Paris
Enter the city where imagination changed the world.
Everyone is creative. The question is whether you have the confidence to use it.
The Heroine’s Journey’s Creative Confidence challenges one of the most persistent stories we tell ourselves: that creativity belongs to a special group of people called “creative types”.
But look around Paris and that story becomes difficult to believe.
Artists, writers, architects, philosophers, entrepreneurs and revolutionaries have repeatedly looked at the same world we inhabit and imagined another one.
They did not simply have ideas.
They had the courage to act on them.
This one-day Heroine’s Journey through Paris invites you to discover your own creative confidence by walking through the stories of people who changed the way we see the world.
Paris becomes our classroom.
The streets become our pages.
The people who once walked them become our teachers.
And their stories become mirrors through which we can begin to see our own differently.
You will explore the assumptions that keep you inside your familiar story, experiment with new possibilities and discover what happens when imagination becomes a way of living rather than something reserved for artists.
Your journey through Paris
The Call — Place des Vosges
Every journey begins with a moment when the familiar is no longer enough.
We begin by asking:
What would you change if you believed you could create something different?
What story are you living now — and where is that story asking to be rewritten?
The Imagination — Coco Chanel’s Paris
Coco Chanel understood the power of imagination to create worlds.
Through his Paris, we explore the relationship between observation, imagination and storytelling.
What do you see when you stop looking at the world as it is and begin imagining what it could become?
The Outsider — Montmartre
Every creative journey requires the courage to see differently.
Among the artists and outsiders of Montmartre, we explore what happens when you stop seeking permission to think differently.
Which part of yourself have you made smaller in order to fit the expectations of others?
The Experiment — The Left Bank
Paris has always attracted people willing to experiment with ideas, art, relationships and ways of living.
Here we turn imagination into action.
You will experiment with new ways of seeing a challenge in your own life and discover possibilities that become visible only when you start playing with them.
The Crisis — The Seine
Every Heroine encounters uncertainty.
The creative life is no different.
We explore what happens when an idea fails, when certainty disappears and when the path ahead is unclear.
Perhaps the obstacle is not the end of the story.
Perhaps it is the story.
The Discovery — The Louvre
We encounter some of the stories and images that have shaped our collective imagination.
What do they reveal about the story you have been telling yourself?
What possibility have you not yet allowed yourself to see?
The Return — Paris
You return to your own world carrying something back with you: a new perspective, a creative experiment and the confidence to act.
Because the purpose of a Hero’s Journey is not to remain in Paris.
It is to return home changed.
What you will discover
- That creativity is a human capacity, not a professional category
- The beliefs and fears that prevent you from using your imagination
- How stories can unlock new perspectives
- How to look at familiar problems differently
- How experimentation turns imagination into action
- Why failure and uncertainty are part of the creative journey
- How the city can become a source of ideas and insight
- What your own creative story might become
Your Travel Guide
Peter de Kuster has spent his life travelling through stories.
For more than three decades, Peter has travelled through literature, history, art, cities and the lives of thousands of people, looking for the stories that can help us understand our own.
He discovered that the stories we admire are rarely just stories about other people.
They are mirrors.
The artist who dares to see differently.
The writer who imagines another world.
The outsider who refuses to accept the world as it is.
The traveller who leaves the familiar behind.
Their stories became the foundation of The One Great Story and of The Hero’s Journey.
Peter does not take you through Paris to tell you what your story should be.
He takes you there to help you discover it for yourself.
The city is your classroom.
The stories are your companions.
Peter is your travel guide.
And you are the traveller.
The Hero’s Question
What story could you create if you had the creative confidence to begin?
Take the Journey
The Hero’s Journey: Creative Confidence — Paris
One day travelling through the stories of Paris, discovering the creative story you are living and imagining what it could become.
One day · Paris · €695 excluding VAT
You don’t have to be a “creative type”.
You don’t have to know exactly where the journey will take you.
You only have to be curious enough to begin.