Dr. Michael Postma
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Jul 2022
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The organization actually was founded by Dr. James Webb way back in the 80s, late 80s, I believe, and was based on a request from a family whose son had committed suicide, who was highly gifted and just could not cope with that social, emotional intensity and the anxiety and the depression and all those different little pieces, you know, that sensory processing stuff that comes with being highly gifted.
I see it a lot with two-week kids as they generally tend to be highly gifted and it's par for the course.
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, you know, to actualize in a sense 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 so you can navigate through all life's pitfalls and successes.
And I, and I say successes because sometimes we have successes and we don't know how to handle them because we just don't have that emotional IQ in a sense.
So that's what saying is dedicated to is really supporting, uh,
that development of social and emotional strengths in gifted individuals, gifted families, gifted communities, wherever they may be.
And it's surprising to me that we still get phone calls from all over the world, places like Turkey and the Middle East and South Africa and Asia and Europe and wherever.
And we're hearing the same stories over and over, even with many of them are adults who just haven't, you know,
You know, they need help.
They need support.
So that is the mission.
Angola's saying is to spread that.
We do it through some coursework.
We do offer webinars.
Our conference is actually well known for its connectivity, meaning every time I go to the conference, I see a lot of crying parents.
And the reason for that is they're just, for the first time in their lives, they've connected with others like them.
Their kids have connected with others like them.
And they just feel a sense of community.
And giftedness can be isolating.
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