resilience

Growing Forward for High Sensation Seeking Highly Sensitive People with dr tracy cooper!!

| Tracy Cooper Ph.D.

Ready to Grow Forward? 🌱

Join us Nov. 1st, 2025 for Growing Forward: Resilience as a Pathway to Growth and Flourishing!

Do you crave adventure, yet experience life with exceptional depth and sensitivity? If so, this online workshop is crafted just for you!

Join us for a dynamic day of self-discovery, connection, and personal growth, inspired by the pioneering work of Dr. Tracy Cooper—author of Thrill: The High Sensation Seeking Highly Sensitive Person. This year, Dr. Cooper is joined by co-hosts Annet van Duinen and Randy Grasser of The Living Adventurers, whose core values include:

Growth through adventure

Lifelong learning

Empowering sensitivity

Resilience through adversity

Authenticity

What Awaits You

Expert Guidance: Benefit from research-based insights and extensive experience—Dr. Cooper and Annet are both international consultants on high sensitivity.

Interactive Breakouts: Participate in small group sessions designed for meaningful discussion and connection.

Safe Community: Share your experiences and interact with fellow HSS/HSPs in a supportive, understanding environment.

Open Q&A: Ask your hosts anything about high sensation seeking and high sensitivity.

Lasting Connections: Meet like-minded individuals who truly “get” you.

Why Attend?

Learn how to embrace your unique blend of high sensation seeking and high sensitivity—and thrive in a world that doesn’t always understand you. This year, our focus is on resilience: not just as a trait, but as a skill you can cultivate to navigate adversity and unlock your full potential.

Discover how your adventurous spirit can be a source of strength and growth.

Explore questions like:

What do our adventures teach us about ourselves?

Is it just about the thrill, or do we gain deeper self-understanding by pushing our limits?

Where does your next zone of growth lie?

Bring Your Curiosity and Passion

Come with your curiosity, your adventurous spirit, and your passion for life. Together, let’s explore what it truly means to “grow forward” as high sensation seeking, highly sensitive people!

Mark your calendars and join us for a transformative experience. We can’t wait to connect with you!

Click here to register!

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How to be a resilient, adaptable leader

| Tracy Cooper Ph.D.

It’s no surprise to me that becoming a resilient, adaptable leader who can effectively embody “psychological flexibility” is part and parcel of what describes highly sensitive people!! That’s on a surface level. On a deeper dive it’s not likely that all highly sensitive people possess the level of evolved skill sets to bring these qualities to bear on a regular or consistent basis.

Allow me to explain. It’s one thing to have an innate toolkit containing deeper processing, keen sensitivity to subtleties, empathy, and emotional responsiveness, but quite another to have developed those aspects of ourselves as active parts of how we function in our everyday lives, especially for leaders.

Developing psychological flexibility entails a high level of self-awareness, cognitive and creative adaptability (one might say a curiosity about the problem and possible solutions), and a willingness to externally reflect rationality in the face of chaos. Many HSPs may still be on the journey to developing those qualities or skill sets. Many more have no desire to lead in a traditional sense, preferring instead to quietly tend their own inner gardens of reflection, contemplation, and calm.

High sensation seeking highly sensitive people (HSS/HSPs) may defy the above in that HSS/HSPs are geared toward seeking out new and novel stimuli, bringing our capacities for creativity to bear, and using the multiple inputs of problem-solving as grist for reflection and processing. HSS/HSPs differ markedly from HSPs lower in sensation seeking through a ready willingness to engage in the new and novel, perhaps even to take on the challenging and difficult. It’s through the repeated exposures to challenging circumstances and situations that HSS/HSPs may potentially enjoy personality growth and development fostering greater self-actualization over a lifetime.

As we now know, HSS/HSPs are up to half of the total HSP population and more discussions need to take place on crucial topics like psychological flexibility and resilience. Luckily for anyone who is interested we have an upcoming HSS/HSP workshop focusing on developing just these capacities!! Join us Nov. 1st!