Dr. Michael Postma
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697 appearances
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Jul 2022
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So I I think we have we have some bigger uh fish to fry overall.
But again, the next book I'm I'm hoping if I have some time to plan is more for parents.
But in the meantime I did write an article for parents called In Search of Shangri-La, which is kind of helping to guide them to look for programs for gifted and to e kids and what questions to ask and uh what to look for, um those kind of things.
Having been in the system for many years, you know, you getting the kind of the inside look.
So I'm I'm certainly would be willing to make that available if needed.
It is international.
Okay.
Yes.
Um, the mandate f you know, the organization really represents um looking at that holistic approach again, supporting emotional, social needs of kids and
We see that as so valuable.
The organization actually was founded by doctor James Webb way back in the
uh eighties, late eighties I believe, and it was based on a request from a family whose whose son had uh committed suicide, who was highly gifted and just could not cope with that social emotional intensity and the anxiety and and and the depression and all those different little pieces, you know, that sensory processing stuff that comes with being highly gifted.
Um I see it a lot with two E kids as uh they're generally tend to be highly gifted and it's par for the chorus.
But so our mission is to really support families, support individuals.
give them resources, provide them access to other gifted individuals so that they can find their way from a social and emotional perspective to to you know, to actualize in a sense.
Um, because it's a difficult journey.
Um and if all you're doing is academics and ignoring that that piece, which uh which we tend to do, you're not developing
lifelong skills of of just being wholly developed so that you can face challenges, that you can navigate through all life's pitfalls and and successes and
I and I say successes 'cause sometimes we have successes and we don't know how to handle them 'cause we just don't have that emotional
IQ in a sense.
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