July 19-21, 2012
Denver

Registration is now open.

10th International Dabrowski Conference
Theme: From Conflict to Peace,Globally and Personally
Hosted by R. Frank Falk, Ph.D and Linda K. Silverman, Ph.D.

This is the next in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary conferences on Dabrowski’s theory of Positive Disintegration.  Dabrowski’s theory has been developing since Kazimierz Dabrowski a Polish psychologist and psychiatrist began thinking and writing about it in the 1930s.  Since then, it has become the basis for theoretical, practical, and research applications across diverse disciplines.

The 10th Annual Dabrowski Congress will be held in Denver, from July 18th through the 21st, at the Curtis Doubletree Hotel. The theme of the Congress is "From Conflict to Peace both Personally and Globally." Over 40 presenters from the United States, Canada, Poland, Australia and The Netherlands, will address development, giftedness, and different aspects of Dabrowski's theory. There will be introductory and advanced sessions, leadership workshops, an international panel, banquet speaker, and the opportunity to see the musical, "Jersey Boys," at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Topics include overexcitabilities, ethical development, gifted children and adults, twice exceptional children, women writers, temperament, learning style, sensitivity, crisis, inner conflict, loss, poverty, courage, peace, service, religious experience, creativity, poetry, authentic educational practice, classroom strategies and homeschooling. Something for everyone

more on Dabrowski's Theory and how it relates to giftedness and overexcitabilities:

"Dabrowski talked about OE's - over-excitabilities ("superstimulatabilities"), and how the gifted were extremely sensitive in a variety of areas. It's a stimulus-response difference from the norms. It means that in these 5 areas a person reacts more strongly than normal for a longer period than normal to a stimulus that may be very small. It involves not just psychological factors but central nervous system sensitivity." Stephanie Tolan, Dabrowski's Over-excitabilities, A Layman's Explanation