What is the best thing that I love about my work? La cosa che più amo del mio lavoro è vedere ciò che immagino diventare progetto prima e realtà dopo. Adoro riuscire ad analizzare le esigenze dei miei clienti e trasformarle in qualcosa di reale. Molte volte ho a che fare con persone che non…
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The Heroine’s Journey of Ely Prudence Kinczyski
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To EX-ist. My first self-acceptance therapy, the one that allows me to best release my emotional burdens, to better explore myself, analyze myself, adapt, control myself. The biggest choice of my life, the most courageous as well as the most wonderful, a journey where…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laurence Genevet
Photo credits: Olivier REMUALDO What’s the best thing about my job?Constantly discovering new worlds What is my idea of happiness?I’ve decided to be happy, it’s good for your health (Voltaire) What is my greatest fear?It’s pointless, I avoid being afraid. What character trait do I deplore most in myself?my impatience Who are the living people…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tiisetso Tlelima
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my job is being able to make-up stories and create characters that audiences can connect with. What is my idea of happiness? In the past I always used to think if I could just have a house of my own,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Shoma Banerjee
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Art has been my passion for always but have been a teacher for last 25 years. However last year with almighty support my passion became my profession. now I am a professional artist based in Dubai. hence there is everything to love when your…
The Heroine’s Journey of Katerina Sigala
What is the best thing that I love about my work? First, I consider it a blessing that my hobby became my profession. Through my work I can express myself and that is something rare today. What is my idea of happiness? To not keep the bad feelings. I feel we must have space for…
04 June The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: The Power of Your Story
In this journey you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we continually tell…
The Heroine’s Journey of Fatimah Binta Gimsay
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s truly seeing stories come to life. Nothing beats the feeling of seeing the words on paper brought to life by talented human beings. I’ve been fortunate to work with like minded individuals and they constantly inspire me to do better. What is my…
The Heroine’s Journey of Yuliia Zhyliuk
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I find joy in the smallest details of my craft—like experimenting with fresh paints and blending them into unique colour palettes each time. There’s something magical about the scent of crisp, new paper straight from the store. Through my art, I have the opportunity to express…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sophie Rankin
What is the best thing that I love about my work? ……… Getting to be creative and become a different person each day whilst exploring the mind of someone else! What is my idea of happiness? ……..Feeling positive and utterly content within my surroundings and achievements and knowing my loved ones are happy and healthy. What is…
06 June The Heroine’s Journey in London: The Power of Your Story
The Heroine’s Journey in London In this journey you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As…
The Heroine’s Journey of Masha Karmanova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Once, I organized an exhibition for one of my finest artists in Rome, and everything went awry from the plan. Starting from personal life circumstances that allowed me only two days in Rome instead of the planned ten, just to set up and open…
09 June The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
The Heroine’s Journey of Michelle Eades
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love the most, is it can take my mind to anywhere I want to be What is my idea of happiness? My daughter is my happiness, I am so proud of her. But give me a beach, where I can listen…
The Heroine’s Journey of Karina Vazhitova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What captivates me about working with luxury brands is not just their products themselves, but the entire experience they offer. From the moment you interact with a luxury brand, whether it’s through their impeccably designed storefronts, meticulously crafted packaging, or personalized customer service, there’s…
12 June The Heroine’s Journey in Amsterdam: The Power of Your Story
In this journey you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we continually tell…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jane Dieu
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love how people react to my paintings. Everything about creating them brings me a lot of joy, but the very best part is seeing the look on my customers face when they see the painting for the first time, or reading their review…
16 June The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: The Power of Your Story
The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: The Power of Your Story “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories — of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about ourselves, our creative business,…
18 June The Heroine’s Journey in Barcelona: The Power of Your Story
The Heroine’s Journey in Barcelona In Barcelona you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Larisa Ruy
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Possibility of transformation of the unconscious and translation into a real product. Sometimes there are not enough words to convey a certain process or feeling. The picture helps with this. And, of course, endless freedom. Frames are the most terrible thing that society has…
The Heroine’s Journey of Célia Alturas
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to tell stories through my artistic expression (sound, images, writing, acting) without thinking whether I’m: doing good or bad; educating or miseducating; pleasing or unpleasing… Simply giving my voice as if I was downloading a parallel existence, that is shared through me…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jenna Gray
One of the coolest aspects of my work is how it lets me really get personal and artistic. I have all these different avenues to express myself, whether it’s through digital painting, whipping up some 2D animations, diving into video editing, or even mixing all three together into something wild. It’s like having a whole…
The Heroine’s Journey of Ruxandra Tâmbu-Gribincea
What is the best thing that I love about my work? About my work, I love myself, because is there where I found my soul and I understand my feelings. My work allows me to be who I really am. What is my idea of happiness? To enjoy what I love, to do what I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tatiana Vlasko
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the process of bringing a concept to life. It’s a real magic, to bring the initial sketch to the final product you see people wearing, and the ability to empower emerging designers to realize their…
