Our Videos

Understanding Giftedness

In this video, Gifted Together co-founders Anne van Roden and Gloria Sandford explain the social and emotional side of giftedness, including clinical examples of how Asynchronous Development and Dabrowski’s Theory of Overexcitabilities show up in gifted individuals and impact their interactions with the world. Here you’ll find support for parenting gifted children and understanding underlying social and emotional needs.

Putting Together the Puzzle of the Gifted Family

Come join us for an inspiring video that helps you understand and interact well with your gifted family. This 70-minute video, presented in three shorter segments, will apply basic gifted social and emotional concepts at a deeper level focusing on the whole family. Specific tools in this video include: 1) measuring certain gifted traits in family members, 2) examining how different patterns can cause ongoing conflicts and misunderstandings, and 3) identifying some strategies to help address those challenges and conflicts. By watching this film, you can create uniquely-crafted strategies to help your family live together in a more cohesive and harmonious manner. [Please watch our first video—Understanding Giftedness—before you watch this one in order to learn the basic concepts of Asynchronous Development and Overexcitabilities.]