Welcome
The Gifted Mindfulness Collective emerged out of a need for mindfulness-based spaces and guidance that take into account the uncommon intensity, complexity and entelechy of gifted adults. Founded in 2019 by Kelly Pryde, PhD in partnership with InterGifted, we explore mindfulness as a transformative path to wholeness of gifted being through community, courses, personal depth work and creative expression. We create spaces of refuge and exploration with participants from around the world who are dedicated to discovering and using their gifts in conscious ways.
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There is deep intelligence about the flow of your gifted being―and your life―in embodied mindful awareness.
Our approach
Gifted-specific mindfulness is grounded in spiritual wisdom traditions, depth psychologies, and a holistic view of giftedness that encompasses embodied, emotional, sensual, creative and existential intelligences, as well as mental intelligence. Drawing on the Sanskrit root of the word mindfulness, smriti, which means “remembrance of our true nature”, our approach focuses on awakening to and embodying a wholeness of gifted being beyond familial and cultural conditioning. We remember this wholeness through the path of right relationship: a deep connection with our inner and outer nature based on respect, responsibility and reciprocity.
Our services
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
A weekly practice space for gifted and neurocomplex women to explore the transformative power of mindfulness in community for restoring their fullness of being & authentic expression.
COURSES & WORKSHOPS
Our online courses and workshops are live, small group offerings that support deeper understanding & development of gifted intensity and complexity, relational mindfulness and embodied living.
EMBODIED DEPTH WORK
1:1 guidance that blends depth psychologies with embodied mindfulness to remember parts of the gifted psyche that have been inaccessible and are longing to be actualized on your unique journey.
Current & upcoming offerings
New Community Space for Gifted Adults
Community Dreamwork is a new offering coming in 2025! This monthly community space is for gifted and neurocomplex adults who want to learn embodied mindfulness-based approaches to dreamwork for personal and collective care, connection and growth. Details for our introductory Dream Salon in January are now available; registration is open.
Workshop: December 7, 2024
Shame thrives in secrecy. In this 3.5 hour workshop, we co-create a compassionate space in which to shine a light on gifted feminine shame. We journey into the imaginal realm to begin giving back what was never ours and reclaiming the fullness of our gifts. Space is limited.
Coming in 2025
The evolution of our Gifted Mindfulness Foundations program is coming in early 2025! If you're a gifted or neurocomplex adult wanting to learn, or expand upon, mindfulness concepts and techniques in a way that is sensitive to your intensity & complexity, this 6 session course may be the next step on your journey.
Article: Befriending Our Gifted Minds
In this article written for the Advanced Development Journal, GMC founder, Kelly Pryde shares her journey in discovering the transformative power of mindfulness for supporting the inner experience of giftedness. Buddhist & modern psychology, along with the experiences of other gifted adults, are woven throughout.
This compilation is the result of a yearlong contemplative journey taken by 20 gifted women to "retrieve the bones" – to retrieve the voices of gifted women who came before us and the energies of feminine wisdom within us longing to be heard and remembered into conscious awareness. It includes 26 expressions of story, art, and poetry giving voice to deep knowings about giftedness and humanness often silenced in a culture that thrives on mental intellect and productivity. Retrieving the Bones offers a medicine for healing and a map to guide us forward on our gifted journeys.
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200 pages in PDF (ebook) format