Giftedness

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

This combination personal and professional development course is a 6-month learning journey for gifted adults in positions of leadership who are wanting to consciously respond to the challenges of our changing world, both as individuals and as leaders. The course content as well as our group discussions serve to cultivate personal and collective insight, transformation, and emergent possibilities for holistic, authentic and sustainable leadership in our changing world.… Read More

Our newest community ebook is now available in our bookshop! In ‘These Gifts Are Sacred’, poets paired with artists in our community to create an anthology of illustrated poems exploring the sacredness of our gifted experience. This moving and deeply nourishing compilation invites you into the sacred space we’ve created, to re-member the wholeness of your gifted self together with us.… Read More

As we deal with the emotional overhead of all that’s going on in our own lives and in our local and global context, many of us are navigating a sense of gifted burnout. In our Summer online discussion group facilitated by Marion Kee, we’ll talk about practical mental, emotional, physical and existential self-care & gifted burnout recovery, while also exploring our gifted existential experience of witnessing humanity’s current trajectory and finding our own unique path through it. Our discussions will aim to support you in finding balance and meaning as a gifted person in the midst of navigating rapid change.… Read More

The focus on productivity is important for certain tasks at certain times, but it’s only one part of a holistic expression of giftedness. If we conflate giftedness with productivity, we lose out on many rich aspects of our gifted selves, such as joy, rest, play, unstructured exploration and purposeless creativity. Trauma, culture and internalized ideologies can prime us toward a dysfunctional relationship with productivity, and thus with our understanding of our true gifted potential. Jennifer Harvey Sallin explores these themes and shares resources for change in this article.… Read More

This training course with our founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin is for therapists & coaches wanting to learn how to help gifted clients better understand their experience and expression of their giftedness profile. An essential part of supporting gifted clients in their healing, self-discovery, integration and growth process is providing them accurate mirroring and information for the particularities of how their minds work and how those particularities affect their lives and relationships.… Read More

In our current world where activism for systemic change is calling to more and more of us, how do we gifted people, with our complex minds, sensitive emotions and often very big visions, engage meaningfully without becoming overwhelmed or burned out? Jan Provoost Sallin explores how slowing down offers us a way to engage more meaningfully and sustainably in advocating for and making real change in the world.… Read More

‘Emergence’ is our Gifted Mindfulness Collective’s first contemplative writing and art compilation. The culmination of a year-long labor of love, more than 35 entries are included where gifted and twice-exceptional women give voice to the gifted feminine. Readers are invited into a portal of opportunities for their own contemplations and reclamations at a time when the feminine is deeply called on for our global and spiritual transformation.… Read More

This online workshop with Karin Eglinton is an opportunity for gifted adults to take inventory of, legitimize and discover how to meet their gifted-specific needs. An important part of the giftedness discovery and integration process is sorting through which of your needs are gifted-specific, how not getting them met in the past may have caused confusion or hurt, and how you can creatively and bravely heal and commit to meeting your gifted needs in the present and future.… Read More

Coming this Autumn, join writing coach Jan Provoost for a gifted writers masterclass. This is a special class for gifted people who year to voice their experience and opinion to a gifted or general public, through articles, b/vlogs, social media posts, or – why not – a book? This class will help you bolster your unique, gifted writing voice and touch readers in a truthful and authentic way; and to develop your writing for advocacy and leadership. … Read More