highly sensitive power

Creative Architect

As a Creative Architect, Dolly Hopkins “changes the landscape through celebration.” She consults with and advises people and organizations all over the world. Since she’s based in Vancouver, where I live, I’ve participated in many of the awe-inspiring community events she’s helped to create.

Long before I met Dolly in person, I was a huge fan of the events put on by Public Dreams Society, which Dolly co-founded. The photos on their website give a small sense of the utter magic that captivates our community during two long-standing celebrations Public Dreams coordinates: the Illuminares Lantern Festival, to celebrate the summer solstice, and the Parade of the Lost Souls at Halloween.

Each time I’ve attended these night-time events I’ve marvelled at the atmosphere of hundreds and hundreds of people gathered peacefully in wonder. Public Dreams events invite – even require – participation, so it’s almost impossible to attend as an observer. Instead, I feel and sense in others a heart-thumping pride and a deep connection with the members of my community as we laugh and gawk and ooh and ahh together.

Dolly and Public Dreams are experts at collecting pure joy and sharing it with everyone in sight. If you discover that Dolly’s involved in an event that’s near enough to you to attend, consider it worth your while to do so. And please check back in late July when Dolly’s new website will be up and ready.

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In what way are you most successfully sensitive?

Through my emotional intelligence – my creative self.

What or who has inspired you to embrace your sensitivity?

Being sensitive was not a conscious decision. The best part of me chose this way of being. My sensitivity is who I am and nothing can pry me from it. It’s in my DNA and it drives my daily decisions because it’s always close to the surface of my life.

What are your eternal fascinations?

How to be at peace with myself and others around me. Knowing there’s an end while remembering to live consciously in the present. Living in the moment, remembering the past, and building a future with what I know, through what I am presently discovering and what I hope to achieve and evolve into.

What quest currently captivates you?

How to meet face-to-face with people from around the world and share and explore our humanness through the power of creative engagement. Awakening in others the ability to see themselves as creative living beings.

What is your favourite kind of help to give?

I see myself as a catalyst who pokes, looking to see if others will see – if they will reach for the insight – of what’s possible when you give your self permission to be greater then you think you are. I recognize the power of the creative.

Photo from Dolly Hopkins’ website

Related reading: Successfully Sensitive | Denise Smith, The High Demand for Sensitivity