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, and the Golden Flow Gifted Holistic Therapy 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/other blocks to giftedness expression & thriving. Though the aim of this training is not to qualify you or certify you to become a formal giftedness assessor, it will provide you with basic knowledge of gifted profiling which you can incorporate into your gifted therapy or coaching practice. The course combines theoretical training, pre-reading & case study preparations, small group case study presentations, and group discussion time; it takes place over three 3.5 hour group sessions, over 3 months. You can learn more on our past gifted profiling course page.

LEADING IN OUR CHANGING WORLD

This 6-month gifted leadership course is offered by InterGifted's founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin, and is designed for gifted adults in positions of leadership who are ready to consciously engage with and face the challenges of our changing world. We will explore how you can best process what is going on in the world; how you can use your resources, gifts and influence for advocacy and change-making; how you can navigating relational challenges in a polarized social context; building resilience and overcoming personal and professional obstacles during periods of sustained challenge; self-care, developing a personal philosophy of technology use, nature (re)connection & rewilding; and gifted-specific challenges and solutions to courageous, wise, determined and balanced engagement in the world. Participants will dive deep into their personal and social processes, formulate and make progress toward important goals of engagement, move beyond current limitations to thinking/action/mindset/context, and expand their scope of influence and socially connected engagement in the world. A module is provided for each session, including required reading; in-depth homework preparation and submission is required for each session.

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

Our Gifted Autistic Women’s Peer Discussion Group provides an empowering and generative space for gifted-autistic women to come together and support each other in their self-discovery journey. In once-a-month group sessions, facilitated by integration coach Fabienne Wydler, we cover topics such us:

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.

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.

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.

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

This 4-week course is facilitated by Kelly Pryde of our partner The Gifted Mindfulness Collective. It is designed for gifted adults who want to learn mindfulness-based body integrative approaches to support their intensities as well as their personal growth and healing. Supporting our intensities and being able to hold the fullness of our gifted selves requires (re)integrating and (re)sourcing both the gifted mind and body. You will understand the neurobiology of the gifted mind-body connection; develop embodied boundaries; feel more grounded and self aware to navigate relational challenges common to gifted people; cultivate embodied intuition along with deeper joy and authenticity of gifted living; learn resourcing strategies for supporting overexcitabilities and healing gifted shame and trauma; and harness your innate capacity for growth, healing and wholeness. For more detailed information, visit our Gifted Mindfulness website.

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

This 2.5-3 hour workshop is led by Kelly Pryde of our partner The Gifted Mindfulness Collective. It is designed for gifted and twice-exceptional adults who want to learn basic meditation techniques and mindfulness theory in a gifted-relevant way: what mindfulness is, how to practice it safely, how to develop core skills using versatile techniques, and how it can support your unique inner experience as a gifted person. This workshop is ideal for those who would like to participate in the other Gifted Mindfulness Courses, but don’t have basic training in meditation. More detailed information on this course (and other GMC courses) is available on the Gifted Mindfulness Collective website.

Kelly also offers gifted mindfulness coaching on an individual basis. To get on the workshop waitlist or schedule an individual session, email Kelly at connect@giftedmindfulness.com.

I only realised my autism last year at the age of 50, so was intrigued to join the Gifted Autistic Women’s Group and connect with other 2e women. Although we were all different ages and life stages and live on different continents, it was great to connect and compare similarities and differences in our life experiences and challenges, to swap resources and – mostly – to receive the social mirroring that we all, to some extent or another, missed out on growing up. Although I (coincidentally) underwent some positive disintegration during the 6 months I was part of the group, I emerged the other side much more confident of who I am and where I fit into the world. Thank you, Fabienne.

Lucina - UK

Gifted psychology is not a familiar term in the psychology realm, never mind gifted adult psychology. The Gifted Psychology 101 course opened up an entirely new world of psychological experience for me as a provider and a 2/e autistic person regarding gifted adults and 2/e persons. Without this critical work that I can utilize I was missing an entire segment of the population through misunderstanding. Misunderstanding is ironically likely the underpinning of a gifted or 2/e adult’s existence. I highly recommend that professionals and others engage with the Gifted Psychology 101 course to benefit others from misunderstanding themselves in silence and including one’s self. The gifted and 2/e experience is unique, and this course is critical to the movement in understanding gifted adult psychology. It is not an understatement to say that this course has fundamentally changed how I practice with my clients for the better. I am ever indebted to the personal growth resulting from this course as a significant contributor to my personal 2/e integration. Without the frame of the course, I could not understand my experience within the existing body of work.

