✨ Do you want to be able to consistently create and share more meaningful content that feels aligned with who you are?
✨ Do you want to inspire people and share what makes you unique through your own photos (that you create with ease using your smartphone?)
Hi! I’m Carey, an award-winning branding photographer. Get in touch and let’s chat to see if this inspiring and results-driven live course is a good fit for where you are in your business right now.
The L.E.N.S. METHOD™ 6 WEEK CREATIVE PHOTO INCUBATOR for heart-centered women change-makers & entrepreneurs.
Get clear on how to visually share your stories and values that call in your soul clients through powerful storytelling photography.
This is going to be an energy-shifting experience with practical tools that will help you create more of an impact and step into your leadership through the content you share about your work in the world. There are so many more benefits to this program than just making photos to promote your business. This is about stepping into the frequency of who you want to BE in this world. Co-creating your reality and becoming more in tune with how to be the creator of your life and how you perceive the value of all that you’ve been through.
Small group container of women will meet with me on Zoom once a week for about 90 mins for 6 weeks. You will also receive a separate 1:1 session with me.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
✨ Heart-centered, intuitive women LEADERS. And if you’re an entrepreneur, I’m here to tell you that you are a leader.
✨ You know deep down that you have a BIG mission in this world, and you have a desire to help people.
✨ You want to be able to clearly and beautifully communicate the value of what you do, and about your life experiences.
✨ You may have fears about visibility, being judged, or you may just not feel confident in your ability to create photos that are worthy of sharing in your content.
✨ You may have too many ideas or feel overwhelmed with even the thought of “creating and posting content consistently”.
✨ You don’t like using the same recycled stock photography that everyone else in your space seems to be using, but you don’t want to hire a professional branding photographer every 3 months either.
The lens through which you see yourself has a direct effect on how you experience the world around you.
Will you teach me how to make better selfies too? Yes.
It’s no mistake that you’ve been guided here.
The world needs you to step into the empowered version of yourself right now.
In this unique creative incubator you will:
Learn to create more meaningful photos to share about your business, and get feedback among a supportive group of other empathic women.
Become aligned and clear about visually communicating your unique 3-5 pillars to share about your life and your business.
Create more professional-looking story-telling images that help you communicate your life experiences and your values, helping you become magnetic to your ideal clients and customers.
Bonus: This experience will raise your frequency, teach you a new way to regulate your nervous system, which will help you become energetically aligned with more of what you want to bring into your life, in all aspects of your life.
You want your content to be like a lighthouse. It’s job is to send a signal that you and the work you do are a
safe haven for your people.
This program will help you harness the power of social media in a way that feels good and authentic to you.
WHAT WILL WE DO
An intimate and powerful energy shifting group of women will meet with me on Zoom, 1x per week, for 6 weeks. Beginning October 11th (on Wednesdays) at 12:00PM EST.
I will walk you through creating your own powerful storytelling images (rooted in your values and your true essence) that help you connect deeply with your next-level self, and resonate with your clients and customers.
Each week, you will receive inspiration and guidance for a photo story prompt. You will be given a mission to make some photos throughout the week, and then upload some of them to my private server before the next session.
In a completely judgement-free fireside chat type of setting, we’ll take turns sharing the photos and talking about how they’re perceived by the group and the energy that comes through them. Next, I will share the inspiration and guidance for the next week’s photo story prompt.
You will also a receive a separate 1:1 session with me, where we’ll dial in your unique 3-5 pillars that will be most effective for you to share content about.
✨ BONUSES ✨
Technical tips - throughout this process, you will also be learning how to make high quality photos using your smartphone.
You will also receive some templates and a bonus session to walk you through using Canva (the free version) to create content that pairs images with text.
This unique program will help you step into your leadership and show up as the expert you are in your field. While the transformation will be deep, the steps in the program are simple. I will be available and supporting you throughout.
Step 1
Meet online for Part 1 Introduction: Symbolic Sight, Mindfulness and Creative Flow State through Intentional Photography of Nature.
Step 2
Use what you’ve learned to create your images throughout the week. Upload a selection of your photos to your folder on my private server.
