ABOUT OUR COURSES

We offer various online courses, workshops, groups tailored to gifted personal and professional development and training. Our courses are offered on a wait-list basis, meaning that once we have a full group, we schedule the course. If you're interested in joining any of our courses below, send us an email at connect@intergifted.com to let us know and we'll contact you for registration as soon as we are ready to schedule.

For information on our upcoming Gifted Mindfulness Community offerings, visit our GMC Events page.

For information on Karin Eglinton's Legitimizing Your Gifted Needs Workshop coming on October 29, 2020, visit our gifted needs page. 

 

GIFTED PSYCHOLOGY 101 COURSE

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.

WHOLENESS-BASED RELATING COURSE

This four-part course with InterGifted coach and community leader Karin Eglinton explores the dynamics of self-relationship and relationship with others, as a gifted minority. It prepares you to embody mature self-leadership as a strong foundation for cultivating your extended social ecosystem of connection both with the gifted and non-gifted people in your life. The course is taught in four 3.5 hour sessions, over four months. Modules include: The Relationship with Self; Cultivating our Relational Ecosystem; How Connection Fuels Maturity + Development; and Communication, Negotiation and Agreements. You can learn more about the course in our course overview. Sessions cost 300 euros each.

Karin also provides individualized coaching for gifted adults working on relational issues and building up their self-leadership and relationship skills. You can email Karin to get on her course waitlist or schedule a coaching session with her.

LEGITIMIZING YOUR GIFTED NEEDS WORKSHOP

This workshop with InterGifted coach and community leader Karin Eglinton 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. Cost is 200 CHF.

Karin also offers gifted needs legitimization coaching & support 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 workshop, email her.

GIFTED AUTISTIC WOMEN'S GROUP

This group, led by our InterGifted coach Silver Huang, is a self-development peer group for gifted and autistic women. Through six facilitated discussion sessions, you will explore together with your gifted autistic peers how have you integrated your knowledge of autism in your life; separating out what is autism, what is giftedness and what is trauma and how/where they overlap; what autistic trauma is and how to heal from it / how you have been healing from it; developing authentic and autistic-friendly self-care routines and schedules; how you can authentically connect with others, given your unique profile; and how you can cultivate generativity in your life, given your profile, values, relationships and resources. Sessions are once a month for six months, and last 2 hours.

Silver is also available for autism discovery and integration coaching on an individual basis. If you're interested in exploring the possibilities with her, or getting on the wait list to join the next group, email her.

GIFTED MEN'S GROUP

This group, led by our coach and InterGifted leader Merlin Györy, mixes the concept of a men's group and an incubator, aimed at covering fundamental self-development topics such as leadership, self-leadership, self-reflection and self-development. It's a space to learn to trust and support other gifted men on a peer level; to practice skills of relating and regulating; to cultivate safety and awareness for our own process. Sessions include prompts, discussion and resources on the following themes: moving things collectively that we can't move alone; creating a space to be heard in one's unique challenges and sense of meaning as a gifted man; transforming the restrictive "normative culture" mold of what it means to be a man; developing relational skills and finding a path to healthy self-empowerment.

Merlin is also available for self-leadership coaching for gifted men on an individual basis. If you're interested in exploring the possibilities with him, or getting on the wait list to join the group when it reopens to new members, email us.

GIFTED MULTIPOTENTIALITES GROUP

This 6-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 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 WRITERS WORKSHOP

This 5-session workshop with InterGifted coach Jan Provoost is for gifted people who would like to develop their unique, gifted writing voice and touch readers in a truthful and authentic way. Each participant embarks on a writing adventure and via the online sessions, you discuss your projects and give mutual, constructive feedback on each other’s texts. In addition, we cover topics such as: understanding the writing process for gifted people; finding inspiration; experimenting with structure, language, style, and perspective; finding your audience; and submitting and publishing.

Jan also offers writing support for gifted writers on an individual basis. If you're interested in exploring the possibilities with him or to get on the waiting list for the next offering of this course, email us.

MEDITATION 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

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.

 

WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY

Jen’s Gifted Psychology 101 course for coaches gave me everything I was looking for in terms of getting both conceptual and applied understanding in the foundations of gifted/neurodiverse psychology. As an autodidact and twice-exceptional individual, I’ve always struggled with the insularity and fragmentation found in traditional educational systems and design. Since this course is expertly designed for the gifted, by the gifted, I was easily able to create the necessary context and connect the dots on integral themes/concepts as well as the whole picture and its frame—what a gift! Jen orders the modules in such a way that they compound understanding, and the “self as subject” approach to the homework and practice gave me both a meta view and embodied response to the content as well. This led to a strong foundation and depth of understanding that I can now draw from in my own continued self-development work, as well as in practice with clients.

Rachel - US

What I find in Merlin’s Gifted Men’s Group is validation and companionship of a sort nearly impossible to find among men elsewhere. We are all on different journeys, but we travel with the same intensity, focus, and complexity so that we can help and support each other as we go along. It is an experience I recommend to gifted men everywhere.

