Hi Katie,
I've just got back from attending today's event with you in London, and I'm so full of gratitude to you and to everyone involved and present (including me!) for making it possible, and for giving the gift of a wonderful, open-minded experience.
I was particularly moved by the Work of the gentleman who had the thought "my father shouldn't have died when I was 9 years old". As I listened and watched, I did the Work for myself, because my mum died when I was 9 years old (is it true?).
Soon, I found tears of gratitude flowing, because it gave me the opportunity to remember what I had discovered when I worked that very thought: the joy of my memories of my mum, and of how they are always with me (and so SHE is always with me); the privilege of becoming closer to my dad, and of being a comfort to him in his own grief; the amazing experience of getting to know my stepmother (and falling absolutely in love with her - I always say I had one wonderful mother for the first nine years of my life, and I've had another wonderful mother since I was eleven!); of learning, through my bond with my stepmother (and her family) that water is JUST as thick as blood; of becoming independent at a young age, learning that "I can make it" which stood me in such good stead when I moved away from home and came out as a gay man.....the list really is endless. And in all of that, my love for my (first) mum remains absolute and unbroken, yet I am able to be open to the amazing realisation that her death was a gift, just as her life was a gift.
(I would love for you to publish this email in your blog, or in The Parlor, in the hope that that gentleman may be reading. I'd like to extend my thanks to him.)
It was also wonderful to see you "for real" for the first time, although I found myself smiling to think that thought, because when you walked on stage, I had also the thought "oh, I've met her before, she's a friend of mine"! Thank God for YouTube! I had the same thought with everyone who joined you on that stage too! Truly - no new thoughts.
I continue to do The Work. I've been making use of the resources on your wonderful website. The Hotline, the Round Robin....thank you for them.
I hope you'll come back to the UK again soon. I echo one of the questions you were asked at the end - "when will you bring the School to the UK?", and on the one hand I repeat it in earnest - it would be so wonderful to have it and you here, reaching so many people who may not "find" it otherwise - and on the other, I hear your answer: "when you answer the four questions for yourself, in your own mind, whenever you need to". What a hoot!!
Thank you Katie, it was an amazing day, and I'm coming to realise, bit by bit, that they all are.
I love you, and your Work.
Brian
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Hi Denise
I haven't done a workshop with Katie either, but discovered the work a couple of months ago and have since done it consistently. I've watched lots of the videos on YouTube, too, and read Loving What Is, of course. I live in Nottingham and would be happy to do The Work with you. Hopefully this will find you - my email is fiona.robertson61@ntlworld.com
Posted by Fiona Robertson | July 25, 2008 5:52 AM
Posted on July 25, 2008 05:52
Hello to anyone in East Sussex. I live near Eastbourne. I am a student of A Course In Miracles, am about to attend a workshop with Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Riveira and love Katie's The Work. Is there anyone out there, near here, who has similar interests, would like to meet up sometimes and do The Work, Undo the Ego or anything similar? It would be a great relief to find a like minded person to speak and listen to about these subjects - I have wonderful friends, but mostly they are not in this space.
I look forward to hearing from you if you are out there!!
With love
Pauline
Posted by Pauline de la Fuente | June 10, 2008 11:54 AM
Posted on June 10, 2008 11:54
Hi,
I am hoping to find someone in the Midlands who may be interested in doing the 'work' with me.
I have not yet done a workshop with Katie, I am hoping she will return to the UK soon!!
Is there anyone out there who lives near Nottingham/Derbyshire who would be interested?
Denise.
Posted by Denise Quail | April 17, 2008 4:36 AM
Posted on April 17, 2008 04:36
Hello Gary (Dark Haired Guy)!
London chapter here we come. I've dropped a wee note to you Blue Yonder address but I thought I would back it up with a message here. I would be delighted to meet up with you and Brian and Charlotte.
Are you all in town for the summer?
I keep watching Katie's dialogues on YouTube and end up weeping, my head in my hands.
Hard on the keyboard, good for my soul.
Lots of love
Stephanie
ps It's hard on my keyboard.
