How intense, beautiful, complex, divine, and ruthless being alive is and how hungry we are to find the words that articulate it.
Nadia Meli
Writer . Author . Speaker . Facilitator
I work with you to retrieve the words waiting inside you. Your meaningful, lived-in, a bit undone, human words. So you can articulate who you are, what you’re creating, and what it means to be alive right now, in a way that’s undeniably yours.
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In this digital age of being chronically online, overwhelmed with content and contracting our creativity out to AI, our ever-so-delicious human words are becoming endangered.
Our words are being lost, copied and shrunk into sameness. One of our oldest technologies. And it makes my tummy ache when I think about it, as I believe that words are existential; they articulate what it means to be human.
Words are such gorgeous little treats. A cosmos of meaning within each one. So it’s particularly rough when you know what you want to say but you're not sure how to say it.
Then you come face-to-face with the threatening blank document. The notes app with its flashing expectant cursor. The camera staring back at you. The video you keep deleting. The LinkedIn post you keep avoiding. The podcast. The newsletter. The '“about” page on your website. The email paying rent in your drafts.
Waiting for the words that articulate what you’re thinking and feeling, creating and making; but they aren’t coming.
Trust me when I say this, it’s not you, and you’re definitely not the only one feeling this. It’s a side-effect of living in a digital age that’s normalised disconnection. To work with that, we need to reconnect to ourselves and the world around us, to retrieve the words that are waiting inside all of us.
That’s where I come in.
What I do.
I create the time, space and process to retrieve your words, so you can leave knowing exactly how to articulate what you do, why you do it and who it’s for. In words that can only come from you.
THE ONE-TO-ONE
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A 90 minute one-to-one session to retrieve the words that actually sound like you.
If you don’t know how to explain what you do or what you want to say feels too big to put into words, then hey, this is for you. There’s nothing wrong with your words. It’s a side-effect of living in a digital age that’s normalised disconnection. To work with that, we need to reconnect to ourselves and the world around us, to retrieve the words that are waiting inside all of us.
THE BRAND CONSULTANCY
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Narrative and story direction for brands, founders, and service-providers who know what they’re building, but need the words that make it resonate.
Words Build Worlds is a multi-stage brand narrative project to find the stories that speak to the brilliance of what you’re building and help you connect more deeply with your audience.
THE WORKSHOP
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A 75 minute online gathering for writing and sharing the joy-filled yet deceptively simple things that remind us of what it means to be human.
For when you're craving a wholesome space to connect with people and yourself, where you can bring the gorgeous things that remind you of what we're really here for. The things that often go unnoticed but mean so much. Each month, I bring in a theme, question or prompt for us to sit inside of, we talk, we listen to music and recall those micro moments of joy from the past few weeks.
Nadia Meli
Who I am.
I’m Giselle La Pompe-Moore, an artist exploring what it means to be human. Some days that looks like sessions and stages, or workshops and writing. On other days, it’s conversations with strangers, intimate observations of the ordinary, making herbal medicine and being held by all-knowing trees. But, all of my days are spent making meaning of our stay here.
As a journalist (Stylist, Red, The Times, Women’s Health, UN Women UK), author (Take It In, Rider, Penguin Random House, 2022), international speaker and facilitator (Soho House, American Express, Liberty London, Estée Lauder); people have always told me the same thing. You found the words for what I was feeling. You said what I didn’t know how to say. You always find the words to speak to this moment.
That’s what I’m here for. Finding words that articulate the breadth of being alive and honouring the experiences that hold such depth that they remain wordless.
Named "the woman redefining spirituality for the millennial crowd" by British Vogue, my work lives in the space between cultural strategy, writing expertise and the stuff that’s not easy to squeeze into a bio. An attunement to how folk think, feel, and makes sense of the world.
I’ve worked with nearly a thousand people worldwide in one-to-one sessions and group workshops. That precious immersion and proximity to human experience is what comes with me into each session, and every page I scribble on.
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