About Embodied Depth Work​

Embodied Depth Work is a guided, co-creative process that focuses on getting in touch with and integrating the parts of your gifted self that have been ignored, misunderstood, or exiled and are waiting to be known. It is grounded in the innate wisdom each person carries for their own becoming and supports you in actualizing the fullness of your gifted self. ​

Although the exiled parts of the gifted self are different for everyone, they often include aspects of creative, embodied, emotional and existential being that have had little place within familial and cultural expectations. The multi-layered nature of these unlived parts holds a significant amount of energy that often separates gifted individuals from the realities they long to actualize.  

Through deep listening, mindful imagination, felt sense, and symbolic exploration, Embodied Depth Work supports you in moving beyond the gifted intellect's tendency to (re)search, understand, and (re)solve toward listening and feeling into your innate knowing. As new meanings, possibilities, and insights emerge, more of your gifted self can find its flow and expression in your life.   ​


Gifted adults often find their way to depth work after effectively engaging in growth and discovery work for some time yet still feel called to go deeper in their process. This  often feels like an "unnamed known" or longing still waiting to be realized. ​​


What to Expect in Our Sessions​​

Sessions typically last 1 hour in length and take place online with GMC founder Kelly Pryde, PhD. During our sessions, we draw on embodied active imagination, dreamwork, focusing, symbolic exploration, and creative expression, attending to the patterns and meanings that emerge through your experience. In concert with your unique constellation of traits, we explore complex patterns and themes over time to allow an organic unfolding of transformation as well as a greater sense of gifted flow and direction in your life.

 

The frequency and duration of depth work varies according to individual needs and is determined together throughout the process.​ This approach is particularly well-suited to gifted adults drawn toward autonomous growth and expression, engaging capacities for metaphor, creativity, complexity, pattern seeking, and openness to experience. ​

Most importantly, embodied depth work supports you in getting your emerging gifted self into your life and into the world. ​

This work understands giftedness through the lens of entelechy—the inner pattern and movement that is guiding you toward your unique expression. Together, we bring curiosity, creativity and compassion to what your experience may already be revealing.​

My approach to weaving embodied mindfulness and depth work to support gifted adults has developed through my experience as a contemplative practitioner, giftedness coach, facilitator, and researcher, alongside training in embodied experiential dreamwork and ongoing studies in Jungian and post-Jungian psychology.

 

You can read more about my experience and training here, and reflections from gifted adults who have participated in this work here.  ​