Groups, Workshops & Presentations
Learning experiences for parents, educators, and professional communities
I offer presentations, workshops, and facilitated discussions that help audiences understand giftedness and twice-exceptionality with greater depth and practical clarity. Sessions can be designed for parents, educators, school communities, or professional organizations and adapted to the audience’s experience and goals.
For Schools and Educators
Sessions for educators can build shared language around advanced and complex learners, explore how giftedness may present in the classroom, and connect research-informed concepts with realistic educational practice.
For Parent Communities
Parent presentations can help families recognize patterns of gifted development, understand common social-emotional and educational concerns, and approach school and parenting decisions with more useful questions.
For Professional Organizations
Professional groups may request an introductory presentation, a focused topic session, or a facilitated conversation that connects gifted and twice-exceptional perspectives with the organization’s existing work.
Sample Topics
Recognizing giftedness in young children
Understanding giftedness and twice-exceptionality
Asynchronous development
Looking beyond IQ scores
Understanding complex learner profiles
Supporting gifted children at home and school
School fit for gifted and 2e learners
Perfectionism, intensity, and sensitivity
Supporting advanced learners without adding pressure
Strengthening family–school collaboration
Customized Presentations
Topics, examples, session length, and format can be adapted to the needs of your community. To discuss a presentation, please share your audience, preferred format, anticipated number of participants, timeframe, and the questions you would most like the session to address.
Selected Workshop Engagements
Recognizing Giftedness in Your Child and Supporting These Unique Traits
Presented on multiple occasions in partnership with the Center for Children and Youth, a division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services.
I offer presentations, workshops, and facilitated discussions that help audiences understand giftedness and twice-exceptionality with greater depth and practical clarity. Sessions can be designed for parents, educators, school communities, or professional organizations and adapted to the audience’s experience and goals.
For Schools and Educators
Sessions for educators can build shared language around advanced and complex learners, explore how giftedness may present in the classroom, and connect research-informed concepts with realistic educational practice.
For Parent Communities
Parent presentations can help families recognize patterns of gifted development, understand common social-emotional and educational concerns, and approach school and parenting decisions with more useful questions.
For Professional Organizations
Professional groups may request an introductory presentation, a focused topic session, or a facilitated conversation that connects gifted and twice-exceptional perspectives with the organization’s existing work.
Sample Topics
Recognizing giftedness in young children
Understanding giftedness and twice-exceptionality
Asynchronous development
Looking beyond IQ scores
Understanding complex learner profiles
Supporting gifted children at home and school
School fit for gifted and 2e learners
Perfectionism, intensity, and sensitivity
Supporting advanced learners without adding pressure
Strengthening family–school collaboration
Customized Presentations
Topics, examples, session length, and format can be adapted to the needs of your community. To discuss a presentation, please share your audience, preferred format, anticipated number of participants, timeframe, and the questions you would most like the session to address.
Selected Workshop Engagements
Recognizing Giftedness in Your Child and Supporting These Unique Traits
Presented on multiple occasions in partnership with the Center for Children and Youth, a division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services.
CAREGIVERS COMMUNITY GROUPS
Connection and guided conversation for caregivers of gifted and 2e children
Parenting a gifted or twice-exceptional child can be rewarding, confusing, and isolating—sometimes all at once. Advice designed for typical developmental patterns may not fully reflect the child in front of you, and it can be difficult to find a place where the complexity of your experience is understood.
Parent groups offer a thoughtful, supportive setting in which caregivers can discuss common experiences, learn from one another, and deepen their understanding of gifted and twice-exceptional development.
SENG-Guided Community Groups
As a trained facilitator for Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG), I help create a structured, respectful environment for discussion. These are facilitated parent conversations rather than lectures, therapy groups, or individualized professional advice. Participants bring valuable experience and perspective, while the facilitators help maintain focus, connection, and psychological safety within the group.
Topics We May Explore
How the Groups Work
Groups are generally offered online so families can participate from different locations. The number of sessions, schedule, reading selections, group size, and fee are announced with each offering. Groups are intentionally kept small enough to allow meaningful participation.
Who May Participate
Parents and caregivers may participate whether or not their child has been formally identified as gifted. If a group’s age range or focus is not likely to be a useful match, families will be informed before registration is finalized.
What Parent Groups Are—and Are Not
Parent groups are designed for shared reflection, education, and community. They do not provide psychotherapy, diagnosis, crisis support, or individualized clinical advice. Participants are expected to respect the privacy of other families and the confidential nature of group discussions.
Upcoming Groups
New group dates will be announced based on interest and availability. If no group is currently scheduled, you may join the interest list to receive information about future offerings.
Parenting a gifted or twice-exceptional child can be rewarding, confusing, and isolating—sometimes all at once. Advice designed for typical developmental patterns may not fully reflect the child in front of you, and it can be difficult to find a place where the complexity of your experience is understood.
Parent groups offer a thoughtful, supportive setting in which caregivers can discuss common experiences, learn from one another, and deepen their understanding of gifted and twice-exceptional development.
SENG-Guided Community Groups
As a trained facilitator for Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG), I help create a structured, respectful environment for discussion. These are facilitated parent conversations rather than lectures, therapy groups, or individualized professional advice. Participants bring valuable experience and perspective, while the facilitators help maintain focus, connection, and psychological safety within the group.
Topics We May Explore
- Understanding giftedness and twice-exceptionality
- Asynchronous development
- Intensity, sensitivity, and perfectionism
- Family relationships and friendships
- Educational environments and school fit
- Motivation, expectations, and stress
- Connection, community, and support
- Practical approaches to parenting gifted children
- Resources and professional support
How the Groups Work
Groups are generally offered online so families can participate from different locations. The number of sessions, schedule, reading selections, group size, and fee are announced with each offering. Groups are intentionally kept small enough to allow meaningful participation.
Who May Participate
Parents and caregivers may participate whether or not their child has been formally identified as gifted. If a group’s age range or focus is not likely to be a useful match, families will be informed before registration is finalized.
What Parent Groups Are—and Are Not
Parent groups are designed for shared reflection, education, and community. They do not provide psychotherapy, diagnosis, crisis support, or individualized clinical advice. Participants are expected to respect the privacy of other families and the confidential nature of group discussions.
Upcoming Groups
New group dates will be announced based on interest and availability. If no group is currently scheduled, you may join the interest list to receive information about future offerings.
About SENG
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the social and emotional needs of gifted, talented, and twice-exceptional individuals and their families.