Many people have written with questions about the upcoming Year of Inquiry group that starts this coming Friday.
Here’s a summary:
- We all meet via phone or skype three times a month for 90 minutes, Fridays 9 am Pacific Time
- We have a private, closed email forum for sharing, questions, breakthroughs and inquiry in writing
- Everyone in YOI gets to know one another extremely well in a very unique way—not by the usual life details, but through questioning shared stressful beliefs
- Each month there is a different unique topic for inquiry. We watch a video at the beginning of the month (Byron Katie) and fill out a Judge Your Neighbor worksheet on a situation in our own life relating to that topic.
- I partner everyone in YOI with someone else in the group for the month, to trade facilitations. Through this partnering, you learn how to facilitate and be facilitated, and get to know your brethren in inquiry.
- You can pay monthly, or all at once, or in 3 payments, it’s up to you.
- There is no written contract for participating, but it’s best if your intention is to stay engaged for a year…and, this is the last YOI that will be in this particular format and this low fee
I created this format because for me, personally, I simply didn’t seem to sit down, write out my thoughts, or slow down long enough….even when I was in pain….to make doing The Work a regular practice.
And I didn’t want to feel desperate for mind-change anymore. I wanted to work with what This is, the life I was apparently living, with a sense of relaxation.
Careful, gentle self-reflection comes easy and quickly to some people.
And then there are the rest of us.
I knew when I listened to Byron Katie on recording, and when I read her book Loving What Is that there was a powerful message.
But I always thought that message was somewhere other than me, like inside Katie herself, or in some other place of wisdom. I thought that doing this work wouldn’t really result in peace unless I got some special insight.
Answer four questions? Then turn what I’m thinking around?
What good is that going to do?! I need bigger guns! I need an inpatient program! I need a fairy godmother! A change of consciousness! Enlightenment!
Are you sure that’s what you need?
What if it really is true that all you actually need, is what all the great teachers have said, including Byron Katie, for all the ages….
…..your own honest answers. Trusting yourself. Being your own best friend.
What if all you need is to honestly clearly identify what it is you are believing and question this, and use YOUR imagination to see another way?
“Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our freedom. Rather than being other-realized, you can be self-realized. Instead of looking to us for your fulfillment, you can find it in yourself……to put The Work into action, begin with the voice inside you that’s telling you what we should do. Realize that it’s actually telling YOU what to do…..There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.” ~ Byron Katie
If you’ve noticed that you like the idea of doing The Work, but you don’t actually do it (I don’t have time, it doesn’t really work, I get bored, I can’t stay with my answers, so what) then consider joining us.
Year Of Inquiry is here!
Write me at grace@workwithgrace.com to talk about it.
Much love,
Grace