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Mariposa Workshops offers workshops for youths, young adults and adults in The Work of Byron Katie* (also known as Inquiry Based Stress Reduction), a tool for awakening, intuitive intelligence, and mental-emotional-spiritual wellbeing. In short, this is a profound tool for self-understanding.
For those of you familiar with the term, the playful way I refer to The Work is “mindfulness* on steroids,” which is to say, it takes the practice of mindfulness deeper. In fact, what The Work does is gives you the tool to make the essence of mindfulness possible, so that the mind actually becomes the opposite of full, it becomes quiet.
And what comes out of this quiet is you — you stripped of any and all ideas you have acquired about who you are and how the world is. The quiet mind allows the intelligence that you are to come through and you finally have the crystal-clear clarity you have long sought.
No more experts are giving you their answers and telling you how it is and how it should be, no more therapists are telling you what’s wrong with you and how you can be fixed. This self-inquiry is you finally tapping into your own intelligence that is innate — and equal — in all of us. You give yourself your own answers and there is no mistaking the truth when it shows up.
Anyone with an open mind can do it — as Katie says, we’re all equally intelligent and this is also my experience.
See the Counselling page for more about The Work.
*Previous knowledge or experience in The Work of Byron Katie and/or mindfulness is not a prerequisite.
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Taking Heart
Diamond Mine
Lead from Within
Becoming the Butterfly
Meditative Inquiry
Spring Workshop
Taking Heart
Inquiry Fridays
Flourish
The Source of Identity
Education for Enlightenment
The Kind Parent
The Solstice Session
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT WORKSHOPS
A workshop to heal depression, stress, and anxiety. “Take heart,” people say when we want to encourage people. “Encourage” means “with heart.” What we will find in this workshop is that the heart, literally, is the seat of your wisdom. The key to healing the mind is to find your way into your heart. There is a much simpler way to do this than you may have ever imagined, using four questions — the heart answers what you have been trained to try to answer with your mind, which was never possible in the first place. Come, take heart. (This is also offered for adults. See adult workshops below.)
This workshop is all about finding the hidden gems within each person. They’re there, I guarantee it. Most of us grow up believing we’re flawed and don’t have much, if anything, of value to offer. Or we’re so busy trying to fit in that we stifle our own unique brilliance. This workshop is about reclaiming your authority and autonomy (and what, exactly, that means!) — your genius — through mining your riches.
We’re in a whole new age of what it means to be a leader now. It’s a changing of the guard. This new brand of leader has qualities like integrity, compassion, deep listening, and self-awareness along with the old things we looked for like courage, vision, wisdom, and strength. But gone are the qualities like ‘power over’ (ie. abusing authority over others) — the new leader instead has empowerment. Discover your leader within–it’s only when you become the leader of your own life that you can lead others.
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of us call butterfly.” This workshop is about looking at our deepest struggles — our hardest life experiences — and finding the huge, hidden gifts in these, discovering for ourselves that where our deepest wounds are lie our greatest treasures. Through the process of this workshop, we learn that the things we used to think of as hard and terrible are not what we think–they’re in fact the sand grinding away in the oyster to make a pearl, coal turning into diamonds, and the caterpillar becoming the butterfly. If a person were to ‘help’ the butterfly to emerge from the cocoon, it will die–it’s very struggle to emerge is the very thing that allows it to fly. Come see how to turn your struggles to soaring.
ADULT WORKSHOPS
Meditative Inquiry 5-week Course | Thursdays 1 – 3pm | May 12 – June 9, 2016 |Over the course of 10 hours (2 hours/week), become familiar and confident with The Work of Byron Katie™ (Inquiry Based Stress Reduction©). Through the course you will:
- experience the true meaning of meditation
- be able to discern the difference between intellect and intelligence
- understand the connection between thought and emotion
- become proficient in “turnarounds”
- be able to self-facilitate as well as facilitate others
Meditative Inquiry 2-day Workshop | Thursday & Friday, July 7 & 8, 2016 | Use the beauty of the lake and the forest at the Leacock Home to support and nurture you to find your bliss through self-inquiry. Lunch will be catered and can be enjoyed outside. (And if you want, the world-renowned Mariposa Folk Festival is happening next door — i.e. the next peninsula over, a 5 minute walk — starting at 5pm Friday through the weekend! So you can make a summer long weekend of it if you’re travelling from out of town. Bob Dylan was here in the 60s with hometown boy Gordon Lightfoot; I wasn’t born then but haven’t missed a year since I started going in 2000! Link to perfectly located hotel and B&B on the link on the Facebook page.)
