• Learn to understand the psychology of selves linking your beliefs and behaviors, so that you can live successfully and happily.
  
  
• Deepen your sense of intimacy and learn to connect by trusting, respecting, and appreciating yourself and others.
  
  
• Learn to create healthy ways of behaving. Stop feeling anxious, depressed, lonely, and out of control.
  
  
• Eliminate feeling mentally, emotionally and physically stressed-out.
  
  

Voice Dialogue is a highly effective technique that increases self-awareness and expands your range of choice in the realms of feeling, thought, and behavior. Based on a perspective of the Psychology Selves, Voice Dialogue recognizes that as children, we develop a multitude of ‘selves’, that we call sub-personalities. Each of these selves supply us with different & specific needs.

These selves are typically unconscious, even though they exert a tremendous influence on our inner and outer life. Examples of sub-personalities include: the Inner Critic, the Perfectionist, the Pleaser, the Responsible Parent, the Thinker, the Vulnerable Child, and the Creative Self. Although they have the needs, beliefs, and perceptions from our childhood, these sub-personalities remain active into adulthood.

In the Voice Dialogue process, you become aware of the existence and particular energy of each of these sub-personalities. Powerful transformations in consciousness and behavior occur with this self-awareness ˜ you become more aware of your hidden needs, motives, attitudes, and patterns. You also become decreasingly identified and influenced by them.

Voice Dialogue is a process in which a facilitator dialogues directly with these sub-personalities. Through this process, you become aware of these individual inner selves and of how they have influenced you and your life. In discovering and understanding these selves, their power decreases and you become free of their compelling behaviors.

As you dis-identifiy from these sub-personalities, you develop a central Aware Ego Process, from which to perceive, think, live, and make decisions. In the Aware Ego Process, we begin to choose which selves to express, rather than have the selves choose unconsciously.

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Voice Dialogue was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Hal and Dr. Sidra Stone, two American psychologists, as a method for working with sub-personalities. Through both their personal relationship and their professional collaboration, their work evolved over the next quarter of a century into a complex methodology for working with selves and a complete theoretical system which they called the Psychology of Selves.

During this time, Voice Dialogue has gradually emerged as an effective approach to psychological healing and is a growing area of study in psychology and psychotherapy curriculums in universities and colleges all over the world. Voice Dialogue is also increasingly being used in all types of personal development and communication training.

Voice Dialogue is based on two fundamental principles: the Psychology of Selves and the Psychology of the Aware Ego, both of which have their roots in Jungian psychology. The Stone’s theory asserts that our personalities made up of many different subpersonalities, or selves, and that these selves are real, with real needs, opinions, and perceptions.

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