The author reflects on concluding a SENG board term, reviewing past achievements and 2023 innovations, and outlines inclusive programs and collaborations. She invites participation in SENG Community Groups and upcoming outreach initiatives, emphasizing community, belonging, and continued collective support for gifted individuals.
Discusses resilience in gifted and twice-exceptional children, arguing that supportive adult relationships, opportunities for autonomy, and strength-based activities build resilience. Offers practical tips for parents and caregivers, examples from An Animal School, and suggestions for nurturing hope through interests and routines.
This article describes social and emotional traits of young gifted children, highlighting emotional and intellectual overexcitabilities. Through case examples, it explains how intensities and asynchronous development can cause challenges and offers strategies—acknowledging feelings, teaching coping skills, and supporting curiosity—to help children thrive at home and school.
Gifted students may underperform despite high ability due to boredom, low self-esteem, or lack of support. Early identification and social-emotional interventions—trusting relationships, mentorship, empowerment, equitable programming, and bias removal—can restore engagement, resilience, and academic success for gifted learners and improve long-term wellbeing.
SENG’s May 2023 Mental Health Month featured 18 free virtual and in-person outreach events with partners. Highlights included mindfulness workshops, an international panel, student-produced media, webinars, podcasts, regional meetups, and several articles and resources addressing mental health for gifted and 2e learners.
The author reflects on living as a gifted person, describing its grace and restless quest for sacred moments. Giftedness brings creative highs, impatience with the banal, and risky pursuits. Acceptance of this identity offers solace, purpose, and a framework to tolerate not-fitting-inness while seeking meaningful experiences.
The author, a play therapist, describes using Kaufman’s sailboat metaphor as a StoryCraft with her children to explore safety and growth needs. Through building, painting and play, the activity revealed symbolic meanings, supported emotional embodiment and projection stages, and facilitated connection, exploration and therapeutic growth.
The post argues rising loneliness and disconnection—exacerbated by COVID—require strengthening social infrastructure, rethinking technology use, and rebuilding personal connections. The author suggests radical acceptance, envisioning meaningful futures, and taking practical steps to connect, create, and find community as paths toward healing and resilience.
Deborah Ruf examines how Baby Boomer upbringing and Dabrowski’s theory relate to gifted adults’ inner development. Some cope by “making the best of it,” others seek counseling. Case-study excerpts show persistent identity questioning, alienation, conflicts with authority, and the role of counseling in processing gifted-related struggles.
The post argues compassion underpins effective communication and empathy, explaining mirror neurons’ role in social connection. It lists five practices—mindful listening, openness, self-focused phrasing, patience, and a 24-hour pause—to enhance empathetic communication and resolve conflicts peacefully.
