Lotte van Lith is a lecturer, instructor and senior trainer on the psychology, practice and art of personal and creative development (amongst others at the School of Thinking at Free University of Brussels and the Buckminster College). In her own company, A Lot of Complexity, she guides intense and driven adolescents and adults in their personal and creative development and regularly organizes vivid seminars and courses on topics ranging from sense making and creative giftedness to emotional development. She often gives presentations and is known in the Netherlands and Belgium for her work with the theory of positive disintegration. In 2021, her book "Intens mens" is published.

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Gifted people have difficulties working for someone else. They don’t like norms & rules, they need creative space
• Gifted children in a non-gifted setting struggle because they don’t receive the educational resources they
• Gifted children can get disillusioned at school.  Gifted children try to understand the environment instead of getting to know themselves and try to cope with the differences
• One big aspect of giftedness is the emotional wellbeing of gifted people . It's part of being human and very important for the creative & personal development
• Giftedness can be described as complex thoughts & thought processes, incl. complex emotions
• If gifted people are in an environment where they are not mirrored there are emotional & motivational consequences
• It is important to know about your own giftedness as you need context to understand your experience
• A coach specialized in giftedness is aware of the complexities and neurodiversity which means that this person probably did not receive adequate mirroring and thus may struggle with trying to understand what is happening inside and outside that person as a consequence of being different
• Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration (including the OEs), is about emotional and personality development
• Positive Disintegration comes with an existential crisis which creates the conditions to experience deeper values. It is an individual trajectory about psychological development
• People who are gifted,  tend to drive towards creativity, a potential to be creative, to think & to act creatively and to find creative solutions
• It's important to have a safe & brave space for gifted people to be vulnerable and to be able to challenged to be more
• Give yourself the opportunity to be just a little bit curious about who you are and what your experience entails

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Lotte van Lith’s website: lottevanlith.nl 

Instagram: @levenskunst_volgens_lotte

alotofcomplexity.com (English) and alotofcomplexity.nl (Dutch) 

positievedesintegratie.nl

Connect with Lotte on LinkedIn and facebook

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