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3.3.7 Gifted Women's Qualitative Perspectives of Everyday Creativity, Self-Awareness, and the Education-of-Oneself from a Dabrowskian Perspective

The research and personal experiences presented in this session represent findings from a qualitative study conducted with a group of gifted women who were engaged in a collective project of exploring various aspects of creativity and the self from a Dabrowskian perspective. Related concepts include self-education, the creative instinct, everyday creativity, self-awareness, and autopsychotherapy. Participants engaged in planned creative activity, reflection, and documentation on a daily basis through an individually chosen form of creative activity that involved handwork, written responses, photographs, and other visual records. Qualitative data, including participants’ writings, photos, and other documents, were analyzed through a process of interpretive phenomenological description. The project spanned a seven-week period with daily and weekly documentation from project participants.

Author(s):

Tina Harlow
tina@guidingbright.com
Private Practice
United States

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I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of Guiding Bright - a counseling practice specializing in the needs of gifted children and adults. Over the last 25 years, I have worked with numerous gifted children and their families in a variety of settings. Last year I also edited Helping Gifted Kids Thrive: Insights From The Experts. Developing personal creativity as a form of self-expression and autopspychotherapy has been a significant focus for me while completing the recent 7-month research project on which this presentation is based.

Elizabeth Ringlee
eringlee.championproject@gmail.com
The Champion Project
United States

   

I have been involved in gifted education and not-for-profit projects for over 25 years, as a teacher, a principal, and an executive director. My expertise has been in gifted development, educational programs, and curriculum design. Of late, my focus has been on the development of gifted women in what is often referred to as "second adulthood" - beginning new ventures personally and professionally - in midlife and beyond.

Susan Daniels*
dr.sdaniels@insightresources.org
California State University
United States

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Professionally, I have been a gifted resource teacher, a gifted program coordinator, a graduate program instructor, an author, and an international consultant. The three books I have authored or co-authored - are: (1) Living With Intensity, (2) Raising Creative Kids, and (3) Visual Learning and Teaching. I am also the cofounder and Educational Director of a psychoeducational center that specializes in the needs of gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional children.

 


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