What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work is real, passion, authentic. A layer of me exposed. Like my brain showing a movie. I love it because it brings neverending joy, fulfillment expression, and I don’t have to work hard at it ..it just flows my work allows me to…
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26 January 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,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Shobana Gomes
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the idea of crafting great stories that resonate with people’s lives, and when the stories educate, inspire, and entertain, as in the Faction genre (facts & fiction) I write, I feel I have accomplished my writer’s portfolio in a great way. What…
The Heroine’s Journey of Heloisa Prieto
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Storytelling has always been the path of sages and healers. I love spending hours crafting a new narrative or retelling an ancient one, several times I try to combine both by weaving plots in order to generate a timeless space. Writing takes me to…
02 February The Heroine’s Journey: Create Your Own Legend
The Heroine’s Journey in Paris is a journey in Paris 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…
09 Feb The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What is Your Brand Story?
The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What is Your Brand Story? Your story―how its meaning resonates in the public heart and mind―is your most valuable competitive advantage. Yet, few professionals really know how storytelling works, how to manage it, and how to use storytelling strategically. Presented by best-selling author Peter de Kuster this groundbreaking one day…
The Heroine’s Journey of Oana Martisca
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, the best relationships begin in sync. It’s like jazz—the music I grew up with—or a perfectly timed baseball double play: scoop, second, first, and out. Rhythm. That’s what I love about filmmaking—the rhythm between urgency and empathy, the pulse where truth refuses…
The Heroine’s Journey of Diana Romanovskaya
What is the best thing that I love about my work? That it allows me to connect dots: ideas, people, and technologies — and turn complexity into meaningful stories through text and visuals. Because good stories help us feel, connect, and make change happen. What is my idea of happiness? To wake up with a…
The Heroine’s Journey of Gege Rodrigues
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love my work for the freedom to express my feelings and transform them into paragraphs that will inspire generations. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is living in coherence between thought, emotion, and action. It is raising my two children with emotional…
Online Heroine’s Journey: Hello Storytelling!
The 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 Jaya Clement
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love most about my work is the quiet moment when it’s just me and the screen, usually far too late at night. Away from expectations, validation, and the pressure of the next ‘big thing,’ I can finally slow down and admire…
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 Grima Irmudottir
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is that filmmaking allows me to witness the world with uncommon attentiveness and to honor stories that might otherwise remain invisible. I cherish the intimacy of listening observing and shaping fragments of reality into something that breathes…
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…
16 February The Heroine’s Journey: 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…
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…
23 February The Heroine’s Journey: 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 Shushanik Droshakiryan
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is the uncertainty of working between tangible material and abstract ideas. I invent everything — my crafting technique, which differs for each material I design, and my crafting tools, which I must also create, as they are unique…
09 March The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: A Therapeutic Story
Writing a new story. A journey through Paris following the work of famous Paris artists like Henry Cartier Bresson A story about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope, about imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down But it is also a story about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning And…
16 March The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What Story Are You Living Now?
Book your spot now The most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself and ask the question, What Story Are You Living Now ? In this learning journey we will help you navigate this question with a personal and playful approach. Renowned storyteller Peter…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jennie Montalvo-Bragaw
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing is like having a blank canvas with a brush and paint. Only in this case, I am creating a picture using words. The picture has to appeal to children, which requires that I put myself in the frame of mind of a child. …
The Heroine’s Journey of Dahlia Hosny
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me it’s that it lets me express what I call the “nothingness between the lines” those quiet, invisible feelings and thoughts that are hard to put into words, or better for me to put into color, I give it a form where others…
The Heroine’s Journey of Iryna Dihtiarova-Deslypper
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing is liberating. I feel free to create any kind of world inhabited by divergent characters and ruled by laws other than those of physics, logic, or entropy. These worlds do not exist – until or unless I bring them into existence through writing. …
The Heroine’s Journey of Danielle Fray
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the creativity, the long burn of a great story arc, the instrumentation of a great character. Script writing came to me later in life and I’ve been incredibly lucky to have the peers and friends i have to achieve my niche. It’s…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tammy King
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the versatility that it gives me because no two days are the same. I also enjoy the creative freedom it allows me to have. As a natural born performer, I have always been using my voice and storytelling skills to help express…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elske Höweler
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am lucky enough to have two jobs I enjoy doing. In my job as an IT consultant in software testing (which is the one that pays my mortgage), I love working with programmers and business stakeholders to create the best end product possible….
The Heroine’s Journey of Liz Hogg
What is the best thing that I love about my work?There is no end to learning and self improvement What is my idea of happiness?Starting a family, love flowing freely, not “working”, just doing music stuff I want to do and focusing on momhood What is my greatest fear?Being unloved & alone What is the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lara Oreskovic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work? There’s more than one, but if I have to choose, let’s say a wide feeling of freedom, which you don’t usually have in everyday life, and experimenting with materials, mediums, and ideas, exploring how my inner self is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Natasha Langridge-Thorpe
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love having the opportunity to craft new worlds featuring a cast of diverse and complex characters. I love crafting entire universes where I can bend the rules of reality and see my vision come to life. I also find it enjoyable to create…
The Heroine’s Journey of Yana Medow
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the freedom to explore my emotions through abstract colors. Each stroke of the brush feels like a meditation, allowing me to connect deeply with my inner self. The vibrant hues and spontaneous forms create a…
The Heroine’s Journey of Daisy van der Zijden
What is the best thing that I love about my work? That I try to create life on paper and canvas and through every detail I draw. I love to see how my work comes to life. What is my idea of happiness? That you can enjoy the little things in life. For example, I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maria Marchese
What is the best thing that I love about my work? First of all, it is essential to explain what my job is: Maria Marchese is a poet, struggling with the writing of her first novel, so also a writer; I work as an art curator, art critic, cultural divulger and art influencer. Recently, I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kristina Miltcheva
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The ability to completely decontextualize myself from the current world, escaping and indulging in the present moment, not marked by anything recognizable. My work takes me away and art flows through me, enhancing the light in my aura, the connection with the Source. I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anjalee Liyanage
What is the best thing that I love about my work – Working with the crew and with the co actors is what I love the most in my work What is my idea of happiness? – Happiness is relative..humans cannot be happy all the time… But happiness in life can…
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…