Editors’ Note: Our friends Caitlin & Rod, a husband and wife team, produced a brilliant and incredibly beautiful video that has just premiered in New York and we wanted to share the story behind it and how transformation and the Kanes’ work impacted their experience of creating this project.

Caitlin is a world-renowned Costume Designer whose work in film, opera and theater has appeared in venues including feature films,  the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Metropolitan Opera. Rod is a wildly talented actor whose work has been described by the New York Times as “dynamite,” “Physically precise and emotionally surprising,” and “kaleidoscopic”.

From Oct 18, 2011:

Hey Everyone;
Several months ago, we sent out an email entitled ‘Transformation (and Handel) Rocks’  – explaining our upcoming project and including some pictures – well…

We are very excited to now announce the launch of our music video!
(Click on the photos below to view larger versions.)

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We just took the Transformational Time & Project Management seminar with Ariel & Shya Kane at the New Yorker Hotel on 34th Street and 8th Avenue in NYC.  Wow, we are all so excited about what we experienced and created together.

Humor, passion, fun…what does this all have  to do with the projects on your to do list?  A whole lot more than we all thought.  Here are a few things we discovered: (more…)

Dear friends!

We had such an easy workshop this weekend. It was so cool for me to see how much I was habituated to working on myself that my mind kept wanting to come up with some problems, so that I could get up in front of the group and create some drama. With a room full of 91 participants you really have to get into action if you want to speak, but none of my “problems” were real enough to act on.  So I just kept pulling myself back into the moment, getting used to the fact that I don’t need fixing and I didn’t need to create a drama to get something out of the weekend.
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Liebe Freunde!

Ich genieße heute all die Self Express Emails und muss da einfach mitmachen!

Wir hatten so ein leichtes Workshop dieses Wochenende. Es war toll für mich zu sehen wie sehr ich daran gewöhnt bin an mir zu arbeiten, dass mein Kopf ständig Probleme finden wollte, damit ich aufstehen konnte um vor der Gruppe ein Drama zu produzieren. Wenn der Raum mit 91 Teilnehmern gefüllt ist, dann muss man sich richtig in Bewegung setzen wenn man reden möchte. Aber keine meiner “Probleme” waren echt genug, um dafür aufzustehen. Also brachte ich mich einfach immer wieder selbst in den Augenblick zurück, gewöhnte mich daran, dass es nichts an mir gibt an dem man arbeiten müsste und ich brauchte auch nicht ein Drama zu kreieren, um etwas vom Wochenende zu haben. (more…)

This morning I heard that my friend Sandy from Munich is coming to New York to the course “Transformational Time and Project Management“.   For weeks I’ve been thinking of going there also, but then my reasonable mind interfered, and pushed the desire away.  This thought: “You cannot go, you have to much to do and so little time” is such a funny thing.  Often when people tell me why they cannot come to a workshop because of [fill in any reasonable reason], I think in my heart, this is exactly the reason why they should come.?  And I’m doing the same!  Yeah, so much to do and so little time, it’s really time for the Time and Project Management course!

Hearing that Sandy is coming inspired me so much. She is so busy and short of time and is opening a new business soon, which will be a huge investment, but if she can do it – I can do it!?  I immediately booked my flight and just registered.   And it feels so good!   I even have the impression, that my crowded desk lightened up.  The course starts, when you register, isn’t that amazing? (more…)

Hallo meine Freunde überall auf der Welt,

heute morgen hörte ich, dass Sandy Saffeels aus München zum Kurs “Transformatinal Time and Project Management” nach New York kommt.  Seit Wochen denke ich darüber nach, dass ich da ebenfalls hingehen möchte, aber dann hat mir mein vernünftiger Kopf dazwischen gefunkt und das Verlangen weggeschoben. Dieser Gedanke: “Du kannst nicht gehen, du hast zuviel zu tun und zu wenig Zeit.”
Das ist wirklich so lustig, oft wenn mir Leute sagen, weshalb sie nicht zum Workshop kommen können weil… (fügt irgendeinen vernünftigen Grund ein), dann denke ich in meinem Herzen, dies ist genau der Grund, weshalb sie kommen sollten. (more…)

Hi Ariel and Shya,

I had an interesting experience today that I thought you might appreciate. Completely by accident I have started cleaning houses for people to make a little extra money. I am enjoying it because it is flexible, and I make much more money than I ever have before! I started with one person and the word spread and now I have 5 clients.
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Dear Friends,

I want to share a story with you that happened yesterday. For 8 weeks I work for company that does IT and logistics consulting. On Monday I got a proposal for a project in the German army and yesterday I got all the attachments for the proposal that said what to do in this project. I was really overwhelmed when reading all the 30 attachments and noticed that it is a project that is worth about 7 million Euro (9 million $). I was so impressed that I did not know how to start and I couldn’t do anything to bring the project forward. When I came home I felt sad and I talked with Dorina, my girlfriend, about what happened at work. I told her about my fear, that I cannot handle the work and that the project is too big for me. What Dorina told me was just brilliant. She said, I should just start working and structure all the work, because than I can see where I need help and can ask colleagues to support me. That was what I did this morning. I just took the biggest attachment with the most requirements, read through it and made a mind map on my computer to see what the work is all about. After having done this, I’m very clear about what to do next and made some appointments with colleagues that will support my work. It just took a bit more than one hour to have all the work structured and it was so easy. Now I know what the next steps are and it seems that the “problem” of really complex work isn’t a problem anymore.
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Dear friends,

I want to share some exciting news with you.

After working over 13 years mostly as an actor, I got a new job in Europe’s biggest and most beautiful Spa and Treatment Center near Cologne. The name is Mediterana. For the opening of a new Indian section at the end of August they are building a new team called ‘The Buddha team’ that I am part of. I will be responsible for reception desk, looking after guests, special happenings in the saunas and meditation.

I am also still working on stage; I am playing a very nice part in Pippi Longstocking in a beautiful outside area in the countryside. I auditioned a lot this year for theater jobs and got the most brilliant feedback ever since.
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Hey, my dear friends all over the world,

I would like to share what happened last week for me in my new job.

As some of you might know, I had the opportunity to change jobs on July 1st within the Procter and Gamble Company to become the assistant of the Global Human Resources Director at Wella, the hair care company.  That itself is already thrilling, but also my first project was to organize the global leadership team Meeting (24 people) for 3 days in a very nice hotel near Frankfurt, Germany.

The intent was that the new global Wella director would meet all of his leadership team members (Wella country leaders, head of external communications, chief of supply chain management, etc.) so that they could define how to work together in the future to archive their goals.

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