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05/09/24 • GHF Parent Group & GHF Virtual Co-Op Back-to-Back Q&A with Directors Dr. Lin Lim & Lisa Jobe, 1-2pm, PT / 4-5pm, ET
Session 1: 1-1:30pm PT / 4-4:30pm ET
New Strength-Focused Parent Development Program to Pilot this Fall
If you parent a 2e kid (under 18) and would like to learn strength-based, positive strategies to help your whole family flourish, you are invited to participate in this study, led by GHF Families Director Dr. Lin Lim and Gayle Bentley, Ed.D. of The Bentley Center. The study will serve as a pilot for GHF’s Parent Development Program, as you are guided through nine weekly 75-minute sessions that are designed to empower and support your family’s goals. Learn more from Dr. Lim herself this Thursday!
Lin Lim, PhD. is the Dean of Students and Communications at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education. She holds a doctorate in psychology from Boston University, an Academic Graduate Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Education (Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Education), and an Academic Graduate Certificate in Twice-exceptional Education (BGS). With a diverse academic background and wide experience across fields, Dr. Lim’s current interests include interdisciplinary embodied complex dynamic systems thinking and practical applications around positive parenting, education, school-workplace transitions, and human development. She founded Quark Collaboration Institute, a non-profit that focuses on human dignity and well-being across the lifespan for all. She is an international speaker, author, and active volunteer serving on the boards of: Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG), National Association for Gifted Children Parent Editorial Content and Advisory Board, Gifted Education Family Network, and PGRetreat.org. She currently serves as the President of SENG.
Her new GHF Press title, Using Picture Books to Help Little Ones Learn About Themselves - co-written with PDP partner, Gayle Bentley, Ed.D., and #1 Amazon debut in Parenting, is available here: https://www.ghflearners.org/books
Session 2: 1:30-2pm PT / 4:30-5pm ET
GHF Virtual Co-Op 2024-25 is Ready for You
Our first year of Co-Op has been a huge success. We've begun a real community with 32 gifted families who contributed a menu of engaging and unique courses, and fun extras like social and hangout sessions, docent-led virtual field trips at the Smithsonian, and a talent show! Registration for fall is open now, and consideration for course and club ideas is in the order received. Are you considering including Co-Op in your fall plans? GHF Virtual Co-Op Director Lisa Jobe will be at the ready to give a bit of an introduction, and answer all of your questions!
Lisa Jobe, Esq. is an educational consultant specializing in providing homeschool support for profoundly gifted learners and their families, as co-founder of Sequoia Gifted and Creative, LLC. Lisa pivoted from her corporate law career to homeschool her profoundly gifted sons and has now devoted 15 years to educating and serving as an advocate in the gifted community. She is passionate about supporting underserved gifted families, and volunteers in many capacities, including in the Member Advisory Group of NAGC (National Association of Gifted Children) and as co-facilitator of the parent homeschool support group in the Davidson Young Scholar community. Lisa is also a doctoral student at Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education.
RSVP HERE, and we’ll see you this Thursday! Not yet a member? Join at our Community level, free, and welcome!
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02/24/24 • GHF Conversations: Calm, Regulation and Self Care with Paula Prober, Dr. Heidi Lack & Dr. Gail Post, 8am-11:15am, PT / 11am-2:15pm, ET
Session 1: 8-9:30am PT / 11-12:30pm ET
Paula Prober presents: Self-Care for the Super Smart, Sensitive, Persnickety Perfectionist
You are a deep thinker. You seek growth, healing, and self-actualization. It is important for you to live a meaningful life. You have perfectionist tendencies. Some might call you persnickety. It is tricky, then, for you to find quality resources, support, and guidance. You have particular needs and tastes. You may have been told you don’t need help because you are “so smart” or that self-care is selfish. What do you do? How do you find support that is valuable? How do you give yourself permission to have needs and to take the time to address some of those needs? What does self-care look like for you? Paula Prober will be your guide to greater self-understanding and acceptance of your complex rainforest mind so that you recognize the necessity and benefits of self-care and begin to find your particular path to inner and outer resources.
Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed. is a psychotherapist, consultant, blogger, and author in private practice based in Eugene, Oregon, USA. For the past 30 years her clients have been intellectually and creatively gifted adults and parents of gifted children. Along with counseling in Oregon, she consults internationally with these individuals. Paula has been a teacher of gifted children and presenter at universities, webinars, podcasts, and conferences. She is the creator of the rainforest mind metaphor to describe giftedness. She has written articles on giftedness for Psychotherapy Networker, Advanced Development Journal, the Eugene Register-Guard and online for Thrive Global, Rebelle Society, psychotherapy.net, Highly Sensitive Refuge, and Introvert Dear.