The Heroine’s Journey of Isa-Aura
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have been guided by a passionfor music since my adolescence. It’s allowed me to constantly renew myself, avoid thepitfall of routine and carry out different projects, sometimes even simultaneously. Somewould say of me that I have always led parallel lives. I have always…
23 June The Heroine’s Journey in London: Create Your Own Legend
The Heroine’s Journey in London is a journey in London with Peter de Kuster who is dedicated to teaching skills not covered by the regular education system – skills that develop creative confidence and encourage to make money doing what you love as creative professional. By travelling a world city with stories of creative heroes…
Special: The Heroine’s Journey in Eindhoven: Introductie in de Reis van de Heldin
De Reis van de Heldin gaat over ‘ja’ zeggen tegen jezelf en door dit te doen meer volledig tot leven te komen en effectiever in de wereld. De queeste is vol met gevaren en valkuilen, maar het biedt geweldige beloningen: het vermogen om succesvol te zijn in de wereld, kennis van de mysteriën van de…
25 June The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: Testdrive Your Dreamjob
Testdrive Your Dreamjob Yes, you can try your hand at the business of your dreams without risking your present job or business, your next mortgage payment, or your kid’s future. In Testdrive Your Dreamjob you will discover how meeting your rolemodels – can be the first step toward making that dream come true Revolutionary and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tanya van Keulen
What is my greatest passion in my work? I like to contemplate the diversity of life and society. Additionally, I enjoy paying attention to the well-being of others. These two aspects come together when I engage in genuine and sincere conversations with clients and partners about what concerns them in the here and now. When…
26 June The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: StorySelling
The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: StorySelling If you want to get results, start connecting with the right side of the brain. Peter de Kuster will learn you to be a better story seller. As successful professionals know, it’s all about making human connections—and it takes more than mathematical, selling, and organizational skills to make those…
The Heroine’s Journey of Catherine Belkhodja
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To the extent that I happily navigate between several professions, depending on places and times, what I appreciate most about my work is the extreme freedom that I allow myself. In order to prepare for this mobility between my different passions, I studied –…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cécile Joseph
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have an extremely hybrid and unformatted profile: I’m a professional dancer and I’m also a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with a degree in economics and a Master 2 in business law. I sometimes jokingly say that I’m a schizophrenic, because I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Simone Manojlovich
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s about doing what’s not expected. I put my heart in everything I do. What is my idea of happiness? Freedom. I very much value my freedom to express. What is my greatest fear? Only the loss of a loved one. What is the…
30 June The Heroine’s Journey in London: The New Retirement Story
The Heroine’s Journey in London. The New Retirement Story You need a quest to wake up in the morning and enough money to sleep at night. More than 10 years ago, Peter started rewriting traditional stories stories of retirement with his groundbreaking Passion Never Retires. He changed the story about retirement from one focused solely…
02 July The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: The Storyteller Within
“The heroine’s journey is about saying ‘yes’ to yourself and in so doing, becoming more fully alive and have more impact in the world…The quest is replete with dangers and pitfalls, but it offers great rewards: the capacity to be successful in the world, knowledge of the mysteries of the human soul, and the opportunity…
06 July The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: The New Storytellers
The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: The New Storytellers Lawyers. Accountants. Software engineers. That’s what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of “left-brain” dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, designers, illustrators, inventors, teachers storytellers-creative and empathic “right-brain”…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elise Maitre
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is sharing with the audience, constant research, self-improvement, and meeting and working with very different people. What is my idea of happiness? My conception of happiness is to love and be loved, to pursue the career…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lidia Mikhaylova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am a lucky person because my life has given me the opportunity to try different fields of activity and live several lives in one. In my pre-American life, I was a corporate lawyer and was involved in some awesome projects. Having emigrated to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Polina Lebedieva
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am very captivated by the complexity and integrity of the art of conducting. It is a constant challenge to understand a work accurately and to interpret it credibly. Finding all the necessary tools and keys to unlock the mystery of a particular work,…
08 July The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: The Heroine’s Confidence
Creativity and innovation are like muscles – the more we use them, the stronger they get. As kids we were all creative, but over time, so many of us were discouraged in our creative endeavours and eventually focused our energies on more traditional pursuits. In the Heroine’s Journey project I will remind you that creativity…
The Heroine’s Journey of Melany Hill
What is the best thing that I love about my work? There is nothing like my work, and there are many best things about it. But throughout the years something stays the same. The surreal feeling I get, true happiness, a sweet hug of safety even when I am being my most vulnerable. Like every…
15 July The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: Create Your Own Legend
The Heroine’s Journey in Rome The Heroine’s Journey in Rome is a journey in Rome with Peter de Kuster who is dedicated to teaching skills not covered by the regular education system – skills that develop creative confidence and encourage to make money doing what you love as creative professional. By travelling a world city…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Mezentseva
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, the absolute best part of my work in acting and filmmaking is the whole experience – from stepping onto the set, meeting new faces among actors, crew, and directors, to the excitement of seeing our creation on TV, in theaters, or online….
