Loving What Is: Sessions Available with Amanda Winters, LCSW on Utilizing The Simple 4 Questions of The Work of Byron Katie
What is "The Work" Method?
The Work of Byron Katie is a simple process of self-discovery that teaches us how to meet our thinking, and therefore our entire lives, with clarity, love and understanding. The Work is a sure way out of the experience of confusion and a step into the experience of true internal peace.
*Pictured: Amanda Winters and Byron Katie at a School for the Work 2011
Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet. The root cause of suffering is identification with our thoughts, the ‘stories’ that are continuously running through our minds. The Work acts like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through that illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being. Joy, peace, and love emanate from it as your natural state. Eckhart Tolle, author, The Power of Now
"The Work is called self-help, but it is far more than that: it is self-realization, and it leads to the end of suffering. As we investigate a stressful thought, we see for ourselves that it's untrue; we get to look at the cause-and-effect of it, to observe in sobering detail exactly what modes of pain and confusion result from believing it; then we get a glimpse into the empty mirror, the world beyond our story of the world, & see what our life would be like without the thought; and finally we get to experience the opposite of what we have so firmly believed. Once we deeply question a thought, it loses its power to cause us pain, & eventually it ceases even to arise.""I don't let go of my thoughts," Katie says. I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me." *quote from Byron Katie in A Thousand Names for Joy
The Work Process:
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you, and to address the cause of your problems with clarity.
You can begin The Work Process by going to this link:
http://www.thework.com/thework.asp .
**The Four Questions of The Work:
1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?
Next, turn the thought around. Find three genuine and specific examples of how that turn around is as true or truer.
*The Turnaround
The turnarounds are an opportunity to experience the opposite of what you believe to be true. You may find several turnarounds.
For example, "Paul should understand me" turns around to:
I should understand me. I should understand Paul. Paul
I shouldn't understand me. Let yourself fully experience the turnarounds. For each one, find at least three genuine, specific examples in your life where the turnaround is true.
Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet. The root cause of suffering is identification with our thoughts, the ‘stories’ that are continuously running through our minds. The Work acts like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through that illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being. Joy, peace, and love emanate from it as your natural state. Eckhart Tolle, author, The Power of Now
"The Work is called self-help, but it is far more than that: it is self-realization, and it leads to the end of suffering. As we investigate a stressful thought, we see for ourselves that it's untrue; we get to look at the cause-and-effect of it, to observe in sobering detail exactly what modes of pain and confusion result from believing it; then we get a glimpse into the empty mirror, the world beyond our story of the world, & see what our life would be like without the thought; and finally we get to experience the opposite of what we have so firmly believed. Once we deeply question a thought, it loses its power to cause us pain, & eventually it ceases even to arise.""I don't let go of my thoughts," Katie says. I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me." *quote from Byron Katie in A Thousand Names for Joy
The Work Process:
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you, and to address the cause of your problems with clarity.
You can begin The Work Process by going to this link:
http://www.thework.com/thework.asp .
**The Four Questions of The Work:
1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?
Next, turn the thought around. Find three genuine and specific examples of how that turn around is as true or truer.
*The Turnaround
The turnarounds are an opportunity to experience the opposite of what you believe to be true. You may find several turnarounds.
For example, "Paul should understand me" turns around to:
I should understand me. I should understand Paul. Paul
I shouldn't understand me. Let yourself fully experience the turnarounds. For each one, find at least three genuine, specific examples in your life where the turnaround is true.
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Pictured: Amanda volunteering with Byron Katieat the August 2012 Byron Katie Meeting in Austin.
