https://giftednuance.com Gifted Nuance Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:16:36 +0000 https://giftednuance.com en https://giftednuance.com/Homepage Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:05:24 +0000 Gifted Nuance https://giftednuance.com/Homepage &nbsp; &nbsp; Gifted Nuance &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;supporting&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;self-cultivating gifted adults&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to progress along&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;their unique paths &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Outline gifted reality &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Further development&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Deepen self-work &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2021 – 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Consult &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Assessment &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;About me https://giftednuance.com/Consult Sun, 19 Mar 2023 04:41:54 +0000 Gifted Nuance https://giftednuance.com/Consult Consult/Coaching Gifted consult/coaching is a cognitively-focused yet emotionally-present conversation. It moves forth from the background, stories and growth-momentum you bring to our conversation. I bring into our discussion context-clarifying knowledge, case examples, explorative questions and advice. The dynamic of this kind of session is unique, and it’s hard to find an exact analogy of it from relationships that we are more familiar with in life. I find that gifted people (myself included) tend not to enjoy purely question-driven coaching except occasionally, finding it overall too slow. Instead they prefer dialogues that allow deeper cognitive dives (could be intellectually-cognitive, emotional-cognitive, creative-cognitive, perceptual-cognitive dives, etc.), integrating context along the way that they could use to come to their individual conclusions without exchanging back-and-forth on every point. To start to develop a sense of the dynamics of this blended approach of consult/coaching, I’d suggest picturing a medium point between experiencing tutoring and experiencing support for self-tutoring. What happens in a session and between sessions? A. Thinking together: complex pattern discovery, life theme apperception, hypothesis-exploration, introspection, mindset finetuning; questions or advice responding to your situation; weaving “why”, “what is” and “how to”.B. Resource development: finding or developing external resources such as knowledge, tools and practices that you can try in the near-future timeframe. To respect client autonomy, I like to be mostly non-directive about applying resources, but this direction is available to lesser or greater extent if fitting and desired. Furthermore, resource development can also mean inner resources such as your giftedness and over-excitability traits.C. Future growth: trying out mindsets and resources from our session in your personal time when you feel ready. If needed or desired, try emotional integration practices to help propogate the cognitive-genic change from our session to more levels in your system.When connecting the above steps into a cycle, the overall goal of gifted consult/coaching comes into clarity. It’s to illuminate or reach deeper into your self-knowledge, to grow fuller sympathy for the unique, non-replicable qualities of your mind and guide them towards constructive outlets, to strengthen your connection to your proto-natal values and truths, to grow toward (or rediscover) versions of these values &amp; truths that are more life-affirming and more subtle, and when the time is ripe, to cultivate &amp; sustain channels in real life to express these. I further condense this consult/coaching process as the following: the development of enactable personal wisdom, enriched by an understanding of the realistic, longer-term needs of your gifted self. The more implicit, longer-term goal of this process is for you to genuinely develop into your own, giftedness-informed friend and companion. This may be realized within the duration of working with a coachly/mentorly person, or it may be realized in its natural timeline when favorable factors accumulate and align. In sessions I support you to explore your experience through a range of lenses: Personal trajectory:the complex challenges and fortunes when growing up as a gifted personthe developmental synergy between giftedness, temperament and other individual qualitiestime-saving identification of gifted lines-of-reasoning &amp; giftedness-based expectations that tend not to pay offgiftedness-informed evaluation of personal choices or institutional choices, fluidly through short-, medium- or long-term lensesdynamically and systematically guiding oneself through giftedness-informed social-emotional &amp; intellectual re-development (can be compared with concepts such as “second childhood”/“second adolescence”)emergence of individualized views on longer-term life-satisfaction, especially views that involve a growth mindsetlifespan personal development, with an awareness about a complex range of gifted desires, potencies, complications and self-undoings Special interest:topics on generalization (polymathy development) and specialization (domain-expertise development), and the cross-section thereofbroad-spectrum creative expression for gifted adultsnavigating relationships across giftedness ranges &amp; foster a constructive mindsetthe sensory-perceptive dimension of daily experience and identity-formationthe dynamic balance and integration of personal drives, social values and existential values Special population:topics for self-awareness-driven high-achieverstopics for highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted adults (commonly corresponding to 3 standard deviations beyond population average, inferred from qualitative or quantitative assessments) Consult/coaching may be potent for you if you thrive in both an interpersonal and intra-personal learning style and benefit from personalized, differentiated discussion. With the exception of specialized issues which I have some familiarity with but don’t solely focus on (such as culture, micro-culture, health concerns, age-specific groups etc.), I don’t consider myself as having a dedicated niche and support people from diverse backgrounds for as long as our range of activated interest overlap. To book a session, please message me at info@giftednuance.com. With your message, please be sure to share a bit about your personal background and what you believe you’d like to discuss in sessions - a brief summary works great. It's not necessary to mention achievements or eminance, but you are welcome to mention them if they pertain to the things you’d like to explore. Please be sure to mention your time zone and preferred time frame (how many weeks or months into the future, what days work better for you) so I’m able to locate the most convenient time for both of us - I’m located in California, U.S. My rate is $165/hour.&nbsp; &nbsp; *Important awareness about consult/coaching work vs therapy-level work:&nbsp; Consult/coaching&nbsp;can complement therapy-level work but doesn’t replace it. Sometimes consult/coaching can catalyze a person to pursue therapy-level work: after they experience an above-threshold amount of interpersonal mirroring on a giftedness plane, they free up more faith to complete the hard work of therapy-level healing. What is therapy-level work? I’ve constructed a definition that seeks to describe the shared goal of a range of therapy approaches, from talk therapy to somatic therapy: Deliberate practice that systematically transforms formative memories that were once imbued with negative or overwhelming emotions and became toxified and stagnant, eventually rendering these memories tolerable-to-neutral. The function of the self is also optimized in this process. Beforehand, the self-function leans towards distorted, conflictual, disorganized, fragile, rigid and unstable. In the process of successful therapy-level work, it moves towards: unparadoxical, coherent, organized, robust, supple and stable. If surface behavioral change is the goal, positive change can happen quite quickly. For deep-reaching, long-lasting change in the structure and the homeostasis of the psyche, the process is usually much longer. If you are currently experiencing notable psychological challenges while also resonating with the goals of gifted consult/coaching described on this page, it's best to still first secure professional support in mental health from a variety of therapy approaches available. If professional support in mental health is not availlable for various reasons (such as finance, goodness-of-fit, interpersonal safety), be sure to secure access to high-quality methods of self-therapy that work for you. The psychological foundation ideally wants to be solid or near its final phase of becoming solid, otherwise gifted self-work is unlikely to stabilize for long or progress in a smooth way. Sometimes, though, it does appear to progress, or actually&nbsp;does progress, but the progress can risk getting folded into the personality in a premature, unconstructive way, due to a dynamic that I can describe as “gifted-self-identity-driven bypassing” (aren’t there so many ways of bypassing that we humans can engage in!). Giftedness is a vitalizing and uplifting lens through which to relate to oneself - not only is it practical and useful, but it can also symbolize thus connect us to the pure, high-potential and wise aspects of ourselves. However, there are other levels of self-work that need to be involved, too - maybe not all at once, but at some point - if a deeper level of integration and alignment is sought.Still, I believe some gifted self-work can be constructive at this stage, especially if your goal is to nurture awareness of your gifted needs and use it to guide your self-care choices, or if sessions take place at longer intervals as a general learning aid. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt; back to main https://giftednuance.com/Assessment Sun, 19 Mar 2023 04:42:53 +0000 Gifted Nuance https://giftednuance.com/Assessment Qualitative Giftedness Assessment A qualitative giftedness assessment is a mapping discovery of your giftedness profile. It supports you to explore how your mind works through six main areas of inquiry - intellectual, emotional, creative, sensual, physical and existential giftedness. It is conducted in collaboration with and through the giftedness assessment model developed by Intergifted. You can learn more about Intergifted’s qualitative giftedness assessment and the readiness-requirements&nbsp;here.