am attending, I hope not the last. I came across it through Andrew Newman, who posted a link on FB.I have learnt so much over the last few days and I am just absolutely in awe that something like this even existed!!! From my heart to yours, a massive thank-you for sharing your knowledge and helping us grow over this weekend. This was just what I needed to renew my understanding and ability to actually work on my purpose and life calling better."

- Sophie

"Wow, I just watched your video tour on the pass!!! Seth amazing!!! A-MAZEEE-ing!!! I have been watching your summit for years, maybe year 1 or year 2 and what you have pulled together is soooooo fabulous. I can see how proud and excited you are. Well done!!"

- Karen

"Thanks so much for your vision and hard work. Each speaker was better than the previous one and I am full with very helpful and practical tips/strategies. Many blessings to you and your team for all of the care, thought and effort that it took to produce such a quality outcome."

- Shanta

"As a newcomer to your work, I just wanted to take the time to thank you and your team for all of the time, intention, planning, and dedication you gave to this 3-day experience! How could I not take the opportunity to purchase your generous package! Any ONE of the hour plus presentations would be worth the cost!! And, we have the benefit of receiving them all! I know that for me, I will continually come back to re-listen to many of the presenters. Thanks also to you, Seth, specifically, for modeling what we hope to see in the students we work with when they “grow up!” Your enthusiasm and passion for these students is unmatched and, to me, seems to come from….how can I describe it? It’s like a deep and everlasting well of compassion, empathy, care and wisdom that is being manifested into a fountain of joy, understanding and inspiration."

- Bridget

"I found your website through a video on YouTube just before TEFOS and then quickly signed up for the summit. Thank you for gathering a diverse and wise group of people who truly care about children and everyone who is struggling with EF. I still have hours to listen to and will take that break you suggested but I’m already using some of the suggestions with my family and it is helping. I can tell you have a passion for people and I am grateful that you are using your gifts to help others."

- Kelly

"I just wanted to reach out and let you know how much your summit meant to me. I am a mom of a 9 year old boy who struggles with ADHD, I am also a mom who struggles in understanding my son's struggle. Your desire to help families and communities better understand children who struggle with executive processing is so genuine and real!! I am crying as I write to you and I have been crying all through the summit. Your workshop wasn't yet another set of people who condescendingly stand above you and your child and say "wow you look like you need my help". Your workshop was filled with presenters who came from a place of real heart, who have either been in the same position as me as a mother with a struggling child or who have lived the struggle themselves. I was most touched by mother's who had been in the same place as me and found the way to do things differently, who found strategies to continue to see the beauty in their sweet child despite the messy behavior. The mother's who stepped into the long, courageous journey of growing to understand themselves better so that they can be truly connected to the needs of their kiddos. The workshop has helped break my sense of shame and isolation and has given me many new resources and support networks to tap into. I am filled with hope that I can develop a deeper and deeper connection with my son, and that an abundance of support and camaraderie are available along the path."

- Laura K from California

"I simply wanted to say thank you. I found your choice of presenters worthwhile. I appreciated how you interviewed each presenter and asked them to clarify (when necessary). I am taking away a number of new ideas."

- Jodi

"I've purchased the TEFOS All-Access Pass for three years and believe it is a graduate-level class on executive functioning for only $89 and an incredible deal. Just buy it! Then watch each video, take notes, summarize the key points in your own words and you'll be a MUCH better parent or educator.

Seth's In-Depth Overview of Executive Function ('20) informs so much of my coaching of autistic young adults and their families systemizing self-reliance together. "

- Lynn D

"I just wanted to send a quick message to say the TEFOS sessions so far have been excellent. I have learned so much. The information is practical and actionable. I am really enjoying the summit.Thank you so much for doing what you do."

- Andrea

"The program was so helpful. After reading everything I could find for about a year and trying various approaches, I feel like we're starting to get it. Seth, when you present, it is clear how much you care and we feel heard. Thank you for making this program available. As parents we feel empowered and dedicated to practicing kindness, self-regulation/care, and patience in a new way. Your work is making a difference. Thank you." - Patty

"You have done so much for my family with the information you have provided through your videos and podcasts. I hope you realize what a gift you are to the twice-exceptional/neurodivergent community. I really cannot express my gratitude enough :)" - Theresa

"This message is in gratitude to all of the presenters, but it is especially for Seth and his amazing team. I have been following your work for several years, and I am always inspired after listening to you. I have been frantically trying to listen to all of the speakers - I know, "Take a breath!" I am choosing to purchase the summit because I know it will help my families and students. I am an SLP who has been providing service to families for >50 years, and I have no intention in stopping. It is such amazing and inspiring work! I have most recently been focusing on Resilience, and this just inspired me to go forward even more. I was so interested in the fact that many of the presenters are parents of uniquely human people. I am also the parent of an adult who has been my greatest teacher! Thanks again for all you do!" - Donna W

"Thank you to Seth & all the speakers! TEFOS was 100% inspiring & empowering. I found it very helpful & I'm already parenting with more compassion & understanding. As a result I saw immediate positive changes. Powerful stuff!" - Rachel

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