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At the School for The Work, each day begins with a meditation. "Meditation is a word for being still and taking some time to notice the kindness and support of reality," Katie says.

These meditations are designed to help you notice your thoughts, even the angry, scary, and sad ones.

Katie does "The Work" with audience members on a wide variety of relationship issues, including jealousy, blame, sex, communication, judgment, parenting, abuse, closure, and much more.

Anger, contempt, fear, sadness - rich feelings sound through this pair of dialogues as Katie, with her gentle fearlessness, facilitates men doing The Work on their fathers. Both stories echo with painful themes of abandonment and alienation.

The Work on Relationships, The Work on Parents, and The Work on Money and Career.

The Work on being recently diagnosed HIV positive, medication, God, and Mother.

With Katie's help, investigate the thinking that fuels addictive behavior. This is a groundbreaking program for addicts and their families, and anyone interested in a life of greater freedom.

"So I really have a mental illness when I think that my mom's mentally ill," Jim muses. Katie doesn't miss a beat. "I noticed that," she says. Jim's mother has manipulated him for so long that he doesn't think he can stand it anymore. Or has she?

This program features Katie doing The Work at public events with people on the subject of our bodies. The first two pieces feature a woman on the size of her breasts, and a man on his tendency to lose his erection. In the third piece, a woman questions her belief that her overweight body is damaged and unattractive.

With much of her money tied up in a volatile market, a woman in terror about her financial well-being investigates the concepts she holds about money, work, and happiness. With Katie's help and four simple questions, she witnesses how the mind fluctuates - just like the stock market - and begins to experience the joy of the true wealth.

Fall in love with Harry, a Native American who returns to innocence through inquiry. Harry comes to The Work uninitiated and depressed, and interacts with Katie from the audience on death, loneliness, and spiritual frustration. He then moves through a powerful written inquiry on his ex-wife, which explores alcoholism, racism, child custody, parenting, and relationships.

Meet Stearlene, an African-American woman who sits bravely before a predominately white audience and states that she sees white people as the enemy. Using The Work's four questions and turn-around to explore the theme of racism, Stearlene meets her most frightening thoughts with understanding and discovers the truth behind the pain.

This program is an excellent sampling of The Work, covering topics like cancer, relationships, abuse, and body issues. With live German translation.

For years, this woman believed her mother to be critical and disapproving of her; after doing The Work, she came to see her mother's true love for her. (With live Dutch translation)

Colleagues provide us with plenty of material to do "The Work". In this piece, a woman does The Work on her colleague's deception and lazy, uncaring attitude.

Relationships with partners and parents are an excellent source of freedom when taken to inquiry. The women in this audio program explore common core beliefs, such as "partners should be open and vulnerable" and "mothers should acknowledge and love their children." Includes live French translation.

Join Katie as she helps us break down the thoughts that keep us from more deeply appreciating the gifts that our mothers - without exception - have given us.

What is a son's responsibility when a father is terminally ill and needs full time care? What is the role of a father whose son is not living up to his potential? In this program, a son does The Work on his bedridden father and a father does The Work on his deadbeat son. This program investigates issues surrounding euthanasia, responsibility, and education while taking an in depth look at the relationship between father and son.

Sara grieves for her partner, Rodney, who died while driving drunk. A young woman is angry with God for letting her father suffer and die of brain cancer. The two women speak about guilt, sorrow, resentment, and separation.

People should see that gender is not as limited as most people think, and they shouldn't ask intrusive questions. Michael does "The Work" on people who won't respect his privacy with intrusive questions about his gender and body. He wants people to see him as the man he is, instead of the woman he pretended to be for so long. This program involves a number of role plays with 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.

This program, recorded live, includes The Work on Mother: "My mother should be happy", and The Work on Husband: "I am going to leave my husband."