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The New York Voice Dialogue Institute offers private facilitation sessions to individuals and couples as well as teaches the history, principles and clinical direct practice of Voice Dialogue to individuals and mental health professionals.
Whether you are considering Voice Dialogue because you are working on issues that you can't seem to get a handle on, or are a mental health professional wanting to add a powerful and effective tool to your clinical cache, you are both welcome to join the Level I Voice Dialogue Training.
Voice Dialogue is right for you if you or your client is:
*engaging in self-defeating and self-destructive behaviors...
*wrestling with underachievement, addictions, eating disorders...
*suffering depression...
*can’t seem to make a decision…
*in a life transition and entering a new phase (marriage, graduation, "coming out", divorce, menopause, "empty nest syndrome")…
*in a negative bonding pattern with a partner...
*feel stuck in your career and maybe even considering changing fields
*feeling powerless over reactions and behaviors...
*having trouble controlling anger and hostility...
*knows what you don’t want, but are unable to figure out what you do want...
*having difficulty realizing your potential and liberating your creativity...
Voice Dialogue is for the chronically stressed as well as for those in crisis. Stress can be viewed as a reactive mental habit certain Selves or Sub-Personalities maintain which heightens feelings of alienation, anger, fear, and negativity.
Voice Dialogue gives you the concrete awareness that you have the ability to choose your behavior and control your automatic reactions since Voice Dialogue cultivates an increasingly Aware Ego that balances the importance of each Self while recognizing its role as only part of the whole personality.
For example, someone in a codependent relationship, caught up in blaming and shaming, will eventually be released from deeply rooted patterns of behavior as they relinquish their victim roles.
WHAT IS VOICE DIALOGUE?
The premise is that our personality consists of an assortment of Selves (or Subpersonalities) that live within us. This is a natural result of growing up. Over time our caretakers reinforced some parts of ourselves and rejected other parts of ourselves.
These become Primary Selves (the public face that “everyone” knows like “The Likable Self,” “The Get-It-Done Self” “The Good Parent Self”) and their opposites, the Disowned Selves (like “The Angry Self,” “The Procrastinator Self,” “The Acting-Out Child Self” or even “The Vulnerable Inner Child Self.”)
These Selves are also called Sub-Personalities and are usually experienced as inner voices.
Over time we become identified with family-approved Selves (like “The Pleaser,” or even “The Scapegoat.”) We think of a few Primary Selves as “me” and disown other Sub-Personalities.
These disowned Selves are often expressed in our dreams as well as brought into our lives by having to deal with people we detest or idolize (like your boss and your best friend.) These energy patterns are repressed, but not destroyed and live in our unconscious. Our disowned Selves often carry a lot of power and may make themselves known physically through exhaustion, mood swings, addictions, compulsions, and a bewildering sense of not being able to trust yourself.
Voice Dialogue recognizes that each Self has its own history, role, wisdom, energetics, habits, internal rules, and values with its own function, physical expression, health status, emotional needs, abilities and goals. This is true even if the individual is unaware of a particular Self and the force it is exerting on daily life.
Each Self experiences life in its own way. An example might be that an “Angry Self” may express itself as a headache. “The Inner Critic” may generate endless thoughts of self-hate, fueling the need to be perfect.
No Sub-Personality is “better” than another. Every Sub-Personality is honored as every Self is indispensable for wholeness. The goal is never to eliminate a Sub-Personality, but to integrate the Selves through expanding Awareness.
The idea is to awaken and develop an Aware Ego that evolves into a non-judgmental witness of the Sub-Personalities, unlocking personal freedom and authenticity as automatic reactions transform into active choices.
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For mental health professionals:
These in-depth courses offer a comprehensive orientation to Voice
Dialogue, a strengths-based intervention. This formally organized
learning event is designed to integrate Voice Dialogue into social
workers’ and mental health practitioners’ current training, expertise,
and clinical practice modalities. The facilitation process is started
immediately as the fundamentals of Voice Dialogue are taught by
identifying and working with Selves, beginning the exploration of the
Aware Ego process, learning the anatomy of a Voice Dialogue session
that includes mapping and interviewing the Selves, becoming skilled in
the understanding and use of energetics, and more. This experiential
course in a 3-weekend, once-a-month format is taught through theory,
demonstration, movement and energy awareness exercises, and supervised
facilitation practice.
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