Excitabilities and Gifted People – an intro by Susan Daniels
Video excerpts from the SENGinar (a webinar by SENG):
“Understanding Overexcitabilities – The Joys and the Challenges”
Presented by Susan Daniels, PhD – January 31, 2011
Description from the SENG site:
Overexcitabilites – psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational and emotional – are often presented as personality traits and behaviors to be managed in terms of interactions at home and at school.
This SENGinar will provide an overview of OEs along with strategies for channeling their expression most positively.
Yet, as important, one must consider and understand that it is an overexcitable nature that contributes to the talent development as well as the social-emotional development of gifted children, youth and adults.
Overexcitabilities, misunderstood and misinterpreted, can result in inappropriate pathologizing of these qualities – especially in twice exceptional students.
This presentation will focus on the role of overexcitabilities in contributing to the optimal developmental potential of the gifted as grounded in Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration.
About Susan Daniels, Ph.D.
Dr. Susan Daniels is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling at California State University, San Bernardino. She is also Co-founder and Educational Director of the Summit Center, located just outside of San Francisco in Walnut Creek, CA. The Summit Center provides assessment, consultation, educational planning and therapy for gifted, talented, and creative children and families.
In 2008, Susan co-edited and co-authored Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults published by Great Potential Press. Finally, in her spare time, she is mixed media artist and an international consultant and speaker on the social-emotional needs of the gifted and nurturing creativity across the lifespan.
From info at SENG / Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
The image is from the Intellectual Excitability section of the presentation – a video and pdf file of the slides should be available soon for purchase from SENG.
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Susan Daniels is co-editor, with Michael M. Piechowski, of Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults.
For more info about Kazimierz Dabrowski, see the page Dabrowski / advanced development which has a variety of quotes and other material such as articles including Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development For Exceptional Individuals, By Elizabeth Mika.
Also see the Highly Sensitive site.
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