John - US

Completing the Gifted Psychology 101 course for psychologists was incredibly helpful in my work with clients and has enhanced my understanding of myself and my family. I draw upon the content of this course on a daily basis and it has become essential to my understanding of Giftedness.

Katy - US

Gifted Psychology 101 is one of those experiences that I deliberated over committing to and now can’t imagine not having done. The training transformed the course of both my professional life and my personal life. Along the way I developed a deep understanding of what giftedness is and how my own gifted (and twice-exceptional) mind works, and I also gained a comprehensive knowledge of the history and current state of the entire coaching and therapy field. This has given me greater confidence in my place in that system and also access to a large reference network for referring clients where appropriate. I was fascinated to learn about the specific challenges that giftedness and 2e bring across all life’s realms (relationships, career, personal and spiritual development, etc) as well as the ways gifted individuals experience trauma. I now have access to a vast resource bank of materials that I regularly refer to in my client work. The preparatory homework before each session was very useful, and Jennifer’s leadership and humour meant that sessions were always fun and engaging. Last but not least, it was a pleasure getting to know my fellow gifted coaches and therapists over the year we worked together and we’re…

Lucinda - UK

I’d like to express my appreciation for your offering of the Gifted Multipotentialites Course led by Marion Kee. It was an excellent program that offered me the chance to expand my personal awareness of my own gifted/multipotential mind and it provided excellent insight into coaching the gifted/multipotential client. This was all done through a series of informative readings, reflective writing exercises and the dynamic monthly group discussions…all of which were professionally facilitated by the kind, perceptive and highly attuned coach Marion. This was a safe space to share topics of sensitivity and to be able to grow in a like-minded/like-hearted environment. While Marion’s keen attention was a positive aspect of the program, I especially enjoyed the monthly meeting with the fellow cohort members. In our seven months together we developed positive relationships that were meaningful and that will hopefully continue going forward. Thank you again for a great program.

Amy - US

I took the Gifted Profiling Training to complement the Gifted Psychology 101 course I’m also doing, and I’m so glad I did. The profiling training expanded and further contextualised my understanding of giftedness and was stimulating, engaging and fun. It occurred to me afterwards that these are the first group trainings I’ve done in which I’m never bored! The profiling course is structured in a way that allows for lots of hands-on practice, opportunities to ask questions and for interacting with gifted peers as well as getting to know and learn from the InterGifted team. Thank you!

Lucinda - UK

Jen’s Giftedness Profiling Course immediately improved my work with clients. Learning in a community of peers was invaluable and inspiring (and fun!). I loved the opportunity to utilize a whole-person approach to helping clients understand their gifted consciousness. The perspective I gained from this training sharpened/broadened how I understand and communicate each clients’ experience of their giftedness. It resulted in an evolutionary jump for my counseling and coaching practices.

Gordon - US

Jen’s Gifted Profiling Training was a great next step for me following the Gifted Psychology 101 course. It built on what I had learnt in more tangible ways as we applied what we knew to specific case studies. This was so much fun and I have gone on to advanced profiling training following it. I would highly recommend the course for anyone who wants to learn how to see and support their clients through multiple lenses.

Sam - UK

Jen’s Giftedness Profiling Training provided a good framework for helping both me and my clients conceptualize their areas of giftedness and how those impact the client’s life. Having this framework allows me to provide more personalized therapy to my clients and honor their unique giftedness profile in our work. Clients feel they understand themselves and their needs better. The training itself was structured well and I really enjoyed practicing the skills by creating a profile for one of my favorite authors!

Marissa - US

I embarked the Gifted Autistic Women’s Group with the idea to find out what I am not aware of yet, what else there is to learn and embrace for myself and to learn more about other women and how they experience being on the spectrum and how it is for them to learn about their autistic thinking, how they deal with resistance and embrace their gifts. And I have indeed learned so much! I loved every session.

Fabienne - Switzerland

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