She has written three books: Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth (available here at GHF Press) is an in-depth look at giftedness through case studies of her counseling clients.
Journey into Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide for Gifted Adults and Teens, Book Lovers, Overthinkers, Geeks, Sensitives, Brainiacs, Intuitives, Procrastinators, and Perfectionists is a collection of her most popular blog posts from the first four years of the blog.
Her third book, Saving Your Rainforest Mind: A Guided Journal for the Curious, Creative, Smart, & Sensitive is a journal specifically for gifted adults and older teens including prompts, information, and inspiration addressing sensitivity, empathy, loneliness, multipotentiality, perfectionism, and much more.
She blogs at rainforestmind.com, www.rainforestmind.com and is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paulaprober/ She will be a keynote speaker at the SENG conference in July 2024. (https://www.sengifted.org/sengannualconference
Session 2: 9:45-11:15am PT / 12:45-2:15pm ET
Dr. Gail Post and Dr. Heidi Lack present: Re-centering Ourselves
Parenting our gifted families is as intense as giftedness itself. The labyrinth of gifted parenting has twists and turns en route to ‘the center,’ where we can, if we recognize it, rest and renew. What do those moments look and feel like? How do we search for, or claim them? Are we as committed to respecting our own needs, pacing, strengths, and challenges, as we are to those of our children or students? Do we make time for our own pursuits? We will take advantage of the collective wisdom of our zoom room of attendees to generate conversation, support and connection in the service of our own growth and replenishment.
This will be an interactive workshop that will carve out space for self-reflection, so bring your journal, dress comfortably, and come with your receptivity, to discover and connect.
Gail Post, PhD is a clinical psychologist, in practice for over 35 years, with a specialty in intellectual and musical giftedness and twice-exceptionalities. She also is a parenting coach/consultant, workshop leader, writer, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Post is the parent of two gifted young adults and served as co-chair of a gifted parents advocacy group. Her writing includes hundreds of articles, several book chapters, a long-standing blog, Gifted Challenges. and her new book, The Gifted Parenting Journey: A Guide to Self-discovery and Support for Families of Gifted Children, which extends her advocacy efforts. She is also featured in GHF Press’ Perspectives on Giftedness. You can find out more at www.gailpost.com.
Heidi Lack, PhD ATR-BC is a seasoned clinical psychologist and board-certified registered art therapist, with varied training, work, and supervisory experience in Behavioral Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry; as a senior clinician at the Hallowell Centers; as adjunct faculty at Lesley University; currently in private clinical, coaching and consultation practice. She helps adults, college-aged and some teen students, families, parents and elders juggling the joys and challenges of their neurodivergences stemming from their giftedness and multi exceptionalities, anxieties, attentional and executive functioning issues, social thinking, and sensory processing differences such as Misophonia. She facilitates “Intentional Parenting™” support groups, SoulCollage® and ethical values character trait-based workshops, is trained as a SENG SMPG parent group facilitator, and leads our GHF Professionals Networking group. Dr. Lack is currently in partnership with Dr. Gail Post offering the Gifted Parenting Journey Workshop series. She is also a multimedia artist, intermittent writer/poet, and parent whose multi-exceptional young adults required creative schooling variations. See https://drheidilack.com, HL@DrHeidiLack.com or https://www.thegiftedparentingjourney.com
9/23/23 • GHF Conversations: Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted & 2e with Carol Malueg, MA, GCT 2e, and Suki Wessling
In Session One, GHF Board Director Carol Malueg shares hear wealth of knowledge about finding great-fit enrichment and social opportunities for gifted and 2e kids who aren’t getting these needs adequately met in school. Then, in Session Two, gifted-kid pied piper and enrichment expert, Suki Wessling, discusses how transformative quality online enrichment pathways can be for homeschooled gifted and 2e kids.
06/03 - 05/23 • 3rd Annual Gifted Home Ed Conference w Paul Beljan, Austina De Bonte, Julie Skolnick, Jaime Smith, Matt Zakreski & many more
Welcome to the 3rd annual Gifted Home Education Conference, “Come As You Are: Authenticity & Acceptance” - three edifying days brimming with compassionate gifted community leaders sharing their time and expertise to empower you with what you need to make intentional educational choices for your family. Wear your PJs, take us along to that soccer game, and ditch the background filters, because this year’s theme is Come As You Are: Authenticity and Acceptance!