Meeting Overview  ·  Last updated May 2026

The ADHD Field Guide for Adults by Cate Osborn and Erik Gude

ADHD Field Camp
for Adults

Base camp for adults navigating ADHD in the real world.

A purpose-built Discord community for your readers. Seven custom bots provide structured daily support, accountability, co-working, community engagement, resource access, and guided member onboarding — plus a book club and Patreon integration as server-level features.

Not a general ADHD server. Every channel and every bot exists for a specific reason. Everything here is designed around how ADHD brains actually work.

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Three Principles

What This Is

Three commitments that define every design decision.

Purpose-Built
Every channel and every bot exists for a specific reason. No off-topic noise. No features added just because they seem cool.
ADHD-First
Design decisions grounded in the WFADHD International Consensus Statement — 208 evidence-based conclusions from 80 researchers. Not pop psychology.
Standalone
Intentionally separate from Fruit Snack Nation and Infinite Quest. Its own community, its own identity, its own purpose.

Server Structure

The Camp

Six areas. Each with a specific purpose. Click any card to explore it in detail.

Cate Osborn — Camp Director  (our recommendation)

Camp Staff

Seven Bots, Seven Jobs

Each bot has exactly one purpose. No bot does two things.

Universal rule: no DMs, ever. All bot interaction stays in-channel.

For Cate & Erik

Your Camp

What the server gives back.

📚 Book Club

Discord Stage for live discussion plus a Forum channel for session threads. Members stay connected to the Stage while posting in the thread alongside — both open at once.

Each session is one command. Activities Director creates the Forum thread and Discord Event together — titled, tagged, prompt already in the body.

Frequency: weekly or biweekly — your call. We recommend biweekly to start.

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🔥 Patreon Integration

Discord's native Patreon integration. Supporters receive their role automatically when they connect, and lose it if they cancel.

Zero manual management. No bot. No spreadsheet.

Intimacy, not exclusivity. A monthly drop-in from you is the value proposition. The structure supports it; the effort is yours to define.

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Your Voice in Everything
The server name, welcome tone, bot language, your title — all default to your input. We've built the structure. Architecture without character is an empty building. The character is yours to define.
On Safety
Compass never auto-responds with clinical advice. Every bot flow surfaces a path to a human mod. All content is grounded in the WFADHD International Consensus Statement. Full safety detail →

Six Questions

What We Need From You

Only you can answer these. Everything else is already built.

Your Voice
Server name, brand feel, how it should sound to your readers.
Details

Everything here is a recommendation, not a prescription. The server's success depends on your voice running through it. If the name doesn't feel right, it changes.

In practice: input on the server name, the tone of #welcome-to-camp, the language of the roll-call prompt, and how the bots' messages should sound. The first things members see should feel like they could have come from you directly.

Your Title
We'd love to call you Camp Director — but it's entirely yours to define.
Details

Camp Director captures the role: tone-setter, culture-definer, occasional presence. But you may have a better instinct for what to call yourself.

Alternatives: Camp Director, Founder, Head Counsellor, Field Director, Lead Guide. The right answer is whatever you'd naturally say when introducing yourself to the community.

Book Club Frequency
Weekly or biweekly? Your call — it can evolve as the community grows.
Details

Biweekly: lower prep burden, more time for async discussion, easier to sustain long-term.

Weekly: stronger rhythm, more touchpoints, members who miss one session only wait a week.

Our recommendation: start biweekly. Moving up is easy once there's demand. Moving back feels like a retreat.

Patreon Perks
What's the "little something extra"? The perks are entirely yours to define.
Details

The structure supports early access to prompts, direct Q&A, behind-the-scenes content, and supporter-to-supporter community. Exact offering: your call.

What not to put here: ADHD strategies unavailable to free members, bot features non-supporters can't use. These harm community trust and Patreon retention simultaneously.

Moderation
Compass always routes to human mods. Who should that be?
Details

The mod team needs to exist, have clear authority, cover active hours, and be trained on the crisis protocol before launch. Compass creates the handoff — the mods need to be ready to receive it.

Your input on the escalation path is required before the server opens.

Level of Involvement
Deeply involved or checking in quarterly — entirely yours to define.
Details

Minimum: your name and public endorsement, input on the brand and welcome voice (one time), occasional Fireside drops (monthly is plenty), availability for serious mod escalations.

Not required: daily presence, responding to every message, writing prompts, or any technical work. Everything else runs automatically.

Built around
your book.

Yours to say yes or no.