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GHF wants to ensure that we reach and serve as many gifted and 2e families as possible, which is why we have a free level of membership, the GHF Community Membership, that grants, among other benefits, access to all of our live programming.
For those who are new to our quarterly mini-conference platform, GHF Conversations is a half-day of topic-driven programming featuring two expert presenters, each of whom are followed by facilitated conversation sessions with and for our thoughtful and engaging community of educators and parents. We warmly invite you to log in and participate as much or as little as you’re comfortable, but rest assured that you’re among people who understand and care.
Coming Up
03/28/25 • GHF Virtual Co-Op: Tell Me More! with GHF Board Director, Lisa Jobe & Co-Op Parent Lead, Sydney Miller Milbert
Ah, it’s nearly spring, and with warmer weather, longer days, gardens budding to life and so forth, comes a certain restlessness. For homeschooling families, this tends to look like taking stock and planning for fall, before summer fades the memory of what worked and didn’t work, what passions need tending, and what pursuits have receded for now. It’s also the perfect time to consider the GHF Co-Op - a “community first” model - for its third year.
What does “community first” mean? It’s how we describe the dynamic of families and facilitators coming together as a group that takes the time to get to know and trust each other, which forms the basis for then creating and providing classes and connection that serves everyone’s needs - a true community.
We hope you will join us at 12pm PDT in the GHF Forum to learn what makes the GHF Virtual Co-Op such a joy for its families, and how you can be a part of it. To read more information now, please go to the Virtual Co-Op page.
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03/15/25 • GHF Conversations: Gifted Kids - Inner Lives and Experiences, with Dr. Adriane Ransom & Linda Silverman, PhD
You may have heard a familiar exclamation in our community: “If you know one gifted child, you know one gifted child.” Still, there are characteristics that gifted children share – intensity, overexcitabilities, curiosity and unconventional thinking – that lead to and stem from rich inner lives and novel interpretations of how they experience the world around them. We, as parents, are along for the ride! GHF is proud to welcome Dr. Adriane Ransom and Linda Silverman, PhD, to offer their wisdom for how to hold on, keep your bearings and co-pilot without a white knuckle in sight.
Session One: 8-9:30am PT - Bloom Pediatrics founder/director, Dr. Adriane Ransom, OTR/L, SWC, shares proven methods and perspectives for supporting early childhood experiences of giftedness and twice exceptionality, including sensory processing differences, eating challenges, social skills, and self-regulation.
Session Two: 9:45-11:15am PT - Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (ISAD) and Gifted Development Center (GDC) founder, Linda Silverman, PhD, guides us on an odyssey of young, gifted inner lives: “Intricate thought processes and complex emotions are held in delicate balance in the gifted individual. Idealism, self-doubt, perceptiveness, excruciating sensitivity, moral imperatives, desperate needs for understanding, acceptance, love—all impinge simultaneously. Gifted children develop more asynchronously than others, and often feel unable to relate to age-mates. When they are forced into a mold that doesn’t fit, they begin to experience their differences as deficits. All who interact with them must understand their unique characteristics. Then they can learn to appreciate themselves and develop their own unique paths. We will explore the emotional needs and social realities of gifted children and discuss ways to nurture their full development.”
Dr. Adriane Ransom, OTR/L, SWC, is the founder, owner, and director at Bloom Pediatrics. Adriane is a champion for gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) children, and her passion for advocacy shines through in every aspect of her work. With a Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Boston University, Adriane has focused her career on developing programming and support systems specifically designed to empower young people who possess extraordinary abilities. Her dedication is affirmed by the many accolades she has received, including the 2018 SMPG Facilitator of the Year award. Additionally, she co-founded the Westside of Los Angeles Gifted Group, as well as Square Pegs (alongside GHF President, Kasi Peters), which offers tailored support through parent groups, consulting, and community presentations.
Her specialty areas include autism spectrum disorders, executive functioning, feeding challenges, gifted and twice-exceptional children, gross motor skills, and coordination, handwriting and fine motor skills, sensory processing disorders, self-regulation, and social skills support. She has advanced training in Sensory Integration Theory and Practice, enabling her to comprehensively evaluate and treat children with sensory processing disorders. Additionally, her Advanced Practice Certification in Swallowing Assessment, Evaluation, and Intervention (SWC) provides her with the expertise to accurately diagnose and treat feeding and swallowing difficulties in children. To provide comprehensive support to the families she works with, Adriane has received Special Education Advocate Training through the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. Her synergistic utilization of a multifaceted approach that incorporates her broad background guarantees the highest level of care to the children and families.
