Starting in November, join our new Gifted Multipotentialites Group with Marion Kee where you will work on understanding multipotentiality; work on the common career, job, school, and relational opportunities and challenges related to it; and shape an exciting and balanced path forward for yourself as a gifted multipotentialite.
Growing up without knowing we’re gifted can be like growing up in a distorted mirror. For many gifted adults, learning about their giftedness brings them back to a “second childhood” in which they can rediscover themselves in more authentic ways. They can develop socially and personally in ways they weren’t able in their “first childhood”. In this article, InterGifted founder Jennifer Harvey Sallin explores how we can best navigate the essential developmental stages of our “second (gifted) childhood”. … Read More
Join us for an Open Q&A with Kelly Pryde, September 17-21. In celebration of World Peace Day, we’ll be exploring what makes “gifted conflicts” different, and how you can cultivate conditions of inner and outer peace by unraveling the gifted conflicts in your life with clarity and intention. … Read More
Our second InterGifted community writing/expression compilation is here! Being Me: Reflections on the Gifted Person’s Path to Authenticity was just published. We thank all our members who contributed to this diverse and inspiring work of art. This book explores the seeming enigma of “gifted authentic self-expression”. How and with whom to express what it’s like to be one’s gifted self most naturally? And what’s it like to be a gifted … Read More
Therapy can be very helpful for a gifted person who needs support to get back into a state of equilibrium during a difficult time or heal from past wounding. But there are other forms of support for gifted people who want to fully flourish and reach their potential in meaningful and joyful ways. In this article, Miriam van der Valk shares more about the differences between therapy, coaching and mentoring, and gives us insight into the ways her own particular brand of coaching – philosophical coaching – supports gifted people in their own emergent flourishing.… Read More
Gifted people experience unique challenges in the field of relationships. Some of our challenges are internal and arise from the particular make-up of our intensities; others are external and result from a lack of knowledge of our special needs as a minority population. In this article, Karin Eglinton shares her story on how she learned to respond in constructive ways to both the internal and external relational challenges we gifted people face.
This online course, starting on February 7th with Jennifer Harvey Sallin is for psychologists, therapists, counselors and social workers who want to learn how to better serve their gifted clients. … Read More
Join us for our new course: Gifted Psychology 101 for coaches and psychologists. If you are you a coach or psychologist (or planning to become one), and you’d like to be well-equipped to serve gifted clients, Jennifer Harvey Sallin’s course will help prepare you for that goal!… Read More
In a neuromajority culture, being gifted or twice-exceptional provides a hundred opportunities every day for feeling like one’s authentic self isn’t “right”. It takes courage and hard work to find a way to bridge one’s authentic expression and inner sense of integrity with the external world in contexts that don’t match us well. In this article, Silver Huang shares her long journey toward that goal as a gifted and autistic person, and provides thoughts for you on how you can live authentically as a gifted or twice-exceptional person.… Read More
Gifted people are often told that their standards are too high and unrealistic by others who don’t understand that gifted people have uncommon needs. This leads them to deny or judge their own needs and try to live without getting them met. This two-hour online workshop is all about helping you identify your uncommon needs as a gifted person and reflecting on how you can get them met in healthy, edifying ways. Join us!… Read More