19 July The Heroine’s Journey in London: The Innovator’s Story
The Heroine’s Journey in London: The Innovator’s Story The founder of The Heroine’s Journey – Peter de Kuster – reveals the strategies great innovators, uses to foster innovative thinking and overcome the naysayers who stifle creativity. The role of the devil’s advocate is nearly universal in business today. It allows individuals to step outside themselves…
Online Heroine’s Journey: Stories for Change
Stories for Change Create change with quest stories who cause movements, not mandatesNo matter what industry you’re in, no matter where you sit in an organization, change can come from you. Learn how to create a movement to catalyze change in your organization or network by mobilizing people around a shared quest story. Follow the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Rebecca Tarabocchia
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to portray other people and to tell their stories. And the best think about my work is that I get to explore and go to places I normally don’t. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness to me is peace. What is my greatest…
The Heroine’s Journey of Oddisea Mal
What do I like best about my job? There is spirit, freedom and liberation in my works. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness means reaching infinite light and deep joy, reaching unlimited divine knowledge, being with family and loved ones healthy and alive. What is my biggest fear? Fear is from my mind and…
22 July The Heroine’s Journey in Barcelona: Create Your Own Legend
The best of The Heroine’s Journey condensed into a unforgettable day. The Heroine’s Journey in Barcelona is a journey in Barcelona with Peter de Kuster who is dedicated to teaching skills not covered by the regular education system – skills that develop creative confidence and encourage to make money doing what you love as creative…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cristiana Turchetti
What is my idea of happiness? The very concept of happiness can be misleading. But welcoming flashes of happiness every day, even from small things, is my discipline and my art. What is my greatest fear? My greatest fear is wasting time on insignificant things. It happens and when I notice it I blame myself….
Online Heroine’s Journey: Hello Storytelling!
Online Heroine’s Journey: Hello Storytelling! Learn the foundational skills and mindsets of business storytelling Develop a common language and understanding of business storytelling across your organization. This flexible, online experience introduces non-storytellers to the concepts of the storytelling process and offers business storytellers (in design, innovation, creativity, advertising, marketing, communication, PR) a tried-and-tested approach to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Paola Marchi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the ability to engage observers and make them feel that they are part of a reality that unites us all. What is my idea of happiness? happiness is a temporary state of being, a moment…
The Heroine’s Journey of Clotilde Cavaroc
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I can say Spielberg is a collegue! Jokes aside, I like engaging in a constant creative process, immersing myself in writing short films, series, posts, chronicles and theater plays (love humor & comedies). Each project can spread over months. The thrill lies in the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Lind’Up
What is the best thing that i love about my work ? The best thing I like about my job is the wonderful encounters, the sharings rich in emotions and learning, whether professional or personal. I can vary all the tools and skills I have at will, so I never get bored, I always learn…
29 July The Heroine’s Journey in Malaga: The Power of Your Story
In this creative leadership journey in Malaga you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human…
The Heroine’s Journey of Joanna Borrett
What is the best thing that I love about my work? When composing is going well it feels that the music is almost writing itself. You are in touch with your intuition and instinct, and that’s exciting. What is my idea of happiness? Being with people I love. What is my greatest fear? For no…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kahina Afzim
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love sharing something spiritual with other musicians and the audience What is my idea of happiness? love and sharing What is my greatest fear? my biggest fear is losing my loved ones What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? my…
28 August The Heroine’s Journey at the Biennale Venice: The Power of Your Story
