Category: Voice Dialogue

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Making Friends with Your Critical Self: Overcoming an Obstacle to Self Expression

July 6th, 2011  |  

Making Friends with Your Critical Self: Overcoming an Obstacle to Creative Expression The article is due. The performance is today. The gallery exhibit opens next week. And you’re not ready. A small voice inside your head is saying, forget it. It’s no use. You’ve lost it. What you have to say is NOT more important than what anyone else has to share with the world. You’ve never written (painted, composed or performed) anything worthwhile. And you’re frozen, immobilized, mute - again. Maybe the voice has merely turned your world from colorful to dull gray,... Read More

 

Part II: Voice Dialogue and Healing the Inner Scapegoat – A Transpersonal Perspective

February 16th, 2011  |  

This is the fourth in a series of articles on the Scapegoat and how Voice Dialogue can help heal this ancient phenomenon that continues to occur within all human communities and within certain sensitive and susceptible individuals. The first two articles explored the Shadow, the phenomenon called projection, and the history of the Scapegoat in human communities. The third article begins the sorting and healing process through Voice Dialogue sessions with a composite client named Helen. See the first three articles here. In... Read More

 

Part I: Voice Dialogue and Healing the Inner Scapegoat – A Transpersonal Perspective

October 29th, 2010  |  

This is the third in a series of articles on the Scapegoat and how Voice Dialogue can help heal this ancient phenomenon that continues to occur within all human communities and within certain sensitive and susceptible individuals. The first two articles explored the Shadow, the phenomenon called projection, and the history of the Scapegoat in human communities. See the first two articles at: http://www.goodtherapy.org/voice-dialogue-article.html. "For years it lay in an iron box buried so deep inside me that I was never... Read More

 

Voice Dialogue and Shadow Work

March 23rd, 2010  |  

The human shadow carries with it the potential for global annihilation and the potential to regenerate and evolve our species. At the crossroads, which road shall we choose? I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference ~ Robert Frost Down the path less traveled you meet the mysterious, unfamiliar, and at times horrifying parts of yourself. Long ago, for good reasons, you rejected and exiled specific behaviors, emotions, beliefs, memories, and capabilities.... Read More

 

Voice Dialogue in Practice

March 1st, 2010  |  

Why did I choose Voice Dialogue as the cornerstone of my counseling and coaching practice? 1. Voice Dialogue is a brilliantly constructed method that allows me to draw on all of who I am. All the skills, insight, knowledge, and wisdom I have gleaned from a lifetime of personal and professional growth express through me as I facilitate a Voice Dialogue session. 2. Voice Dialogue makes sense. Co-created by psychologists Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, Voice Dialogue is based on 40 years of study, clinical... Read More

 
 
 

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Recent comments

  • hank f: personally i think it is time for us all to get over it and move on, suck it up and show then that that kind of stuff does not fly anymore
  • Carole: Documentation is critical! Keep an ongoing list of everything that your child says is said to them or done to them to inflict hurt or...
  • Dermott: We always want to point the finger at someone else when in reality if there is something going on in your life that does not sit well with...
  • marie: What a moving and poignant way to explain- the timing has to be right in all aspects of life to get the most benefit out of it!
  • Joanne: Group therapy is so helpful for so many people but I know that there are those who shy away from that mode because they are embarassed to...