COLLABORATIVE EXPLORATION
A key part of the 'sensing the future together' concept, is in supporting the power of curiosity through proactive collaboration and exploration.
Retreat attendees are invited to try out innovations in technology, sample truly beautiful products and experience being on the frontier of a new thoughtful leadership. Have your opinion heard as you participate in rewarding projects. Your insights will actively shape the outcomes - which in turn will inform our collective future. All projects flow throughout the event. They are fun, uplifting, thought-provoking - and optional. They are professionally organised and curated with us - all with the shared aim of advancing the wellbeing and talents of highly sensitive people.
EXLPORING THE GIFTS
Highly sensitive people naturally experience more of the 'gifts of consciousness' - which many in the general population also seek to develop. These capacities include: creativity, empathy, intuition, verbal articulation, spiritual and mystical experience. We believe these gifts combine to form a potential for subtle sensing, 'knowing' and influencing.
Since sensitive people experience a processing style of depth, nuance, detail, self-awareness and articulation, they are very well placed to self-inquire and offer rich insights. As such, scholars, authors, inventors and companies who strive to enhance well-being and flourishing, consider SENSE a wonderful opportunity for focussed exploration and deep rewarding conversation.
Furthermore, as sensitive people are often drawn to careers in service to the flourishing of others (e.g., caring /healing professions, creativity, spirituality and teaching) their life choices and lived experiences empowers them to guide breakthroughs in understanding the nature compassionate living, for individual and collective good.
EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES
The flipside to all those gifts underpins a much needed and worthy investigation in to our challenges. Highly sensitive people are considered a perfectly healthy set of people, within the overall general population. However, as a result of their 'sensitive systems' they are often prone to certain related physical, mental and emotional challenges more than average. On account of their heightened awareness of social cues, coupled with a 'finely tuned' nervous systems they are more prone to worry, people pleasing, anxiety, overwhelm and burnout. On a biological level, they often present with inflammatory gut and skin conditions, experience headaches, allergies and dietary and environmental sensitivities. The interplay of the challenges and advantages of being sensitive, is truly fascinating and provokes many questions around the interplay of humans and their environment, how flourishing can be cultivated and how best to nurture all children and adults across the lifespan.
PROPOSING A PROJECT?
We can offer different ways of collaborating:
1) You attend the retreat and implement your strategy and collect data, supported by our team. Join in and enjoy the 1st hand shared experience by being present.
2) Our team implements and collects data for you (and can offer further analysis and write-up service too).
If you a have a have a product or project you would like to bring to our event, please contact info@thesenseretreat.com with:
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an outline of your idea
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any organisation, academic institutions or business you are attached to.
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Please also include an organisational link or attached a personal CV
Our research team (Kirsty and Paul) will arrange a call with you :)
COLLABORATIONS
Here are some of our collaboration projects exploring sensitivity and our vision of a sensitive, empathic future