"The Work is merely four questions; it’s not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It’s nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you’ve got and enhance it. Any religion you have – they’ll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they’ll burn up anything that isn’t true for you. They’ll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting." – Byron Katie
"The Work is merely four questions; it’s not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It’s nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you’ve got and enhance it. Any religion you have – they’ll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they’ll burn up anything that isn’t true for you. They’ll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting." – Byron Katie
More Byron Katie Links:
Gorgeous photos with Byron Katie wisdom quotes attached==BLISS alert! https://www.facebook.com/pg/theworkofbyronkatie/photos/?ref=page_internal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie
https://www.facebook.com/theworkofbyronkatie?ref=br_tf
http://www.twitter.com/byronkatie
Other Ways to Learn About The Work
Byron Katie's website: www.thework.com
A great way to experience Byron Katie's wisdom is to check out
her wisdom quotes on this page
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**About Internationally Recognized Author, Byron Katie
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 called 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 and paper and an open mind.
**Background Info on How The Work Began for Katie
Byron Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. For almost a decade she spiraled down into depression, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom.
Then one morning in February 1986, she experienced a life-changing realization. There are various names for an experience like this. Katie calls it "waking up to reality."
In that instant of no-time, she says,
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.
She realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she'd had about the world. 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 bedridden, suicidal woman was instantly filled with love for everything life brings.
Katie's process of self-inquiry, called The Work, didn't develop from this experience; she says that it woke up with her, as her, that February morning in 1986. The first people who did The Work reported that it had transformed their lives, and she soon began receiving invitations to teach the process publicly. Since 1986, she has brought The Work to hundreds of thousands of people across the world, at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, universities, schools, at weekend workshops, and at her amazing nine-day School for The Work. For a list of FAQs on the School for The Work: Click here.
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"Katie" as her friends call her, is the author of these bestselling books: (I have put my favorites at the top)
new book that is 'all in' on the connection belying everything that support us, but only all the time, as she would say
*New book! Published in 2020 !! “
A Mind at Home with Itself” (newest book==awesome!!)
Loving What Is (with Stephen Mitchell);(the handbook on best first book for anyone new to The Work)
A Thousand Names for Joy: (with Stephen Mitchell) (reflections by Katie on the Tao de Ching)
Question Your Thinking, Change the World is an awesome book of quotes drawn from Katie's talks and books
I Need Your Love—Is That True? (a book about our need for Love, Approval and Appreciation and a great book to address relationship issues)
Who Would You Be Without Your Story?
Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?, Katie’s first book for children
Peace in the Present Moment (a book of quotations with Eckhart Tolle, released 2010)
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The Work Process:
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you, and to address the cause of your problems with clarity.
The Four Questions of The Work: (They all can be summed up to ask the question, "What else is true?"
1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?
Turn the thought around. Find three genuine and specific examples of how that turn around is as true or truer.
The Turnaround
The turnarounds are an opportunity to experience the opposite of what you believe to be true. You may find several turnarounds.
For example, "Paul should understand me" turns around to:
I should understand me. I should understand Paul. Paul
shouldn't understand me. Let yourself fully experience the turnarounds. For each one, find at least three genuine, specific examples in your life where the turnaround is true.
The turnarounds are your prescription for happiness. Live the medicine you have been prescribing for others. The world is waiting for just one person to live it. You're the one.
You can begin The Work Process by going to this link and downloading a worksheet:
http://www.thework.com/thework.asp .
**
Additional Resources for The Work
New and Great: The Work App (application) for smartphones. You can answer the 4 questions and turn the thought around with it==then email or print your answers...has some video and audio as well==4 stars from me. Katie mentioned that her son told her he has done a lot more of The Work since having it. Only for Apple products so far....
The essential first book to learn about how to do 'The Work' is Katie's book "Loving What Is" a wonderful book that describes The Work Process in detail.
-Byron Katie’s 9-day School for The Work
*The Schools are expensive and awesome. I have never heard anyone say they regretted the money they spent. Nonetheless, many people do not have the time or money to commit to one.
*From my personal experience, I think that the best bargain to experience Katie is her New Year’s Cleanse. It is nothing but Katie, on stage, doing The Work. Check her website for more details on it. Also, there are scholarships awarded to attend the school which you can apply for on her website. After the first school, as a repeater, future schools are cheaper. Also, you can apply to be a volunteer at The School for the Work, however, the room and board must still be paid for by you, which is still thousands of dollars.
