5-Day / 4-Night Immersive Transformation with Peter de Kuster
May 11-15, 2026 | €4,450 excluding VAT (all-inclusive: accommodation, meals, mentors, materials)
Paris (Shakespeare & Company start + Julia Child footsteps) | Max 6 participants
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 role models – can be the first step toward making that dream come true.
Revolutionary and practical, this hands-on 5-day travel programme in Paris in the footsteps of Julia Child designed by Peter de Kuster – will help you mesh your working life with your deepest sense of self as you learn how to:
- Plan a “dream business” of your own
- Build the skills and gather the knowledge you will need to embark on your new business
- Overcome the fear of changing
- Turn a layoff or other involuntary change into the opportunity of a lifetime
- Design and create a dream business that doesn’t exist …yet
- Manage a smooth, safe transition from your present job or business to your dream business
- Minimize financial risk as you embark on your bold new life
Creative people have made a testdrive in their dream business or profession for centuries
Talking to or even working with somebody who does the creative work they would love to do or explore. For architects, artists, designers, writers, cooks, actors etc. it is quite normal. Mostly however something you do at the start of your creative career. You can do it any time in your career however. To sharpen the story you tell yourself about you, your work, your business, what you are capable of doing.
In meeting a mentor, somebody who has a creative dream business in your eyes and makes money with it.
Years ago I started advising creative people who started their business to Meet their Heroines. Speaking with a heroine or hero who has your dream business. It can save you years and a lot of money having direct feedback and stories of someone who does what you feel you would love to do.
Almost everybody who has made a testdrive has come out of it with a more clear story and more determination than ever to make their dream business come true. They landed exciting projects, started an education or found other ways to further their dream business. After years of fantasizing their Meeting with their Heroines has given them in hours or days the strength to come into action.
Partly this was due to a learning effect – the concrete knowledge they gained about the business of their dreams. Partly it was the mentor who held their hand, gave their confidence a boost and offered them help. Partly it was the contacts they made, which made the next steps more simple.
But the most important of all, next to these practical matters, was something different. Meeting their Heroine awakened and gave energy to something deep inside of them, a part that once awakened, refused to be ignored. Know that when you consider a dream business it not only is about how you spend your hours at work. It is about the connection between your work and the deepest feeling about yourself. It is about doing what you love, work that energizes you instead of exhausts you, work which has meaning for you.
Twelve reasons for Meet your Heroines
- To make a testdrive in your dream business before you commit yourself to a business
- To find a mentor
- To learn about the ins and outs of a business
- To make contacts in a profession or market
- To raise your confidence level
- To explore a passion
- To satisfy your curiosity about ‘the road not taken’
- To test possible businesses when you don’t know yet what you want
- To make an unusual, exciting journey
- To try out something new and challenge yourself in new ways
- To create a new story about yourself, your present company, job, lifestyle and future
- To reconnect with some passion(s) inside of you
The 5-Day Journey Structure
Part One: You Can Do It – One Step at a Time (Days 1-2)
Meet your Heroines; how does it work; How to deal with fear? How to research your dreamjob.
Includes: Testdrive Your Dreamjob questionnaire (pre-journey homework)
Part Two: Meeting Heroines (Days 3-4)
Meeting two different mentors for immersive sessions (2-4 hours each). Having the Meet with your Heroines.
Part Three: Return & Integration (Day 5)
Evaluation of the Testdrives. What is your story about your Dreambusiness now? Making your Action Plan. When Things Don’t Go According to the Plan.
Detailed Timetable (Paris)
Day 1 | Preparation & Awakening
09:10 Welcome & drinks at Shakespeare & Company
09:30 Deep dive: The Preparation of your Meet your Heroines
Full day: Fear work, dream business planning, group bonding
Days 2-3 | Mentor Immersion
Full days: Meeting the Mentors (multiple sessions, 2-4 hours each)
Real-world exploration in Julia Child footsteps
Day 4 | Integration
Full day: Process insights, build network, refine dream business model
Day 5 | Action & Celebration
09:30 Final evaluation + lifetime Action Plan design
16:00 Journey completes with celebration
Practical Information
Price: €3,450 excluding VAT per person (all-inclusive)
Group size: Minimum 2, maximum 6 participants
Includes: Accommodation (4 nights), all meals (incl. delicious lunches), mentors, materials, Testdrive questionnaire
2026 Dates & Cities Available:
Paris: October 12-16, 2026 (confirmed)
Amsterdam: May 18-22, 2026
Rome: September 14-18, 2026
Barcelona: June 22-26, 2026
London: November 9-13, 2026
Private / Company Groups: Custom dates available.
Book your transformation
Send Peter an email to peterdekuster2023@gmail.com
Questions? Contact peterdekuster@hotmail.nl
Your Guide
Peter de Kuster, founder of The Heroine’s Journey & The Hero’s Journey.