Step 3
Meet online the next week where we’ll share our photos with the group, and receive inspiration for the next photo story prompt.
“The Energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” - Brene Brown
The
L.E.N.S. Method™
Light • Empathy • Now • Storytelling
Tune into the frequency of how you want to feel through this creative process. You’ll become a magnet for your soul-matched clients.
The L.E.N.S. Method™ is creative photography programs with a focus on co-creating your life (energy), story-telling through images, & emotional connection.
This is for you even if you think you’re ‘not good at taking pictures’. Smartphones welcome.
Here is another example of a series of photos I made of my son and I, which helps illustrate a series of ‘story-telling images’. My son is a highly sensitive child (and I’m his highly sensitive mom) and I often take intentional, story-telling photos of our life using the camera I always have with me, my Iphone.
This series is an example of a photo story prompt I created, which falls under the ‘Self Awareness’ category of the 5 pillars of emotional resilience.
This is not like anything else out there.
Here’s just a few more benefits of participating in this LENS Method Creative Incubator Program:
• Experience
Practice being visible among a supportive group of other creative and sensitive women with powerful gifts to share with the world. Create story-telling images that speak to your life experiences and your values, helping you become a magnet for your ideal clients and customers. Raise your frequency while practicing a skill that regulates your nervous system.
• Enrichment
Doing things that enrich your life with creativity and meaningful shared experiences invites more abundance and joy into your life.
• Embodiment
Begin to embody the ‘future’ ideal version of yourself now; the version that incorporates creativity and the 5 pillars of emotional resilience into their daily life.
Enter your name and email via the form below to receive a free guide to get you started.
Raise Your Vibration Through The Lens of Your Smartphone.
It’s a 13 page guide about how to use ‘symbolic sight’ to create a powerful visual gratitude journal using ‘The 3 L’s Framework’.
“EVERYTHING IS ENERGY AND THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT. MATCH THE FREQUENCY OF THE REALITY YOU WANT AND YOU MUST GET THAT REALITY. IT CAN BE NO OTHER WAY. THIS IS NOT PHILOSOPHY. THIS IS PHYSICS. ”
Symbolic Sight
Truthfully, I’m someone who can rarely sit still long enough to meditate. But when I can get close to nature and equip myself with a smartphone or camera and concepts to visually explore, I can get into a similar flow state.
Years ago, as part of my process to heal my mental health, I became inspired by the concept of Feng Shui ‘art cures’, and began photographing a series of images in nature that visually symbolize Grounding, Growth, Reflections. This is what The L.E.N.S. Method™ Foundation Workshop is based on.
Testimonials
“The LENS workshop was such a powerful way to keep my day-to-day grounded in mindfulness.
During the second session, where we told our story through the images captured, I was surprised at both how impactful and how different everyone’s experience was.
I felt deeply connected to the other participants, and inspired to continue my personal journey.” Testimonial and image by Luz
Loved it!
“At first I was a bit self-conscious about making nice enough photos with my phone to share with the group. (Especially after seeing Carey’s inspirational work during Part 1 of the workshop). But she reminded us to let that go and focus on enjoying the process.
During Part 2, I realized I was getting so much more out of this experience than I could have imagined when I signed up. Loved it! ” - Nina
“Carey, thank YOU so very much for this workshop! I found it very helpful and timely. Just the thing I needed to get over a funk I had been in; it gave me a nice boost of connection and creative expression.
I didn’t fully know what to expect when I signed up, but a few tears were shed (my own). It truly was an unforgettable moment in time that, although most of us had never met before, we all ended up bonding over sharing a meaningful experience. I’m so glad I did it.” - Jenny
Testimonial
“I really enjoyed the L.E.N.S. Method workshop. It made me look at life and nature in a whole new way. After the workshop, it helped me to slow down, look around, and be more mindful.
I especially enjoyed hearing what others thought about the pictures they were taking because it was inspiring and made me think in a different way.
Carey is a sweet and gentle spirit and is great about asking questions and encouraging you to think more deeply. I also enjoyed some of her photography tips and use them when I take pictures!”
Testimonial and image by Michele
Testimonial
“I found the workshop with Carey to be inspirational, beautiful and an act of self love and of self acceptance.
