A recent mental health crisis spurs a life’s queste and question: in the light of positive disintegration, can this crisis be understood as a precursor of a shift in levels? In this talk, Lotte shares her autobiographical journey to emotional awareness, relational intelligence and critical questioning of resonance with the TPD.

Lotte van Lith is a parent of a little yet big human being, a life partner and friend, a word smith and a creatively driven seeker oftentimes lost in her hunt of emotional shadows.

Lotte is active as a speaker, lecturer and trainer on the psychology, practice, and art of personal, relational, and creative development (amongst others at the School of Thinking at Free University of Brussels and the Buckminster College). In her own company, A Lot of Complexity, she accompanies intense adolescents and adults in their personal and creative growth spurts and regularly organizes lively seminars and courses on topics ranging from sense making and creative giftedness to emotional development. She is known for her work with the theory of positive disintegration, particularly in the field of giftedness, and received an award for her contributions by the Dutch Mensa Fund. In 2021, she published “Intens mens”, a collection of lyrical reflections on the above themes.

2024 is a collectively challenging year in which Lotte is embarking on a courageous, developmentally, and socially motivated existential-artistic quest for adaptive ways of living, relating and narrating, guided by a growing emotional and spiritual anchoredness. Curious? Lotte is open towards ideas for collaborations, research, and projects. Let’s re-imagine our worlds together!

Click here for a preview on YouTube! In this session, Emma will take a light-hearted look at the light at the end of the tunnel of positive disintegration. Learning about the work of Kazimierz Dąbrowski provided Emma with a great tool for development, but every tool needs a user manual! By sharing her post-Dąbrowski tips, musings, and hacks, she will take a look at what life is like after a period of working on herself and applying the theory of positive disintegration to her life. Explore with Emma some of the things which might help keep you focussed on the light during your own disintegrative journey!

Emma is a business analyst by day, and content creator by night (kind of like Batman, without the crime). She is the Vice President of the Dabrowski Center, cohost of the Positive Disintegration podcast, and creates content on overexcitabilities and the theory of positive disintegration for her website Tragic Gift and YouTube channel Adults With Overexcitabilities.

Exploring problems and finding solutions is her daily bread and butter, and she has a knack for simplifying technical information so it can be easily shared with others. She is also a creative soul, with zero cares about sharing skeletons in the closet, if it will help someone else. Most importantly, she has an un-killable passion for promoting the theory of positive disintegration to help people feel supported and understood.