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Category: SENG Director’s Corner
Over-excitabilities
Nisia Patalan

Understanding and Supporting Sensory Sensitivities in Gifted Individuals

This article explains sensory sensitivities in gifted individuals, describing eight senses, diverse sensory profiles (seekers, avoiders, low registration, sensitivity), links to overexcitability theory, and practical supports: environmental adjustments, regulation strategies (activators/settlers), tailored interventions, and physical tools to manage sensory overload.

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Nisia Patalan June 17, 2025
Adult Giftedness
Lin Lim, Ph.D.

Creating Space for Acceptance and Growth

The author reflects on the importance of creating safe, supportive spaces for mental health and growth, describing how such environments foster belonging, resilience, and agency. She offers practical prompts and small actions to cultivate and sustain safe spaces for oneself and others, emphasizing shared responsibility.

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Lin Lim, Ph.D. May 7, 2025
Communication
Denise Michele Hicks, YSBH EdS PMP

From Strength to Strength: Celebrating Women’s Month with More Key Resources

The author summarizes a SENGinar interview with Dr. Donna Ford, highlighting culturally responsive, trauma-informed approaches to gifted education and sharing recommended resources and books. The post thanks women leaders in gifted education, urging advocacy, equity, and continued efforts to support diverse gifted learners.

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Denise Michele Hicks, YSBH EdS PMP March 14, 2025
Adult Giftedness
Rianne van de Ven

Supporting and Strengthening Gifted Communities

The author describes becoming a certified SENG Community Group facilitator and participating in international sessions with gifted adults and professionals. She plans to start groups in the Netherlands and train staff to expand SCG facilitators, encouraging others to organize local groups for peer support and community strengthening.

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Rianne van de Ven February 12, 2025
SENG Director's Corner
Nisia Patalan

Partnership in All Things

An introduction to the SENG Board’s 2025 focus on strengthening partnerships, likening board collaboration to backcountry skiing. It emphasizes trust, cooperation, mutual respect, shared responsibility, and leveraging complementary strengths to navigate challenges, develop responsive programming, and support the gifted community together for a safer, more fulfilling year.

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Nisia Patalan January 9, 2025
SENG Director's Corner
Dr. Mike Postma

Reflections and Gratitude: A Year in Review

Adam Laningham reflects on the year with gratitude, highlighting conference success, expanded community groups, new coordinators, and global outreach. He previews 2025 plans including a membership platform, mental health programming, and events, and announces his transition to SENG Executive Director while thanking supporters.

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Dr. Mike Postma December 19, 2024
Education & Homeschooling
Shaunne McKinley

Circa 2016… Here We Go Again

The author warns that 2024’s divisive rhetoric echoes 2016, urging readers to speak up against threats to education and civil rights. She advises supporting gifted children emotionally, modeling kindness and respect, and preparing youth to effect positive change while highlighting SENG’s commitment to community support.

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Shaunne McKinley November 14, 2024
SENG Director's Corner
Nisia Patalan

Director’s Corner: The Nature of Change

Change is inevitable and can be evolutionary, revolutionary, positive, or negative. For gifted individuals, heightened sensitivity can trigger creativity or anxiety. Embracing flexibility, focusing on controllable aspects, and building supportive connections—through groups and resources—helps manage uncertainty and foster resilience.

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Nisia Patalan October 18, 2024
Education & Homeschooling
seng_derek

Director’s Corner: Complexity, Intersectionality, and the Gifted

The author urges readers to reconsider conventional measures of success for gifted individuals, noting that access, culture, and socioeconomic factors complicate achievement. She advocates recognizing intersectionality—race, gender, religion, and class—and commits to making gifted education inclusive and supportive of all gifted individuals.

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seng_derek September 17, 2024
Education & Homeschooling
Dr. Gayle Bentley

Director’s Corner: On Acceleration

The author reflects on returning to school, describes her son’s success through radical acceleration in an early college program, and argues acceleration is a research-backed, low-cost strategy that benefits high-ability learners. She urges educators and parents to support appropriate acceleration and offers SENG resources.

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Dr. Gayle Bentley August 20, 2024