Are you a mental health professional, health professional or teacher who wants to better understand how to support the mental health and wellbeing of gifted or twice exceptional individuals?
Participants will increase their knowledge, skills and confidence via teaching, experiential activities and case studies and will learn to:
Describe key psychological characteristics of gifted and twice-exceptional individuals across phsyical, emotional, cognitive, social and existential/spiritual domains.
Identify the unique vulnerabilities of gifted minds (e.g., perfectionism, shame, emotional intensity, existential anxiety.
Identify some of the key principles of the cutting edge psychology of Compassion (drawing on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and its relevance to giftedness, especially as an antidote to shame
Apply compassion-based strategies to enhance wellbeing, self-regulation, and social connection in gifted clients or students.
Integrate reflective and compassion-based tools into educational or therapeutic practice.
Foster compassionate systems of care for gifted populations in schools, clinics, and families.
Up to 7 hours of CPD credits when you complete the seminar and all activities and reflection questions (check your individual requirements)
Certificate of participation on completion of the workshop
Mental health professionals and educators supporting gifted or twice exceptional children, adolescents and/or adults.
Registered Psychologists, including provisional psychologists as well as those with Area of Practice Endorsement (or working towards) in Clinical, Health, Counselling, Educational & Developmental, school psychologists
Mental health professionals providing psychological care including psychotherapists and counsellors
Researchers working in relevant areas such as gifted education, mental health etc
Educators at all levels (e.g. primary and high school teachers, university lecturers)
This course is suitable for support staff (e.g. learning support officers)
Dr Belinda Ratcliffe (Phd, Clinical Psychologist)
Dr. Belinda Ratcliffe is a highly respected Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience. She holds a PhD in Autism and Mental Health from the University of Sydney's Medical School and is a former Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Western Sydney University. Based in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Ratcliffe is founder of the Emotions Clinic Australia, providing compassionate and evidence-based psychological services to neurodivergent communities. Dr. Ratcliffe is deeply committed to the fields of psychology and has a particular interest in comprehensive gold standard diagnostic assessments including for Giftedness, Autism, ADHD, Learning Disorder and co-occurring mental ill-health (e.g. anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms) as well as high quality evidence-based mental health care in this space. Dr. Ratcliffe has a current interest in the application of Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) for Gifted and Twice Exceptional individuals, trauma and loss and she has presented her research in this area at International Conferences. Dr. Ratcliffe is known for her warmth, rigor, and commitment to delivering evidence-based interventions. She is also a multi-award-winning researcher and published author of the Westmead Feelings Program for Autistic Children with Mild Intellectual Disability, and has made a significant contribution to the field of psychology. Dr. Ratcliffe is sought after in delivering training across the Asia-Pacific - and over 3500 participants have attended her training in the past 5 years. She leads therapy groups, offers clinical supervision, and holds multiple influential roles in both business and academia. Dr Ratcliffe is a current postgraduate student at the Nan Tien (Buddhist) University, where she studies the application of mindfulness and compassion. Her work is driven by a deep motivation to embody and promote compassion in all aspects of her professional and personal life.
You must pre-register to attend. Participants who pre-register will have access to live recording for 30 days
EARLY BIRD pricing available
$429.00
(inc GST)
$499.00
Standard pricing (from 5.2.26)
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Yes. We encourage participants to attend live. However, we understand that, due to time differences, it may not be possible for you to attend this training live with us. With that in mind, the seminar will be recorded, and you'll have access to the recordings for 30 days after the course ends, to watch in your own time.
We warmly welcome general discussion, sharing and theme-based questions in response to content, activities, and experiential learning. As this course is for general education, we don't encourage participants to ask personal/individualised questions in the seminar about themselves or those in their care and to save this for their individual therapy or supervision.
This course would be considered CPD for most health professionals. Please check with your registration/accreditation body to see if this program is appropriate for your CPD.
We are committed to providing high-quality educational courses and programs to our participants. We understand that circumstances may arise where individuals are unable to complete or continue with a paid course they have enrolled in. To ensure fairness and transparency, we have established the following refund policy for our paid courses: If this course is cancelled 14 days prior to the start date will receive a full refund. Cancelled 5-13 days prior to the start date will be subject to a 10% cancellation fee. Cancellations made less than 5 days prior to the start date will be subject to a 20% cancellation fee. No refunds are available once the course has began. Please note this course is recorded to watch up to 30 days later, so participants who are unable to attend live will be able to watch the recordings at a time that suits them.
