A Special Evening with Dr. Georgia Tiedemann

Neurodevelopmental research is confirming what parents have always know: our children are born with their own unique and enduring temperamental styles.  Many intellectually gifted children have particular intense or extreme personalities.

Understanding how basic temperamental characteristics drive our children’s often baffling behavior, can help us respond with compassion and guide our children more effectively. 

In this workshop, we’ll explore the fundamental dimensions of temperament, the joys and challenges these characteristics can bring, and how we can use our understandings of temperamental differences to make life more manageable for our kids – and their parents.

Dr. Georgia Tiedemann, R. Psych., is a registered psychologist and a mother of two young adults.  Her clinical work with children and their families began in the early 1980’s with her doctoral research at UBC, into how parents can help their children learn to share.  Later, she worked in public health, consulting to families and caregivers of young children.  For about the past 20 years, he work has been partly in child and adolescent mental health, and partly in private practice doing assessments and consultations around issues such as learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness.  She has been an enthusiastic supporter of gifted children in our community. 

Admission $10

Please plan on arriving between 6:30 – 6:45pm, so we may begin promptly at 7pm

RSVP appreciated at fast.brained.kids.coquitlam@gmail.com so we can gage numbers

Sponsored by Fast Brained Kids of Coquitlam (GCA)

Jabber-Wacky www.odysseybc.ca Offering kids a chance to be totally creative including making things that go zoom, building towers from balsa wood, exploring inventions and making prototypes

Mindstein www.mindstein.ca Strategy-thinking puzzles and games, critical thinking strategies, generating many ideas and finding new ways to think for children in grades K-7

Think Tank Challenge Center www.thinktankchallengecenter.com -innovation and problem solving in a cooperative group setting

Legomation & MORE at Heritage Woods in Coquitlam www.mediafinearts.com

SFU Summer Camps http://www.sfu.ca/camps.html or www.sfu.ca/recreation

Evergreen Cultural Center: SUMMER CAMPS GALORE! A terrific line-up of camps for 7-18 year-olds, running in July and August READ MORE  http://www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/Programs/Summer+Camps/default.htm

Place des arts Art Center and Music School – Inspire the artist in you! http://www.placedesarts.ca/

the art centre Port Moody – Summer Art Camps and Classes 2013 http://www.pomoarts.ca/

Quiring Chamber Music Camp www.quiringmusiccamp.org A unique program for musicians aged 5-20! A combination of chamber music, master classes, composition/art classes and concerts providing a well-balanced, fun and enriching experience for music students

UBC Summer Programs: http://camps.ubc.ca/ Tech Trek Summer Camp https://www.cs.ubc.ca/grades-k-12/techtrek/summer-camps  and Geering up http://www.geeringup.apsc.ubc.ca/vancouver/

Bard on the Beach www.bardonthebeach.org The main camp at Vanier Park, with satellite camps in Burnaby and other communities.

Academie Duello www.academieduello.com *Knightly training including falconry, heraldry, swordplay, archery, strategy and medieval games.

St. George’s School www.summeratstgeorges.ca Fun topics include Lego, engineering, alien guide to planet earth, junior robotics, cartooning, digital media, web design, chess & puzzles, circus skills and Shakespeare

Digivations  Summer Programs http://www.digivations.com/programs/summerdaycampacademy.html

On Saturday, October 27, 2012 there will be a free afternoon of spooky science fun for kids in grades K-6 and their families presented by the Biology, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Chemistry, and Physics Departments and Radiation Safety. Come out and see some Creepy Creatures and play with some Halloween-y hands-on science activities in the south concourse of the Academic Quadrangle, just outside Shrum Science Centre lecture hall B9200. We will present the Phantom Physics and Cryptic Chemistry show twice at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM. Check out this YouTube video to see how much fun science can be. 

Advance Ticket Reservations for the Phantom Physics and Cryptic Chemistry shows are now available. To ensure your seats at one of the shows, please fill out the reservation survey.

Spooktacular Schedule  Saturday, Oct 27th

12:00 – 3:30 PM Demos and Activities South Academic Quadrangle 3000 Level

1:00 PM and 3:00 PM Phantom Physics and Cryptic Chemistry Show Shrum Science Centre Lecture Theatre B9200

Costumes Welcome!