Online Free Workshop: Ten Barriers That Derail The Work…And How To Dissolve Them

As Summer Camp for The Mind approaches and people are joining, I’m suddenly in a flurry of getting my entire 2019-2020 calendar year organized.

I have an invitation for you to a free online workshop I love offering about what comes between us and finding freedom in doing The Work, plus–at the end–I’ll answer your questions about Summer Camp and Year of Inquiry.

The webinar topic? Ten Barriers That Derail “Getting” The Work…and How to Dissolve Them.

Ten Barriers Workshop is online Sunday, June 30th at 11:00 am Pacific Time/ 2:00 pm ET/ 7:00 pm UK. This is open to everyone, no fee, and will be recorded.

Register Here for the Free Online Workshop and I’ll be sure you get all the info on how to join, listen, and follow along in our work. No one has to share.

These ten barriers include tricky subtleties the mind comes up with when it comes to self-inquiry that I’ve experienced over time, and they may help you to recognize them, too.

Summer Camp for The Mind then starts July 8th (and Year of Inquiry is starting again in September, for the 11th time–wow).

So here we go….questioning our thoughts together virtually.

A good way to experiment with group live online inquiry (how amazing we can even do this) is to join Summer Camp! It’s a virtual audio-only telesession blitz of daily inquiry this summer.

Here’s how Summer Camp works:

Using your phone, tablet, gizmo, laptop (anything that dials a phone number or connects to the internet) you’ll either dial the simple old-fashioned phone-number way OR you’ll connect by clicking an internet link.

Yes, people participate in Summer Camp while sitting on the beach, while driving their car to work, while walking home from the office or on their way to pick up the kids.

You can be there any time the calls are live, and drop in or leave at any point. There are no requirements or demands for you to be there from start to finish of the call. You can listen to recordings if you wish, instead of participating live.

Being a part of our calls offers a fabulous time for coming and going in your life as you need. The group creates a circle, and it’s here for you from wherever you are physically on the planet.

One of my favorite things about our live calls is when someone calls in and says “I’m ducked inside an empty office. I have a meeting with my boss in an hour and I’m soooo nervous. Can I do The Work?”

Yes.

“She’s going to fire me.” Is it true?

Once, someone who attended Summer Camp and then Year of Inquiry called while in the car on her way to her nephew’s trial. “He needs to NOT go to jail.”

Is it true?

Or the time when one of us found herself headed to Rome for a weekend unexpectedly without the boyfriend after a last-minute break up. She got on the plane for her romantic destination anyway, and did The Work with us.

“I’m all alone. I’ve been abandoned.” Is it true?

We’re all there together, doing The Work with the ones who are frightened, navigating something tough in life. We’re finding our own similar situations where we might feel the same way, just a little.

It’s so exciting to learn, to listen, to notice how with anything, in any situation, we can find peace.

Doing The Work with others, we address our own inner life.

We can’t change what’s happening out there, but we can respond differently from in here when we do The Work and see other options.

So when are the Summer Camp calls?

We meet July 8-August 16 Monday through Friday, with a different time each day (not July 15-19 though). You find which times work for you and mark your calendar. (see them all below).

I email everyone daily with the link and phone number so you’ve got it easily accessible. We share a forum together for posting, writing worksheets, asking questions….writing out your own work in the middle of the night when you’re worried and can’t sleep.

I love the community that gets created, and that you can use it any way you want. Nothing is required.

The calls meet at the following times. If you need to figure out your time zone, this is my favorite simple time zone converter link: click here.

Calls are all an hour +, but I like to leave a little wiggle room on the end to finish out an inquiry if we need to, or feedback and insights people might want to share. Schedule 75 mins if you can, and nothing’s required. Come for five.

Mondays July 8-August 12 4:00-5:15 pm PT
Tuesdays July 9-August 13 8:00-9:15 am PT
Wednesdays July 10-August 14 Noon-1:15 pm PT
Thursdays July 11-August 15 5:30-6:45 pm PT
Fridays July 12-August 16 7:45-9:15 am PT (90 mins)

No Summer Camp July 15-19 this year–I’ll be camping where the internet isn’t connected

So if you’re wondering what’s good about dialing in and doing The Work….like….why would anybody want to?

Four powerful reasons:

If you’re super shy like me (very introverted) and you like the idea of being in your own space, and listening only for awhile
if you find it difficult to stop daily life responsibilities to travel to learn and do The Work in a retreat space or a class
if you normally can’t afford the smaller in-depth group classes or events.
if you simply do not question your thinking when you’re on your own and busy, even though you know it’s a good idea

….then Summer Camp for The Mind may be just the ticket.

The Work is a sort of meditation. It’s a practice to return to, over and over again.

For example, I notice about meditation, we don’t meditate for an hour and say “WOW! BINGO! I am now completely peaceful with silence and life for All Time!”

Meditation is connecting to an energy. We’re tapping into the wisdom of being. We’re practicing relating to silence and spaciousness.

With The Work, we’re answering the same four questions, but finding over and over again new layers of insight, new glimmers of freedom.

We wake up, sometimes slowly, sometimes suddenly, out of the huge variety of stories we have from all our life experiences.

Sharing together via teleconference also has a powerful affect and benefit for us. Even if we listen only, It’s remarkable what listening to someone else is like, learning we’re not alone.

We don’t say a word, and yet we’re riveted by someone else’s personal work….because it’s just like ours. The circumstance doesn’t really matter. We show each other the way by simply answering the questions, honestly, out loud.

I find, joining together in this remarkable way by the technology we live with in our times….it’s like we’re a think-tank of brilliant wise people (with a few glitches here and there), pooling our minds together to create One Mind in awareness.

And this awareness brings so much peace, clarity and joy. It’s strangely simple, and strangely profound.

No “teacher” is required for The Work. You are your own teacher. All you really need is a willingness to be open, to write, to contemplate without expectations. The answers appear and they are your answers, just right for you.

Meditation is like that. We don’t know what will happen in a meditation session, but our great intention is to make friends with silence.

With The Work, we get to make friends with our chattering and nervous minds, and even make peace with events from the past.

I hope you’ll join me on this sweet journey. The Work has changed my life and I do this work because it’s one of the most profoundly peace-giving tools I’ve ever discovered. Life changing for me. I love questioning my thoughts and I love doing this with you.

“Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.” ~ Byron Katie

Sign up for Summer Camp here. Yes, it’s sliding scale. You get to decide how many calls you’ll make or listen to via recording, what you can afford, what works for you. Come for one week only, come for every call, come weekly on the time/day that works for you. You’ll click the pay button, and fill in whatever amount you choose.

And come to the workshop on Sunday. Register for it here so I can send you the details for attending.

Much love,

Grace

P.S. If in-person is your favorite thing and telesessions just do not sound fun, here’s the scoop on autumn retreat (exciting)!

We’ll all stay in a gorgeous lodge near White Haven, Pennsylvania I’ve not been to, but been told it’s fabulous. A stunning area in the fall, sharing time and space in The Work away from all things distracting, taking time to share meals, inquire, rest and be in silence and connection together. Three private rooms and the rest of us will stay in the many semi-private beds, bunks and loft spaces (or cots and mattresses) available. October 17-20, 2019. For more information, read here. Can’t wait to join you this year for autumn retreat on the east coast.