🔬 Interested in Research Collaboration?

GiftedBecoming™ is more than a workbook — it’s a research-informed framework integrating the Law of Sustained Love™ and Model of Blocked Becoming™ to explore how admiration, emotional regulation, and cognitive design help gifted and deep-thinking learners thrive without diminishing their authenticity.

🤝 Seeking Research Partners & Academic Collaborators

We are currently inviting collaboration with university researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the following fields:

  • Gifted Education

  • Applied Behavior Analysis

  • Adult Learning & Andragogy

  • Performance Psychology

  • Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Neurodivergent Advocacy

About the Model

GiftedBecoming™ is in early-stage development and built upon the principles of Behavioral Neurodivergent Learning Model— an interdisciplinary approach that blends behavior science, cognitive intensity, and emotional regulation to support gifted and twice-exceptional learners.

We welcome partnerships for:

📊 Collaborative study design

🧠 Pilot testing in academic or clinical environments

📚 Qualitative and quantitative research on gifted learning, overthinking, and performance anxiety

If you are a professor, researcher, or graduate student interested in exploring how this approach impacts learning, test performance, and identity development, we’d love to connect.

📧 Email: Research@GiftedBecoming.com

🌐 Website: www.GiftedBecoming.com

🌱 Founder’s Credo — by Lisangelee Velázquez, M.S.

Creator of GiftedBecoming™, the Behavioral Neurodivergent Learning Model™, the Law of Sustained Love™, and the Model of Blocked Becoming™

I didn’t set out to create a field.

I set out to survive one.

I was the student who could grasp systems no one explained —

…and yet I failed the tests designed to measure understanding.

I was the thinker who could see what others missed —

…and yet I was told I overcomplicated everything.

I was gifted, yes. But I was also misunderstood, anxious, overthinking, and left out of the learning models built for “typical” minds.

When I searched for answers, I found only band-aids — or silence.

So I did what gifted people have always done when systems fail us:

I built what I needed and offered it to others.

GiftedBecoming™ is more than a workbook.

It is a research-informed, behaviorally grounded framework for gifted, twice-exceptional, and neurodivergent learners who are tired of shrinking their brilliance just to survive.

It honors our minds instead of silencing them.

It teaches restoration instead of repression.

It transforms self-doubt into self-understanding.

The Law of Sustained Love™ emerged when I realized admiration — when rooted in integrity — is the reinforcer that keeps growth alive.

The Model of Blocked Becoming™ revealed what happens when that admiration is withheld: identity freezes, potential collapses, and self-worth becomes conditional.

Together, they form the heart of a new behavioral language — one that integrates radical behaviorism, metacognition, and emotional intensity into a living system of becoming.

I am not claiming ownership over people.

I am claiming stewardship over a framework that didn’t exist before — one that others will refine, research, and expand.

That is not a threat. That is the goal.

But let history show:

This is where it began.

And I am proud to say —

I built it with open hands, steady love,

and an unshrinkable mind.

— Lisangelee Velázquez, M.S.

Founder, GiftedBecoming™ Research Initiative

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