My mission… is to uncover our deepest beauty and brilliance; especially that which is overlooked, forgotten or lost. So that we remember who we are, as we return home and re-connect as kin beyond skin – to re-enchant our anxious world together.
Hi, I’m Kirsty. This is my portfolio website.
I specialise in the generative (life promoting) capacities of consciousness e.g., creativity, empathy, intuition, imagination – and psi (psychic) phenomena including precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, mind-matter interactions such as healing, psychokinesis and manifesting.
I research ‘states and traits’: the states of consciousness and personality traits /characteristics that foster psychic and mystical experiences and abilities.
I coach people in their personal development journeys and I support companies who develop aligned products and services.
Why?
I’m on a mission.
Psychic and mystical experiences are ‘noetic’ – they offer a certain profundity, a spiritual quality that challenges the assumption that consciousness is just ‘noise in the machine’ – an accidental byproduct of the physical brain. Psi phenomena provide strong evidence that we are more than our physical bodies. That we are fundamentally interconnected at another level of reality – perhaps consciousness itself.
As a psychologist and consciousness researcher, my particular interest in these extra-sensory abilities and experiences (aka ‘psi’ or ‘psychic’ phenomena) leads me to study the states of consciousness, processing styles and personality characteristics that support them, so we can learn how to cultivate them. In doing so, we can learn how to deeply experience true interconnected well-being, flourishing and awareness of what can be – for personal and collective growth. So we can explore and receive profound insight in to who and what we really are.
I believe that both frontier scientific evidence and ancient mystery philosophy converge, in supporting the reality of an ‘innate magic’, that is present in all of us, yet it is evidently more potent in the few… to best serve the many.
Are you among the few?
Do you think and feel deeply? All the time?
Creativity, imagination, intuition, empathy, prediction, influence and more…
It may interest you to know that approx 20% -25% of people are naturally ‘hardwired’ this way. They soak in more sensory information than most, and also process that information very deeply. This is their ‘processing style’. They experience their world as rich and intense perceiving more information from both their external outer-world environment (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) and their internal inner-world too (thoughts, emotions, sensations and ‘feels’). They sense and process with a heightened awareness of subtlety, nuance and detail – that most others would tend to miss.
Sensitive people go by many names. They are are often self-termed a ‘highly sensitive person’ (HSP) and when used correctly, HSP as a label indicates a specific formulation known as ‘sensory processing sensitivity’. However, sensitivity is, of course, not limited to this identity or formulation as it is a continuum that all people lie on somewhere and often for differing reasons. Sensitivity can manifest in many ways with people also adopting a wide variety of labels as their personal journeys unfolds for example, sensitive people can be neurotypical or neurodivergent and there is much debate about the application of these terms. Some may relate to being INFP, an empath, responsive or perhaps a Pisces
However sensitive people identify, they are the meaning-makers, ponderers, seekers, dreamers. They thrive on having a deep sense of purpose and in being in service to flourishing. They are the wise-people, the shamans of their communities – yet, in our competitive and disconnected world they are often disenfranchised, overlooked and misunderstood.
“I entered the class as a sceptic and suspected Kirsty was possibly slightly mad…I actually left suspecting Kirsty was in fact a bit of a genius.”
L’oreal Blacklett
Manchester Confidential
“Kirsty is an incredible creative tour de force, polymath, and consummate professional. She has an amazing ability to bring out the best in others. In her professional and personal life, she is thoughtful, curious, generous and prepared to take inspired risks.”
Morgana McCabe-Allan, PhD
Executive coach
“As a HSP empath myself, I wish there was an IF Crowd I could have joined when I was growing up.”
Dean Radin, PhD
Chief Scientist, IONS
…both and…
As an HSP myself, a professional coach and research psychologist with a history of acute trend prediction and cultural influence, I am here to advocate for your sensitivity. To help resolve the challenges (not ‘fix’) as we uncover, celebrate and leverage those wonderful advantages – to cultivate a beautiful and potent ‘innate magic’ within. It’s my mission to empower others to step-up and step forward, as the natural thought-leaders, influencers, healers and change-makers they can be, so we can help to re-enchant this anxious world, together.
How can I help?
To help achieve this mission, I have created a self-help book, a membership club and a retreat. For those seeking it, I can sometimes offer personal coaching too.
Book
An upbeat guide to transforming anxiety into creative will. A blend of psychology, philosophy and lived experience to fire up your manifesting mojo.
Membership
Join the online club for live group coaching sessions, programmes and courses all within my membership club: The IF Crowd
Retreat
Join us for the SENSE Retreat this October. A special 4-night residential stay at the award-winning Broughton Sanctuary, Yorkshire, UK.
Research
Psyche, Psi & Sensitivity
Everything I do, is underpinned by lived experience and objective, empirical research.
I am directly engaged in scientific research exploring sensitivity, exceptional experience and capacities of consciousness, such as mind-matter interactions and extra-sensory perception. My doctoral research, interests and client-base, explore intersections of parapsychology, well-being, individual differences and states of consciousness.
The implications and applications of this research informs my services and practice. This field of research is often considered ‘frontier’ as it is helping to shape our collective understanding of who we really are as human beings – and what we are really capable of.
…Ready to Grow with the Flow?
The way we think, feel and interact with the world is changing fundamentally. Understanding and harnessing the potential of consciousness is empowering us for health, wealth and unity. From influencers and artists to communities and businesses who lead the vanguard of progress, upgrading the human conscious experience is essential to growth and sustainability in the shifting landscape of evolving culture, spirituality and technology.
A note to reluctant leaders:
Many individuals feel they are ‘called’ to lead – but few answer the call. Even though the call keeps coming! Often, it is because they are lost in the darkness of doubt or, hidden by the shadows of self-limiting belief. Artists, writers, spiritual teachers, social and community activists so often have such incredibly powerful things to say, are driven by sincere passion and an ardent desire to act and make a difference – but they struggle to find the words, remain invisible despite years of service, have been restricted by expectations of others or feel that although they have the ‘vision’ they are lost without direction.
If this is you, then now is your time to be seen, heard and understood.
‘Being at the ‘front’ is firstly about being on a journey. True heart-centred leaders are those willing to keep on stepping ahead on to new ground, in spite of – and because of – their uncertainties. ‘
and finally…
So you see, I celebrate the extra-ordinary, the unconventional, the hidden and the overlooked beauty of body, mind and spirit. I have a lifetime’s experience of subverting the norms, seeking and celebrating alternative perspectives, of forging bold new paths and encouraging others to tread theirs too. I have supported many beautiful people to shine brilliantly for others to see, admire and follow.
So I am asking: Is this resonating with you too? Do you feel it?
“Absolutely fascinating, possibly one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met in my life.”
Katie Martin
BBC Radio Solent
“Breaking New Ground”
Time Out
London
“…she is a committed, diligent writer and sparkling storyteller.”
Karen Gregor
Producer – BBC R4