Next week, I’m going to Miami to be on the staff of the Byron Katie School for the Work. This profound and life-altering experience lasts nine days and includes round-the-clock residence in a hotel for several hundred participants and about sixty staff members. The staff makes The School run like a fine Swiss clock.
When I attended the School as a participant last October, I was so curious about the staff. Who were these amazing, dedicated people and how did they get to do this? I felt like a first grader on the first day of school, watching the confident, sophisticated sixth graders.
Working quietly behind the scenes and in the classroom with Katie, there were coordinators and runners and techies and guides and leaders and hander-outers and facilitators. You name it, and there was a gentle, smiling staff member all over it. I shyly asked a few of them questions, and learned that by having attended The School, I, too, could apply to be on the staff.
I immediately knew what I’d want to do if I ever was on the staff: [Read more →]