The School is the ultimate inner adventure. Unlike every other school on earth, this one isn't for learning—it's for unlearning. You'll spend nine days losing the fear-based stories you've innocently clung to all your life. They might be stories like "I'm not good enough" or "I need a partner" or "I'll never get over it" or "I have to be in control." Who would you be without those stressful stories?
At the School you'll discover that your stories are everyone's, and everyone's stories are yours. You'll be welcomed into a diverse, supportive family where you can be completely yourself without fear of judgment, perhaps for the first time in your life. You'll facilitate your classmates' Work as they open up to themselves. And then you'll trade places, and they'll do the same for you.
Graduates of The School for the Work, are able to interact with a very amazing conscious community through her website forums. Graduates also are eligible to be candidates in The Institute for the Work, which allows one to take tele-classes to learn more about this method
The Do The Work Free Helpline (you can call this number and a volunteer will help you with troubling thoughts over the phone)
About the Helpline:
The Helpline is a free service offered for people new to The Work and those who need occasional assistance or support in doing The Work. Our Helpline is provided by experienced volunteer facilitators who offer their time to support you to learn how to do The Work for yourself.
Their available time is scheduled and this is the time you can connect. They do not make or accept appointments outside these scheduled times. If you are looking for ongoing facilitated sessions or an appointment, we invite you to contact one of the Certified Facilitators.We are here to support you to turn your life around.
Other Support in Studying Byron Katie's Work
*Check Byron Katie's website for other Certified Facilitators of the Work (some here locally) whom can assist you.
*I personally know, and recommend Certified Facilitator, Jen Deraspe.
Witnessing Katie facilitate ‘The Work’ with others in one of the most powerful ways to learn from her .
*Ways to see Katie do The Work:
a) One can Search for Byron Katie's videos by category on her website:
b) One can search www.youtube.com for search terms “Byron Katie” or “Byron Katie and __________ (a topic)” There are hundreds of videos on the net for you to enjoy. I predict that entertaining, as well as insightful.
***
Watch The Work in Action: Favorite Byron Katie Videos of mine
1) Video entitled: “You need more money, Is that true?”
2) Video on “I don’t have enough money”
*in this video Katie explains the process of how to do the work in detail, rather than doing the work with an individual.
4) Video on How to Deal With Thoughts about Cancer
5) The “I’m not living up to my potential” video, can be seen by clicking here. It is an amusing and powerful video of Byron Katie doing “The Work” with a man trouble about his self-esteem.
*Scroll down for many more resources for The Work, including more videos.
Byron Katie Bookstore: contains Books, Audio and DVDs and more. *Topics include depression, parenting, economic downturns, cancer, homosexuality and more.
Two Audio Cd’s I particularly recommend are:
A Thousand Names for Joy (Audiobook CD)
Omega 2009 5-Disc box Set (CD Talk)
Videos on Grief:
video where Katie talks about dealing with loss in life
Loss of a Loved One (DVD)
-Accepting Criticism: this is a fantastic interview with Katie on how to optimize the effect of criticism, using humility and an open mind. As she says, “If you want to be enlightened, find an enemy.”
“Turn it Around’ -is a DVD created by Byron Katie fan, Jenny McCarthy. I do not recommend buying it, b/c I consider it too disorganized to pay for. However, you can watch it for free here.
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* The Work of Byron Katie Offerings with Amanda Winters:
The Work' of Byron Katie is a powerful method used to question the stressful thoughts that create human suffering.
I offer instruction about and facilitation of The Work, a 4-question method of self-inquiry.
I feel fortunate to have attended 3 of Byron Katie's 9-Day Schools for the Work, and feel that the ability it has given me to question my disturbing thoughts has dramatically improved my physical and mental health. The Work is such a powerful way to access one's own, innate wisdom that it is known by some as "enlightenment for people in a hurry".
