Welcome to the Learning Lab

What This Means for Your Family

The Learning Lab is a guided, real-life test of what actually helps your child grow. Instead of guessing, we track what works week by week.

Here’s how it works in plain language:

Before we begin, we map out your child’s strengths and areas that need support.

Each week, your family tries one or two simple tools from The Gift & The Gap method at home.

You and your child fill out short reflection prompts so we can see what felt easy, what felt hard, and what changed.

During sessions, I take notes on what I’m observing in your child’s behavior, communication, and regulation.

At home, you’ll watch for small shifts—better focus, smoother transitions, fewer power struggles—and share what you see.

Over the 8 weeks, we identify which tools create the biggest improvements and adjust the plan so it fits your child’s unique style.

The goal is simple:
To discover the practices that genuinely help your child regulate, communicate, and follow through—so you can keep using them long after the Lab ends.

What it is:
A self-paced experience where your child (and optionally you) works with the Origin Story self-authoring book. The goal is to help children explore their identity, strengths, emotions, and personal narrative through guided writing and reflection.

How it works:

Before starting, you’ll complete a short survey that helps us understand your child’s baseline—how they see themselves, what they find challenging, and what they feel confident about.

During the process, you’ll answer a few simple check-in questions so we can see what’s resonating, what your child is discovering, and how the exercises are landing emotionally and developmentally.

After completing the book, you’ll fill out a final survey to share any changes you noticed—shifts in confidence, communication, emotional awareness, mood, or behavior.

What we’re studying:
We want to understand how storytelling, identity work, and guided reflection support emotional growth, self-regulation, and resilience in gifted and twice-exceptional kids. Your responses help refine the exercises and improve the next edition of the book.

What you gain:

A simple, empowering structure for helping your child make meaning of their world

Language for strengths, challenges, and emotions

A keepsake “Origin Story” your child writes themselves

A clearer understanding of where they’re growing—and what supports may help next

What It Is

This workshop gives parents a safe space to refine the emotional intelligence skills needed to support their child’s development and create a more peaceful home.

It’s designed as the perfect next step once parents have worked with the Gift & the Gap method or participated in the Learning Lab.

Purpose

To help parents understand:

Their own emotional patterns (“gifts and gaps”)

How their nervous system impacts their child

The difference between reacting and responding

How to co-regulate without rescuing

How to repair after conflict in a way that deepens trust

This workshop is about building emotional awareness and applying it in the real moments that matter.

Workshop Structure

One 2-hour live workshop (online or in-person)

Interactive activities and partner exercises

Live coaching demonstrations

Take-home EQ toolkit (scripts, practices, prompts)

Optional follow-up session to troubleshoot and integrate

What Parents Walk Away With

Practical confidence in:

Staying regulated during tense or emotional moments

Coaching instead of controlling

Naming emotions with clarity (for themselves and their kids)

Repairing after missteps

Creating a home environment where emotional expression is safe and guided

They leave with a set of tools that actually work with gifted, sensitive, or intense kids — not generic advice pulled from a parenting book.

Who It’s For

Parents who:

Want to strengthen their emotional leadership

Feel stuck in repeating patterns

Are raising gifted or twice-exceptional children

Want to model the emotional intelligence they want their child to develop

Prefer a workshop-style learning experience over a long program

This workshop is accessible to all, but especially powerful for families already using the Gift & the Gap framework.