So, my first mission is to bring in practice strength-based career orientation not only for adults, teams and organizations but also for children, teens, and young adults in a way where parents and educators are actively participating and assisting in their children’s gaining of self-knowledge and tailor-made career options instead of feeling anxious, confused and adrift when it comes to deciding what they’ll do for living.

I help children, teens, young adults “save” their talents, detect what potential/talent they have as early as possible so that they can “try out” career options and not find themselves, like majority of people nowadays, at 30s or at 40s trying to figure out how they’re going to make it now when they see it’s obvious that they’re fed up and exhausted with the job they do. I want to help them enjoy a fulfilling career that honors their unique self-expression, and leave them motivated, energized, and enthusiastic. I also assist those who want to step out of their ready-made careers that are presented to them, supporting their journey of becoming conscious creator of their own career path, help them find most importantly, find their tailor-made career option and their “why”. I also help teams and organizations become more efficient by allowing the whole range of strengths of their employees to be discovered and applied during work and by making team members conscious of their common strengths as a team. I assist teams to find strategies and insights how to apply their strengths in practice.

My second mission is to support “Emotion Revolution”: introduce emotional literacy as a part of curriculum, organizational cultures and our personal lives.

It’s sad to see how many (even highly educated) people lack social and emotional skills, and we still don’t know how to communicate with each other. The social-emotional skills, and this is confirmed by many scientific research results, are building foundation of our lives, and necessary ingredient to see our “giftedness”, potential that we ALL have find its form of expression. We should, instead of continuing to let children learn these life-saving skills randomly, without organized instruction, propose them to learn them as a part of (after) school curriculum. These skills learned at school will be useful to them even when they become professionals or parents. I created few SEL workshops and create on demand (after) school program & curriculum that integrates life-saving skills for all children. I propose SEL consulting sessions with or without focus on gifted populations. In this way, I support parents/educators in becoming emotion “coaches” to their children/students. I also help adults acquire self-awareness about their social-emotional skills that will help them thrive in life. With emotions in check, we see clearly. We become the conscious creators of our lives.

My third mission is to propose program(s) that focuse(s) on social emotional needs of gifted, talented & 2E in particular.

I want to ensure that gifted, talented and 2E Community get the specific socio-emotional support they need in order to thrive and develop their obvious talent(s). Learning about their inner specific psychological functioning and self-management will assure their health, well-being and success. For far too long, this population’s social-emotional needs have been neglected and provoked unnecessary talent loss and underachievement. Social emotional part is only one factor in one’s success but critical if we want to see Gifted, Talented & 2E (GT2E) Community freely express themselves and walk their own path toward authentic expression. I will also try to be 2E children advocate, the one who is spreading the information about them because these children are rarely discovered in schools: their gift covers their handicap so their results just stay average while they have all inner characteristics of the gifted. That is why these kids really have to have special socio-emotional support. We would be surprised to hear how many famous and honorable people were 2E.

My fourth mission is to teach passionate learners from around the world the things I’ve learned with passion during years of schooling.

I possess the necessary knowledge, degrees, certifications and experience to be able to do this. The most important thing I possess is motivation, passion and conviction that this is a way to bring a change. Everything done with intrinsic motivation and passion that I have, normally would make some impact. With this hope in my heart, I will propose a series of classes, courses, workshops, discussion groups, lectures. I also hope to bring together as Giftedlab’s Contributors other people who also have the passion to spread they knowledge to others.