Episode Details

Positive Disintegration & Overexcitability | Chris Wells & Emma Nicholson | Part 1

Season 2 Episode 44 Published 3 years ago

Description

What is Giftedness? What is Overexcitability? What is the Theory of Positive Disintegration?

What if we stopped trying to “fix” ourselves and started trying to change the world around us instead?

How can we start to challenge the framework we have about cognition and emotion? How can we work together to co-create a new framework that honors emotions better?

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Dr. Chris Wells is a writer, social worker, and founder of the Dabrowski Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD). They are also the co-host of the Positive Disintegration Podcast.

Emma is the co-host of the Positive Disintegration Podcast, and creates content for people learning about the Theory of Positive Disintegration for her website Tragic Gift, and YouTube channel, Adults With Overexcitabilities.

Today, Emma and Chris share some stories about themselves, including their relationships to the Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) and their own experiences with disintegrating. Chris and Emma explain giftedness, overexcitability, and dynamisms. Abbie, Emma, and Chris discuss stereotypes, “spurs to self-correction,” and what it could look like to transform overexcitability in order to live with intense experiences. Finally, Emma and Chris break down the Theory of Positive Disintegration.

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Stories Lived. Stories Told. is created, produced & hosted by Abbie VanMeter.

Stories Lived. Stories Told. is an initiative of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution.

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Music for Stories Lived. Stories Told. is created by Rik Spann. Find Rik on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠.

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Listen to the Positive Disintegration Podcast.

Learn more about The Dabrowski Center.

Learn more about the Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD).

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