The Gifted Creative Podcast
This podcast explores creative intelligence, the integration of cognitive and somatic awareness that represents our return to full human capacity. As a creative intelligence researcher, I'm investigating what we once had but lost, and what some of us still carry despite every effort by our systems to break our creative intelligence.
Many people who've been labeled as having disabilities, learning differences, or who simply don't fit into current systems are actually carrying intact creative intelligence. What looked like a liability in rigid systems becomes essential capacity when those systems collapse.
We had this integrated intelligence before, the ability to think somatically, to see whole systems, to think top down and bottom up, to connect rather than separate, to integrate past wisdom with future possibilities.
Our institutions trained us to fragment our intelligence, to privilege only cognitive processing, to fit into narrow definitions of how minds should work.
Now that those systems are failing, those of us who maintained or recovered our full intelligence are having to figure out how to survive and thrive without the structures that never really worked for us anyway. And we're discovering that what we carry is exactly what everyone needs now.
Through deep exploration of ancient wisdom, mythology, and philosophy, each episode recovers practical knowledge about how creative intelligence actually works.
Together we can remember how to reconnect the connection that we lost and build a sustainable world that reclaims our full human capacity. An essential skill for navigating for the change we are about to face.
The Gifted Creative Podcast
Your Child Is Perfect!
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The Gifted Neurodivergent Child Podcast +
Premium content + Q&As access to podcast creatorsIn this episode I encourage parents to think about their child's neurodivergence in a different way. That perhaps what is broken is everything but their child. I ask them to recognize that we live in a culture set up to work against recognizing and nurturing the innate abilities of neurodivergent children. I discuss the detrimental effects of traditional education systems on neurodivergent kids and stress the importance of integrating cognitive and somatic intelligence. I share my personal journey of rediscovering a natural way of being, challenged by societal pressures to conform. I emphasize the unique strengths of neurodivergent children, particularly those who are twice exceptional, and the need for parents to support their natural talents. I criticize the institutional approach to education that separates emotion and intellect, advocating for a more holistic understanding of intelligence. The episode calls on parents to protect and nurture their child's compassionate empathy and creative potential, offering hope for a future where neurodivergent individuals are valued for their contributions.
00:00 Welcome to the Gift of Neurodivergent Podcast
00:18 Embracing Neurodiversity: Understanding Your Child's World
00:47 The Unique Cognitive and Somatic Intelligence of Neurodivergent Minds
01:31 Navigating the World with Compassionate Empathy
02:37 The Struggle Against Systemic Suppression of Neurodivergence
04:16 The Importance of Nurturing Twice Exceptional Children
04:37 Redefining Success: The Power of Somatic Intelligence
06:40 Breaking Free from Conventional Education Systems
13:34 Cultivating Genius in a Multidimensional World
14:19 A Call to Action: Empowering Neurodivergent Children
18:47 Closing Thoughts and Disclaimer
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