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/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 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

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.

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

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.

 

WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY

When I decided to become a writer and found my own business, I knew that I wanted to get advice and help with improving my writing and the trust in my skills. This person I was looking for had to be someone who could really help me – not just in teaching me how to write, but particularly someone who has the right interpersonal skills to help me take the next step. I found him: Jan is all this. He is not only an excellent writer and thinker himself, he is also deeply empathic and understanding. He really cares about people, and, I don’t know how he does it, but he helped me to express my voice through writing. Participating in Jan’s Writers Masterclass was like taking a warm bath. I was given handy writing tools and confidence as I had to share my (personal) work with ‘strangers’ who read my work and gave wonderful affirmative feedback. I really, really enjoyed this!

Eline - The Netherlands

I knew that I wanted (and needed) to write regular blogs as part of the launching of my non-for-profit, and that my (web) page was remaining blank. I registered for Jan’s Writers Masterclass and found something more valuable than blog entries: I found the space in me who knows what to express and the voice in me that conveys it easily. I found my own resource – so natural to me that I had never considered it could be valuable. I am very grateful to Jan, to Zoe and to the rest of the group. They offered an open, safe and generous space where we could discuss writing techniques and readers’ impressions, but also deep fears and joyful progress. Thank you. What you gave me is a treasure. It is not yet fully blown and maybe not yet fully born, but I can feel and write it, which already means a lot.

Gabrielle - Switzerland

The Leading in Our Changing World leadership course was the right move at the right time for me; I’ve long been striving to be an effective leader and later in life, learned of my giftedness. Jen brings these things together with a deep understanding of how we grow as gifted adults and how that applies to leadership. Each module challenged me to think about leadership with a new lens, and it was apparent from the participants’ responses that each of us were able to apply the material specifically to our journey. Each module was packed with thoughtful resources and information about the aspect of leadership that we were discussing, allowing us to understand broadly and specifically the application of the resource. Each homework assignment was a deep dive into our individual work. Jen is insightful and nuanced as she reviews homework and gives feedback. Jen selects participants intentionally; the group provided a safe place to stretch and grow, as we needed. Lastly, responding to others’ homework expanded my view of leadership with new language and ideas. Sometimes leadership is a lonely journey. Exploring this together was empowering. I took great strides forward in my ability to lead from my…

Jennifer - US

I highly recommend Jan’s Writers Masterclass. It helped me so much with my writing style, but also gave me a sense of accountability to actually get me writing, and in the end, I finally published my book. Maybe for you, it is not a book. But imagine getting feedback on what you already do well in your writing, and tools, tips, tricks, counsel, and opportunities to try and train your writing where it is still suboptimal. All this in a safe environment with an uplifting, encouraging trainer.

Ralph - Switzerland

Leading in a Changing World is a transformational experience. It’s hard to grasp and convey this point with enough emphasis. I know I didn’t expect the personal impact the course had on me. However, through the various modules and experiential homework and discussions, I found myself in a space of personal change of consciously chosen leadership development in our topsy-turvy world. Jen is an exemplary facilitator of this process through the materials and discussions. In the end, I was able to find and am able to express the essence of my leadership energy into this world.

John - US

I can’t recommend Jen’s Leading in a Changing World course highly enough. Jen is a wonderful guide for those of us wanting to learn, understand, and grow. The course content was well-designed, included direction to great resources, was extremely thought-provoking, and best of all was able to flex to the needs of the various participants. I am in a kind of transitional stage of my life at the moment, which sometimes creates a tension between the way I have practiced leadership in my earlier life and what that may look like in the next phase. This could have been very challenging for the cohesion and balance of the course without a leader who is amazing in her own right. Her comments and questions helped us all gain insight into ourselves and our leadership development, as did the open way that we all talked to each other during the course sessions. The work wasn’t always easy, but it was always worth it. I will be looking forward to my next course!

Deb - US

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

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