Salon Series I: Spotlight on the Inner Experience of Gifted Adults
Salon Series, Event 3:
The Rest of Human Intelligence
DATE: Thursday, June 24, 2021
TIME: 1:00-2:30pm United States, MDT
WHO: Stephanie Tolan
WHERE: United States
As gifted adults many of us have focused most of our lives on intellect, the most widely accepted aspect of human intelligence. But there is also intuition, the equally or even more powerful aspect that is often dismissed as “imagination.” A novelist and consultant to parents of highly and profoundly gifted kids, Stephanie Tolan has listened to many families’ stories, and observed interactions among the kids that have shown her the inestimable value of this “weird” but essential aspect of human intelligence. She will share how research and her own life experiences have enlarged her understanding of the human mind.
About Stephanie Tolan
Stephanie S. Tolan has published 26 novels for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery Honor winning Surviving the Applewhites. Her many nonfiction works about the needs of the highly gifted include the widely published and often translated essay, “Is it a Cheetah?” In addition, she was co-author of the award-winning Guiding the Gifted Child (1982). An original member of the Columbus Group, who brought the concept of Asynchronous Development to the gifted community, she co-edited Off the Charts, Asynchrony and the Gifted Child (2013). Her most recent nonfiction book is Out of Sync, Essays on Giftedness (2016).