The Kanes’ seminars have made a dramatic impact in my ability to listen. I have a hearing disability. Without my hearing aids, I have only 5% of hearing in one ear and 25% in the other, and with my hearing aids I have about 50% in both ears. When I listen to a conversation I cannot hear every word that is being said, and what I have discovered about listening is that it is not about how much you can hear but about how much you are willing to let in what the other person has to say, without judging it or commenting on it. When you are truly listening magic happens. If you can really hear what a person is saying your judgments on yourself and others disappear and this is a space for transformation, aliveness, and the completion of things. I thank the Kanes for supporting me to move past having a hearing ”disability” into being an effective listener and communicator.
–Tony M., Owner of a Furniture Design Company

Join us for this dynamic interactive workshop where you will discover the fundamental keys to effective listening and the barriers that prevent us from having satisfying communication with those around us. Register here for the Art of Listening!

The “Transformation in the Workplace“ workshop was AMAZING this weekend!!!!  WOW!  Wow!  Wow! And did I say wow!  Work has been flowing easy today and our staff (even the people that did not attend the workshop) feels in sync.  Even our family is “in sync”.  My husband (Andy) and I came home last night from the course and our older son, Alex, had worked on a project for school (he is in 4th grade) and he put that Andy was his “Hero”.  It was so sweet.

A few hours ago, a recruiter called me to see if she could help me with any of our staffing needs.  Her name is Jessica.  At first, I thought: I don’t have time to speak with her & who is this person?  But I chatted with her for a few minutes and realized there may be ways she can help our company.  Then, I found out she works in Manhattan so I invited her to Monday Night Alive! tonight – and she said yes, and while I was on the phone with her she Googled Monday Night Alive and said she was going to register right when we got off the phone…and she did!  Neato!

I am truly excited about the next workshop: The Art of Listening because listening is the key to transformation….just simply listening to another person and being with that person.  It magically works.

If you are thinking of coming to the next course, just do it!  I don’t have to tell you – I am sure you already know….that it starts when you register! : )

Love,
Amy (and Andy)
– Amy Gideon, President  TAG Online, Inc.

Join us in the heart of the beautiful city of Cambridge, England for an incredible life-transforming weekend. The seminar will be held at The University Centre, overlooking the river, situated next to acres of green fields, close to the Botanical Gardens and only a few minutes walk from King’s College and many other historic colleges and sites. If you stay in the city for the whole weekend, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to see the sites and even partake of an evening of picnicking and punting to enjoy Cambridge at its best in the balmy July weather.

Creativity and Intuition

Increasingly individuals are discovering the power and importance intuitive hunches play in their ability to be creative, successful and satisfied in their lives. In a light and fun way, this workshop will allow you to hone this intuitive skill-set into a fine instrument that can be used to thoroughly enhance your day-to-day experience of living. It will include a series of experiments and exercises designed to allow you to discover and trust your own natural abilities to access and utilize your intuition and creativity.

Dates: Friday-Sunday, July 15th – 17th, 2011
Time: Friday: 7.30pm–10pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am–6pm
Location: The University Centre
Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RU
Fee: £399; a deposit of £125 reserves your space

Give yourself the best gift for the summer! You could register online, find map and travel information, and download a PDF to share with your friends here.

For more detailed information about other payment methods and for location, please contact Menna de sa Barreto: +44 (0)1223 502829 or uk@ask-inc.com.  In the US conctact the Kanes directly.

It felt amazing!… And I couldn’t wait to tell you about it! See you all on Friday at the Intimacy workshop!

Here is one participant’s experience of the workshop last year. Why not create your own experience? You may be pleasantly surprised of who you are!

Intimacy
Dates: Friday – Sunday, June 10th, 11th & 12th, 2011
Time: Friday, 7pm-10pm, Saturday & Sunday: 9:45am-6pm
Fee: $425
Location: 630 Second Avenue at 35th Street, NYC

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I’m a teacher at a secondary school covering grades 5 to 12. I love my job, but I often find it quite exhausting and I’m stressed out a lot. In class, there are usually about a thousand things that you have to keep in mind, so mentally I often juggle several things simultaneously. A lot of the weekend, however, was about listening. Real listening. And on Monday I noticed how little actual listening there is at school. We all talk all day, every day – but listen? Hmmm.