In this journey you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we continually tell…
The Heroine’s Journey of Natasha Popova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Involvement in the world of Art, the opportunity to create, the opportunity to communicate with talented people. I have the privilege of communicating with art connoisseurs – collectors who are not only guardians of art, but also patrons of artists. These are incredibly interesting,…
01 September The Heroine’s Journey in Madrid: The Power of Your Story
In this journey in Madrid you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we…
The Heroine’s Journey of Julia Kalman
What is the best thing that I love about my work? You know what’s delicious about my work as a writer and literary translator? Creativity. It’s like a frosty, white lava cake that just melts and multiplies in front of your eyes. And it spills over, you know? Once, it even led me to conceive…
03 September The Heroine’s Journey in London: Your Client’s Story
The Heroine’s Journey in London: Your Client’s Story Dealing with money is not like dealing with any other product or service in the world – and it is high time to stop treating money like it is. Money is a deeply personal and deeply emotional issue. We are just now beginning to understand the deep…
The Heroine’s Journey of Clara Couturet
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I like best about my job as an actress is the possibility of participating in films that take us to see the world differently. What is my idea of happiness? I associate happiness with a form off inner peace. Picture credits: Zhang…
The Heroine’s Journey of Isabel Natacha Weiss
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, work is about building, crafting something, finding the language that suits the idea. In life, what I prefer to do is to think. With my students, I love it when an awakening occurs – an awakening of their immense abilities, an emotion…
05 September The Heroine’s Journey in London: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
08 September The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
The Heroine’s Journey of Najoua Najoua
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love most about my work is the frame into which images are integrated. This dimensional space in which all the palettes of feelings and emotions telescope, inviting us to dream or reflect. Making films, whether in front of or behind the…
12 September The Heroine’s Journey in Barcelona: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
25 September The Heroine’s Journey in Amsterdam: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
The Heroine’s Journey of Susana Shakti
What is the best thing I love about my job? Help people to improve their lives by healing their painful experiences and to help them get to know themselves, so that they can find their inner peace, by empowering them through music, healing sounds and meditation. I am an Holistic Coach and composer, an expert…
The Heroine’s Journey of Charlotte Goeders
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What really gets me excited about my job is how versatile it is. I get to dive into all sorts of projects and connect with a diverse bunch of people. The ever-changing nature of my work gives me a fresh perspective, and I genuinely…
The Heroine’s Journey of Alissa Doubrovitskaia
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I work in cinema and dance. In both cases, what I love about my work is that you can focus on any subject, the question that interests me is “how do you treat the subject you are working on?”. Which approach or point of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cristina Cavalli
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To be in contact with so much beauty every day, being sure that I will find something new every moment, even in works I played for ages. What is my idea of happiness? Live like the truest, highest expression of yourself as a human…
The Heroine’s Journey of Suzanne Baily
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m very lucky that I am a company director of a small but successful digital media agency, and have been for almost 26 years now. There are four of us in the company, and one of my co directors is my husband and best…
The Heroine’s Journey of Blayze Collins-Perucchetti
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have always loved being creative. I always tried to bring this to my work in film sales, but since moving to acting I have really been able to let my imagination flow. Working with limited information to create a walking talking living being….
