Conversations with CAGT--Catherine Zakoian

The Natural Order of Chaos: Finding the Balance Within the Conflicting Needs and Personalities of Your Gifted Family Members:
Join Catherine to explore the common ways members of gifted family trees tend to typically and naturally be at odds or opposition with one another. She will share tested strategies to address these tensions and dynamics to foster deeper relationship, clearer understanding, and strengthened family harmony, without undercutting the importance these differences bring to your family system. This offering is not about discipline nor behavior management, but instead a process to bring your family members into on-going meaningful dialogue, reflection, and self-advocacy without disrupting nor dismantling individual gifted nature and needs.

Catherine Zakoian, MA, LPC, NCC, is a national board certified and licensed professional counselor. For twenty years, her Colorado-based private counseling practice www.catherinezakoian.com has specialized in child and family counseling services for gifted, twice-exceptional (2e), and profoundly gifted children, adolescents, teens, adults, and families. Her educational consultation practice provides guidance for creating psychologically healthy educational environments, authentic leadership and program development, and meaningful educator self-awareness and care within award-winning public, independent, and alternative PreK-12 schools serving gifted and neurotypical populations. Her newly published book: Raising Gifted Children: A Practical Guide for Parents Facing Big Emotions and Big Potential (Rockridge Press, 2020) has received a warm welcome in the gifted field.