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Overexcitabilities: What they are and how they manifest in
gifted children
Goleta Union School District Gifted Education Services Parent Night
February 1, 2018
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When was the last time you felt
overstimulated?
Factors
What was at play?
External
Factors
What was at play?
factors
External Internal
Factors
What was at play?
factors factors
External Internal
Factors
What was at play?
factors factors
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
Polish psychiatrist,
psychologist, and physician
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
Polish psychiatrist,
psychologist, and physician
Counseled artists, writers,
actors, and members of religious
orders
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
“saw inner forces at work that, on one hand generated overstimulation, conflict and pain…
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
“saw inner forces at work that, on one hand generated overstimulation, conflict and pain…
…but on the other, provoked individuals to search for a way through the pain, strife and disharmony.
Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902-1980)
Was first to suggest that intensified experiencing, thinking, feeling and imagining were related to creativity and talent.
“saw inner forces at work that, on one hand generated overstimulation, conflict and pain…
…but on the other, provoked individuals to search for a way through the pain, strife and disharmony.
Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
Psychomotor
Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
Psychomotor
Sensual
Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Imaginational
Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Psychomotor
Sensual
Intellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Psychomotor
Sensual
Intellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Love of movement; capacity for being active and energetic.
Psychomotor
Sensual
Intellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Love of movement; capacity for being active and energetic.
Heightened experience of + or - feelings from sight, scent, touch, taste or hearing.
Psychomotor
Sensual
Intellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Love of movement; capacity for being active and energetic.
Heightened experience of + or - feelings from sight, scent, touch, taste or hearing.
A “marked need to seek truth and understanding, to gain knowledge, and to analyze.”
Psychomotor
Sensual
Intellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Love of movement; capacity for being active and energetic.
Heightened experience of + or - feelings from sight, scent, touch, taste or hearing.
Heightened play of the imagination with rich association of images and impressions
A “marked need to seek truth and understanding, to gain knowledge, and to analyze.”
Psychomotor
Sensual
Intellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
Love of movement; capacity for being active and energetic.
Heightened experience of + or - feelings from sight, scent, touch, taste or hearing.
Heightened play of the imagination with rich association of images and impressions
A “marked need to seek truth and understanding, to gain knowledge, and to analyze.”
Intense feelings, extremes of complex emotions, and strong identification with others’ feelings.
Activity
Activity
Phase-1
1. Grab the card that was on your seat when you
came in.
1. Grab the card that was on your seat when you
came in.
2. Read both the description of the excitability and the
strategies for it.
1. Grab the card that was on your seat when you
came in.
2. Read both the description of the excitability and the
strategies for it.
3. Share the information with your neighbor, and if it rings
true for you or not.
Yes!No!
Activity
Activity
Phase- 2
Emotional
Go to a table in the back that has an excitability that you do connect with.
Emotional
Go to a table in the back that has an excitability that you do connect with.
Emotional
Go to a table in the back that has an excitability that you do connect with.
Share an experience…
Emotional
Go to a table in the back that has an excitability that you do connect with.
Share an experience…
Emotional
…or, ask a question about what other’s have noticed about it or done.
What can we do about these?
Don’t judge them.
Look for patterns
Look for patterns
Look for patterns
Bring awareness to it.
Bring awareness to it. How are you feeling
right now?
Bring awareness to it. How are you feeling
right now? What is your body doing/
telling you?
Bring awareness to it. How are you feeling
right now? What is your body doing/
telling you?
How is your mind feeling?
Bring awareness to it. How are you feeling
right now? What is your body doing/
telling you?
How can I help?What do you need?
How is your mind feeling?
Bring awareness to it. How are you feeling
right now? What is your body doing/
telling you?
How can I help?What do you need?
What do you notice about you in these types of situations?
How is your mind feeling?
External Internal
Factors
What was at play?
factors factors
What was at play?
Externalfactors
Internalfactors
What was at play?
Externalfactors
Internalfactors
What was at play?
Externalfactors
Internalfactors
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
What was at play?
Externalfactors
Internalfactors
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
✓.
What was at play?
Externalfactors
Internalfactors
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
✓.✓.
What was at play?
Externalfactors
Internalfactors
Psychomotor
SensualIntellectual
Imaginational
Emotional
✓.✓.
✓.
Example
Example
✓Super excited
Example
✓Super excited
✓Tons of great ideas
Example
✓Super excited
✓Tons of great ideas
“Emotional intensity in the gifted is not a matter
of feeling more than other people, but a different
way of experiencing the world: vivid, absorbing,
penetrating, encompassing, complex,
commanding – a way of being quiveringly alive.”
(Sword, 2012)
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