Positive Disintegration Podcast Ep.75

Positive Disintegration Podcast Ep.75

ByGordon Smith

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.”

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.

Age of Intuition: Poetic Reasoning

Age of Intuition: Poetic Reasoning

ByGordon Smith

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.