The Heroine’s Journey of Cátia Martins
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Most of the films I’ve made so far have been without a technical team, so, the best thing I might love about my job of making films without a technical team is probably the creative freedom. I can have total control over all aspects…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maurane Raud Bontemps
What is the best thing I like about my job?I met my soul mate What is my idea of happiness?Be healthy, surrounded by loved ones, live next to my lover, get married, succeed professionally, live my life to the fullest, travel What is my greatest fear?Losing a loved one, separating myself from my companion, the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Devanshi Kar
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is that it gives me the creative freedom and the joy of sharing skills with my kids is a daily delight. With a passion for imparting knowledge to young minds, I find pure happiness in witnessing the spark…
The Heroine’s Journey of Dipanjali Pal
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’ve always been fascinated with language and words, I love the way they help build a world. People from all around the world are connected with this very notion of language and what better way to get to know more people and their world…
Online Journey: Storytelling to Create Your Strategy
Strategy is often portrayed as a thinking exercise—a set of decisions and plans made by a small group. But strategy is brought to life by the people in every part of an organization every day in the power of their storytelling . Engaging the people critical to both creating and activating your strategy is an element…
Online Journey: Stories to Cultivate Creative Collaboration
Effective collaboration is about more than harmonious agreement or efficiency. Today’s complex challenges require teams to navigate ambiguity, unearth bold ideas, and embrace a new way of working—one that harnesses the power of diverse perspectives and creative thinking to push past the obvious, safe solutions to the truly innovative ones. Gain the skills and techniques…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cécilia Montengo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the feeling of being where I need to be. I feel like I belong here, that I’m in the right place and that feeling fulfills my heart and makes me happy. I also love the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Celina Griffith-Johnson
What is the best thing I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is that it is something that can create very drastic change in the world. The ideas I have regarding my work are very cost effective, and not a bandaid approach to prevalent issues not only in the…
05 November The Heroine’s Journey in Venice: The Power of Your Story
The Heroine’s Journey in Venice is a tour in story rich venues of Venice with Peter de Kuster, to rewrite the story you tell yourself about yourself and your creative work and in the process transform your life and business. The Power of Your Story “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laura James
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have freedom to pursue my heart’s desire. It is a privilege to use your God given abilities as your full-time job. Through my work I get to connect with people – not just with pleasantries and light conversation but on a deeper, more…
The Heroine’s Journey of Gianna Internò
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My creativity, which I make available to the world. My ability to read a person’s soul and to design in accordance. To derive inspiration from nature and to translate it into fashion. To highlight the human figure through colours, modelling, embroidery, fabrics, decorations. What…
The Heroine’s Journey in Italy: The Power of Your Story
In this journey in Italy you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elmira Khoobbakht (Moohel)
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I can fly and float in my strange hallucination without limits or weakness. I love to show the power of the mind with my surreal paintings. It’s amazing to discover your inner layers through art. What is my idea of happiness? It’s different every…
14 November The Heroine’s Journey in Eindhoven: De Twaalf Gezichten van de Heldin
Om als verhalenverteller dynamische en authentieke karakters te creëren is het gebruik van archetypes van onmisbare waarde. Archetypes vind je in bijna alle vormen van films, literatuur, kunst, mythes, sprookjes, sagen en legendes. Het zijn herkenbare, universele karaktertypes en symbolen die van alle tijden zijn, steeds weer in unieke vorm opduiken en die verhalen urgentie…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sophia De Francesca
What is the best thing I love about my work? It’s incredibly empowering to have a vision, something you’ve not seen before, or know exactly how to execute just yet, but through trial and error, can figure out, eventually perfect, then evolve. “Mistakes” can lead to new and exciting directions as well. There are decisions…
Online Journey: Stories To Lead Complex Projects
When it comes to complex projects, unexpected challenges and changing timelines are expected. Great leaders embrace this complexity—they don’t try to control it. They understand that people—the team and stakeholders—are key to successful project outcomes. In this course, you’ll learn how to balance logic and intuition to guide others with the powers of your storytelling…
Online Journey: Storytelling to Lead for Creativity
Learn of The Heroine’ s Journey Peter de Kuster’s personal leadership storytelling philosophy and methods. You’ll learn how to lead with vision, through stories, through culture, and alongside your team. Gain storytelling techniques to guide others through uncertainty using the process of experimentation and shift the culture by tapping into beliefs and behaviors that support…
The Heroine’s Journey of LÔre Gautry
What is the best thing I love about my job? The whole part of inspiration, of creation, which is a work of experimentation, of introspection, is like a kind of inner journey, which gives free rein to my deep inspiration, to my part of innate intuition, to the subtle, imperceptible world, where I’m like cut…
The Heroine’s Journey of Marijana Previsic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing gives me freedom; I’m always having formidable time construing a story, choosing a narrative. It is a profound and analytical activity. I like to play with words, to investigate the words. As a journalist, I used to write for magazines. But writing for…
The Heroine’s Journey of Fernanda Olivares
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The variety of experiences I have as an artist where everything becomes valuable and life changing. I would say that the possibility of traveling worldwide, speaking to different audiences, and making a change on them, as well as knowing myself better through the work…
