The Work of Byron Katie - Three-Day Intensive on Relationships with Bestselling Author Byron Katie in Los Angeles February 3 - 5, 2006

Byron Katie presents her new three-day intensive on relationships. Come learn how to use The Work to question your stressful thoughts around relationships and leave with a powerful tool that will help you find your way back to peace, clarity and allow you to connect with yourself and others in genuine, loving ways.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2006 -- Byron Katie presents her new three-day weekend intensive on relationships.

Byron Katie is the creator of a simple, powerful, and practical method of self-inquiry and transformation known as "The Work," which she has introduced to hundreds of thousands of people at lectures and workshops in more than 30 countries. Consistent with leading-edge research in cognitive psychology, The Work has been compared to the Socratic dialogue, Buddhist teachings, and 12-step programs, although Katie developed it without any knowledge of religion or psychology. The Work emerged directly out of Katie's own intense experiences with suffering.

After more than a decade of struggling with severe depression, Katie experienced a profound and life-changing realization. She saw that when she believed that something should be different than it is ("My husband should love me more," "My children should appreciate me,") she suffered, and that when she didn't believe these thoughts, she felt peace. She realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she had about the world around her.

In a sudden flash of insight, Katie awoke from her suffering and saw that her previous attempts to find happiness had been backward, and that instead of hopelessly trying to change the world to match her thoughts about how it should be, she could question these thoughts and, by meeting reality as it is, experience unimaginable freedom and joy. As a result, a bed-ridden, suicidal woman became filled with love for everything life brings.

Time magazine has profiled Katie, calling her "visionary for the new millennium." In March 2002, Harmony Books published Katie's first book, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, co-written with renowned author/translator Stephen Mitchell. Loving What Is has been translated into 20 languages. It reached as high as #21 on Amazon.com. It has also been on best-seller lists at bookstores around the country. Katie's second book, I Need Your Love, Is That True?, was also a bestseller. Since 1998, Katie has directed The School for The Work, a nine-day curriculum of exercises offered several times a year in different locations around the world.

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