The Fearless Spirit Project
WHAT IS FEARLESS SPIRIT? 🤷♀️✨
The Fearless Spirit Project was created by Casey Scalf at Storybook Studios 📸. The program is for middle school girls struggling with self-confidence, bullying, and anxiety issues.
Many girls start to lose confidence when they reach middle school. This is when mean behavior and bullying 🗣️➡️😢 often begin. A once outgoing child may become shy, sad, guarded, and keep to themselves most of the time 😔. Parents can tell them how beautiful and amazing they are, but often hear, “You have to say that.” 🤷♀️💬 Parents can only do so much.
This program offers a totally different approach to helping teens! Applicants are selected to “Model” 🧍♀️📷 for Storybook Studios—not based on looks, but for their potential 🌟.
Participants enjoy 8 monthly fun and artistic group sessions 🎨🦋. Over time, by seeing beautiful images of themselves 📸💫 again and again, they begin to recognize their own beauty and understand how cool it is to be unique and stand out from the crowd 🌟. This journey helps them develop a Fearless Spirit 🕊️🔥!
📅 Apply soon! Applications are open until March 15th 🗓️✨
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Individual Gallery
We customize each of the personal photo shoots to include their hobbies, sports & things that they love. We capture their personality in these photo shoots.
What Parents are Saying...
This has been such an amazing, powerful experience for both Skyla and myself. Through fearless spirit, she has opened up, became so much braver than I think she ever imagined she that could be brave. ~Skyla's Mom
I can’t tell you how profoundly this experience has positively impacted her. She has grown this year and has gained so much confidence. Thank you for helping her see the beauty and strength she carries inside. ~Caroline's Mom
This photo session was amazing!!! We are in love with the photos. Ella had one of the best experiences of her life doing this shoot. We look at the pictures and videos a lot. I love that the video shows her Humor and her playful side. It is something I will never forget! ~Ella's Mom
From start to finish this journey has been amazing for Addison. I never thought I would hear her say she liked a picture of herself. That alone, is priceless to me. Thank you for helping all of the girls see what we see in them. They are all beautiful. ~Addison's Mom
The Very First Fearless Spirit Model Crew Session
The video below is a "behind the scenes" video of the very first Fearless Spirit Model Crew session. Some of these girl's were so shy they couldn't even speak to me, the first time that I met them. I asked the girls what are the names or phrases that bullies called them. We wrote those words on their skin. I also asked them to pick out a temporary tattoo that they related to. We put the tattoo on them as well. I photographed them individually and at the end of each girl's turn, I asked her to wipe off the word or phrase they had been called...leaving the positive words on them. Powerful.
One Year Later...
Over the year, I concentrated on teaching these girls to be proud of who they were, even if others ridiculed them for it.
For example: Amber was joked for being too tall...so, I made her even taller in these portraits. Victoria was called "Good girl in a bad way" (Goody-Goody), so I made her look strong and powerful. I photographed them, in front of hundreds of people, at a carnival. They weren't scared and not one of them cared what people thought of them. They came SO far. To stand up with their head held high and proud of all of the quirks and scars and ALL of things about them that had been ridiculed before. They OWNED it! These girls changed my life.
Behind the Scenes with the Fearless Spirit Model Crew
