Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry she calls The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever.

Based on Byron Katie's direct experience of how suffering is created and ended, The Work is an astonishingly simple process, accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, and requires nothing more than a pen, paper, and an open mind.

Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and eliminate it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free.

There are three Schools a year.

This coupon is good for October 2012 in Los Angeles.The program runs from the 12-21st October 2012 in Los Angeles, CA.

However, the coupon is valid for any 3 Programs in 2013, in March, July or October.

However, the dates are not final. This coupon will be good for the October School, or any one of the three 9-day School programs scheduled for 2013, actual dates TBD.

2013 Locations:

March 2014 on the West Coast

July 2013 in Germany

October 2014 on the West Coast

For further information on the School program, go to

http://thework.com/events.php?eid=10014#10014 

In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year fall into depression, anger, and addiction, Byron Katie woke up one morning and realized that all suffering comes from believing our thoughts. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she questioned them, she didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. From this original insight, she would develop the Work, which consists of four simple questions and a turnaround, which is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. When you Work with a thought, you are able to see around it to choices beyond suffering.

The 9-day School for The Work is an immersion experience—an immersion in freedom. Imagine a place where you can feel anything and say anything and know that it's all okay. Imagine that the person sitting next to you, whom you have never talked to before, asks you to facilitate her Work, and that fifteen minutes later you feel you can tell her anything. Each day during the School you may find yourself feeling freer and happier than the day before. Old habits may fall away like outworn clothes. You may find yourself eager to get up in the morning so that you won't miss a moment of this unfolding challenge.