I love to share The Work, a 4-question method of self-inquiry, through public meetings, private intro sessions, meetups and trainings* To learn more about private counseling sessions, workshops, please contact me.
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For Groups:
-I can do an hour and a free half presentation for a group of friends together for free if it is 5 or more people...
-If you are a member of a personal growth or spiritual community, I may be available to do an introductory session of The Work for them for free.
-For Individuals:
-I do paid telephone sessions of The Work, I do sessions at my office in South Austin (or elsewhere in some cases) *See info below for more info.
**Other Ways to Learn About The Work
To learn more about private counseling sessions, workshops, etc please call me at 512-423-6529 or email me.
About my Professional Counseling Practice
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, specializing in Solutions-Focused, Presence-Centered Psychotherapy.
I draw not only from Western psychology and Clinical Social Work, but also my personal study of non-dualistic, Eastern philosophy.
I am a former resident of New Orleans, Louisiana who moved to Austin, Texas in 1997 to complete my Masters Degree in Social Work. :) I love my career as a mental health social worker/counselor.
I have worked primarily with elderly and mentally ill individuals; providing group and individual therapy. I have also provided case management services, provided wellness and stress counseling for The Department of Homeland Security and work with the US Military, in addition to maintaining my private practice.
To schedule an appointment for private counseling contact me via email or this form
Session Rates
Contact me about rates. Sliding scale rates may be available
I offer a free 20 minute consultation.
I offer discounted session rates if you prepay for 3 or 6 sessions
Telephone Counseling and/or Skype Sessions are available as well.
Insurance Coverage
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) I am covered by many insurance plans. To find out if your insurance company will reimburse for my services, you might ask them: "Do I have mental health benefits that cover counseling by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker?" I provide a receipt for services that can be submitted to your insurance company. My office is located near the intersection of South Lamar and Ben White/71. *Telephone counseling or connecting via Skype are available as well.
Contact me if you want more information on this.
Gorgeous photos with Byron Katie wisdom quotes attached==BLISS alert! https://www.facebook.com/pg/theworkofbyronkatie/photos/?ref=page_internal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie
https://www.facebook.com/theworkofbyronkatie?ref=br_tf
http://www.twitter.com/byronkatie
Other Ways to Learn About The Work
Byron Katie's website: www.thework.com
A great way to experience Byron Katie's wisdom is to check out
her wisdom quotes on this page
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
**About Internationally Recognized Author, Byron Katie
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 called 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 and paper and an open mind.
**Background Info on How The Work Began for Katie
Byron Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. For almost a decade she spiraled down into depression, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom.
Then one morning in February 1986, she experienced a life-changing realization. There are various names for an experience like this. Katie calls it "waking up to reality."
In that instant of no-time, she says,
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.
She realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she'd had about the world. 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 bedridden, suicidal woman was instantly filled with love for everything life brings.
Katie's process of self-inquiry, called The Work, didn't develop from this experience; she says that it woke up with her, as her, that February morning in 1986. The first people who did The Work reported that it had transformed their lives, and she soon began receiving invitations to teach the process publicly. Since 1986, she has brought The Work to hundreds of thousands of people across the world, at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, universities, schools, at weekend workshops, and at her amazing nine-day School for The Work. For a list of FAQs on the School for The Work: Click here.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Katie" as her friends call her, is the author of these bestselling books: (I have put my favorites at the top)
new book that is 'all in' on the connection belying everything that support us, but only all the time, as she would say
*New book! Published in 2020 !! “
A Mind at Home with Itself” (newest book==awesome!!)
Loving What Is (with Stephen Mitchell);(the handbook on best first book for anyone new to The Work)
A Thousand Names for Joy: (with Stephen Mitchell) (reflections by Katie on the Tao de Ching)
Question Your Thinking, Change the World is an awesome book of quotes drawn from Katie's talks and books
I Need Your Love—Is That True? (a book about our need for Love, Approval and Appreciation and a great book to address relationship issues)
Who Would You Be Without Your Story?
Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?, Katie’s first book for children
Peace in the Present Moment (a book of quotations with Eckhart Tolle, released 2010)
+++++++
The Work Process:
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you, and to address the cause of your problems with clarity.
The Four Questions of The Work: (They all can be summed up to ask the question, "What else is true?"
1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?
Turn the thought around. Find three genuine and specific examples of how that turn around is as true or truer.
The Turnaround
The turnarounds are an opportunity to experience the opposite of what you believe to be true. You may find several turnarounds.
For example, "Paul should understand me" turns around to:
I should understand me. I should understand Paul. Paul
shouldn't understand me. Let yourself fully experience the turnarounds. For each one, find at least three genuine, specific examples in your life where the turnaround is true.
The turnarounds are your prescription for happiness. Live the medicine you have been prescribing for others. The world is waiting for just one person to live it. You're the one.
You can begin The Work Process by going to this link and downloading a worksheet:
http://www.thework.com/thework.asp .
**
Additional Resources for The Work
New and Great: The Work App (application) for smartphones. You can answer the 4 questions and turn the thought around with it==then email or print your answers...has some video and audio as well==4 stars from me. Katie mentioned that her son told her he has done a lot more of The Work since having it. Only for Apple products so far....
The essential first book to learn about how to do 'The Work' is Katie's book "Loving What Is" a wonderful book that describes The Work Process in detail.
-Byron Katie’s 9-day School for The Work
*The Schools are expensive and awesome. I have never heard anyone say they regretted the money they spent. Nonetheless, many people do not have the time or money to commit to one.
*From my personal experience, I think that the best bargain to experience Katie is her New Year’s Cleanse. It is nothing but Katie, on stage, doing The Work. Check her website for more details on it. Also, there are scholarships awarded to attend the school which you can apply for on her website. After the first school, as a repeater, future schools are cheaper. Also, you can apply to be a volunteer at The School for the Work, however, the room and board must still be paid for by you, which is still thousands of dollars.
The School is the ultimate inner adventure. Unlike every other school on earth, this one isn't for learning—it's for unlearning. You'll spend nine days losing the fear-based stories you've innocently clung to all your life. They might be stories like "I'm not good enough" or "I need a partner" or "I'll never get over it" or "I have to be in control." Who would you be without those stressful stories?
At the School you'll discover that your stories are everyone's, and everyone's stories are yours. You'll be welcomed into a diverse, supportive family where you can be completely yourself without fear of judgment, perhaps for the first time in your life. You'll facilitate your classmates' Work as they open up to themselves. And then you'll trade places, and they'll do the same for you.
Graduates of The School for the Work, are able to interact with a very amazing conscious community through her website forums. Graduates also are eligible to be candidates in The Institute for the Work, which allows one to take tele-classes to learn more about this method
The Do The Work Free Helpline (you can call this number and a volunteer will help you with troubling thoughts over the phone)
About the Helpline:
The Helpline is a free service offered for people new to The Work and those who need occasional assistance or support in doing The Work. Our Helpline is provided by experienced volunteer facilitators who offer their time to support you to learn how to do The Work for yourself.
Their available time is scheduled and this is the time you can connect. They do not make or accept appointments outside these scheduled times. If you are looking for ongoing facilitated sessions or an appointment, we invite you to contact one of the Certified Facilitators.We are here to support you to turn your life around.
Other Support in Studying Byron Katie's Work
*Check Byron Katie's website for other Certified Facilitators of the Work (some here locally) whom can assist you.
*I personally know, and recommend Certified Facilitator, Jen Deraspe.
Witnessing Katie facilitate ‘The Work’ with others in one of the most powerful ways to learn from her .
*Ways to see Katie do The Work:
a) One can Search for Byron Katie's videos by category on her website:
b) One can search www.youtube.com for search terms “Byron Katie” or “Byron Katie and __________ (a topic)” There are hundreds of videos on the net for you to enjoy. I predict that entertaining, as well as insightful.
