About our Courses, Workshops & Groups
Our main recurring courses, workshops & groups are listed below, and you can check our Events Page & the Gifted Mindfulness Collective website for currently scheduled courses and new offerings. All of our courses, workshops & groups have been developed especially for gifted adult personal and professional development, and are offered via Zoom. They range in scope from giftedness integration and personal development for individuals to professional development and training for gifted-specific therapists, coaches and other practitioners. Our participants are gifted adults and professionals who are dedicated to and invested in their own growth and the growth of their gifted peers. To get a feel for our courses, read what our participants say about what they learned and their experience connecting with their gifted peers in this unique setting.
How to evaluate your readiness for participation
To help you evaluate if you are ready to participate in one of our courses, you may look at the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale as a reference. Our participants are in the stable-to-thriving category, represented on the scale as 71-100. For those in the 61-70 range, we recommend seeking individual support with us as a first step. For those in the 60 and below range, we recommend seeking therapeutic support outside our organization, until you are ready to participate in our offerings.
GIFTED PSYCHOLOGY 101 COURSE, FOR THERAPISTS & COACHES
These gifted-specific professional training courses are offered by InterGifted's founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin. They are specially designed for coaches, therapists, psychiatrists and other helping professionals who want to specialize in, or have better tools for, supporting gifted clients. They are combination courses which allow space for your own growth and reflection as a gifted person and gifted professional, while providing you with the theoretical knowledge, practical insight, case studies, and peer feedback to start your gifted-specific practice or bring your existing practice to a new level.
There are two versions of this course: a one year (12-session) version for coaches or to-be coaches who are not trained in psychology, and a 6 month (6-session) version for psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals already trained in basic psychology. Jennifer also offers individualized training for professionals. For detailed course information, logistics and registration, visit our Gifted Psychology Training Page.
INTRODUCTION TO GIFTEDNESS PROFILING, FOR THERAPISTS & COACHES
This gifted-specific professional training course is offered by InterGifted's founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin. It is focused on teaching therapists & coaches how to help their gifted clients better understand their giftedness profiles – including giftedness level, areas of intelligence, overexcitabilities, twice-exceptionalities, intersectionalities/trauma/
LEADING IN OUR CHANGING WORLD
This combination personal and professional development course, created and led by InterGifted's founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin, is a 6-month learning journey for gifted adults in positions of leadership who are wanting to consciously respond to the challenges of our changing world (climate, ecology, social, political, etc), both as individuals and as leaders. Through study modules, homework, and live group discussions once a month, participants are invited and guided to dive deep into their personal and leadership processes and identities, considering our current global social, political, environmental and systemic challenges; and considering participants' own giftedness profile, energies, values, and personal and professional needs. The course content as well as our group discussions serve to cultivate personal and collective insight, transformation, and emergent possibilities for holistic, authentic and sustainable leadership in our changing world.
If you're interested in getting on the wait list for our next offering of this course, email Jen.
GIFTED MULTIPOTENTIALITES GROUP
This 7-month group course with InterGifted Coach Marion Kee addresses the challenges and opportunities that come with being a gifted multipotentialite. Via course preparation and live discussion, you'll explore common career/job/school/relational gifted multipotentialite issues and solutions and how to envision and shape a balanced and fulfilling life as a gifted multipotentialite. Each monthly session of two hours incorporates a reading-in-advance and a Q&A/group discussion based on that session's theme. The atmosphere is a cooperative, engaged group of dedicated individuals excited to make progress in their lives. You can learn more about the course content on our multipotentialite course page and via Marion's Gifted Multipotentialites Course Syllabus (2019).
Marion also offers multipotentialite and career coaching & mentoring for gifted people on an individual basis. If you're interested in exploring the possibilities with her or getting on the wait list for our next offering of this course, email Marion.