So on Monday morning I listened to what my students had to say. Wow! A completely new experience that is hard to express, but I’ll give it shot: I was so much more relaxed and present in the moment. I didn’t do a thousand things at once, but instead I was there. No more, no less. And it felt like all of a sudden, I could breathe and let go and be there for my students. The atmosphere was much calmer and we ended up having so much fun together. I realized that finally, I get to pay attention to what really matters, i.e. my students. They also blossomed in a way. Up to that point, I had only experienced that effect in reverse, like when I brought my bad mood with me into class because the students in the class right before drove me up the wall and I didn’t manage to get rid of it, so the students of the next class were on the receiving end of something that wasn’t their fault at all. Yet this week it became clear that that’s not the only way it works; my calmness radiates in a way that changes everything. No, not changes – transforms (I still have to get used to the terminology).

This transformation is not limited to my job. Monday night I talked to my sister on the phone. We are very close, even though she lives close to Frankfurt, so we phone a lot. She is a teacher too, and a sizeable chunk of our conversations used to be taken up by a certain dynamic where she vents all the things that are annoying about her school/students/principal and then I join her by supplying examples from my own school (and believe me, there’s plenty of ground to cover – teachers are experts at complaining, after all). So Monday night, she complained about lots of things and I listened and realized that apparently, she needed to vent. And then – I realized that I didn’t have to join her in complaining. There wasn’t anything to complain about. Amazing!

All of this feels sooooo good. Relaxed and exciting at the same time. I’m itching to find out what else is happening in my life if I let it. This is thanks to the Kanes (as everybody who reads this will know and appreciate), but also thanks to the people at the workshop creating such an intense weekend full of profound conversations with wonderful people that still resonates with me in many ways.

Thanks!
A Teacher from Hamburg, Germany

Ich habe am vergangenen Wochenende meinen ersten Wochenend-workshop mit den Kanes erlebt. Es war eine unglaublich tolle Erfahrung, die in die verschiedensten Bereiche meines Lebens strahlt und da Dinge bewegt, von denen ich einige mit euch teilen möchte.

Ich bin Lehrerin an einem Gymnasium. Ich liebe meinen Beruf, aber ich nehme ihn oft auch als extrem anstrengend wahr und bin meistens ziemlich gestresst. Im Unterricht sind ja oft tausend Dinge gleichzeitig zu regeln und im Blick zu behalten, so dass ich mental oft mehrere Dinge jongliere. Am Wochenende ging es ganz viel um Zuhören. Wirklich zuhören. Und am Montag ist mir aufgefallen, wie wenig wir in der Schule eigentlich zuhören. Wir reden den ganzen Tag, alle, aber zuhören? Hmmm.
Also hab ich am Montag früh mal zugehört, was meine Schüler zu sagen haben. Wahnsinn! Eine völlig neue Erfahrung, die ich schwer in Worte fassen kann, aber ich versuch’s mal: ich war so viel entspannter und einfach in dem Moment präsent und habe nicht mehr tausend Dinge auf einmal gemacht, sondern war da. Mehr nicht. Und es war auf einmal, als könnte ich durchatmen und loslassen und auf meine Schüler eingehen. Die Atmosphäre hat sich so entzerrt und wir hatten so viel Spaß zusammen ­ und ich hatte das Gefühl, dass ich endlich das in den Blick bekomme, was eigentlich wichtig ist: meine Schüler.

Die sind irgendwie auch aufgeblüht. Bisher kannte ich den Effekt so deutlich nur in der anderen Richtung, nämlich wenn ich schlechte Stimmung mit in die Klasse schleppe, weil mich der Kurs direkt vorher auf die Palme getrieben hat und ich das nicht in der Pause ablegen konnte, sondern es dann auch noch die nächste Klasse abgekriegt hat. Aber diese Woche wurde deutlich, dass es auch anders geht ­ dass meine eigene Gelassenheit so ausstrahlt, dass sich alles verändert. Nein, nicht verändert ­ transformiert (ich muss mich an die Begriffe noch gewöhnen).