The Heroine’s Journey of Mariam Vardanyan – Actor, writer, director
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best aspect of my work lies in the profound connection I forge with the enigmatic realms of the unknown, a realm that resonates authentically within me, unattainable elsewhere. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness, for me, resides in the poignant experience of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laura Mazard
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It is freedom ! I’m actually doing two occupations. The one which is feeding me is speaker guide. I’m explaining our heritage and conducting projects in relation with cities, castles and museums…. That’s something I do as a Freelance so I can schedule my week…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kathinka Pasveer
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work is my life, my life is my work so I absolutely love everything about it. Not only performing, practicing myself, doing sound projection, but also working with other musicians, answering questions about performance practice, working at the Stockhausen-Verlag, but also packing the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Antoinette Kelly
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a visual artist, one of the best things about my work is spending so much time alone painting and listening to music in the studio. Luckily I enjoy my own company! Creating scenes from my imagination is a constant source of enjoyment and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Olimpia Stavarache
What is the best thing that I love about my work? In my work as a screenwriter, director and film producer, I adore the fact that I invite actors to do what they like most, to step into the shoes of new characters, to exercise their creativity, to do what they really love. The same…
The Heroine’s Journey of Brenae Lay
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about the work I do as a freelance writer is helping a company target its audience and build its brand. I also enjoy assisting clients to achieve their academic goals. I love the freedom to work from home and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nanoucha
The Heroine’s Journey of Nanoucha van Moerkerkenland What is the best thing that I love about my work?Freedom. What is my idea of happiness?Trust. What is my greatest fear?Aggressiveness. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself?Anxiety. Which living persons in my profession do i most admire?Patrick Besson. What is my greatest extravagance?Having…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elham Mbeygi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being free in thoughts and feelings and expressing them in the form of pictures or stories. What is my idea of happiness? A green land with healthy and happy residents What is my greatest fear? My biggest fear is forgetting love and kindness. A…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maxine Thangavelu
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about the film/entertainment industry is the ability to bring to life the vision and beauty of a story that has the power to help change and inspire What is my idea of happiness? For me happiness is complete peace knowing…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elikem Dzokoto
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What is love about my work at the European Union is the intercultural environment. It is extremely exciting to exchange with colleagues coming from all the corners of Europe. The exchange of diverse ideas is creating synergies therefore leading to innovative thinking that is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Angelique Mégane Paméole
What is the best things idea bout my job? What I like most is the feeling of mirroring the character I play, which often reveals a little- known aspect of my own personality. It’s like returning to the interior of an atom; we access the vast field of creation where everything reveals itself with its…
The Heroine’s Journey of Rossella Lorenzo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Stories have always been part of me, of my life. I believe that through acting, writing and filmmaking I can live many different lives in the duration of one and thanks to my stories I can achieve the hearts of people. These arts make…
The Heroine’s Journey of Mimma Viglezio
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love mostly about my work is the creativity that surrounds it. This keeps me alive, young and relevant. I also love that my days and activities are always different and diverse. Everyday can bring a surprise. What is my idea of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Zina Torab
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Acting in different roles provides me the opportunity to live different lives. Going through diverse characters in different life stories while I live my own life is an amazing experience. This part is the most interesting one for me while there are other appealing…
The Heroine’s Journey of Virginie Gribouilli
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Sculpture is a way for me to express myself, to convey my emotions and my thoughts about the world. My sensitivity is expressed through my work, and I love working with my hands. The most satisfying thing is to start from nothing, and create…
The Heroine’s Journey of Christina Korovila
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’ve always loved telling stories, discovering and exploring myself and others through research, and delving into human behavior because it helps me understand the world in a more empathetic way. I’m becoming passionate about doing that, so I think that’s what makes me love…
The Heroine’s Journey of Magda Sypniewska
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What is most beautiful is also what makes it difficult. Music is an art, a continual research, always perfectible, beauty is never an acquired skill! And at the same time, the closer we get to it, the more attractive it is and makes us…
The Heroine’s Journey of Annie Samuelson
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Bringing a new piece of art into the world through the process of creating provides an unparalleled joy. The part I love the most is how I am able to surprise myself in what I can accomplish. What is my idea of happiness? My…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sabrina John
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me as a (screen)writer the best thing is creating worlds, characters, and stories, that hopefully will entertain and move people, just like television shows and movies make me happy or sad. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is sometimes hard to find….