I came away with an enjoyable experience that helped me reinforce the awareness of my desire to slow down, and to truly be present especially during this fleeting time in my children's lives as they're growing up. Thank you!”
Testimonial and image by Kerrigan
Photography can be a powerful tool in helping you be an agent in the creation of your own well-being, and to help share your story.
The image above is a self portrait I made to help share my story about the importance of quality sleep and mental health.
“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.”
Why I created L.E.N.S.
Ever since I fell in love with photography at the age of 12, I’ve leaned on it as a creative tool to help process my emotions, and I’ve come to realize, as a mindfulness practice. I declared at that age that I would either be a professional photographer or a therapist.
Little did I know then that I’d go through a lot of trauma over the years concerning my mental and emotional wellbeing. At this point in my life, I’m more resilient, mentally and emotionally, than ever. And I’m grateful for everything I’ve experienced, because I know it all helped shape who I am now.
I believe sharing our stories can save lives; and I’m on a mission to help others learn how they too can use the process of making photographs as a way to heal, to grow, and as a path to reconnect with their true selves and true purpose.
I’m passionate about mental and emotional health, and so I’ve combined my love of storytelling photography and personal development by creating The L.E.N.S. Method™. It’s a framework I’ve designed to help others learn what I’ve been doing for my entire life - how to use the process of making images as a tool for mindfulness and emotional resilience. It’s smartphone photography as a powerful force for good in our lives.
Bio: Carey Kirkella is an award-winning photographer who has photographed advertising campaigns for clients including LoveWellness, NY Life insurance and many more. She also works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs to create custom image libraries that help them connect authentically with their clients. Her fine art photography has been exhibited internationally.
She and her husband are the proud parents of a rambunctious and highly persistent 5-year-old boy.
Carey is especially passionate about mental and emotional well-being, motherhood, messages from the universe, and collaborating with others who are on a mission to help improve our world.
I wrote a chapter in this #1 Best Selling Book on Amazon!
This is an incredibly inspiring anthology that topped the charts in multiple categories including Personal Development, Motivation, Women in Business and more. To top it off, all of the proceeds from sales of this book are donated to a charity supporting rebuilding Hawaii.
My chapter is called The L.E.N.S. Method & Connecting with Your Higher Self.
MEDIA
(This one gives you the best sense of what I’m like to hang out with and more about my framework)
The L.E.N.S. Method and Emotional Resilience
Her Talk Show Podcast
The Just Boldly Go Podcast
Turning 40 and Using Mental Health Challenges and Resilience to Uncover a Life’s Purpose
Forty Drinks Podcast
The Framing Effect: Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side?
The Light Inside Podcast
Teens ages 14-18
Emotional social learning that’s fun? Using digital devices as a force for good for our mental and emotional wellbeing? Yes, please!
Any digital camera including smartphones and ipads can be used.
If I could go back in time and hang out with my teenaged self, I would share that there are 5 Pillars of Emotional Resilience, and that nurturing each one of them is a key to becoming a happy and successful adult. My teenaged self would have rolled her eyes and continued dreaming about being a professional photographer for The New York Times Magazine.
But if I could have learned these simple life-nurturing concepts while doing something fun that I already loved (making photos), then maybe it just might have clicked (pun intended) and the seeds would have been planted.
This is the type of useful knowledge that most of us aren’t taught in schools or growing up, but wish we had been exposed to in some way.
Social emotional learning through creativity for students.
The L.E.N.S. Method Workshops tailored for teens . Get in touch for a custom proposal for your group of students. I’m a registered vendor through the Department of Education in NYC. Also for camps, homeschool communities and more.
Corporate Wellness Workshops
Creativity is important for problem solving. The L.E.N.S. Method™ Workshops are a unique and fun way to incorporate mindfulness, creativity and emotional intelligence creating a stronger bond among employees at your company.
This workshop is interactive and helps people get into a creative flow state, resulting in teams becoming better collaborators and discovering more creative solutions at work.
L.E.N.S. Method™
Light • Empathy • Now • Storytelling
More about the L.E.N.S. acronym ⬇️
