We would love to support you in making The Work a part of your daily life. We are currently working on a system where those who have not attended the School can be paired in round robin with a School graduate. We don’t know when that system will be in place so in the meantime here are some suggestions: You could call the hotline which is a free service or contact one of the certified facilitators listed on Katie’s website.

So I got to see my beliefs around this, connect with previous RoundRobin partners, and they are in the process of setting up a RoundRobin system that I can participate in. Certainly a win-win situation all around.

A few other reasons that came up for me during the day:

* It helps me see how important The Work is for me.

* It invites me to be more proactive in finding roundrobin partners, which brings me on a journey that can have many benefits, including some of the ones you mentioned.

* It encourages me to contact past roundrobin partners that I enjoyed doing The Work with. Maybe they’ll want to have me as a roundrobin partner again for a month?

* It invites me to do The Work more on my own, which makes me more self-reliant. It may also help me discover things that way that I wouldn’t have if mostly did it with others. (Norms form in any community, including The Work community, so it frees me from those norms.)

* It encourages me to do inquiry more with my partner, who is one of the best The Work facilitators I have worked with. (Although she has never gone to The School! ) I can find more gratitude for this opportunity.

* It invites me to see myself in anyone who feel they are left out of something due to boundaries of different sorts. It opens for empathy, and a sense of “us” in it.

* It invites me to see how decisions made at group level often don’t work for each individual, yet still make sense at the group level. I sometimes agree with group level decisions, even if they have consequences for me personally that I don’t like.

* It helps me step out of my own narrow interests, seeing that it probably makes a good deal of sense to them to do it this way. They wouldn’t have done it unless they have good reasons for it. For instance, it probably makes quality exchanges more likely when both have done The School. (Although a quality exchange is always only dependent on one person: myself.)

Great inquiry - so here’s where I went - They should have closed the roundrobin / why it is better that they did:

1. To help you see a stressful thought - they did it just for you (and me)!

2. You and I would probably never have connected if it had remained open

3. You would probably not have joined the Yahoo group and have all kinds of stuff coming through there

With love and thanks for giving me a smile

Jon