Spring Workshop Co-facilitated by Sharon Arnaud, Certified Facilitator of The Work.
Toronto, Ontario at the beautiful, historic Hart House at the University of Toronto. April 16, 2016 10am-5pm
Parking available on site for $10 payable by credit card. Lunch available for purchase on site at cafeteria-style restaurant.
See description above.
Inquiry Fridays is an ongoing weekly inquiry group — you may come for one, some, or all of them. A new theme will be explored each week. Check out the Facebook page for updated themes and dates. [Note: workshops are held most Fridays and not EVERY Friday so be sure to check in advance. If not sure, email through Contact page.] Explored themes include: relationships, depression/anxiety, self-esteem, work/career, money, children/parenting, body/eating, and more. Coffee & tea & treats are included in the price. Register for multiple weeks and receive a discount.
Flourish is an introduction to The Work of Byron Katie. Learn what The Work is, how anyone with an open mind can do it, and how profoundly it can affect your life. Leave the workshop with everything you need to move forward in The Work, including familiarity with filling out the Judge Your Neighbour worksheet (JYN) and the ability to self-facilitate.You will realize what it is that is keeping you from really flourishing in your life (and it’s not what you think–oh wait, it is!–that’s a little The Work humour) and you will have the tool you need to blossom.
The Source of Identity is a workshop in stripping away all that you are not to reveal the core of what remains as your true identity. This workshop is for people who feel like you’re living life at half capacity or less, for people who feel that there is something within you that wants to get out — to express itself fully, as you, in all its brilliance. “Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no true story,” writes Byron Katie. Find out what there is beyond your stories about yourself. If you’re tired of feeling held back and you’re not sure why, if your discouragement has sometimes (or permanently) given way to depression, fear, and anxiety, this workshop is for you. Step in to your full self and learn to live out loud. *Previous experience in The Work is not required.
Based on my Amazon bestselling book, Awake: Education for Enlightenment, this experiential workshop walks us to the beginnings of awakening. We look at ‘who’ and ‘what’ is being educated and question the origins of intelligence. If you want to know what ‘mind’ is and have wondered about the nature of thought and emotion (Where does it all come from? How in control are we of them?) then this workshop is for you. There is a non-conceptual intelligence that exists beyond the reaches of the intellect — come experience it for yourself.
For all you parents who struggle to keep it together sometimes (and who among us doesn’t?!). There’s the parent you long to be (you think) and then the parent that you experience yourself to be. Discover the origin of your stress that causes all of your frustration, guilt, and despair as a parent. This workshop is about coming into kindness for yourself so that you can extend this to your children. “I don’t have relationships with my children, I have intimacy instead,” said Byron Katie. Come discover the possibility of this for yourself.
Winter Solstice. The longest night of the year. Move from the darkness into the light by finding what the darkness has to teach you. It comes bearing gifts. Embracing the darkness outside, embracing it within you–one is a reflection of the other. See what you are trying to hide from, what you’re trying to not know, and set yourself free through self-inquiry. No previous experience (of anything) necessary.
Payment for Workshops
GUARANTEE
Payment may be given by credit card (no debit) or cash at the door or by email transfer instead of by paypal if you prefer. However, please be advised that you still need to register ahead of time: on my Contact page, email me with the title of the workshop in the subject line. If you do not register ahead of time, I would not be able to advise you of any venue changes or event cancellations.
IF YOU ARE NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED WITH THE WORKSHOP, I WILL FULLY REFUND YOUR MONEY, NO QUESTIONS ASKED so you can feel confident that you can try them risk-free.
If your cancellation is received 7 days in advance of the workshop, your tuition will be refunded less $25. If you do not send advance written notice of your cancellation, if you do not attend, or if you leave the workshop early, your payment is non-refundable and non-transferable. In extenuating situations like a family crisis, you may transfer your payment to another workshop or to a one-on-one consulting session with me (eg. $125 payment = one hour session) or you may gift the session to someone else.