***
Watch The Work in Action: Favorite Byron Katie Videos of mine
1) Video entitled: “You need more money, Is that true?”
2) Video on “I don’t have enough money”
*in this video Katie explains the process of how to do the work in detail, rather than doing the work with an individual.
4) Video on How to Deal With Thoughts about Cancer
5) The “I’m not living up to my potential” video, can be seen by clicking here. It is an amusing and powerful video of Byron Katie doing “The Work” with a man trouble about his self-esteem.
*Scroll down for many more resources for The Work, including more videos.
Byron Katie Bookstore: contains Books, Audio and DVDs and more. *Topics include depression, parenting, economic downturns, cancer, homosexuality and more.
Two Audio Cd’s I particularly recommend are:
A Thousand Names for Joy (Audiobook CD)
Omega 2009 5-Disc box Set (CD Talk)
Videos on Grief:
video where Katie talks about dealing with loss in life
Loss of a Loved One (DVD)
-Accepting Criticism: this is a fantastic interview with Katie on how to optimize the effect of criticism, using humility and an open mind. As she says, “If you want to be enlightened, find an enemy.”
“Turn it Around’ -is a DVD created by Byron Katie fan, Jenny McCarthy. I do not recommend buying it, b/c I consider it too disorganized to pay for. However, you can watch it for free here.
++++++++++++++
* The Work of Byron Katie Offerings with Amanda Winters:
The Work' of Byron Katie is a powerful method used to question the stressful thoughts that create human suffering.
I offer instruction about and facilitation of The Work, a 4-question method of self-inquiry.
I feel fortunate to have attended 3 of Byron Katie's 9-Day Schools for the Work, and feel that the ability it has given me to question my disturbing thoughts has dramatically improved my physical and mental health. The Work is such a powerful way to access one's own, innate wisdom that it is known by some as "enlightenment for people in a hurry".
I love to share The Work, a 4-question method of self-inquiry, through public meetings, private intro sessions, meetups and trainings* To learn more about private counseling sessions, workshops, please contact me.
+++++++++
For Groups:
-I can do an hour and a free half presentation for a group of friends together for free if it is 5 or more people...
-If you are a member of a personal growth or spiritual community, I may be available to do an introductory session of The Work for them for free.
-For Individuals:
-I do paid telephone sessions of The Work, I do sessions at my office in South Austin (or elsewhere in some cases) *See info below for more info.
**Other Ways to Learn About The Work
To learn more about private counseling sessions, workshops, etc please call me at 512-423-6529 or email me.
About my Professional Counseling Practice
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, specializing in Solutions-Focused, Presence-Centered Psychotherapy.
I draw not only from Western psychology and Clinical Social Work, but also my personal study of non-dualistic, Eastern philosophy.
I am a former resident of New Orleans, Louisiana who moved to Austin, Texas in 1997 to complete my Masters Degree in Social Work. :) I love my career as a mental health social worker/counselor.
I have worked primarily with elderly and mentally ill individuals; providing group and individual therapy. I have also provided case management services, provided wellness and stress counseling for The Department of Homeland Security and work with the US Military, in addition to maintaining my private practice.
To schedule an appointment for private counseling contact me via email or this form
Session Rates
Contact me about rates. Sliding scale rates may be available
I offer a free 20 minute consultation.
I offer discounted session rates if you prepay for 3 or 6 sessions
Telephone Counseling and/or Skype Sessions are available as well.
Insurance Coverage
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) I am covered by many insurance plans. To find out if your insurance company will reimburse for my services, you might ask them: "Do I have mental health benefits that cover counseling by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker?" I provide a receipt for services that can be submitted to your insurance company. My office is located near the intersection of South Lamar and Ben White/71. *Telephone counseling or connecting via Skype are available as well.
Contact me if you want more information on this.
The Byron Katie Meetup Group I led in Spring 2012 at The First Unitarian Universalist Church in conjunction with The Austin Presence Group. Contact me about hosting an Introductory Session with your group at this link!