02 March The Heroine’s Journey at the Oscars: The Power of Your Story
In this journey you will examine with Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves — and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we continually tell…
The Heroine’s Journey of Aline Gorisse
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being a music composer and improviser, what I love most about my job is having moments where I work alone in my inner world and others where I meet wonderful, passionate people who teach me a lot and not only music stuff. What is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Francisca Braga
What is the best thing that I love about my work?Both in visual arts and music, what I love the most is creating. And I’m happy when these creations find a response and other people identify. I’ve always liked drawing, painting and music, and within this universe I find moments of mental calming, of connecting…
The Heroine’s Journey of Marie- Virginie Dru
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Feeling as if I am living other peoples’ lives. When I am writing a book, I travel far away, discover fascinating places, meet weird people. When I write, I sometimes cry, I sometimes laugh. It is strange how we can be moved by our…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anja Kuttner
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to share music through concerts. Taking the audience along different atmospheres and feelings. I am a pianist and perform as recitalist, chamber musician and art song pianist. I love it when people tell me after a concert the music emotionally touched them….
The Heroine’s Journey of Gaaratwe Mokhethi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work allows me to connect to the most creative parts of who I am. I’m required to always be on my A game as I have to keep up with trends that are ever changing and evolving. I work in spaces where I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jennifer Musser
What is the best thing that I love about my work? When it comes to my work, especially regarding film production, I love the community of the industry. I have met some of the most incredible collaborators and friends throughout my experience, and I love being able to work with them on their amazing projects….
The Heroine’s Journey of Monica Colonna
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I like to be able to express the deepest aspects of my soul through the actions of extraordinary female opera characters: while I sing them I can “scream” who I am without inhibitions and fear to expose myself to the others. What is my…
The Heroine’s Journey of Diana Elizabeth Martinovich
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I like about my job(s) is that I really love what I do and that my works fulfill me. By profession, I am professional opera singer, certified business consultant and life coach, and entrepreneur. My jobs and everything I do have…
The Heroine’s Journey of Margherita Berlanda
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To be the vehicle of a message, from the composer to the listener in the hall. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness has not a precise and defined form for me and it is linked to many different situations and people. I believe…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Leonova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What is fabulous, I can create something new, the work which did not exist before, and it’s like a fairy tale to me. I can write my statement, my mood, sometimes searching character which I need in my music for the moment. What is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maria Auxiliadora Bozada Waflar
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Indeed , being able to share my feelings with the audience and consequently make them experience whichever emotions the music contains , is what makes it worth for me, to devote myself to this art , the art of music. I believe it is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Julia Tripodo
What do I like most about my job? I seriously believe that people who dedicate themselves to art (in my case to music, I am a cellist) do not work at it, but live for it. What I like the most is to perform concerts. Not only to be able to share my interpretations with…
The Heroine’s Journey of Silvia Pepe
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The opportunity to express my inner being through the creation of significative objects in art and thoroughly probed characters when I sing; in the compositive act you sculpt time too, so the effect is the same. I love when people feel the same emotion/feeling…
The Heroine’s Journey of Carla Moujahed-Coste
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I enjoy every time I’m on stage in any type of formation : solo, chamber music or orchestra. I’m always having a great time in discovering new repertoires, meeting new people and talking to different audiences ; it’s a job that enriches me every…
The Heroine’s Journey of Monika Copper
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Diversity. I love the fact that I can be a vocal coach, a performing artist, even an accountant when necessary. Whenever I decide that it is time to focus more on my journey rather than a business (a music school that operations I run…
The Heroine’s Journey of Marion Lesongeur
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What’s great about the voice world is that every day is a new story. We do not realize it, but voices accompany us everywhere, it opens up incredible opportunities for me to progress, and each day is thus unique… I love waking up every…
The Heroine’s Journey of Victoria Strelciunaite
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom of expression and the ability to break conventional boundaries are the aspects I cherish most about my work. In the realm of abstract cubism, I can create a world where imagination knows no limits, and emotions find their unique form on canvas….
