gifted mindfulness collective

This article, which is part essay and part conversation, explores the evolution of the field of gifted psychology and the role that depth psychology plays in deepening our understanding of holistic gifted development throughout life. InterGifted’s founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin, together with the Gifted Mindfulness Collective’s founder Kelly Pryde, looks at how depth psychology opens doorways for us to come into right relationship with our giftedness, making space for and welcoming all of our ways of gifted being, even and especially the ones that don’t fit into the old stereotypes of the “academic genius”.… Read More

Retrieving the Bones is the result of a yearlong contemplative journey taken by 20 gifted women into the past to “retrieve the bones” – to bring back the voices of gifted women who came before us via ancestors, archetypal figures, myths and folktales; the voices that were silenced by the forces of power-over systems; the energies that have been excluded from conscious awareness preventing us from accessing the fullness of our feminine wisdom and our gifts.
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The heart of this community will be weekly online gatherings where we will meditate together around monthly themes relevant to the gifted experience and engage in shared reflection and discussion. There will also be a moderated private discussion group where members can share reflections, questions, resources, etc with their gifted peers. Plus, we have many more opportunities included. The pilot will run from Nov 2019 to Feb 2020.… Read More

Gifted challenges such as perfectionism, heightened sensitivity, relational struggles, asynchronous abilities, cognitive complexity and emotional intensity can all be addressed effectively via a dedicated practice of robust mindfulness. Kelly Pryde, founder of our Gifted Mindfulness Collective, shares how robust mindfulness offers us valuable opportunities to support ourselves and thrive as gifted adults.… Read More

As an adult, discovering your own giftedness often occurs as a side-effect of discovering your child’s giftedness. Consciously integrating these discoveries into your family life requires identity adjustment and perspective-taking. In this article, gifted mom and InterGifted family coach Kelly Pryde shares her own family’s journey toward this integration. A version of this article originally appeared in the InterGifted Community’s ebook Embracing the Gifted Quest.… Read More