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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. –Golda Meir
Helping the Creative, Sensitive, or Gifted, AKA CASIGYs™, Thrive, Heal, Become Fully Alive and Fulfill Your Destiny
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. –Golda Meir
When manure is dumped on your life, compost it. Shovel the compost, turning it over and over; Let it rest awhile to cure. Repeat shoveling and resting . . . Until the stink is gone. THEN it’s ready to fertilize the dream that fulfills your destiny. –Scrap Lady Sharon Barnes
The soul is explosive and powerful. Through its medium of imagination, which is always a prerequisite for action and is the source of meaning, it can accomplish all things. -Thomas Moore
Stopping the Blaming Game is called forgiveness. That is precisely what forgiveness is; the process of stopping, of ending, the Blaming Game. And it is tough. – Scott Peck
The law of the harvest teaches us that we must regularly take time to rest, renew, and to reflect upon the harvest as we prepare for the next. – Stephen Covey
We know soul is being cared for when our pleasures feel deeper than usual, when we can let go of the need to be free of complexity and confusion, when compassion takes the place of mistrust and fear. – Thomas Moore
Keep yourself well-oiled with life, with laughter, and action—or you’ll rust out. – unknown
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life. – Scott Peck
Our life is frittered away by detail. . . simplify, simplify. –Henry David Thoreau
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You were engaging. This is great. I like the pyramid in general. I want to learn more about it. Understanding barriers to feeling and expressing our emotions is good. I want to learn more about this too. Attendee CAGT 2016
I like the reflective tools – they help me help my students emotionally.
The importance of creative exploration is the best. I wish it had been much longer because your information was to interesting and valuable! EV, GT educator, GT adult. SENG Conference 2015.
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
I especially liked your strategies for struggling students. I want more time to learn more from you. BW
Thank you again for all of your amazing insights and strategies that I’m finding myself using daily.
I like how you showed us that gifted students have a more perceptive and more reactive central nervous system – that it’s faster, stronger, more intense. Attendee CAGT 2016
The 5 G’s are great. I also liked your many analogies. I want to learn more about how symptoms can be a sign to grow and develop and also how to recognize and appropriately express emotions. Attendee CAGT 2016
Thank you for helping my son. Because of you he knows that ADD is an actual condition and he is not just lazy. I hear forward motion in his voice and see the movement in his activities. I have been praying for help with him for a long time and felt drawn to your name. I don’t believe in coincidences I call them God-incidences. You have my gratitude.
Thanks for showing me ways I can be more supportive. Thanks for the breathing tools. I desire to learn more from you. HP, GT educator, spouse of GT adult. SENG Conference 2015