Fractures in our relationship with our gifted self disconnect us from essential aspects of our creativity, meaning and sense of existential belonging. Through healing and a return to wholeness, our gifted traits offer profound potential for growth, creativity, connection and meaning. ‘How I Healed My Gifted Trauma’ is a collective exploration of that journey, written and illustrated by gifted adults around the world who have faced, integrated and restored wholeness following gifted trauma.… Read More

Because giftedness comes with unique developmental needs, sensitivities and social differences, it also carries particular vulnerabilities – especially in environments that misunderstand, minimize or exploit those differences. The resulting trauma can fracture our relationship with our gifted self, leaving us disconnected from our creativity, meaning and sense of existential belonging. In this article, Jennifer Harvey Sallin explores the nature of gifted trauma and what it means to heal it, by learning to create the conditions where it can be safely reclaimed. … Read More

If you’re someone who navigates the unique and often complex landscape of being twice-exceptional (2e) or multiply neurodivergent—living with both giftedness and other neurodivergences—you know it’s an artform to balance the varying demands and needs of our neurodivergences. In this article, Jennifer Harvey Sallin explores how the gifted and other neurodivergent parts of our mind interact, and how we can resolve inner tension and promote inner relational harmony between these parts of ourselves. … Read More

This 6-month course is a combination personal and professional development course for gifted adults in positions of leadership. It is an ideal professional development program for gifted leaders who want to consciously integrate their holistic gifted traits and needs into their leadership development and roles, to tap into their full gifted potential, and to learn sustainable, authentic and self-compassionate ways to employ their integrated gifted energies to make a positive difference in the world.… Read More

Contrary to the impression gifted literature can often give of a necessarily wise, inherently “good” and morally sensitive profile, gifted people range all the way from “saints to psychopaths”, and can inhabit various expressions of all the spaces in between throughout a lifetime. Understanding narcissism and narcissistic wounding both at the individual and collective level, and how it interacts with but is distinct from giftedness, is essential for understanding gifted development, including gifted mental and relational health, throughout the lifespan. Jennifer Harvey Sallin explores all this and gives resources for further discovery and recovery in the article below.… Read More

Our Gifted Multipotentialites Course, special Asia-Pacific edition is here! We’ll be starting our next cohort in April 2024, and registration is now open. This cohort will be timed to suit participants in the Asia-Pacific time zones. Taught and facilitated by InterGifted’s gifted multipotentialite expert & career coach Marion Kee, this six-session course takes place over six months and is designed for gifted multipotentialites who are ready to embark on an in-depth self-discovery and learning journey, together with a dedicated group of their gifted multipotentialite peers.… Read More

The Art of Gifted Leadership Course is a combination personal and professional development course for gifted adults in positions of leadership. It is an ideal professional development program for gifted leaders who want to consciously integrate their holistic gifted traits and needs into their leadership development and roles, to tap into their full gifted potential, and to learn sustainable, authentic and self-compassionate ways to employ their integrated gifted energies to make a positive difference in the world.  … Read More

Our Gifted Multipotentialites course is back! We’ll be starting our next cohort in January 2024, and registration is now open. Taught and facilitated by InterGifted’s gifted multipotentialite & career coach Marion Kee, this six-session course takes place over six months and is designed for gifted multipotentialites who are ready to embark on an in-depth self-discovery and learning journey, together with a dedicated group of their gifted multipotentialite peers. What is … Read More

The aim of this workshop series is to share creative ideas and working approaches that gifted people might use to adapt in a time of rapid major changes. Gifted flexibility, creative thinking, hive mind, mutual connection, encouragement and mirroring as well as practical information, will guide us as we explore topics in the realm of adapting to likely major shifts in the future. This series is facilitated by Marion Kee and starts September 17th.… Read More

Bringing our giftedness to therapy isn’t always easy, both for gifted therapists and gifted clients alike. The shame or fear we feel around our gifted complexity and/or gifted wounds, and the lack of support we’ve had for integrating our giftedness into our lives, show up in ways that dampen our ability to give and receive good gifted-specific therapy. Jennifer Harvey Sallin has written this article to open a collective discussion on the need for us to be able to bring our giftedness into the therapy process, so that our whole gifted self can heal and provide healing to others.… Read More