GIFTED AUTISTIC WOMEN'S GROUP
- the process of integrating your understanding of autism & giftedness as a woman
- developing authentic and autistic-friendly self-care routines and schedules
- how you can authentically and meaningfully connect with others, given your unique neurocognitive profile
- navigating career, hobby, time-management and life-balance, given your interests, strengths and limitations
- family, parenting, and relational challenges and opportunities, given your particular relational needs and context
- the path to healing, resilience and empowerment after difficult past experiences related to your giftedness or autism
- finding meaning in the world, as your unique self with your particular gifts
Fabienne also offers one-to-one gifted autism integration coaching If you're interested in exploring the possibilities with her, or getting on the wait list for our next offering of this workshop, email Fabienne.
GIFTED WRITERS MASTERCLASS
You yearn to voice your experience and opinion to a gifted or general public, through articles, b/vlogs, social media posts, or – why not – a book? You’d like to bolster your unique, gifted writing voice and touch readers in a truthful and authentic way. You’d want to develop your writing for advocacy and leadership? Then this masterclass is definitely for you! In the course of the sessions and depending how much time you can commit, you will embark on a writing adventure. In the online sessions, led by writer and writing coach Jan Provoost, we discuss our projects and give mutual, constructive feedback on each other’s texts. Additionally, we explore a number of selected topics (see below) and in between sessions, there will be loads of tips, guidance and exercises. Themes include:
- Understanding your gifted writing process
- Developing a unique, truthful writer’s voice
- Finding inspiration, everywhere
- Experimenting with structure, language, style, and perspective
- Selecting one’s readers and communicating with them
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Daring to submit your writing to a public, including your autobiographic writing
Important: the language we use to communicate in the masterclass is English, but the language in which you write may also be French, German or Dutch.
Jan also offers writing coaching for gifted people on an individual basis. If you're interested in exploring the possibilities with him, or getting on the wait list for our next offering of his masterclass, email him.
LEGITIMIZING YOUR GIFTED NEEDS WORKSHOP
This workshop with InterGifted coach is designed to help you take inventory of your gifted needs and to fully legitimize them and learn to meet them. You will explore how your gifted-specific needs have been minimized or unmet by others (and maybe sometimes yourself!); how you can get a better understanding of these uncommon needs; how you can get these uncommon needs met in a non-gifted dominant world; and how you can better communicate your gifted needs so that others can respond in positive ways. In addition to the material presented, these sessions hold rich, thoughtful and insightful group exercises, small group discussions with your gifted peers, Q+A, and resources and practices for you explore and to take into your daily life. The workshop is held on zoom.us for 3.5 hours. It is often followed up by an "Advanced Gifted Needs Workshop" for participants who want to take the concepts presented further in their personal integration process.
6-WEEK IMMERSIVE GIFTED MINDFULNESS FOUNDATIONS COURSE
This is an immersive 6-week online course with Kelly Pryde of our partner The Gifted Mindfulness Collective. It combines weekly group instruction and practice sessions, personal practice, community practice and individual mindfulness coaching for anyone starting or getting ready to deepen their understanding of a gifted-specific mindfulness practice. In this course, you will understand mindfulness within the context of the gifted brain; learn core techniques for strengthening attention and inner stability, and for disentangling intensity; work skillfully with difficult feelings common to gifted people using core techniques and somatic experiencing; cultivate wise compassion for yourself and sustainable compassion for others; (re)discover intimacy with your authentic gifted self; and cultivate positive mind states that foster creativity, flow and intuition. For more detailed information on this course, go to our Gifted Mindfulness Collective website.
Kelly also offers mindfulness coaching for gifted people on an individual basis. To get on the waitlist for this course or to schedule an individual session, email Kelly.
EMBODIED MINDFULNESS COURSE FOR GIFTED PEOPLE
Kelly also offers mindfulness coaching for gifted people on an individual basis. To get on the wait list for this course or to schedule an individual session, email Kelly.
MINDFULNESS FOR GIFTED ADULTS: A PRIMER WORKSHOP
WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY
Eline - The Netherlands
Gabrielle - Switzerland
Jennifer - US
Ralph - Switzerland
John - US
Deb - US
Lucina - UK
John - US
Katy - US
Lucinda - UK