PSYCHE, PSI & SENSITIVITY
Research and Consultancy
Cultivating & Leveraging Sensitivity
Sensitivity is becoming a frontier of conscious creativity and leadership. Join the sensitive revolution and support your highly sensitive people - including YOU. Receive our news, offers and invitations to events and trainings for a compassionate and inspired future.
CREATIVITY.
INTUITION.
EMPATHY.
(and more...)
This is a website about the power of Highly Sensitive People (HSP) - and associated identities too (as no one label is ever a whole human).
This is about those people who think and feel very deeply - as their resting state of being. They soak in more sensory information and they process it more thoroughly (deeply) than average. This can foster a paradoxical way of being: for some it's enhanced intelligence, memory, empathy, creativity, intuition, unusual sensory experience and potent insight - yet for some it's persistent self-doubt, anxiety and overwhelm. Or a mix of it all.
Sensitive people are fluid in their boundaries, feeling interconnected with others and the world around them - in an embodied, even tangible way. As such, they can have a heightened awareness of social and psychological dynamics. This processing style coupled with a cautious nature, can when nurtured, lend itself to talents of acute sensing, predicting and influencing. Historically, they would be the natural sages, healers and shamans of a community. Today they may be sitting at a desk, quietly self-criticising and burning out, from a lack of deep purpose... whilst quietly sensing the future.
The tide is changing... are you ready?
Join the Sensitive Revolution:
The IF Crowd
Uncover your innate magic and thrive. Join the specially curated membership for sensitive people to self-empower.
The SENSE Retreat
An immersive 4-night Yorkshire retreat. A sensory sanctuary for deep feelers, thinkers, and seekers.
The 20%?
Approximately 1 in 5 people (20%) across the globe are 'highly sensitive'. They are born this way. High sensitivity is an innate trait and is not something to be 'fixed' - it is not a disorder.
Rather, high sensitivity is a set of natural, deep-seated characteristics that have emerged as an evolutionary advantage within our social species - and is found across many diverse species too, and is equally present among genders.
'Sensitivity' has been highlighted as sacred by sages for millennia, and now key characteristics of high sensitivity have been scientifically grouped by modern psychology and neuroscience researchers to form what is now scientifically termed 'sensory processing sensitivity' (SPS). These characteristics include a particular depth of thinking and feeling, intense empathy and sensitivity to sensory input (light sound, touch, smell and taste).
Therefore, being sensitive can be paradoxical: It comes with a counterbalance of challenges V advantages.
For example, this 20% of the population make up more than 50% of all those seeking therapy for anxiety, burnout, low mood and low self esteem. Many have an intense inner-critic... yet that same quota of people may also have a suite of (overlooked) talents of creative thinking, imagination, vision and intuition - and, curiously, are more likely to experience extra-sensory perception such as telepathy and precognition.
What's more, when subtle gifts such as extra sensory awareness are pathologised or simply rubbished by others as 'impossible' or 'fantasy', it ironically reinforces those challenges of self-doubt and inner critic.
In my experience, uncovering the advantages can actually resolve the challenges - by fostering agency and purpose and add sincere value to the wider community. The key word is purpose. The sensitive few serve the many, by way of their 'natural magic'...
Natural magic?
The sensitives are the natural shamans of their society. Yet today, they are disenfranchised in a world of competitive artifice disengaged from nature's cycles.
Often growing up hearing perpetuating false ideas of being 'too sensitive' and needing to 'grow a thick skin' or to 'toughen up' or 'man up' - are common examples of how a subtly toxic residue of a desperately dis-enchanted society that cannot compete with itself, is suppressing it's own best chance at survival.
So, the implications for community, workplace, healthcare and education are enormous - both the challenges and advantages that sensitive people can highlight like they are a magnifying lens of human need, hope and potential.
The implications for collective survival, and future thriving are right here.
COACHING
Resources for growth at all stages: education institutions, workplace and HR, personal mentoring
Corporate Coaching
Supporting you to support your people. From empathic leadership of key management, intuitive effective HR and recruitment to lasting happy workforce and enthusiastic apprentices that can shape the future; learn how to best support and nurture valuable talents that may be hiding within your professional environment.
Schools Coaching
Original playful workshops for children and young people and coaching for teachers and pastoral staff, see how beautiful it can be to see adults, students and school pupils thrive in their sensitivities and shape a more sensitive future.
Private Mentoring
Are you highly sensitive too?
We offer personal one-to-one coaching for aspirational professionals and leaders who wish to leverage their own natural talents to gain ethical advantage (and to become part of our network too :P)
Creative Agency
Hire highly sensitive creative professionals to enhance your business. Be deeply understood and benefit from the insightful of high sensitivity: from empathic leadership strategies to healing and growing your business culture. From intuitive hiring to trend prediction and aligned creative marketing. Engage us to understand and refine your customer communication assets and strategies, in both authenticity and efficacy. See how deep attention to detail and nuance will ensure your professional image is in a sustainable cultural spotlight, delivering your most authentic message.
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I'm Kirsty
My mission is simple: to promote awareness of - and provide support for - the unusual talents and overlooked potential of highly sensitive people so that they can fully thrive and flourish, for wider collective growth.
As an HSP myself, I have leveraged my creative and academic capacities to offer insight and support services to others. I dedicate my time in academia & research, so I can distil the insights in practical and uplifting ways. I am a researcher, educator and community leader with a personal history of change-making and am an experienced guided self-help professional.
Qualifications:
- PhD candidate. Psychology, specialising in 'traits and states' of consciousness involved in exceptional human capacities.
- PG Cert. Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology
- PG Cert. Advanced Practice for Mental Health Interventions
- PG Dip. Social Science Research (Parapsychology)
- BSc (Hons). Psychology
- Certified (IACTM) Highly Sensitive Person coach
- Certified (IACTM) Highly Sensitive Children and, Children & Young Person (CYP) practitioner
- Sekhem Reiki Master
- Mindfulness for Resilience
"Kirsty’s depth and versatility of experience makes working with her insightful and really fun. She creates a supportive space and has a knack of being able to connect many perspectives and potentials in the ‘big picture’, which for creatives can be a headache when we’re too close to our work. That gift of clarity is a significant one for people working in a career based in self expression, and I’d highly recommend Kirsty."
Immodesty Blaize
"I've known and worked with Kirsty for many years. She's built successful creative businesses, inspired cultural change at a national level, promoted transformational well-being, mentored, published... and all while living a rich life, centred on compassion, inquiry, purpose and holding on to a light heart. For my part, I’ve gained insights into motivation and creative courage for business and team building. And Kirsty’s grounding in practical change can involve extraordinary reframing of perspective."
