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Scenario

When Teaching Gifted Children Triggers Your Own Wounds

I was the gifted kid who became a teacher to help other gifted kids but watching them struggle with the same isolation and pressure I had makes me relive my own trauma every day.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional proximity to giftedness reactivates unresolved personal educational trauma.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.