This helps me feel better – a lot.
10 year old gifted girl. (Ditto for 9 year old gifted boy. And also a 9 year old highly sensitive girl.)
I love your TNT tool for an emotional check-in.
Highly sensitive 50-something man
The Personal Power Pyramid is great. Please send me more info on it. There never seems to be enough time! SK, GT Educator, GT Adult, GT parent/grandparent. SENG Conference 2015.
Personal Power Pyramid
analogy of riding the waves in the ocean and waves of emotion was the best! NHJ, GT adult & parent. SENG Conference, 2015
Ride the Wave
CASIGYs’ mascot is a cute way to visualize differences. Kids relate to your analogies. Attendee, CAGT 2016
Mascot
Thank you again for all of your amazing insights and strategies that I’m finding myself using daily.
CASIGY Social-Emotional ACES participant
I like how you showed that gifted kids can learn to accept and ride their waves of emotion. Attendee CAGT 2016
Ride the Waves
Thank you again for everything you have done for both my son and myself! He has been coming home happier than I have seen him in years, and more willing to share about his day at school than ever before. He is setting his alarm clock without reminders, taking showers without reminders, making his lunch, and seeking teachers for clarification of assignments!!!! When I tried to remind him about something last week, he said, “If you want me to be independent, let me be independent and figure it out for myself.” I am so happy that he is taking the initiative on his own! I am thrilled. With deepest appreciation! From the Mom of an 8th/ now 9th grade gifted boy.
Son now taking initiative
I like how you teach describe the intensity of your emotions like different colored flags flying on a beach. Also, I like how the part about does the color of your flag match what’s actually happening on the beach helps refocus. Attendee CAGT 2016
What color flag
Thank you again for a fun and informative presentation to my graduate students. Several students made a point to tell me how much they got out of your presentation. The exercise you facilitated is one they really enjoyed and learned from. Thanks for being such a good resource for me and my students. You shared a wealth of information and I am most appreciative! Carmen Williams, University of Colorado
Many thanks for your presentations to the Support Group and to our Team Retreat Day. Your wisdom and presence deepened all the messages for each event. Core team members said you were very helpful in finding our purpose, and that you helped break a logjam in team dynamics and enabled us to move forward as a team. Mary Ann Lang, Saint Frances Cabrini Catholic Community, Littleton, CO
Thank you for the seminar you provided at our church about parenting children with ADD. The positive responses I received from those attending were deeply felt. They were touched by the breadth of your knowledge and insight. You were a resource to them on practical ways to engage and encourage kids with AD/HD. Thank you for sharing your expertise in this important area.
Rev. Dr. Doug Slaughter, PhD. Pastor, Heritage United Methodist Church, Littleton, CO
