Lotte van Lith
Lotte van Lith, a specialist in giftedness and humanistic psychology, is the founder of A Lot Of Complexity. Lotte works and creates together with diverse experts, artists, trainers and lecturers in order to broaden the range of services within this initiative.
Self-understanding
While on her own quest, Lotte stumbled upon invaluable advice by someone she had met through a dating website: look up information on giftedness. What at first glance looked like a cheesy pick up line, after some intense research and a multitude of vivid conversations turned out to be a serious and profound form of mirroring. Unprecedented self-understanding followed, as well as the affirmation of her mission: to support other gifted individuals in their (re)living of sense-making and experiencing a sense of purpose, in the expression of their qualities and healthy coping with vulnerabilities. The simultaneous discovery of the theory of positive disintegration related intensely to her through Dabrowski’s sensitive understanding of emotions being fundamental to personal growth. This quest started more than ten years ago. Since then, Lotte has organized many different activities related to giftedness and emotional development. Outside of being a senior trainer, lecturer and coach at her own company, A Lot Of Complexity, Lotte is also affiliated with the School of Thinking, Buckminster College and ZijSpreekt, amongst others. In addition, she is the author of the book Intens Mens (which translates as: “Intense Human Being”, 2021). Lotte also contributes to many innovative publications on the subject of giftedness and creates blogs and lyrical podcasts about the art of living.
“Our mission is to support gifted individuals in experiencing a sense of purpose.”
— LOTTE VAN LITH
Mensa Fonds Awards
Lotte received the Mensa Fonds Awards 2016 in the category Work for her contribution to the development of highly gifted talent.
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In a creative and multidisciplinary way, Lotte van Lith has already reached hundreds of gifted individuals through her work. She does this, for example, through her deepening modules, during which gifted individuals gain better insight into their talents and competences, but also into the implications those have on their way of functioning. She stimulates self-esteem, confidence and desire to develop. For many people she has triggered the experience and recognition of complexity, and that has actually simplified their lives and made them particularly more livable. Lotte inspires and motivates, and she is often invited as a guest speaker to conferences on giftedness and on the Theory of Positive Disintegration. This is one of the many perspectives from which giftedness can be recognized, acknowledged and applied in a working environment.
— MENSA FONDS JURY AWARD