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Do you want to feel more confident creating photos to illuminate your writing?
You're invited to
A Special Gateless Salon
Introduction to Visual Storytelling & Self Portraiture
WITH GATELESS TEACHER + PRO PHOTOGRAPHER MELISINE
LEARN HOW TO:
Use Gateless to create writing & photos that work together
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Clarify your unique vision and aesthetic
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Visualize new photo ideas that feel like you!
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Learn creative ways to tell visual stories
YOUR CREATIVE PARTNER
Melisine is a creative strategist and branding photographer with some of the most coveted brands in the world.
Meet Melisine
Melisine is a unique Gateless Teacher in that she is also a pro photographer – so she teaches Gateless writing and photography together.
In her courses, Melisine helps everyone from writers to entrepreneurs to COVID frontline doctors become confident visual storytellers.
As trusted by
Gateless Approach
Inspiring Gateless Teachers and Writers
When COVID-19 hit, Melisine was asked by Gateless Writing founder, Suzanne Kingsbury, to teach a
photography class designed to help writers show up vibrantly online.
Melisine's Method
A combination of writing, photography, narrative therapy, and meditation
Praise for Melisine's Salons
I LOVED this!! We had so much fun.
I recommend this class to anyone who is afraid to show up online, or who wants to love it,
or who wants to take photos but "doesn't know how,"
or who wants to find a creative release,
have a blast and remember the power of what art really is.
Suzanne Kingsbury - founder of Gateless Writing, Inc.
In 10 minutes, Melisine and I created 200 pictures of me that I liked.
That is more than all the photos that I like of me in my whole life combined.
Ivonne Senn - Coach & Author
Top brands trust Melisine to present their image to the world. I have trusted her to help me tell stories in new ways—through my writing and photography.
Melisine encouraged me to dig deeper into the meaning and perceptions I make of photos and has helped me see a new, alternative narrative to the stories I tell myself. This has helped me connect more meaningfully.
Catherine Hormats - Pyschotherapist
Melisine helped us SEE ourselves and our work.
Before the class, I was very dissatisfied with my own image.
I had trouble connecting images of me to the creative and invigorating work I do.
Melisine showed me how to bridge that gap!
Amy Lynch - Keynote Speaker & Author
It really is a WONDERFUL course!
A beautiful cocoon of sparkly creativity.
Say yes!
Kara DeGering Gallagher - Author
Let's create together
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A Special Gateless Salon
Introduction to Visual Storytelling & Self Portraiture
WITH GATELESS TEACHER + PRO PHOTOGRAPHER MELISINE
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Q&A
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No. 🙂
This class will be an introduction to thinking about the self visually, starting to imagine --using your writing -- how you can express yourself with more meaningful and creative images.
This introductory class will not be a photo skill workshop -- my longer classes go more deeply into photography "nuts and bolts."
This class will be a "creative direction" / "art direction" workshop-- where you will explore your visual style via your writing, to create a foundation for you to later create photos that you love.
We may do a brief exercise with phone cameras but otherwise we will spend time thinking about images and visual storytelling, then writing and sharing like in usual Gateless Writing salons.
Yes!
This class will help you improve your writing and photography skills, which can be used for any purpose, personal or professional.
Yes, that is ok.
Since this is a class about visual storytelling — how you see — it will help if you can see Melisine's shared screen while she shows images. Larger screens (such as computers, laptops, or tablets) can help you view images better.
There will be a time for you to write and create image ideas. Some people like to draw ideas. You will have the option to share your writing and image ideas, Gateless-style, with positive feedback. During that time you may wish to show your visual ideas on Zoom video.
Got an additional question, comment, or love note to send our way?
The best way to get in touch is to write to us at team@melisine.com.
We read every message and do our best to respond within 48 business hours.
Your message is important to us, so if you don’t hear back, that means we didn’t get your note so please do send it again.
