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The Gifted Creative Podcast
By Lillian Skinner, Beth Anne JohnsonSociety & CultureScienceHealth & FitnessMental HealthPhilosophyNatural Sciences
The Gifted Creative Podcast episodes
- Growing The Sensitive Child's Comfort Zone
Our children are entering an uncertain future, necessitating a shift in parenting approaches from previous generations. It is crucial to prepare them for a world where many variables are currently unknown.
When confronted with the unknown, the best course of action is to focus on the known parts, and in this case, that would be the child. Cultivating a child involves helping them understand their strengths and guiding them in utilizing these strengths to overcome their weaknesses.
Regrettably, our education system and society often hinder the development of creativity in children. Current systems still operate under the assumption that graduates will follow traditional paths, such as working on assembly lines or in office spaces creating standardized products. Meanwhile, businesses and futurists are calling for professionals who can tap into their creative strengths and use them to innovate within the ever-evolving parameters of the future.
Beth Anne and Lillian share their experiences, discussing the challenges and rewards of raising five gifted Neurodivergent children spanning ages 0 to 23. With this diverse range, they encompass the full spectrum of experiences that parents face in today's world. The ultimate goal is to nurture independent, resilient adults capable of carving out their own paths, careers, crafts, and lives, regardless of the uncertainties the future may bring.
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copyright @202541 min - To Escalate or Not, That is the Question.
When the director won't back down, what do you do?
In this episode, we delve into a showdown between Beth Anne and the director of her son's school.
Beth Anne is eager to escalate the situation as she is tired of feeling frustrated with the director. The director, on the other hand, believes they are an expert on neurodivergence, expecting Beth Anne to simply comply.
We explore the needs of both sides, discuss appropriate boundaries, weigh the benefits and costs of calming the situation, and emphasize the importance of convincing others to accept our children for who they are.
Our ultimate goal is to find the best outcome for everyone involved. While it may be challenging at first, the more you practice, the easier it becomes.
Feel free to share your questions so that we can address them on the podcast.
Lillian
www.giftednd.com
Beth Anne
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copyright @202530 min - Interview with a Creative - A Young Multipotential Polyglot
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We rarely get a glimpse into what it looks like to be a healthy creative. But here is such an opportunity. Allow me to introduce Abby, a young polyglot.
Abby is a Korean interpreter who decided she wanted to learn Korean. She achieved this without taking any formal classes or using a language app. In just six months, Abby became a proficient interpreter.
She's accomplishing this in an era when most people are relying on AI for translation. However, Abby possesses something that AI lacks—emotions and the ability to perceive nuances in a way that AI cannot. Abby has also embarked on learning Japanese and hopes to become an interpreter for that language as well. In addition to her linguistic talents, Abby plays multiple musical instruments, sings, composes music, and is a working artist. She's currently attending college and has a strong affinity for the humanities. Abby is truly amazing.
Abby openly acknowledges that she doesn't quite fit into the conventional mold. She grapples with her sensitivity and can sometimes become overwhelmed. Fortunately, her brothers share a similar disposition, and her mother, recognizing their challenges, pulled them out of elementary school to educate them at home. Abby was nurtured in an environment that allowed her to grow into the person she was meant to be – beautiful, talented, sensitive, and kind in every way.
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copyright 202549 min - # 2 Navigating School Administrators and Teachers With 2e Children
In this podcast we talk about how we navigate education administrators and teachers who can't or won't see the full potential of our 2e children. We discuss the words we use and when we need to walk away before we lose our cool.
Incredible change is needed to make the world a healthy place for the most sensitive. We are up against decades of conditioning and a system that will not likely change. So we must do the changing for our children.
We living in a culture that values being tough. It sees toughness as resilience. But reality shows us every day that resilience, as they portray it, is a farce. That the "toughest" people are often the first to crumble when things go sideways. We are not those people and we will not raise our children to be them either.Lillian Skinner - www.GiftedND.com
Beth Anne Johnson - LamarCreativeCo.com
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copyright @202535 min - #1 Understanding The Full Potential Of 2e Children
This is the debut podcast of the Gifted Neurodivergent Child Podcast. A podcast that brings together 2e mothers raising 2e children to talk about what how to do it well. We discuss what we have learned, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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copyright @202547 min
About The Gifted Creative Podcast
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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.