Gateless Academy Luminary Spotlight

About the Session

The critic is the number one block to our most powerful creative endeavors. Though not always the loudest voice at the party, it can be the most brutal. Its subtle toxicity is our sneakiest saboteur. In this truth-telling intensive on how to create despite, and often alongside, the inner critic, Suzanne and Tara-Nicolle reveal why many authors never reach the pinnacle of success, and the secret to using the critic as a catalytic force for your most impactful work.

Tara-Nicholle Kirke

Tara-Nicholle is a repeat luminary for the Gateless Academy and she and Suzanne have worked to help countless authors break through blocks that were keeping them from success they never dreamed possible. She is The Inner Critic Coach™, a globally recognized transformation expert for high-achieving people and purpose-driven companies. While working with some of the biggest brands in the world, she began to understand that the number one reason people do not reach forward into innovative new landscapes had to do with the crippling effect of the inner critic.

She developed The Inner Critic Cure™ and Empires of the Soul™, a combination of spiritual and practical steps to help overcome patterns of fear, doubt and self-sabotage so your life can finally take off. Her work has been featured or published in Harvard Business Review, Success Magazine, Essence Magazine, Business Insider, and The New York Times. She has consistently been one of the most popular luminaries in the Academy.

This book is like Human Design Business School from one of the most transformational entrepreneurs of our time. SO GOOD! ~ Ophira Edut, one of the AstroTwins, celebrity astrologers for Elle magazine

About Suzanne Kingsbury, Founder, Gateless Writing 

Suzanne Kingsbury is the founder of Gateless Writing, a worldwide literary arts organization based on the principles of ancient Zen and creative brain science. Gateless Retreats, the Gateless Academy, the Gateless Teacher Training and her personal mentorship have been catalysts for writers who have found themselves on bestseller lists, represented by New York’s most coveted literary agencies, acquired by the bastions of publishing and profiled by the largest media outlets in the world.

Suzanne was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in her mid-twenties to study Buddhism in Sri Lanka, where she found the link between meditation, creative writing and neuroplasticity. In her late twenties, Suzanne was invited to study novel writing with Frank Conroy, then the director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, who encouraged her to quit her job and commit her life to writing. She went on to win the Oxford Town Fiction Prize, and her first two novels were published by Scribner, reached bestseller status, were translated widely abroad and optioned for film.

Suzanne received her MFA in Creative Writing and the Literary Arts at Bennington College where she studied the confluence of ancient Zen and creative brain science and created Gateless Writing, a method and a movement that pushes through creative blocks to a landscape of unprecedented creative genius, and helps writers reach the zenith of their power on the page. Suzanne’s work has been profiled in The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone (European edition), People Magazine, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine and many more.

She lives and works on the coast of Connecticut and runs Gateless Teacher Trainings and Retreats for writers all over the world. She considers her home anywhere that Gateless writers live and write.