Gifted and Growing Blog

Poetic Reasoning – guest post from Laura Hope-Gill

ByGordon Smith January 5, 2025January 6, 2025

Poetic reasoning is a creative process rather than a scientific one. Whereas the scientific method insulates the subject of study from imagination and progresses incrementally toward a conclusion, the creative process starts with intense imagination regarding the subject and omnidirectionally guides both us and it through time-space toward deeper understanding of everything.

Whereas scientific reasoning values control, poetic reasoning values connection. Whereas scientific reasoning accumulates evidence, poetic reasoning explodes in the heart and deepens throughout a lifetime and beyond.

This article invites you into Poetic Reasoning and our eight-week course for gifted adults to explore creative consciousness. Begins Jan. 19, 2025.

Age of Intuition: Poetic Reasoning

ByGordon Smith December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

This eight-week series beginning January 19, 2025 elevates and centers the creative and imaginational dimensions of your gifted consciousness. Forget every rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter thumping your English teacher forced upon you. None of that is central to poetry’s curative properties now known and practiced in psychology and clinical medical practice. Poetic Reasoning invites you to develop skills of surrender and to open doors of self-discovery.

Participants will engage and practice Poetic Reasoning in a safe, supportive, and critique-free community. We will practice and open to the use of poetry as a tool of exploration. You will transcend your resistances and perfectionistic habits. Wider perspective, intuition, creativity, and freedom from the neuromajority’s constraints on thinking comprise just a few of the benefits. Meaning, awe, wonder, and delight are others.

Creative Approaches for Gifted and Otherwise Neurodivergent Adults

ByGordon Smith December 1, 2024December 1, 2024

I’ve learned that there are alternative, unconventional approaches that can move people from pathology paradigms to expansive, growth orientations. These creative approaches, long given side-eye by traditionalists, are now being proven. I intend to bring more of these expansive processes into the world of ‘mental health’. New offerings in 2025 reflect these evolutions. You’re invited.

Bringing Gifted to the Mastering Counseling Podcast

ByGordon Smith April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

I tell some of my story, describe some of the gifted experience, and discuss ways to help gifted clients through counseling, coaching, and Improv.

People Who Get Me: A Gifted, Neurodivergent, Group Coaching Experience

ByGordon Smith April 3, 2024April 3, 2024

Once you’ve realized that your giftedness has everything to do with the way you interact with the world, the next, inevitable steps are toward recalibrating, reorienting, and living a life more aligned with who you are. This group provides gifted adults a space to explore their neurodivergences in a virtual room full of other outliers. In my years working with gifted people, I’ve seen that loneliness is the most common affliction of the uncommon, and People Who Get Me (PWGM) is designed to be a balm and a laboratory.