The Art of Gifted Mindfulness
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The Art of Gifted Mindfulness is an experiential journey into mindfulness and a clear path to learning how to engage in embodied contemplative practices in your life as a gifted adult. It is for those who want to learn how to slow down (in a gifted-friendly way!), develop approaches to mindfulness that support their intensity and complexity, deepen their relationship with self, and embody new possibilities for authentic self-expression and connection.
As the GMC's fundamentals program, the Art of Gifted Mindfulness has been carefully crafted through a decade of practice with gifted and multi-exceptional adults, weaving contemplative wisdom, modern psychology and a holistic understanding of giftedness. It is led by GMC founder Kelly Pryde, PhD as a deep dive into the Lace + Flow frameworks she has developed as pathways into deeper relationship with the gifted mind, body and psyche, and that support gifted living at this time in our world.
Through six bi-weekly live group gatherings, we co-create a compassionate space to explore:
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Finding a groundedness of attention + presence in a mindbody pulled in myriad directions
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Disentangling complex inner experience to access greater spaciousness, clarity, felt sense, and ease
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Meeting the full range of gifted experience—the bright, the dark, and the unfiltered—with compassion and discernment
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Navigating challenging territories including the inner critic, perfectionism, boredom, and existential gripping
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Opening to gifted creativity, aliveness and psyche through embodied and imaginal ways of knowing, and practices such as Compassionate Alchemy
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Deepening connection and gifted psychological visibility through deep listening, relational mindfulness, and the experience of being seen, heard, understood, and appreciated
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Integrating embodied mindfulness into your everyday gifted life
Poetry, music, movement, art and nature are woven throughout, engaging the range of your gifted intelligences and restoring the poetic nature of mindfulness. You will leave with a variety of embodied mindfulness practices that can be adapted to your unique journey. Most importantly, you will have a new way of meeting and experiencing your gifted self and a new way of being in—and with—the world.
Who This Program is For
This course is for gifted and twice-/multi-exceptional adults who are actively engaged in their gifted development and are able to participate generatively with their peers. It may also be of interest to gifted therapists and coaches. Previous mindfulness experience is not required.
This offering is trauma-sensitive, but does not replace psychotherapy or address strategies for traumatic stress. Please contact Kelly or your care provider if you are unsure about your readiness to participate.
Due to the small, relational nature of this course, participants are asked to attend each session in full with their video on.
Contemplative artwork from past course participant, Sofie Nauwelaerts
The Program
We meet bi-weekly on zoom for 2.5 hours. Sessions have traditionally taken place on Saturday around noon eastern (New York) time. If you are interested in a weekday offering, please let us know for our future session planning.
Following each session, you will receive a practice and/or contemplative prompts related to the week’s theme so you can continue to work with and integrate the material until the next session.
Space is limited to 12 participants.
Cost
We offer 3 fee options to accommodate differing financial means:
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Supported fee: 495 USD
For those with current financial limitations who would benefit from support from the collective. Due to the small group nature of this offering, we have limited spots available at this fee.
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Sustainable fee: 625 USD
For those with sufficient financial means who can pay fair value for the sustainability of the collective.
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Rebalance fee: 725 USD
For those with more than enough financial resources and a desire to support access for other gifted adults.
Payments are made via PayPal. We trust you to assess accurately where you are within this fee structure. We also offer payment options & arrangements for those who may need them. Please contact us to discuss options.
Refund Policy: Should your circumstances change and you need to cancel your participation, refunds are avabilable as follows:
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30+ days in advance: A full refund less a $50 admin fee.
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14–29 days in advance: 50% refund.
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Less than 14 days in advance: No refund.
Extenuating circumstances will be considered.
How to Register (or Join the Waitlist)
To register or join the waitlist for future offerings, please email us with a brief statement about your reasons for taking this course, your timezone, and which program fee you can commit to...
