Dear Reader!

Coming Sunday, May 20, we meet from 15-17 at the ABC Treehouse (Voetboogstraat 11) to discuss Byron Katie’s I Need Your Love, Is That True? (available in ABC’s White Room):

I Need Your Love – Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead

Byron Katies book

Katie, Byron|Katz, Michael | € 16.99
subject: Self Help, Personal Growth – General
ISBN: 9780307345301 | ISBN-10: 0307345300
Three Rivers Press (CA) | publication date: 28/11/2006
US Edition | Trade Paperback | 254 pages| | |

“Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love­seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people’s love, thinking that’s just the way life is. This effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.

This book takes a close look at what works and what doesn’t in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship.” ­Byron Katie

Then on Sunday June 3, Sagar Simon and Richard Kwakernaak will give their 2-hour Relationship Workshop (if you want to attend, please reserve your seat by sending me an email!):

Free Relationship Workshop in Amsterdam!
I Need Your Love, Approval and Appreciation­Is It True?

You’re invited to a free ABC Spiritual Book Club-session on Relationships by SBC-members Richard Kwakernaak and Sagar Simon!

In the words of John Milton (Paradise Lost):

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”

Many people look for a relationship, hoping it will be heaven, only to find out it can be hell! In the words of Byron Katie: “Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible…” What role does our mind play in creating a loving and lasting bond with someone and how can we leave our self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviours behind?

In this workshop Richard Kwakernaak and Sagar Simon look at how our beliefs, desires and attitudes about relationships, and the way we communicate, influence the quality of our relationships with other people and with ourselves.

They will approach the subject of relationships from various viewpoints, elaborating specifically on the fields of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Mindfulness and The Work of Byron Katie.

The workshop will be fun, revealing and leave you with tools you can instantly use when noticing stress!

*** This is an introductionary workshop for Richard’s and Sagar’s workshop series in the ABC Treehouse on June 29th, June 30rd and July 1st! ***

About Richard Kwakernaak:
Richard Kwakernaak works as a communication trainer and coach. He studied and practiced amongst other things a lot of NLP and Mindfulness. Richard has been an internationally certified trainer of NLP since almost 10 years.

About Sagar Simon:
Sagar Simon has a Masters Degree in counseling, has been trained both as a Gestalt Therapist and Hypnotherapist, and is a certified facilitator of The Work.

Date: Sunday June 3
Time: 15:00-17:00
Location: ABC Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11
Costs: free! But to reserve your spot, email Femke at femke@abc.nl

And saving the best for last , Byron Katie herself will come to the American Book Center Amsterdam on Saturday June 23 to do a booksigning from 15-16:30!!
More information on this event will follow!

I hope to see you this Sunday,
Warm regards,

Femke Wijdekop
American Book Center Amsterdam

For those of you who missed this event. Well, that was for me wonderful learning and good to be in the atmosphere of the work. The most important thing for me was to hear and see Katie helping people stay in the work and not to leave the work for their story.

What is the work it is IQ. Investigate (the inquiry)  the thoughts that you are believing that cause you suffering. And Question them using the 4 question that are the work. Katie calls The Work the  4 questions the mechanics for coming out of pain and suffer and dis-pare.

You can down load all that you need to get started straight away doing the work on a painful reoccurring thoughts. Just click on the link below from the resource page.

http://www.thework.com/dothework.php

The resources are free. And if want to experience the work immediately you can call the help at no charge and an experienced facilitator who is part of the institute for the work will do the work with you. You can also contact a certified facilitator to work with in your area or over Skype. This is the link:  http://www.thework.com/facilitators.php

You can also find a certified facilitator to work with. It not necessary and when the mind is stuck it can help move you.

You can find my information on thework.com and on my contact details.

infinite possibilities

Investigate you thing as suggested by the work of Byron Katie will leaves you with infinite possibilities, to live you life  kinder, loving, creative and  harmonious.

