SENG-Model Parent Support Group
For parents of bright, gifted or talented children
In 1981, SENG established guidelines for SENG-Model Parent Support Groups. SENG Model Parent Groups are structured to bring together 10 to 20 interested parents of gifted and talented children to discuss such topics as motivation, discipline, stress management, and peer relationships. The co-facilitators of the group, though they are knowledgeable about parenting and about educating gifted/talented children, do not attempt to give expert advice to families. Instead their facilitation provides a non-judgmental and nurturing atmosphere. The parents of the high ability children are themselves a rich resource of information, and they are able to get fresh ideas from other parents and from A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children, the book around which the sessions are organized. The groups meet weekly for a set number of weeks – usually 10 weeks.
(Gifted Parent Groups: The SENG Model, 2nd Edition, 2007, p. x-xi)
Facilitator: Melinda Stewart, MSW – Trained SENG Model Facilitator
Time: 5:30 – 7 PM on Sunday evenings on the following days:
2/6
2/13
2/20
2/27
3/6
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10/31 - no meeting
3/13 - no meeting
3/20
3/27
4/3
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Location: Voyagers Homeschool Resource Center
530 Main Street
Acton, MA 01450
Cost: $80 per person for Voyagers Members. $160 per person for non-members
Payment is due at first meeting. Please make out checks to Voyagers, Inc.
Book: A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children, by Webb, Gore, Amend and DeVries, Great Potential Press, 2007.
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Registration: PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Register early; class size is limited.
For more information and to register, contact:
Melinda Stewart at (978) 302-5940
email:
mstewart@alum.wellesley.edu
Currently the Director of Counseling at Groton School in Groton, MA, Ms. Stewart has worked with gifted children and adolescents in a variety of settings over the last 28 years. She is a member of the SENG editorial board, the founder and former director of Voyagers, Inc., and has been on the staffs of the Stone Center at Wellesley College and McLean Hospital. She is the mother of two gifted children, one currently in college and one currently homeschooled.