Bio: 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!
Losing my mind, finding connection
Lotte van Lith
A recent mental health crisis spurs a life's quest 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.
Workshop:
Differing our ways through theory and process
A communal effort to infuse our work with positive disintegration with experience, experiment, and expertise
Within the field of positive disintegration, there have been several, both deepening and challenging debates about the interpretation of the theory. This workshop is a poetic attempt to ‘think together’ about the theory and process of positive disintegration.
We will not focus specifically on differences between leading interpretations. Rather, the intention is to co-create a hospitable thinking space that invites our interconnected, embodied minds to explore potential transformation of ideas and perspectives and sensitize discernment. The participants’ diverse ways of being human are warmly welcomed and invited to be a lively contribution to our co-exploration. You do not need to have a thorough understanding of the theory, although contributions from those who are knowledgeable are evenly welcome. Life experiences, illegible longings, visual thinkers, join us! We will create a moving landscape of understanding by engaging our associations and critical thinking and by playing with another’s way of theorizing and experiencing. We might even pose the question what it will bring us if we, according to some accounts, misinterpret the theory.
May this experimental workshop be an inspiration for community building and for (re)designing our ways of thinking about and practicing positive disintegration, deeply nourished by the work of the founders.
Chris van Camp will share a fragment of her book 'Crash Baby Crash' during this workshop. Her contribubtion will inspire us to sense and see both the micro and the macro relevance of the theory of positive disintegration.