Question your thinking, change your life

People enroll in Year of Inquiry once, twice, three times. The community is brilliant. This offers you a way to build a steady practice of un-doing stressful beliefs and hitting the reset button, on anything. 

Unravel Core Beliefs

Touch a hot stove. Ouch. You immediately pull your hand away.  

Later, the mind begins to think about that terrible moment.  

Will I touch a stove again? Will there be a stove in the next place I enter? How can I protect myself against getting burned? I need to know about the location of all stoves in my vicinity. What if a stove shows up where I work?  

Life is hard. I'm not safe. I should be more careful. It shouldn't have happened. 

Many of our stressful perspectives began in early years of our lives: Family of Origin, school, peers, society, religion, culture. 

In Year of Inquiry we break it down by focusing on one topic every month (always with the option of moving to where you want or need based on your life experience--in other words, no one has to stay in the lines).

Our monthly topics (not necessarily in this order):

• Family of Origin (FOO) Mother, Father, Sister, Brother
• Anger, Fear and Hurt
• Body: Pain, Image, Illness
• Money
• Back To Basics with The Work
• Relationships
• Living Our Turnarounds
• Judging Myself, Shame
• Turnaround To #6

Three Beliefs That Create Big Gaps in Our Peace

There are three gaps, often gaps we're unaware of, that seem to impede our ability to find peace around the situation where we felt burned emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually.

1) More training • More research • More seeking. Like an ever-present attitude of hope that soon, you’ll get it or get there.

2) Wanting to do it alone. We don’t want anyone to push us (very understandably) or boss us around, or scare us, or brainwash us, or bore us. Nor do we want to try something that winds up failing again.

3) The third missing link or gap is the uncanny ability for us to go into unconsciousness. Not really our fault, simply the amazing power of the mind to bury feelings • avoid pain • whistle in the dark, try to be “positive” without really accepting the “negative.”

Year of Inquiry is a way to have a concrete, clear way to work with negativity, worry, depression, despair, conflict and lack...and transform them.

Instead of moving into More, DIY or Unconsciousness, we identify and question just one thought at a time.

Your own personal work is brought to the group in the way you feel most comfortable. No one has to share, you can listen-only and learn so much (although we love to hear from you when you do share). You can listen to recordings of the live sessions. You can share via writing on our private forum. The style that matches you is your method.

The most important thing?

You, questioning your stressful thinking.

Change Your Conversation With Reality

Year of Inquiry helps us take centuries-old wisdom on the path to inner awareness, not taking the mind so seriously, dissolving our shame. We create the container to:

• Relax the urge to constantly seek something different, gather more data or knowledge, and believe something is missing.  
• Put yourself in a group of wonderful people who support your journey and can share this road into peace with you, and who you can learn from over time.
• STAY…even if you feel uncomfortable, even as you remember a troubling situation. 
• Turn and look directly at what you’re thinking when you feel bad, with the help of others and with the support of a group to hold you. 
• Begin to notice our urges to escape, avoid, dismiss or disassociate from our “problems” or difficult situations (sometimes through behaviors like eating, smoking, drinking, inter-netting, cleaning, spending--THINKING)
• Become deeply familiar with the best practices of The Work, partnering, sharing and facilitating both yourself and other people
• Have a concrete, clear way to work with negativity, worry, depression, despair, conflict and lack
• Engage in a new way to rest, be patient, and find compassion for yourself and other people….experience a way to open to love

Join us for the year. All you need is willingness to show up for the parts that work for you, in the smorgasbord of offerings we include.

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