Dr. Noks Nauta is an M.D. (not practicing) and a psychologist, Ph.D., who specializes since 2000 in gifted adults. She has written many articles and books (one is in English: "Gifted adults, hitting the target", BigBusiness Publishers, 2016). She is the co-founder and honorary board member of the Gifted Adults Foundation in the Netherlands (www.IHBV.nl). She regularly presents at national and international conferences. She is especially interested in gifted adults at work, in highly gifted adults, and gifted seniors. Since 2011 Ido van der Waal (mediator) and Noks Nauta study conflicts of the gifted of all ages to make people aware that conflicts are situations to learn from.
- Contributions at Talent Education 2020
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Help gifted children to learn from conflictsWorkshopPeople are often afraid to get into conflicts. We collected many cases and studied multiple experiences of gifted persons of different ages who experienced (serious) conflicts. We discovered specific patterns concerning giftedness. We see these patterns start at young ages already. Many admitted as adults that they have not learned … More