This course is an uncommon marriage of heart and mind, hypercharged by the gifted lens through which it was so clearly created. It is somehow both simple and sophisticated, having kept my mind engaged without overwhelming it. Kelly's warmth and the mirroring of everyone I sat with helped create a safe environment that, as a person with childhood trauma, I never experienced anywhere else. I finally feel what I once thought was unattainable: that I can move through the world with my mind as a partner and friend, rather than some chaotic curse to suppress and be ashamed of.
Mariya, United States
Giftedness as a concept is still fairly new to me. I joined the GMC with an openness of mind and a desire to learn and connect. I could not have foreseen the gifts that awaited. Kelly’s warm and inviting nature laid the foundation for a room of unique individuals to share their complexities with trust and grace. The energy of acceptance, understanding, and respect was palpable and healing. I am still reflecting and synthesizing all the lessons and reflections I’ve gathered from this experience that are beyond quantifiable. The mirroring, depth of conversation, and compassion gave rise to a deep sense of belonging. This experience is forever woven within the fabric of my sense of self. I now have referential data for what it feels like to disintegrate and reintegrate into the fullness of the human experience. I extend many blessings of gratitude to this community! More spaces like this are needed in this world!
C.M., United States
Having been unidentified for the majority of my life, Kelly's foundations course provided me with my first in-depth understanding of what it means to be gifted. The information and tools she provided have drastically changed how I interact with my environment and how I meet myself and my internal challenges on a daily basis. The structure of the course was fluid and easy to understand, yet satiating and stimulating for the gifted brain. I highly recommend this course for anyone who's yearning for a deeper understanding of their experience as a 2e/gifted adult, or potentially looking for simple, yet effective tools to manage the unique challenges that often accompany giftedness.
Talia, Canada
This is a fantastic course that has greatly benefitted me. It has without doubt been one of the best investments that I have made in my life. Regardless of where you are on your gifted journey, this course will give you a strong foundation to embrace your true self and to connect with others that understand you.
Grace, United Kingdom
There is great comfort and power in learning and practicing with a group of people who, while very diverse, share the gifted experience with you. The need to filter or explain is removed, and you can focus on the practice and the healing it can offer. Kelly is the epitome of serenity, and she appeals to the intellect and the spirit. I have great faith in her guidance and highly recommend this experience as a worthy investment in your development.
Kim, USA
Kelly's course was truly engaging in the unique context of spirituality and giftedness. Kelly knows her way in this field and guided the group via practices uncommonly associated with gifted support. I appreciated how the course focused on reconciling body and mind. Kelly is, what's more, a very caring counselor!
M, Germany
Just what I needed - an explanation and deeper understanding of what I am going through on my gifted journey, with practical tools including group meditation with peers and a way to extend my own practice. This course affirms, soothes, opens you up with kindness and encourages your next steps toward acceptance and creativity.
J, Belgium
A wonderful introductory course in mindfulness! I'm so glad that I decided to commit to taking the class with Kelly. There is so much out there on mindfulness that you figure you ought to be able to DIY - but as with exercise, it is often more successful being in a group so that you get motivated by other people as well as devoting the time to actually do it. As Kelly emphasizes throughout the course, “mindfulness is in the doing”, and we intellectual types like to read all about it and figure we've got it covered without actually doing it! I’m taking away so much from this course in the way of mindfulness and compassion and now want to go further.
M.H., United States
If you are a complex, intense, and sensitive person sometimes perplexed, frustrated, or overwhelmed by reactions and feelings that confound your most logical and/or pragmatic attempts to understand or change - then Kelly's Mindfulness Course is definitely for you. Kelly's grounding in personal experience, delivered with clarity and gentleness, provides a truly warm and empowering space for developing the self-compassion so sorely needed by people like us. The group dynamic allows for much needed mirroring that enriches and emboldens even the most reserved amongst us. It feels good to be known and to get to know ourselves more deeply around others who relate. So if you're ready to take the positive expression of your giftedness to the next level. sign up for one of her Gifted Mindfulness Courses. You will thank yourself!
Z.W., South Africa