Founder Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted Inc. Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Short Description: Gifted learners’ complex sensorium causes heightened sustained reactions to various stimuli. When anxiety is consistently triggered, becomes uncontrollable, or occurs without an evident cause, it is a disorder. Learn about the neurobiology of anxiety and how its various manifestations (externally induced, body-prompted, engendered by heightened introspective, prospective, or retrospective tendencies, social, social-media, existential, and environmental) can be recognized and treated.
Learning Objectives:
Can describe the nature of anxiety, its symptoms and implications for the gifted alongside actionable solutions, including how our emergent understanding of the neurobiology of anxiety affects manifestations and outcomes.
Describe various triggers and symptoms of anxiety for all gifted groups: twice-exceptional (e.g., ADHD, autism), gifted girls, underachievers, profoundly gifted, culturally and racially diverse or those who identify as LGBTQ.
Delineate strategies for managing anxiety for gifted learners using a multifaceted lifestyle and mental health approach, including mindfulness and relaxation techniques, sensory tools, cognitive behavioural techniques and others.