The Heroine’s Journey of Marija Rankovic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It is a deformed contour line that is a very good foundation for constructing my drawing. Every time I start drawing, I tell myself, “Draw this drawing as naively and ugly as possible.” That’s when my hand relaxes, doesn’t think about mistakes, and in…
The Heroine’s Journey of Koko Davlasheridze
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am an artist by profession; therefore, it is impossible to work without dedication. I love the process of work the most when you stop reality and go somewhere in another dimension, where you are overwhelmed by a vast of emotions and feelings, which…
The Heroine’s Journey of Pantesilena Jaho
I’m Pantesilena Jaho, on the beginnings of my artistic career as a pianist and repetiteur. What is the best thing that I love about my work? Working as a classical pianist, especially as a repetiteur in the Opera world, it gives me the opportunity to live and be part of so many beautiful stories, and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nadia Zartaj
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am a documentary filmmaker and investigative reporter I clearly loves my work. The ability to delve deeply into real-world situations and create stories that have a huge impact on society and is one of my favourite aspects of my work. What is my idea…
The Heroine’s Journey of Alice Tribedi (Benson)
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The people, always the people.I have four jobs/passions. I teach ‘Fun exercise for people over 60’ which is my main job and passion. I love to encourage older people to dance and stay fit and active while doing so. I was once told I…
Special: The Heroine’s Journey in Amsterdam: Stories to Unlock Creativity
Stories to Unlock Creativity Storytelling Exercises to overcome the common barriers to creativity We believe that everyone is creative and everyone can be an agent for change. Creativity is not a fixed trait, but more like a muscle—something that you can strengthen over time through practice and effort. In this class, you’ll learn storytelling exercises…
The Heroine’s Journey of Aleksandra Aronov
I’m a stage designer and a costume designer for theatre and cinema. I’ve started my career in Russia, however now it’s a time to continue it in Israel. What is the best thing that I love about my work? I was always afraid of routine job, where you do the same things any other day….
The Heroine’s Journey of Maude Richard
My name is Maude RichardI am a Belgian actress, script writer, painter, musician… Photo credits: Marie-Hélène Tercafs What is the best thing that I love about my work? What nourishes me and what I seek in all my artistic experiences is transformation. It doesn’t matter what the medium is: when I play, when I write,…
Special: The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: Stories for Innovation
Stories for Innovation is at the heart of what Peter de Kuster is known for—human-centered storytelling. This seminar, an in-depth focus on the first phase of business storytelling, will ground you in the needs of the people you’re creating for. In this course, you’ll develop empathy for your customers and surface insights for creating products and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lisa Kate
What do I love about my work ? I absolutely love what I do, even though with many people there have been many times I’ve wanted to quit because I think I’m kidding myself or because of the harrassemrnt & bullying that comes with it. What is my idea of happiness? Knowing that I am…
The Heroine’s Journey of Claire Ash Meadow
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the joy it gives me, the drive I get from it when I am truly passionate about a project. What is my idea of happiness? I know it might sound generic but truly my idea…
The Heroine’s Journey of Deema Homsi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? When I write song lyrics or sing Opera, the reaction I see in people, whether tears or laughter, is the most amazing gift for me as an artist. Even if one song uplifts only one person that day, if I can move people with…
The Heroine’s Journey of Andree Lucini
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love the most about being a director is to have the possibility to create new worlds, to play with your imaginary in order to tell stories. What is my idea of happiness? Being on a set in south of Aemerica, working on…
The Heroine’s Journey of Agatha K. Rokicki
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being An Artist Is A Great Privilege While At The Same Time A Great Responsibility. Art allows me the freedom of expression, but it also imposes a tremendous responsibility, as through my art I can influence people, I can change them, their behaviour, their…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laurie Kirk
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As an actor, I love being able to create characters that can reach people and help them understand themselves. As a writer, I’m constantly working on my childhood trauma and turning it into humorous situtations that people can hopefully relate to. I want to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Dawn Davis
What is the best thing I love about my work? Combining all the ingredients of the appropriate setting where the characters can deliver a compelling dialogue in style and then embelishing some scenes with a choreographed song that communicates the mindset of the character in that moment,. Once they are all blended together and translated…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cheryl A. Alleway
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Performing voice-over is simply joyous, and I am not someone known well in the industry, but I consider myself as capable and as diverse as idols from Mel Brooks and Robin Williams. I say that humbly because I have never had a career from…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tahifé Dol
What is the best thing that I love about my work? First, the freedom to share my world. Secondly, the possibility of reminding what it means to be human, the possibility of defending convictions, of shaking things up, of proposing other angles of view, of questioning, of juggling with words, of scratching the varnish, of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sandrine Guimbaud
English & french version of the questionnaire What is the best thing I love about my job? It is a profession of passion that combines teaching and musical performances. I like the different human contacts, whether in flute lessons by contributing to the personal and musical development of each student, or in concert by being…
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