This class is an opportunity for creative, high ability, curious, talented high school students to explore how you ‘think differently’ and discover your possibilities.
Discover what makes you tick, how you think differently, why things have you on edge, what your talents are, and how to make it all work.
Students will explore and gain understanding of:
1) Why I think the way I do – what makes me the way I am
2) Mixed messages – everyone tells me to do something different –what to do
3) Identify and learn how to develop what you do well or comes easily
4) How to have fun and get things done with what you do well
5) Making things happen with others
When: On Your Own Time
Where: ONLINE
Cost: $197
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Sessions Content:
I Understanding
Session 1 A. What Makes Me Different –
- Genetics, Way of thinking (Neurology) Information and activities to understand biological and functional differences of being multi-talented
- Characteristics of high ability and limitations: Autism, LD, Intro to over excitabilities and sensitivities, emotional experiences, ways of seeing the world and gathering information – checklist
Session 2 B. What’s Important to Me
- Basic needs – food, shelter, safety, companionship
- Values – Identifying, ranking importance, changes in ranking through life span
- Beliefs –what they are, source, reframing
- Internal Drive – motivation, passions
- Making Choices
Session 3 C. What’s the World have to do with Me
- Family
- Culture – Community – World
- Time in history
- Resources
- Choice
Cost: $197
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II Overcoming
Session 4 A. Not Fitting In
- Difficulty of fitting in among various groups
- Emotional responses – highs, low, depression, hyper, lack of feeling, loneliness
- Bullying
Session 5 B. Intensity
- Sensitivities of lights, sounds, touch, taste, others emotions
- Emotions – ours – extremes, on the surface
- Reactions and responses
- Coping Strategies
Session 6 C. Expectations
- For ourselves
- By Family and/or Society
- Difference from needs and desires
- Choice
Cost: $197
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III Developing
Session 7 A. How to Learn
- What comes easy – everything?
- What is difficult – challenging – to do or not to do
- Learning Styles
- Decision Making
- Strategies for Learning
Session 8 B. High Abilities – Talents
- Perfection à Excellence
- Mastery – Practice, routines, flexibility, flow, creativity
- Imposter Syndrome – nothing is good enough, what if I am found out
Session 9 C. Balance
- Life Responsibilities – Roles in our lives – family member, student, worker, self
- Health – Sleep, Food, Exercise, Rejuvenation, Thoughts, Feelings…
- Dreams and Goals
Cost: $197
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IV Expressing
Session 10 A. Just for Me
- What talents? – Skill and Interest assessments
- Modes of expression – creativity, producing, work, pleasure, flow
- Respect, responsibility, relationships
Session 11 B. For the World
- Purpose – Vision
- Problems to Solve – Injustices
- World of work – occupation – entrepreneur
Cost: $197
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V Connecting
Session 12 A. With Others like Me
- Importance and Benefits
- Finding – talents, interests, organizations, groups
- Communication – less constraints – fit in
Session 13 B. With Others
- Every day contacts
- Communication skills
- Leadership
Session 14 C. The Dots
- Big Picture – connecting the different possibilities
- Renaissance People – multiple ideas, talents, and expressions
- What to do now
Cost: $197
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Dr. Edith Johnston – The question is “How To” not whether we can or can’t. Edith has worked with individuals and groups to discover a personal understanding and create the ‘how to’ for their personal development. She provides tools, supports, insights in understanding, overcoming, developing, expressing, and connecting to experience your potential. Her tool box includes energetics, visual, and creative methodologies to discover your personal story and develop a change in the story line. She has extensive work in pain management (physical and emotional), disability adjustment, career development, and life event transitions. She is a Licensed Counselor in Colorado She offers individual counseling, groups, and workshops – live and virtual. For more information on Dr. Edith Johnston visit her full website at www.howtoinlife.com
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