June 21st, 2008
From the moment I signed up for the upcoming Art of Relating, I have already noticed a significant difference in the way in which I relate to the people in my life. So much so that just last week I landed an amazing new teaching job at an incredible new school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn! Between the Time and Project Management course, which I attended a couple of weeks ago and the Art of Relating course for which I have already signed up, I can truly feel the magical effects of transformation in my life. During this time, I had been contemplating leaving my current school and finding another teaching position elsewhere. About two weeks ago, my friend suggested that I come to her school and speak with her principal. I could have had a thousand excuses not to listen to her, but since attending the Kane’s workshops, I have learned the importance of listening, and also trusting my intuition. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 16th, 2008
Hello, Friends! Life is so amazing! Four years ago when I was still in the midst of searching for well being, I never could have imagined where I am currently at in this moment of my life. In 1995, I was hired as a receptionist at Société Générale (a French Investment Bank). Two years later, I was promoted to Administrative Assistant (Secretary), and I stayed in this position for the next 8 years of my life. So four years ago, while still a Secretary at the bank, I was a walking complaint. I am also a singer/songwriter, and I was constantly lost in the thought that “This isn’t it! I’m supposed to be a rock star performing at Madison Square Garden! What am I doing here?”
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June 11th, 2008
About two weeks ago I had the great opportunity to chat with Ariel and Shya about dating. It was an amazing and eye opening experience… I am not sure what happened but suddenly and miraculously I have so many dates!! I have been scheduling meetings in open air markets, cafes, during my lunch hours, at museums, going to play tennis, cooking… And all the guys have been fun to be with! I somehow discovered how to be with each of them, not thinking if they were “relationship material” while at the same time I stopped putting pressure on myself to find “THE ONE”. Ariel and Shya masterfully hit the nail on the head when they explained that I had been conditioned to be “a good catholic girl” through my culture and I’d been approaching dating as a “mini-marriage” in hopes that the date would turn into a husband. The thought of just enjoying myself while meeting many men was outside of my realm of possibilities…I mean ‘What kind of woman dates many men?.. I am sure you and I came up with the same word..it starts with a W and ends with an E.
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June 1st, 2008
As a Literacy Coach, I’m invited to schools to work with teachers and often asked by the principal to focus on specific projects. In every school, there is something very different to do. In a school I visit weekly, the principal asked me to sort through materials & books that were in the basement and find ways to use them with the teachers. It would require bringing things into the teacher room, which is about 8 feet by 8 feet. It has 6 full size desks around the perimeter of the room. The room is shared by 6 specialty teachers (science, social studies…) It was so cluttered with papers and “stuff” piled so high on the desks, that the windows were covered. The room felt very “stuck” and uncomfortable to be in. As someone who loves to organize, I realized that before we brought anything new in, the room was begging to be cleaned and cleared. I approached the principal and shared this with her and she gladly agreed.
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May 24th, 2008
March 3, 2008, Monday morning, 9:00 a.m. I eagerly sit at my new desk in the law library of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, in Brooklyn, New York – often recognized as the busiest appellate court in the nation [1]. For over two years, I worked at the Appellate Division as a Court Attorney, serving the Justices of the Court and supporting them in reaching fair and just decisions. My name was on numerous memoranda of law and confidential reports submitted to the Court. However, until about two months ago, I doubt if any of the 22 Justices would even recognize my face.
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May 21st, 2008
Two nights ago, at Monday Night Alive, I shared a story about my health, and how through Instantaneous Transformation I discovered that worrying about it was a choice, not a requirement.
I’ve had a few bouts of sinusitis since last October, so when it came back last month, I had some blood-work done to try to figure out why these infections kept coming back. When I called my doctor’s office to get the test results, they would not give them to me over the phone, and insisted that I had to come in to meet with the doctor. My initial reaction was “Oh no, what could be so serious that they won’t tell me except in person?”
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May 16th, 2008
I was recently walking around the theater where I am currently working, which is also a theater where I had worked many years ago. As I entered different rooms, offices and hallways, I kept coming across my drawings and photos framed on the walls from the different shows I had done. I had to laugh at myself, because with each drawing came a flood of both memory and astonishment.
First of all, I was astonished to see that these were the drawings which MY MIND had stressed over – and how they were ‘not good enough’. Yet here they were framed, years later. My drawings are the very first thing you see as you enter the managing director’s office and the artistic director’s office. As I looked up and saw them – and BEFORE I even realized they were mine - I thought “Wow, what a beautiful set of drawings”. Blew that whole story of ‘not good enough’ out of the water instantaneously!
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May 10th, 2008
After a breathtaking - or should I say breathgiving - long weekend with two magical and touching workshops in Hamburg, Germany, I’m back home in St. Gallen, Switzerland. I feel relaxed, open, available and - no matter how much work or how demanding a job or task - able to appreciate the people around me in their natural greatness and many abilities. In writing this, I just realize that actually includes me… and am smiling…
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May 3rd, 2008
The other day I went to a printer shop on the west side of Manhattan to do a press check for the magazine that I produce and design quarterly, as part of my job as a senior designer for a financial firm. This means that I check that the main color matches the previous issue, that there is no text missing, that the portraits of the managing directors look crisp, and that the typography is legible, among other things before they go ahead and print the full run of 25,000 copies. I was sitting in a comfortable room with a computer where I could surf the web whilst waiting for the press sheets to come out, so I could approve the colors and get back to my office when done.
At some point, I heard a bunch of young people coming into the room. Usually it is very quiet with only a few press-men and sales representatives walking by. Normally, I would have just continued checking e-mails and minding “my own business” or being shy. But something quite unusual happened, I got curious and I found myself asking someone who seemed to be the teacher leading this group of young students if it was a design class and from which school. He explained they were students from Pratt Institute and he had brought them to learn about the printing process. “What a coincidence” I thought, “I also went to Pratt”… And without much thought I told him that I had graduated from the Communications Design Masters program in 1998 and that now I worked for a financial firm designing their publications… He asked me if I could talk to his students about my professional experience.
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April 22nd, 2008
I attended Ariel & Shya’s “Passion: Revitalize Your Life” workshop in January. While I was attending the workshop, my four-year old son, Milan, spent time with his dad over the weekend. When I picked him up from school on the Monday after, he was so completely joyful and confident, having discovered his new abilities: ice skating on a single blade, snapping and whistling. It was so inspiring to see him so full of life and I knew that he was truly connected into the magic that happened during the weekend Passion workshop.
During that evening, Milan and I were hanging out at home and he called to me across the apartment, speaking in his own dialogue of made-up language. I responded back to him in made-up language and we had the funniest dialogue, exploding with laughter. I was so amazed, because speaking in a dialogue of made-up language was actually an activity we did at the Passion workshop! I could truly see how tapped into me he was. I could feel how when I took care of myself and went for my life passionately and without reservations, that my son was directly linked discovering his own gifts and passions, too.
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