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SENG Webinar

SENG Webinar Event, May 16th – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Managing Developmental Asynchronies in Young Highly Gifted Children

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Date: May 16, 2013
Time: 4:30 p.m. Pacific [90 mins.]
Presenter: Stephanie Meyer, PhD

Children with superior intellectual capacities frequently manifest lagging skills in other areas of development.  A variety of available intervention methods can help minimize the impact of developmental asynchronies on a child’s capacity to express his/her intellectual and creative gifts. This webinar features a panel comprised of a child psychologist, occupational therapist, speech pathologist, special educator, behavioral analyst, and developmental optometrist, all of whom will discuss empirically supported strategies, within their respective fields, designed to target areas of challenge commonly seen among highly gifted youth.

SENG Webinar Event, May 14th – Families with Gifted GLBTQ Youth

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Date: May 14, 2013
Time: 4:30 p.m. Pacific [90 mins.]
Presenter: Terry Friedrichs, PhD, EdD

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth experience much higher-than-average rates of verbal and physical harassment, parental rejection, and suicide. However, these students also have great potential for academic success, as seen by their disproportionately-high representation in programs for the gifted.

This session explains how parents, siblings, and teachers can build on these students’ potential and can diminish the effect of others’ harm.

SENG Webinar Event, March 26th – Living with Intensity Series – Part 3

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Title: “Still Gifted After All These Years — Lifespan Intensity and Gifted Adults”
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m. (Eastern)
Presenter: Patricia Gatto Walden, PhD
APA CE: 1

Gifted children become gifted adults experiencing their inner world and surrounding environment in deep and complex ways. Throughout their lives, gifted adults have recognized that intensities, asynchrony, perfectionism, and feelings of dissimilarity from others have affected their relationships, personal life, and career choices.

Incorporating a holistic perspective (focus given to intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual/ethical and social domains), this SENGinar will identify the multifaceted intrinsic strengths, concerns, and needs of gifted adults. Primary lifelong issues of feeling different and alone, coping with isolation, self-criticism, and relentless perfectionism will be addressed.

After participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

  • Understand how an individual experiences giftedness “from the inside out.”
  • Identify common difficulties and misunderstandings of adult giftedness.
  • Appreciate the lifelong focus on meaning and purpose.
  • Understand the importance of attending to the total self to attain health and well-being.

This SENGinar is the third in a 3-part series based on the book Living with Intensity. To receive APA credit you must read the book, attend the entire webinar, and complete the post-event evaluation. You may purchase the book through Great Potential Press or Amazon.

SENG Webinar Event, March 16th – Bootcamp for Determined Advocates

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Find out What It Takes to Be an Effective Advocate for the Gifted

Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013
Time: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Presenter: Wenda Sheard, JD, PhD

Are you determined to advocate for the best education possible for your children? Do you want to learn more about the legal, political, and educational aspects of advocacy? If you do, this SENGinar is for you.

Many times when a child’s educational needs are satisfied, social and emotional problems are alleviated. So come fill your advocacy toolbox with new and creative advocacy ideas from a lawyer, political scientist, teacher, and long-time education advocate.

 

SENG Webinar Event, Feb. 26th – Living with Intensity Series – Part 2

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Understanding Intensity: Practical Applications for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors

Date: February 26, 2013
Time: 4:30 p.m. Pacific [90 mins.]
Presenter: Michele Kane, EdD

Gifted children’s heightened sensitivities and intensities combine to provide qualitatively different interactions both in their inner and outer worlds. The asynchronous gifted children need the guidance of adults to help them develop and foster their social, emotional and spiritual nature. By participating in this webinar you will:

  • Identify strategies for nurturing the inner life.
  • Understand the developmental experiences of gifted youngsters.
  • Provide support for adults who help to guide these children.

This SENGinar is the second in the 3-part Living with Intensity Series based on the book Living with Intensity. To receive APA credit, you must read the book and attend the entire webinar. You may purchase the book through Great Potential Press, Amazon or other book retailers.


ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Michele Kane, EdD, is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Master of Arts in Gifted Education Program at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. As a presenter for state, national, and international conferences, a major focus of her work is related to social, emotional, and spiritual giftedness and the affective aspects of educational programming. She and her husband Dan are parents of six gifted adult children.

SENG Webinar Event, Dec. 20th – Talking with Teens

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Presented by Jean Peterson

When adults are serious about attending to social and emotional needs of gifted kids, their own self-awareness and skills can help them avoid inadvertently squelching, patronizing, judging, viewing them narrowly, or even being unhelpfully “in awe.” Paying attention to their own biases can also help adults avoid inhibiting kids’ willingness to engage and show appropriate vulnerability.

Learn how to engage gifted adolescents so that conversation is meaningful and satisfying to both teens and adults, is focused on more than just performance or non-performance, is “real,” builds mutual trust, and is “generative.” Parents, relatives, teachers, coaches, directors, and other invested adults can all benefit from stepping back and, if needed, purposefully altering patterns of interaction in the interest of supporting them effectively.

SENG Webinar Event – Oct. 18th: Journaling for the Gifted Child

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Developing Social and Emotional Growth in the Gifted Child Through Journaling
Presented by Kathleen Casper

Explore the different characteristics of gifted children and how journaling can help these unique individuals express themselves, work through stresses, organize their lives, highlight creativity areas, and increase their social skills. We will also look at ways to support introverted and extroverted gifted children through journaling, and discuss different types of journaling activities and ways to extend writing outside of their journals and into the world.

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SENG Webinar Event – Sept. 20th: Joyful Living in 6 Easy Steps

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Presented by: Dianne Allen, MA, CAP

Gifted individuals can take life very seriously and often miss the power of living joy filled. By learning the steps to living joyfully, one can establish and maintain a lighter life which leads to a healthier lifestyle on all levels, especially emotionally.

This presentation discusses joy as a vital part of life. The importance of joy and the 6 easy steps to living joy will be presented. How to establish and maintain a joyful daily life will be presented.

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SENG Webinar Event May 10th: Mother-Daughter Relationships of Profoundly Gifted Young Girls

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Presented by Joy L. Navan, PhD

Educators, parents and counselors are invited to join us as we explore the social and emotional needs of gifted girls.

What social and emotional strengths and needs accompany the development of exceptional and profoundly gifted girls? What do mothers learn about themselves and their emotional needs as a result of raising gifted daughters?

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SENG Webinar Event March 15th, 2012: Giftedness and Learning Disabilities: Unearthing the Missed Diagnosis

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Presented by Paul Beljan, PsyD, ABPdN

In this SENGinar, teachers, parents, and counselors will learn how to correctly diagnosis learning disabilities in gifted and talented children.

Characteristics of gifted and talented children can result in incorrect diagnoses, such as overlooking learning disabilities. Learning disabilities can take the form of academics (reading and math) or innate abilities in general learning that may relate to social learning.

In this SENGinar, Dr. Paul Beljan will review some of the basic tenants of giftedness that include intellect and asynchronous development. He will then turn to the nuts and bolts of learning disabilities: what they look like, how to assess them, and what to do about them in the contexts of the gifted population. The “discrepancy model” of learning disability will be dispelled in favor of understanding the brain basis of learning disabilities. Dr. Beljan will present several anecdotes and case examples to illustrate the process of learning disabilities.

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