According to Hawking and Mlodinow, one consequence of the theory of quantum mechanics is that events in the past that were not directly observed did not happen in a definite way. Instead they happened in all possible ways. This is related to the probabilistic nature of matter and energy revealed by quantum mechanics: Unless forced to choose a particular state by direct interference from an outside observation, things will hover in a state of uncertainty.

For example, if all we know is that a particle traveled from point A to point B, then it is not true that the particle took a definite path and we just don’t know what it is. Rather, that particle simultaneously took every possible path connecting the two points.

Yeah, we’re still trying to wrap our brains around this.

The authors sum up: “No matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.”

Article from live science by Clara Moskow

See Byron Katie in Europe this summer in Amsterdam and at the nine-day School for The Work in Bad Neuenahr, Germany.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to do The Work with Byron Katie in Europe.

Join Byron Katie, bestselling author and founder of The Work, in a workshop that will take you on a powerful journey of self-discovery. As she guides you through her simple yet powerful process of inquiry called The Work, you will find that your stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or yourself—radically shift. With her humor and lovingly incisive clarity, Katie shows you how to do The Work and how self-inquiry can bring you a happy life.

Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

AMSTERDAM

July 16, 2010, 19:00 – 21:00

July 17, 2010, 10:00 – 17:00

Location:

Montessori College Polderweg 3, Amsterdam, Holland

No advanced registration.

First come, first served.

Friday evening: 20 euros

Saturday: 80 euros

Contact: Jelle Attema

Email: jelle.attema@kpnmail.nl

Phone: 00 31 (0)6 20 61 46 16

Want to get to peace hang out with Byon Katie for a day or the 10 Day School

What is it like? to be part of the staff that supports an event for Byron Katie.
Its like meeting your old buddies and you are going to play together. Only it’s an event to support a fabulous and loving Woman who is showing you, you are already free from you suffering, only you are attached to a thought that tells you differently.
Thursday night is set up night for the Friday event…May of the people who are on the setup team I have not seen since last year and that is already making the event exciting and a great thing…We hug catch up a little and then go for the set up and in 2 hours the room transform from a school lunch room to an event room for Katie…My job was to move and stack the chair…and it almost happens by it’s self…I know that I will move the chair to the side and I just keep doing it until it was done…In the past I had the thought this is a lot of work or it’s to heavy or there is too much to do in such a short time…This time these thoughts were just back ground noise and I just noticed and they had nothing to do with reality. They chairs seemed to move by themselves and I enjoy the whole process…

Friday morning we did the final touch up which for me is more of a challenge because things are not so oblivious…is this, better then that…. do we have enough isle space for mic runners?…Some people thought yes, others thought no…sometimes I though I don’t know and for sure I need lots of space to move quickly. And in then end it’s always perfect or it is, what it is and I like that…everything works perfectly.

I was part of the teams that greeted people as they came. And people appeared to want to rush in and get the best seat to see Katie. My task, was to take donations and to help them people come in at a slower pace, other then running for seats…I love greeting people…I speak English only and most people would start talking to me in Dutch and it seem to make little different that spoke back in English they just smiled and when on there way to the seats…It was great for me to see know nobody really cares what you speak they and I am here to have fun with Katie…

I just had a thought why would you at all care about what I am writing…Well, I am in your business and do I care about what I am writing.
Katie floats into the room around 11:00 and for me I feel healed already…I feel my heart opening to what every Katie is about to do and I am willing to receive it…I want to go as deeply as possible, listen to Katie from the heart…I want and am touched by how she is and how she works with people…

I am off this Wed 23 July to staff the School of Byron Katie in Bad Neuenhar, Germany…see you when I get back…And by the way if you get the hint to attend you still can it starts on the 25th July…It’s a school to discover how it is possible to have inner peace no matter what you think is happening…

More information for the School just Click

For more event information: http://www.thework.com/events.asp