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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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 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 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 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 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 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…