Is that true?
Posted by Stephanie Young | August 8, 2007 12:30 PM
Posted on August 8, 2007 12:30
Hi Brian, Stephanie, Charlotte and anyone else in London!
Yes, I was the tall, dark-haired guy who asked the question about turnarounds being stressful themselves!
Yes, if you're interested in forming a group for doing the Work, drop me an email at garywoodward1@blueyonder.co.uk
Hope to hear from you soon!
Gary.
Posted by Gary | July 20, 2007 3:35 AM
Posted on July 20, 2007 03:35
Dear Katie
I was very impressed at the way you were able to facilitate a persons inner work via your involvement with them.
I noticed too that you are wearing glasses sometimes.
For a number of years i have been doing an exploratory work as to why i wear glasses.
I feel like i am getting very very close to the issues involved.
I have myself developed an enquiry method for a person that begins with the eye glasses that they are wearing.
Ultimately the question i am asking of myself and of others is:
Who would i be if i no longer needed the help of these lenses to allow me to see what my vision is showing me?
Particularly "why is it that i find it so hard to see "what is"? Why am i in reaction to "what is"?
I do have some pretty exacting tools that can help a person zoom into why they are wearing glasses - particularly for nearsightedness astigmatism and hyoperopia.
The problem i have found though is that peoople enormously strongly resist seeing their life clearly.
Your own work seems to enable a person to do their own seeing if they have the courage to look at what they cannot bare to see.
On the other hand if you can see it already then you dont have a vision problem. The problem then becomes one of working with the strong resistance.
I have found working with others to be more or less impossible because they just dont seem to want to see.
On the other hand you seem to have shown me that somehow by some method it can be done!
Thanks
Andrew
Posted by Andrew | July 16, 2007 1:44 AM
Posted on July 16, 2007 01:44
I was at the event in London, too. My heart swelled up when Katie took the stage and I thought 'I'm MADLY LOVE WITH YOU!!' She inspired the same thought all afternoon. What beauty.
I've been doing the work with heart-changing results and wanted to share the discomfort I create as the old thoughts die away. I seem to believe the thought that I am losing something, as I no longer attach to stress. Has anyone else had this experience?
Interestingly, when I do the work on the thought 'I am losing something' -. Well.
All together now...
I'd be up for a London chapter of the work. Gary, were you the chap in the middle section towards the back? Dark-haired? Stress-question? Adorable answer?
All love
Stephanie
Posted by Stephanie Young | July 14, 2007 3:45 PM
Posted on July 14, 2007 15:45
Dear Brian and Gary,
I would be very interested in joining an inquiery circle where people facilitate each other. I have been fortunate enough to
partake in a 2 day Intensive in London with Katie and listened to her one further occasion.
Please get in touch if you are looking to form a local group.
Cheers.
Posted by Charlotte Brunswick | July 13, 2007 5:29 AM
Posted on July 13, 2007 05:29
Hi Brian and everyone reading this!
I, too, was at the London event and it was incredible. Katie had such a laser-like intelligence and wonderful sense of humour. It was amazing to see the insights we all received by watching the people on the stage. I asked a question at the end of quite a general nature but Katie's answer was very pertinent to me and my life. It seemed to bring up lots of stored-up emotions.
Anyway, the whole day was fabulous! Come back to London soon Katie : ) In the meantime, I'd like to get in touch with some people in London who are doing the work - maybe we could get a little group together?
Gary.
Posted by Gary | July 10, 2007 1:21 PM
Posted on July 10, 2007 13:21
Lovely letter Brian. Doing The Work on my mother dying at 16 has turned into one of the best happenings of my life.
Joy
Posted by Joy Curtis | July 9, 2007 7:54 AM
Posted on July 9, 2007 07:54
Thanks for posting Brian's letter - the last sentence struck deep - what a great way to put it - yes, the days do become more amazing, bit by bit.
With love,
Jon
Posted by Jon Willis | July 8, 2007 10:29 PM
Posted on July 8, 2007 22:29