Gifted World Experience 2025

Singularity:

Where stillness reveals potential

Porto, Portugal August 2 - 6, 2025

Unite. Challenge. Create.

What Can I Expect at GWE?

Neurodivergence in action - not in theory.
Intellectual challenge - not for competition, but for growth.
Carefully crafted experiences designed to unlock new ways of sensing, thinking, and being.
Rest and resonance - with people who “get” you, often without a word.

  • In the silence between insights.

  • In shared laughter over late-night conversations.

  • In creative tension and collaborative dreaming.

GWE III: Singularity — where stillness reveals potential.

August 2–6, 2025 | Porto, Portugal

In physics, a singularity is the point where the known laws of physics break down and new forces emerge.
In language, it speaks to the one—the unique.

At GWE, it becomes a metaphor for the moment before the shift:
The stillness that holds explosive potential.
The breath before the unknown.
The edge where change begins.

This is not stillness as escape.
It’s stillness as voltage—charged with clarity, tension, and possibility.
A focused pause that doesn’t quiet the world,
but listens for what’s rising beneath it.

GWE III is a retreat for like-minded, gifted, and neurodivergent thinkers
People who feel the world turning
and want to encounter it awake, grounded, and ready.

No performance.
No prep.
No pressure.

Only time, presence,
and the freedom to follow thought to its furthest edge.

Together in Porto, we’ll co-create an experience where:

  • Ideas emerge in real time

  • Insight builds from presence, not planning

  • Stillness becomes the ground for movement

This is a gathering for those who sense that something is coming—
and are ready to help shape it.

GWE began its journey on October 24-26, 2023 in Athens, Greece.

Diving into the theme Chiaroscuro: The Inner World of the Gifted,” GWE 2023 explored the questions:

“Who are gifted individuals truly? What are the lived effects of asynchrony? How do gifted individuals negotiate their existence? How do they expereince their inner world; their personal relationships, interests, and activities as distinct from their public and professional life?”

Tickets to the GWE 2023
On-Demand Conference are still available!

If you're eager to delve into the inner world of giftedness, gain valuable insights, and see what you can expect from GWE conferences, tickets for the on-demand content from our first conference in 2023 are still available.

This invaluable resource includes speeches, workshops, and insights from experts in various fields such as law, nutrition, and medicine, and leading experts in the field of giftedness, including members of the Columbus Group.

Photo: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center | Athens, Greece
One of the venues of the GWE 2023 Conference

  • "I finally met the sort of kindred spirits that I've been seeking for years. I think I've made the correct choice of traveling so far to Athens to get a potentially changing experience!"

  • "Gentle, fun, connection, laughter, movement, sunshine, books, thought, conversation, sharing, dinner, breath, kindness."

  • "I’ve moved one step further in conquering my imposter syndrome and in the journey of embracing my unique giftedness (looking at the same traits not as deficiencies and abnormalities but as exceptional powers)! Thank you for everything, my wonderful people."

  • "Interesting tension between wanting to know what will happen and trusting the process."

  • "Organized with care and love."

  • "I got a sense of belonging here that I’ve never experienced anywhere else!"

  • "From mind to body."

  • "This was truly a memorable conference and I came out of it feeling energised instead of overwhelmed."

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