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
The Future Belongs To Connection Intelligence
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In this episode of The Gifted Creative Podcast, I offer a future perspective on how we will come to understand the intelligence of the body.
Our current view of the body’s non-linear, connection-based intelligence often limits it to relationship intelligence—a narrow lens. However, emerging science in embodied cognition and research from Caltech on the body’s billion-bit processing capacity suggest that our somatic intelligence is far more expansive.
Through personal stories and six years of research, I explore why I believe body-based intelligence is the foundation for everything we need to navigate the future.
Want to learn more?
- Join our free Creative Collective www.CreativeIntelligenceInstitute.ca
- Visit my consulting page and take my empathy-based holistic intelligence test to assess how much of your somatic and creative intelligence you’ve preserved. www.GiftedND.com
Suggestions for Further Exploration:
- Embodied Cognition:
- Look into the work of Alva Noë (Out of Our Heads) or Andy Clark (Supersizing the Mind), who argue that cognition is deeply tied to the body and environment.
- Explore Varela, Thompson, and Rosch’s The Embodied Mind for a foundational take on embodied cognition.
- Caltech’s Research on Body vs. Mind Processing:
- Search for studies on somatic marker theory (Antonio Damasio) or Caltech’s work on interoception and the body’s role in decision-making.
- Keywords: "Caltech billion-bit processing body intelligence" or "somatic intelligence vs. cognitive intelligence."
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