Gifted Trauma Alchemy

ByGordon Smith Gifted, Group

This coaching group will be held weekly on Sundays – February 8, 2026 through March 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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