Before 2025 Ends… A Different Kind of Reflection
Dec 12, 2025Before 2025 Ends… A Different Kind of Reflection
As the year draws to a close, many of us pause to look back at what the last twelve months have brought us and to set intentions for the year ahead. But this December, my reflection stretches far beyond 2025.
I find myself looking back on twenty-five years in Dubai - a quarter-century of growth, creativity, reinvention, and profound transformation.
I arrived in this city newly graduated from the Fine Arts University of Lebanon, trained in acting and theatre production, carrying nothing more than a suitcase filled with dreams and a deep love for the stage. My first project was directing an opening ceremony for DEWA during the Dubai Summer Festival — a beginning that quietly set the tone for everything that followed.
From there, the journey unfolded with its own rhythm. I went on to produce more than 250 theatre productions, open a theatre production company, and later found a performing arts academy. Eventually, I created an edutainment center for children, allowing creativity and learning to merge in playful, meaningful ways.
But life had more to teach me.
A new path opened, calling me inward. I stepped into the worlds of healing, coaching, and personal growth — becoming a hypnotherapy trainer, a teacher of spirituality, and a student of multiple modalities focused on consciousness and leadership. These practices deepened my understanding of human potential in a way the stage alone never could.
This journey led to the creation of The Life Director Method, a coaching approach that blends creativity, awareness, and conscious choice. And in a full circle moment, everything eventually brought me back to where it all began: the Stage.
From that return, Transformational Theatre®️ was born - a new form of theatre where performance becomes a catalyst for real inner change, allowing the audience not only to watch a story, but to feel it, enter it, and transform through it.
As I step into 2026, I do so carrying something deeply meaningful:
my first Transformational Theatre®️ play, “The Stage Is Yours.”
Inspired by my book of the same name and grounded in The Life Director Method, this show is a musical journey of becoming. Through original songs, live storytelling, and guided moments of reflection, the audience is invited to experience transformation from within — not as observers, but as active participants in their own inner story.
Today, the show is complete.
The script is ready.
The stage is set.
And as 2026 begins, I step toward that stage - ready to perform, to share, and to bring this vision to life.
Before the year ends, I wanted to share this reflection with you, and to thank you for being part of my journey in Dubai in ways both seen and unseen.
With gratitude,
Nadine