&nbsp; Walk-through: To orient you for your assessment session, I share with you detailed, semi-structured prompts that support you to reflect upon how you experience your mind via the lens of potential giftedness, potential over-excitabilities and other cognitive aspects. You select an unrushed period of time (usually mutually arranged to be at least 3 weeks long) responding to these prompts in your own time and gathering them into preparatory notes. You are also provided a questionnaire pertaining to giftedness and cognition in yourself and in your family-of-origin. You share these prep material with me one week before our scheduled session. Upon receipt, I study what you shared and do my prep work for our upcoming meeting. We then come together in a 2 hour 15 minutes assessment session. This will be a mapping conversation (different from a consult/coaching type conversation). For most of our time, we collaboratively discuss your prep notes. I’ll be asking some clarifying questions and also sharing some of my exploratory insights and observations. This often allows helpful details to emerge and also allows connection patterns in your profile to further emerge. The atmosphere of our conversation is friendly and non-sentimental to foster a neutral-to-positive curiosity about your own giftedness patterns. Our conversation leads into a summary of the assessment findings, which I share with you towards the end of our time together. They include observation on: the giftedness range(s) that your profile most closely matches; your areas of heightened over-excitability; additional core cognitive traits (if any) that might be part of your mind’s process. If time permits (not always possible given the already-packedness of the mapping conversation), I also introduce a sliver of consult/coaching-type discussions -- paying attention to themes in your prep notes that might benefit from being further understood through the developmental-psychosocial lens of giftedness. Scheduling:To schedule an assessment, please reach out at info@giftednuance.com. With your initial message, please be sure to share a bit of your personal background and your personal reasons to want to complete an assessment - a very brief summary works great. Please do mention your time zone and your time preference if you have any (how many weeks or months into the future, what days work best for you) so I’m able to locate the most convenient time for both of us - I’m located in California, U.S. My rate for an assessment is $825 and I offer a 2 hour 15 minute assessment session (slightly longer than the standard Intergifted 2 hour assessment session; the essential content is the same). Gifted integration work sessions (to learn more about them, click here and navigate to the namesake section) are available to book after your assessment is complete, and they support you to build up from the mapping discovery that took place in the assessment session and gain deeper clarity on aspects of your profile in a process-oriented, integration-driven way. Individual gifted consult/coaching sessions are also available for you to explore your current personal development needs via a giftedness-informed lens. They are flexible and personalizable, and you can pursue them before or after your assessment. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In collaboration with&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="862" height="205" width_o="862" height_o="205" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07491697367fcd9dfed0202805e0eee4c7210318affe4cdceef20f02b9b3c3ba/Intergifted-logo--darker-orange.png" data-mid="186347829" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/862/i/07491697367fcd9dfed0202805e0eee4c7210318affe4cdceef20f02b9b3c3ba/Intergifted-logo--darker-orange.png" /> *Important note of understanding: The assessment findings will be wide, but by the nature of such inquiries, incomplete, as we are limited -- just as in every type of inquiry -- by the data we've gathered as well as by the time we arrange to devote together to understand the data. To put the scope of inquiry into context: it’s one round of assessment, not a cycle of assessments in which more data is regularly invited, cross-compared and synthesized for many months or even years. Natural personality differences, cultural/family/one’s own values, past opportunities and blockages can all shape one's current availability to equally convey different aspects of their cognition, to themself and to other people. This is true for most. A helpful lens via which to conceptualize an assessment is that the reality of your mind is incompletely inferrable from the outside, but the assessment can be an important discovery stage, and a catalystic activity in your personal journey to encounter the needs and potentials of your mind. &lt; back to main https://giftednuance.com/About-me Sun, 19 Mar 2023 04:43:19 +0000 Gifted Nuance https://giftednuance.com/About-me About me I’ve always been interested in understanding my environment and my relationship to it - different degrees of transience or enduringness, different extent of personal or impersonal. As I developed, it felt important to remain malleable and transform myself as I worked through and digested my experiences. Certain faiths have emerged in the process. There are so many ways to chart the world on so many levels, and the different ways of charting aren’t always in harmony with one another, yet I found that some ground can be gained, some unity is possible. It’s not always clear why I was born into the surrounding I was born into and what aspects of life to cherish amidst the cacophony of values in society and nature, yet I discovered that happiness and peace can be fostered through trial-and-error in wisdom-development.&nbsp; Why do I value exploring giftedness? Discovering my giftedness has been one of the crucial elements in pulling together different threads in my search. It allowed me to focus on what is - and will likely remain - true for my inner and outer personal reality and eliminate what appeared to be true but were mis-adopted frames that were meant for another person or only appropriate-enough for the cognitive majority. I also observed this: had some gifted people in the past been able and willing to engage with the equivalent of giftedness-informed self-work, they may have been able to regulate their gifted expression in a more intentional way than they already did given the resources and awarenesses they had. They may have been able to learn to cherish more equally their culturally-valued and culturally-non-valued gifted traits; they may have been able to maturate from the frequent entangled struggles of the gifted with the cognitive majority and not get stuck in frustration or over-compensating love. Although still facing some of the same challenges, gifted people of today have more resources to refine the choices they are making.