The Center for Psyche & the Arts, LLC

12/21/2022

Great resources and thought for working with the gifted.

Most (not all) exceptionally gifted folk are psychologically introverted.

Introverted children/adults process internally before showing or expressing their thoughts externally.

Their processing speed is often lightning-fast and rife with uncommon associations and myriad connections (flavoured with past, present and future orientations, adding an unexpected dimension to any easy understanding).

And though they are capable of lightening-fast mental processing, some aspects of their “knowing” may takea little longer for them to fully comprehend.

Their complete understanding of a thing may be rendered knowable through bodily sensations, flashes of insight, prescient feelings, and/or mental images not yet tethered to written or spoken language.

Knowing for the exceptionally gifted is multi-modal.

Comprised of many different and connected parts.

Often original.

They are capable of precise, complex and attuned visualization of both concepts and feelings.

These conceptualizations are most often highly individualized and they typically have few opportunities to express their ideas in the world to like-minded peers in a truly reciprocal exchange.

This reciprocal and authentic exchange is deeply desired, a need that is foundational, like oxygen and water.

We help them grow when we listen with an open heart. Listen without pre-conception. Listen to understand. When we lean into a grace as they express the unexpected, a challenge to our own understanding of a thing.

We help them grow when we encourage the many-expressions of their person to live out loud: the playful child, the astounding thinker, the worried soul.

We help them grow when we — their parents or teachers or guides — provide boundaries as needed, a sure shelter (not always an easy maneuver, given the dynamic quality of their development and the sheer intensity of their being).

We help them grow when we attend to our own deeply felt and emergent needs. This too is never easy to pull off; we try our best to lean into the same grace and understanding we offer to them.

Community and humour are salves. Humour provides essential perspective and community helps us walk this journey with a little skip in our step.

Offering the most sincere wishes for lovely holidays to all of you; wishing you the very, very best!

P. Susan Jackson.
Founder, Daimon Institute.
British Columbia, Canada. 🤍🤍🤍

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03/18/2021

We greatly appreciate your support and referrals. It drives our business, and we couldn't do what we do without you!

02/13/2021

First Lady Frances Wolf discussed using art as tool to heal during the COVID-19 pandemic in a virtual conversation hosted on Facebook.

12/29/2020

A great way to fulfill your required LPC requirements.

12/15/2020

Beyond the broad mental health impacts of the pandemic, covid-related restrictions created specific factors that could put people with eating disorders at increased risk, experts say.

09/14/2020

We have several Board positions that will be opening in the New Year! Please visit the Announcements Page on our website www.paarttherapy.org for more info and application instructions.

08/30/2020

Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life

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06/14/2020

: ”Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos pic.twitter.com/mT2A…

05/07/2020

Whether it's insomnia, strange dreams, or even sleeping too much, sleep disturbances are part of our body's response to trauma and anxiety.

04/16/2020

Psychologists call it "posttraumatic growth" and they see people emerge from scary times with confidence for new ventures, writes Elizabeth Bernstein in "Bonds: On Relationships.’

03/20/2020

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

"But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

"A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said

Painting by Allison Adams of Groundbreaking Girls