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The Power of Transformative Coaching

Voice Dialogue for Coaches - Levels I, II, III

What Is Voice Dialogue?

Voice Dialogue facilitation is a method of self-discovery developed by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone. It is based on the theory that a person is a multifaceted personality made up of "parts" that have their own feelings, ideas, concerns, desires, and energy patterns.

Voice Dialogue is an interview process that helps people contact various parts of themselves, hear what they have to say and gain consciousness about their energies. This awareness assists the development of the Aware Ego (which we call Centered Consciousness).

Through Centered Consciousness, a person has infinite choice and can purposefully bring the most helpful energies into specific situations. In Voice Dialogue people learn that all these parts developed in support of their survival. By having the parts be heard, honored and understood, the person becomes capable of considering multiple possibilities instead of being stuck, or tugged in competing directions.

Voice Dialogue is used in coaching, personal and relationship development, therapy, and many other fields. Anyone who has done any of The Artist's Way series has had a taste of it. BJ Levy and Jan Berg use Voice Dialogue in coaching as a profound way to assist people to gain clarity and choice. It is an especially useful tool when people are stuck, ambivalent or confused, unable to complete commitments, and in response to statements that begin with the words: "part of me wants to...”. 

Voice Dialogue shifts people from despair to hope.  Conscious separation from the parts allows for perspective and relief that are unimaginable until experienced.

Voice Dialogue is a system which promotes exploration, acceptance and expansion of all of our parts, develops a true understanding of what has previously felt like conflicting inner values, and energizes a new place for centered consciousness. 

Voice Dialogue gives us powerfully simple access to our inner world—the world of sub-personalities, which express themselves as internal voices and energy.  Learning Voice Dialogue will profoundly and permanently impact your awareness and interaction with yourself, your clients and all relationships.

This course consists of three levels: Voice Dialogue I, Voice Dialogue II and Voice Dialogue III.

Voice Dialogue I for Coaches — Grow Yourself and Your Toolkit

In this one-day course you will:

  • Expand your understanding of Voice Dialogue theory.
  • Practice Voice Dialogue facilitation as coach and client.
  • Deepen your own awareness of, and access to, your inner selves including (sometimes competing) values, motivations, desires and fears.
  • Discover a new way to view and relate to your gremlin.
  • Amplify your energy and vitality.
  • Develop the power of Centered Consciousness that allows real choice.
  • Learn to be fully yourself without shame, blame or guilt.

Voice Dialogue for Coaches II — Grow Your Centered Consciousness

In this continuation of your learning about voice dialogue and how it deepens and broadens your life and that of your clients, you will:

  • Review and expand your understanding of Voice Dialogue theory.
  • Practice Voice Dialogue facilitation as coach and client.
  • Learn how to recognize and utilize both personal and impersonal energy.
  • Develop more effective tools for relationships.
  • Gain more awareness and appreciation of your vulnerability.
  • Accelerate your access to Centered Consciousness that allows real choice.

Voice Dialogue for Coaches III

Voice Dialogue III for coaches is a two-day intensive course designed to refresh and deepen your previous Voice Dialogue Coaching experience and give you new Voice Dialogue tools to practice and expand your Centered Consciousness.  The two day format will give you more opportunity to practice and debrief Voice Dialogue as facilitator and client.

You will:

  • Continue looking at Opposite Selves.
  • Increase your understanding of relationship bonding patterns.
  • Deepen your work with the Inner Critic and your Vulnerable selves.
  • Learn to connect or ‘link’ with others in the intensity of your choosing.
  • Work with your ‘special’ and ‘ordinary’ selves to understand the gifts of each.
  • Explore how Voice Dialogue works in dreams.

Course and Faciliators

Our course will focus on making Voice Dialogue facilitation available as a tool for coaching. We'll provide some background and share the principles of the work, and the rest of the day will be spent experiencing facilitation and exploring ways to make it useful in coaching sessions.

Course Facilitators:

BJ and Jan have been facilitating coaches in Voice Dialogue since 2001.  They continue their learning by attending annual training weeks with Hal and Sidra Stone, the founders of Voice Dialogue.

About BJ

As a Personal and Professional Coach and ‘recovering’ attorney, SHE KNOWS what it’s like to feel like life is being ‘squeezed’ out of you.  She coaches professionals who are ready to find and use the key to their own freedom and ready to move from “squeezedom” to freedom.  Her clients experience reignited energy to transform imagination into reality and to take that BIG STEP they always knew they were destined to take.  In addition to her private practice, group and course facilitation, she is an owner of and faculty for inviteCHANGE.

About Jan

Jan has been seasoned with life’s challenges and blessed with its joys.  She is upbeat, energetic, creative and persistent—a compassionate listener who tenaciously expects and powerfully supports the best outcomes for her clients.  She delights in sharing the exciting and extraordinary process of Voice Dialogue Coaching. In addition to her private practice, Jan is a speaker and course facilitator. She is an owner of and faculty for inviteCHANGE.