Glen - US

I took the Gifted Psychology 101 course with Jennifer in individual study format, with mixed course content for coaches and psychologists – since I’m a psychologist who is now becoming a coach for gifted people. Jen did a fantastic job. Her training was profound, upfront, well organized, and most of all, helpful in clarifying a sound approach to gifted clients. I appreciate the way she engaged my many questions and my verbal processing of her modules. I feel sincere and utter gratitude for the excellent training she provided me. Thank you Jen!

Cliff - US

Jen’s Gifted Psychology 101 course for coaches was an amazing year-long journey. The rich course content and the deep conversations we had monthly with the group accompanied me during key steps of my own psychological and professional development. What I appreciated the most is that we applied the psychological concepts and theories we were learning about to ourselves. By doing the work, we saw how essential it was to address one’s trauma in order to be able to guide someone else in the process. The monthly modules and homework always led to fascinating breakthroughs, stimulating exchanges and a much better understanding on how to accompany a gifted person towards self development. I was very lucky to be part of a group in which we were able to establish trust and safety and to have shared this journey with them. And of course a million thanks to Jen for guiding us in this adventure!

Cécile - US

Having sought help from a PsyD during an existential crisis, I know full well the limitations of psychotherapy as it relates to the gifted mind. Traditional approaches that may quiet a mind with fewer complexities were physically painful to me and even grew my dark shadow in many instances.  My experience is not uncommon, which is why Jen’s Gifted Psychology 101 provides an invaluable service to the gifted community. Her unique background of having experienced the gifted struggles, along with a background in psychology, allows her to bridge the gap that can be ever-present in traditional therapeutic modalities. If you seek to help those in the gifted community, for which I laud you, Gifted Psychology 101 is essential for your toolbox. Not only for the insightful learning but for the stimulating interactions that will take place with Jen and your colleagues.

M.H. - US

Intergifted’s Gifted Psychology 101 course for coaches was a very rewarding experience for me, both professionally in my development as a coach and mentor, and on a personal level through its validation of my style of cognition and neurodiverse/2E profile. The course is structured well, with each module providing a progressive step-change in the students’ understanding of the subject matter. The modes of learning and engagement fit well with a busy professional/personal life and provide a form of learning that positively welcomes innovative thinking, the fractalising of concepts and enlightening discussions, alongside the development of a strong foundational knowledge of this fascinating subject. Expertly shepherded by Jennifer Harvey Sallin’s leadership and educational prowess, I can’t recommend this course highly enough.

Cath - UK

Jennifer’s Gifted Psychology 101 Course for Coaches was an extremely engaging, expansive, and fun experience for me. I wish a lot my other education would have been like this. The information is extremely well presented and I felt invited to dig deeper, reflect and explore, and will come back to the material for years to come. It is the equivalent of a book in the shelf of my mind that I keep coming back to remember fondly for all it has given me and keeps giving with every re-read. The discussions, questions from other participants, and insights along the way have helped me to gain a substantially deeper understanding of giftedness, of coaching, and of psychology in general, and specifically in relation to gifted people. My knowledge, relationship, and skill in regards to my own inner world have improved significantly, allowing me to hold much bigger, more supportive and joyful space to work with my clients, and a deeper understanding of my and their experience. I would honestly recommend this course to everyone whether it is for professional or personal interest ,or both. It is fascinating, and the mirroring from both Jennifer and the other participants is enriching, nourishing…

Merlin, InterGifted Coach & Mentor - Germany

Jen Sallin’s Gifted Psychology 101 course provides a rich personal and professional experience. The material is well researched, well organized, and well written. As a Master’s Level Counselor and Coach for gifted adolescents, adults, and families, I found the course wholly applicable to my everyday work. In the United States, the professional focus on giftedness is largely centered in youth, education, and often in deficit language, and I was drawn to working with Jen because she provides a psychological, lifespan perspective and strengths based vocabulary. The course also provided the opportunity to come into community with gifted practitioners from around the world. Classes were conveniently scheduled, and the value of the course far exceeded the cost. I wholeheartedly recommend this course to any clinicians who want to deepen and broaden their knowledge and to enrich their work with gifted populations.

Gordon Smith - Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Gifted Psychology 101 – During the very first discussion, it became clear this was something that would contribute enormously to my self-care, including my self-discovery and unfolding. It was a gift to myself. I’ve never looked forward to — needed — a class like I did this one. It continues to be validating and vitalizing, nourishing my work/life balance and serving as a beautiful, gentle reminder that there are others who share my interests, passions, and needs.

Ben - US

Jen’s Gifted Psychology 101 Course was a joy to engage, and wonderful preparation for me as a gifted coach. Answering the homework questions created key insights, as did other participants’ answers. In class discussion, Jen gave us information we could use right away. I’ve kept all my discussion notes, and the readings, for reference. It helped me build confidence as a coach. Although I’ve know since preschool age that I’m gifted, I learned plenty! I gained better perspective on life situations and events that I had been only dimly aware were related to giftedness. It helped me take things less personally.

Marion Kee, InterGifted Coach - US

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