Das ist auch nicht beschränkt auf den beruflichen Sektor. Am Montagabend habe ich mit meiner Schwester telefoniert. Wir haben sehr engen Kontakt, auch wenn sie bei Frankfurt wohnt, und telefonieren sehr häufig. Sie ist auch Lehrerin, und ein erklecklicher Teil unserer Telefonate bestand aus so einer Dynamik, dass sie sich bei mir auskotzt, was der Schulalltag ihr schon wieder alles an Arbeit beschert hat und wie unmöglich ihre Schulleitung ist, und ich dann beisteuere, was bei mir alles nervig war (und da gibt es im Schulalltag eine ganze Menge, schließlich sind wir Lehrer Weltmeister im Nörgeln). Am Montag hat sie sich also beschwert, über alles Mögliche, und ich habe ihr zugehört. Und gemerkt, dass sie das offensichtlich gerade alles mal loswerden muss. Und dann ­ habe ich gespürt, dass ich aber gar nicht darauf einsteigen muss. Es gab nichts zu nörgeln. Unglaublich!

All das fühlt sich so gut an. Entspannt und spannend gleichzeitig. Es juckt mich total in den Fingern, herauszufinden, was noch alles Magisches in meinem Leben passiert, wenn ich mich dafür öffne. Das verdanke ich den Kanes (wie allen klar ist, die das hier lesen), aber auch den anderen Leuten, die an dem Wochenende dabei waren, denn das intensive Wochenende mit so vielen tiefgehenden Kontakten zu wunderbaren Menschen klingt immer noch nach.

Danke!
Ein Lehrer von Hamburg

“It’s the greatest gift to learn how to take my attention off of myself and take care of others.”

- Andy Schneeflock, Actor/Acting & Creative Writing Teacher

“The License To Live with Ariel and Shya Kane was brilliant! I find that I am no longer lost in my thoughts of fear, worry and complaint. My days have been busier than ever and I am engaged and interested in all that comes my way. How can it be that my students are brilliant before we even finish the lesson? I notice that I’m not fighting with them in my thoughts. Because I am being gentle with myself I am able to be gentle with them. They get to shine and be brilliant and so do I. It feels easy and lovely. The Kanes are master teachers of the art of listening. If one truly listens then there is magic to be experienced everywhere.”

- Susan Finch, Voice and Speech Coach

“The weekend workshop with The Kanes, License to Live, was pure magic. The level of participation and aliveness in my life has become a joyous natural flow. I am, for the first time , experiencing what the Kanes describe as ‘living your life directly’. A foggy haze has been lifted and I am experiencing clarity, creativity, self trust and well being.”

- Ellen Jackson, Artist

I have been to Costa Rica this year. WOW! It was amazing and I had a wonderful time.

Being in this wonderful environment of Costa Rica and its incredible nature, the fauna with all those wonderful animals, was awesome.  AND than with this – we had this extraordinary possibility to experience TRANSFORMATION, WOW!
I am so deeply touched by what Ariel & Shya have to offer the world.  Transformation – more than words can say!!  Thank you sooo much!  How can I describe it?  Well, I feel for the first time that I am really not the voice and chatter of my mind.  So many questions are answered, I feel such a relief, I feel so well in me.  A kind of well-being that I have never felt before.  Thank you ALL.  Yes, I mean YOU. Without you – incredible beings – I could not have discovered – the self discovery adventure – as I discovered it.

Coming back – the reunion with my boyfriend – was so sweet, emotional and lovely.  The first week after Costa Rica – a new life. I experience a wonderful dynamic, in all parts of my life, in my relationship, at work, with my family…Everything went very smoothly.  My colleagues at work said, “Where have you been?  You look so different, so relaxed and so bright.”  I had so much joy in sharing myself and Transformation – it was so cool – I could feel how the people were listening to me – that was a wonderful gift!

I signed up for Costa Rica 2012! Yeah, Yeah! I am thrilled and in April I will be at the Freedom to Be Yourself workshop in Hamburg. I am very much looking forward participating there and seeing YOU Transformation rocks!

Much love from Hamburg and a big hug,
Katja