Beyond IQ - Greater Boston

Giftedness & Personality

2019 Program

(still under construction; time, topics, and presenters subject to change)

Registration will be in the foyer. The Friday program will be held in the Middlesex Room.

Friday, May 3rd, at BIQ

Workshops for Professionals

Check-in for Friday will be between 8 and 9am, with a continental breakfast. Lunch on Friday will also be with the Conference. We usually finish up around 4pm, but sometimes discussions go on into dinner!

In keeping with the theme of the weekend, a major focus of our discussions will deal with the intersection of personality and giftedness, examining how that impacts the home, educational, and therapeutic environments/processes.

We will be offering both a fixed structure with specific workshops for those who prefer them, and less formal discussions, varying large and small group interaction based on the needs and interests of our attendees. This permits us to address individual questions more effectively than the standard presentation model seems to.

Let us know your interests!

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Click here for a sample of the Young Adult Program.

Saturday, 5/4/19		Conference Sessions (subject to changes and additions)
Time (Adult Program)	Adult Program		Varies	Children (6-9 or as noted)	Children (9-12 or as noted)	All Children	Time (Children's Program)
8:00-9:00 A.M.	Registration						8:00-8:55 A.M.
9:00-10:00	First Time BIQ Attendees Josh Shaine Salon AB	What do I do now?! Speaker Concord	Quiet Conversation TBD	Introductions Staff Salon C			8:55 - 10:05
10:30-11:45	*Keynote:* Shelagh Gallagher *(Title)* Salon AB			Geometric Construction Toys (all ages) Kate Fractal Chelmsford	Carlisle	Games Salon C	10:25 - 11:50
11:45-1:30P.M.	Lunch			Lunch - With Families			11:50 - 1:30 P.M.
1:45-3:00	CBT. DBT. ACT. IPT - What are they and why do you care? Erick Medina Salon AB	Motivational Paralysis Anna Caveney Concord	Quiet Conversation TBD	Topic Presenter Chelmsford	Buttons! Sally Wolfe Carlisle	Games Salon C	1:40 - 3:05
3:30-4:45	How to Vet (or Create) a Gifted-savvy Therapist Mika Gustavson Salon AB	The Nature of Free Will Eric Van Concord	Quiet Conversation TBD	Return of the Giant Bubbles! Abigail Walzer Chelmsford	Topic Presenter Carlisle	Games Salon C	3:25- 4:50
Please join us Saturday evening in the Grand Foyer, at 7:30 PM, for an Ice Cream Social for all attendees and presenters

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Sunday,
5/5/19 Conference Sessions (subject to changes and additions)

Time (Adult Program)	Adult Program		Off Topic	Children (6-9 or as noted)	Children (9-12 or as noted)	All Children	Time (Children's Program)
8:00 - 9:00 AM	Registration						8:00 - 9:00
9:15-10:15	Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process What is it? & Why is it so useful for gifted people? Mary Ellen Wessels Salon AB	Selectively construct, and live in, a better reality today Anna Caveney Concord	Quiet Conversation TBD	Building with Polydron! Robert van der Heide & Dean A. Jackson Chelmsford	Topic Presenter Carlisle	Games Salon C	9:10 - 10:20
10:30-11:45	Engaging collaboratively with the assessment process (in which, our brave heroes journey to the distant mountaintop to ask the mystical shaman for a professional opinion, and have their beliefs challenged) Aimee Yermish Salon AB	Metacognition and Mindfulness tools (Part 1) Mika Gustavson Concord	Quiet Conversation TBD	Topic Presenter Chelmsford	Slime Making for all ages! Louise Waugh Carlisle	Games Salon C	10:25-11:50
11:45-1:30PM	Lunch			Lunch - With Families			11:50 - 1:30
1:45 - 2:45	Outsider to Oxford: Overcoming the Odds Lois Letchford Salon AB	Metacognition and Mindfulness tools (Part 2) Mika Gustavson Concord	Quiet Conversation TBD	Hexbug board games:Bugs in the Kitchen and BuggaLoop Robert van der Heide & Dean A. Jackson Chelmsford	Topic Presenter Carlisle	Games Salon C	1:40 - 2:50
3:00 - 4:00	Giftedness and Personality: Wrap Up Panel Discussion Salon AB			Hexbug city Robert van der Heide & Dean A. Jackson Chelmsford	Outsider to Oxford: Overcoming the Odds Lois Letchford Carlisle	Games Salon C	2:55 - 4:05