&nbsp; Naturally I began to introduce these considerations into my self-development. Once adequate focus was maintained, which took some calibration, the fluctuating feedback loop of implementation began. Through reinforcing my connection to my gifted qualities and restoring these connections to their natural scope of complexity, I fostered in myself an informed confidence to make more individualized choices - as well as the patience to implement them step-by-step. I recognized that these were the signs of transformation that I’ve often noticed in myself, but now more through deliberate internal choices rather than through random environmental feedback. This now-more-thoughtful transformation did not lead into tunnelled perception, but to expansiveness over time. I felt more gratitude for the range of beneficial occurences in life that were available, whether they emerged into view in the way I had initially preferred - in a less-than-perfect-but-workable reality. I understood my goals and inner makeup on a deeper level, and when they were met at this deeper level, I recognized progress. For many self-cultivators, and especially for those who live deeper in the giftedness spectrum, I’d like to suggest the possibility of self-work through a giftedness-informed lens. Personality, characterology and giftedness are some of the most defining organizing forces of one’s inner reality, and with the often-elusive giftedness illustrated, the other sectors of an inner reality can begin to find their natural and constructive place. I'm glad to be sharing - through my offerings on this website - what I have practiced and developed both through organized models of knowledge and synthesized fluid learnings. Luzi *To read about my past experiences and activities, click here &lt;&nbsp;back to main https://giftednuance.com/Experiences Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:24:45 +0000 Gifted Nuance https://giftednuance.com/Experiences Experiences Institutional &amp; Independently-Sourced Higher Learning: 2011 B.A. Harvard Univerisity &nbsp; &nbsp; 2011 - 2012 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Scholarship 2016 M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts 2018 - 2020Studied gifted psychology, gifted coaching and giftedness assessment techniques at Intergifted with founding director, Jennifer Harvey Sallin Creating: This website,&nbsp;Gifted Nuance, focuses on the beneficent-to-neutral range of possibilities found in life. Recognizing that life - seen in a broader context - offers these possibilities, we can shape our individual life to embody and create more of such possibilities, supported by giftedness-informed self-work. This is the default angle of my work with gifted clients. My work in other areas relates to a fuller spectrum of life’s possibilities that includes beneficent-to-neutral possibilities and also neutral-to-harsh. Some cases of my work that overlap with the values of Gifted Nuance are: Creative constructions: What Miracles Took Place When You Were Born (film) The Double-Ended Cypress: Memory and Consciousness (writing, sculpture) Courses designed for undergraduate program: Dialogue and Synthesis (studio course) Historical Intuition (seminar) Memory Workshop I (studio course + experiential workshop) Experiential workshop designed for the general public: Memory Workshop II (participatory non-fictional narrative / experiential workshop) Course designed for graduate program:Qualities in the Creative Dimension of the Works of Psychological Thinkers (seminar) &lt; back to previous https://giftednuance.com/Assessment-Policy Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:16:36 +0000 Gifted Nuance https://giftednuance.com/Assessment-Policy Payment policy:The non-refundable deposit portion of the assessment fee is due upon booking. It is 20% of the assessment fee, and allows both of us to commit a portion of our calendars to your assessment work. The remainder of your bill (80% of the assessment fee) will be emailed to you via Stripe soon after booking, and you are free to complete it up until 3 week (21 days) before our session. If you are booking a session that is less than 3 weeks ahead, your bill’s due date will be set at 4 days after you book. If payment is not completed by due date, your bill will become non-payable, and your appointment is cancelled. Please be sure to pay from an account under your own name! I'm sadly unable to accept payments made for a client by any third party and will have to return it. Rescheduling policy: You can reschedule your session for free ONCE if your chosen date ends up not working for you. If you choose to reschedule, kindly notify me 3 full weeks (21 days) ahead of our session. Late requests may not be guaranteed and if doable, will incur an additional fee. If after the 1st reschedule, you need to reschedule for a second time, sadly you’ll be asked to book a new session.&nbsp; Cancellation policy: If you choose to cancel your assessment, kindly notify me 3 full weeks (21 days) before our session. If I don't receive any notice from you and payment is missed, your invoice will become non-payable and your session is cancelled. If you complete all your payments then choose to cancel for any reason 21 days before our session, I'm glad to issue a refund - minus the non-refundable deposit, and minus the amount of hours I’ve devoted to studying your prep notes and preparing for our session (billed at $165/hr). There is no refund after session starts.