Learn more: https://www.bloompediatrics.com/team/p/adriane-ransom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloompediatrics
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloompediatrics
Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist. She founded the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (ISAD) and Gifted Development Center (GDC) in Westminster, Colorado. In the last 45 years, GDC has assessed more than 6,600 children, the largest data bank on this population. GDC has always endorsed homeschooling and supported gifted homeschoolers. Linda’s PhD is from the University of Southern California. She specializes in twice exceptional and exceptionally gifted children and gifted girls. Since 1961, she has written over 500 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, Advanced Development: A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults and Giftedness 101, which has been translated into Swedish, Korean and Japanese.
Learn more: www.gifteddevelopment.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gifteddevelopmentcenter
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/LindaSilverman
12/11/24 • GHF Conversations: Gifted & Distractible: Strategies for 2e Learners - an Exclusive Sesh with Julie Skolnick, MA, JD
We are over the moon to offer this special opportunity for you to spend time with one of the foremost voices in the twice exceptional field, the inimitable Julie Skolnick! Folks, this was a GET - to say that Julie is “in demand” is the epitome of understatements. The format for this is a little different - an aggregate Q&A, interview-style, rather than a presentation, focusing on nurturing gifted and 2e kids, as expounded upon in Julie’s instant must-have book, Gifted and Distractible: Understanding, Supporting, and Advocating for Your Twice Exceptional Child, followed by our usual open conversation with attendees.
11/02/24 • GHF Conversations: Gifted Intensity - Positive Disintegration & PDA with Chris Wells, PhD; Marna Wohlfeld, MA & Marni Kammersell, MA
In Session One, Dabrowski Center President and Positive Disintegration Podcast host, Chris Wells, PhD explores how the emotional and intellectual challenges often faced by gifted individuals can serve as catalysts for personal growth and deeper self-understanding, and can lead to extraordinary transformation and empower parents and young people to thrive in their personal growth and educational pursuits. Then, in Session Two, 2e doctoral candidates, Wandering Brightly’s Marni Kammersell, MA and GHF VP, Marna Wohlfeld, MA, draw upon the academic literature and insights from educators and adults with PDA, alongside their own experiences as parents of gifted PDA youth, to discuss best practices for nurturing and cooperating with gifted PDAers.
06/07-5 /24 • 4th Annual Gifted Home Ed Conference w Dan Peters, Paula Prober, Austina De Bonte, Sharon Duncan, Barry Gelston, Maria Kennedy, Heidi Lack, Sam Young, & more
Welcome to the 4th annual Gifted Home Education Conference, “Come As You Are: Reframe. Recenter. Reflect.” Pared down, informal and substantive, with plenty of discussion, this year’s three days of “filling our cup” earns instant RE-watch status.
05/09/24 • GHF Parent Group & GHF Virtual Co-Op Back-to-Back Q&A with Directors Dr. Lin Lim & Lisa Jobe
In Session One, GHF Families Director Dr. Lin Lim fields questions about the 2e parenting study that will serve as a pilot for GHF’s potential parenting development program. Led by Lim and Gayle Bentley, Ed.D. of The Bentley Center, participating parents are guided through nine weekly sessions that are designed to empower through a strengths-based lens. Then, in Session Two, GHF Co-Op Director Lisa Job shares first-year successes (32 families, unique courses, social hangouts, docent-led virtual field trips to the Smithsonian!) answers questions, and invites you to join for Fall 2024.
02/24/24 • GHF Conversations: Calm, Regulation & Self Care with Paula Prober, and Dr. Heidi Lack & Dr. Gail Post
In Session One, Your Rainforest Mind author and writer Paula Prober points you toward greater self-understanding and acceptance of your complexities so that you recognize the necessity and benefits of self-care and begin to find your particular path to inner and outer resources. In Session Two, Dr. Gail Post and Dr. Heidi Lack guided gifted parents through the “twists and turns en route to ‘the center,’ where we can, if we recognize it, rest and renew.” Due to the vulnerable, intimate nature of this session, it was not recorded.
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 her 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!