Helping Talent Bloom: How to Recognize and Nourish the 5 Developmental Stages of Talent
Presenter: Angel Selden
September 18, 2021
9:30am - 11:30am Online via Zoom
*Registration Required
$10 for MCGT Members
$20 for Non-members (Become a Member)
When I bought my first house, I was most excited about planting a garden. I couldn’t wait to harvest my own tastier, nutrient-dense produce. Alas, the only reward for all the money and hard work was a few sugar snap peas and mealy tomatoes. What went wrong? Were they bad seeds? No, I lacked the knowledge and skills to cultivate the environment needed to produce fruit.
Many seeds of talent never reach fruition because of a lack of knowledge of the nature of talent, as well as principles of talent development. As an apple seed looks and behaves nothing like a fully grown apple tree, a kernel of talent looks nothing like and requires different care than its fully developed counterpart.
In this interactive workshop, Angel Selden will share with you 12 fundamental principles of the master talent cultivator, from seed to fruition. You will leave with ideas for your particular child, which you can implement immediately after the workshop.
Angel Selden has been researching education and homeschooling her four children for 19 years with an organic, holistic approach, in harmony with the principles gleaned from her research. Angel taught English in Russia in 1999 and Ukraine in 2003. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brigham Young University in 2003. She organized homeschool conferences in Minnesota for seven years before creating her master class, Mentoring Organic Learners, and GeniusLog 300, a tool for parents to curate their own curriculum using the great works of humanity, available on NourishingGenius.com. Her essay-memoir 5,000 Stories: One Mother’s Quest to Ditch School and Nourish Genius is published in the book Why I Love Homeschooling Neurodiverse Kids, available on Amazon. She currently resides in her old childhood home in Minnesota.
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