Finding Your People and More of Yourself

ByGordon Smith Gifted, Group, Improv, Workshops

The masks we adopt to protect our sensitive, intense, longing, gifted selves can be so well practiced that we don’t even know we’re wearing them. We can forget or never learn the feeling of safety that comes from being accepted, understood, and respected. We’re intense and unusual. We’re neuro-atypical outliers, so let’s embrace it and practice unmasking. Together with other neurodivergents, you are invited to explore and gain perspective in communities of people who are showing up for the same reasons. You have many options opening up this autumn.

Improv For Gifted Adults Group

September 27 – November 1, 2026

Sundays from 1-3pm Eastern Time

$360/series, 6 sessions

Improv for Gifted Adults is a hilarious and emboldening annual offering. Improv is a path to gifted development that leads with laughter and play. Play requires safety and trust, and it has no goal other than itself. In Improv, we create a container that allows you to take your inner child out for ice cream. Improv has proven, again and again, that playing in a room of other outliers changes lives. In addition to the rich ‘afterparty’ discussion, the pure trustbuilding of Improv is a unique and fun way to heal old wounds.

Gifted Adult Group Experience

October 14 – November 18, 2026

Wednesdays from 6:15pm – 7:45pm Eastern Time
$375/series, 6 sessions

Gifted Adults Group Experience is a space to learn more about what giftedness is, how it co-occurs with other neurodivergences, and more about your gifted inner matrices. This six week series brings a small group of explorers together – minimum six, maximum ten. Each week builds upon the last in a group co-creation that facilitates a safe, accepting, organic, iterative process of unfolding.

Pen and Process

November 8 – 29, 2026

Sundays from 1pm – 3pm Eastern Time

$240/series, 4 sessions

Pen and Process is a space to tap into the infinite well of imagination in your consciousness. Intellect and Emotions are revered in many cultures, often at the expense of the Creative, Imaginational, and Unconscious parts of ourselves. In gifted and otherwise neurodivergent people, our complex imaginal worlds are under-nurtured and underutilized, and yet these sensibilities offer us avenues for growth and perspective that are not available any other way. This four week journey, offered in partnership with Laura Hope-Gill, will teach you new ways to see and experience yourselves and your worlds.

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    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.

  • Creative Approaches for Gifted and Otherwise Neurodivergent Adults

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    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.

  • Poetic Reasoning – guest post from Laura Hope-Gill

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    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.

  • How I Healed My Gifted Trauma

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    One of the ways the InterGifted community helps gifted adults is through shepherding people’s individual experience out into the world through a careful, nurturing process of publishing. In InterGifted’s latest publication – How I Healed My Gifted Trauma – gifted writers and illustrators from around the world share their paths toward wholeness. I have a long poem included. It’s titled Brood XIV and was inspired by the 17 year cicada eruption that happened in western North Carolina this year.

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    Compiled and edited by Jennifer Harvey Sallin and Lil Jedynak, in 2025. This book includes 18 stories and many more illustrations from 14 contributors.”