This coaching group will be held weekly on Sundays – January 11, 2026 through February 15, 2026 from 1 – 3pm Eastern Time. It is entirely online via Zoom. Maximum number of participants is nine.

Your giftedness is a neurotype, a way of being, a consciousness that encompassing all that you are. When that simple truth is negated again and again by people and systems, we gifted people can develop distorted self-concepts and internalized shame for being who we are. We can contort, camoflage, shrink, and desperately try to conform our expression in order to receive approval, acceptance, connection, and love. The aggregate of this rejection by a thousand cuts is at the heart of gifted trauma.

Enter Narrative Medicine and the wild reaches of creativity. Gifted Trauma Alchemy is a six-week experience designed to elevate and celebrate your creative consciousness. Through this process, you will see yourself with new eyes and begin to unwind all the damage done.

Together in community with other intense, complex outliers, you’ll have the opportunity to utilize your creativity to rewrite your perfectionism, loneliness, and chronic stress. On the other side is an iteration of you in fuller expression – more ease, more freedom to be seen and to feel safer doing so.

Participants will engage and practice Gifted Trauma Alchemy in a safe, supportive, decolonizing, and critique-free community. We will practice and open to the use of creative writing as a tool of exploration of all of the facets of who you are. Wider perspective, intuition, creativity, and freedom are available. Meaning, awe, wonder, and delight are there too.

You will write from your center and find the incalculable number of narratives that emerge from it. Gifted Trauma Alchemy is an application of narrative medicine coupled with the older alchemical wisdom of ancient traditions. It will unlock deep truths and awake you to new possibilities inherent in living.

If you’ve been writing for sixty years or you’ve never done any creative writing at all, Gifted Trauma Alchemy is an unconventional avenue to gifted personal development.

You are welcome here.

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(This piece originally appeared as an article for the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented. It is written for all of the parents who realized their own giftedness after their children were identified as gifted)

It’s Me: The Moment

My son was identified as gifted by his school. He was having sensory issues, and they couldn’t teach him anything. He kept acing every test without trying. He was disrupting the class, too, but anyway, we had him evaluated, and it turns out he’s got a GAI score of 146. So my husband and I started reading whatever we could find about giftedness. I was reading about Bore-Out one night when it hit me. My eyes didn’t blink for a full minute… “It’s me. That’s me.”

You were digging around to learn how to help your gifted child become as happy and as healthy as they could be. You read the books and listened to the podcasts. You attended the trainings and joined the organizations. You were on a mission to optimize all that intensity of theirs into a fulfilling life. You just want your children to live in their fullest expression.

Poetic Reasoning – guest post from Laura Hope-Gill

Poetic Reasoning – guest post from Laura Hope-Gill

ByGordon Smith

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.

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

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

ByGordon Smith

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.

Positive Disintegration Podcast Ep.75

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Positive Disintegration Podcast has been a centerpiece of gifted information and community for over three years, and @Chris Wells and Emma Nicholson have been so generous with their time and insights. I had the pleasure of joining them for Episode 75 (and an epic vulnerability hangover that prompted another evolution for me personally). Have a listen, and please share with anyone you feel would be aided by it.

“Gordon shares how his rediscovery of giftedness helped him make sense of his life and deepen his work with clients. The conversation dives into the challenges of unmasking in front of others—especially family—and how the safety of group spaces can empower people to become more fully themselves. Gordon introduces his unique group offerings and the powerful “Magnum Opus” exercise that facilitates self-discovery through poetry and flow state.”

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How I Healed My Gifted Trauma

How I Healed My Gifted Trauma

ByGordon Smith

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.

“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. Together, we show how uniqueness, adversity, and purpose can be woven into a deeper sense of existential belonging.

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