Katie (Kathlyn) Hendricks sounds as clear as a bell on a three-way line between California, to which she has just returned from Colorado, and Japan. "I was in Boulder, Colo., facilitating a workshop not dissimilar to the three-day foundation training in conscious living and loving that is being arranged for me in Tokyo for Nov. 11 to 13."

Japan-based organizer Skip Swanson -- who has been studying with Katie and her husband, Gay Hendricks, for near on a decade -- is now a training sponsor. It was he who spent the necessary 500 yen and pressed the right buttons to make the call between the three of us possible. Such a wondrous thing, technology!

Katie and Gay Hendricks are North America's most trusted relationship experts. They are known as the therapists' therapists because so many of today's top relationship experts have studied and worked with them.