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Who are the highly creative?
Why do their abilities often become liabilities?
What is their pathway to success?

Counseling the highly creative person is not part of a usual training program for clinicians or educators. Usually, creativity has been relegated to the world of artists. There are individuals who are routinely overlooked or misdiagnosed in treatment, and may be at risk for academic problems in the classroom. These individuals are highly creative by virtue of their aptitudes, although some of them may not be creative in the artistic sense. The goal of this seminar is to assist clinicians and educators to identify individuals who are highly creative, and to effectively respond to their needs in treatment and educational settings.

Goals:

1. Understand the multiple facets of creative intelligence.
   
   
2. Recognize highly creative individuals and their aptitudes.
   
   
3. Identify typical problems and possible misdiagnoses that may occur as a result of unidentified or underutilized creative abilities.
   
   
4. Create an effective assessment and intervention strategy for counseling and educating highly creative individuals and working with them in the classroom.

Seminar II: Identifying Your Creative Path

Do you still wonder what you want to do when you grow up?
Do you have difficulty bringing your creative projects into the
world in a tangible way?
Do you know what your vocational goals are,
but feel they are too difficult to reach?

If so, you may be a highly creative person whose abilities may not be
fully recognized.

Through presentations, group discussions, reflective contemplation and
experiential activities, the multiple facets of creativity will be explored.

Topics Include:

• Discovering Creative Abilities
• When Abilities Feel Like a Burden
• Enjoying the Creative Process
• Overcoming Creative “Drought”
• Finding Your Vocational Path

Mary Taylor
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