Introducing Voice Dialogue [Audio Cassette]

Hal, Ph.D. Stone (Author), Sidra, Ph.D. Stone (Author)

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Publication Date: June 15, 1997

This is a "how to" tape. It provides a clear and comprehensive step-by-step introduction to the Voice Dialogue method, an incomparable tool for contacting and learning about the many selves.

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Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone are the creators of Voice Dialogue, a clear, no-nonsense approach to understanding yourself and others and a universal language for communication. They are the authors of the trail blazing books "Embracing Our Selves," "Embracing Each Other," "Embracing Your Inner Critic," and "You Don't Have to Write a Book." Their books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Italian.

For the past 20 years, Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone have been teaching together, nationally and internationally. They are licensed clinical psychologists with many years of professional experience both as therapists and administrators. The Drs. Stone add to their professional qualifications the knowledge that can only be gained from the direct experience of marriage, parenthood, step-parenthood, business partnership and the realities of daily living. They are wise and inspired teachers who bring to their work expertise, humor, enthusiasm, support, soul and a very practical approach to life and to all relationships.

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Sidra: "Welcome to the Mendocino Series. I'm Sidra Stone."

Hal: " And I'm Hal Stone."

Sidra: "We're so glad that you'll be joining us as we talk about a subject that's very dear to our hearts, the Voice Dialogue method."

Hal: "One thing that's really important to realize about the Voice Dialogue method is that it began in a very, very personal way. When Sidra and I met, we were using all kinds of psychological tools to explore our own selves and to help explore the other person, too. And Voice Dialogue began in a very, very simple way. We were just working one day and we had been talking about vulnerability, and that was something that both of us knew a lot about. We thought.

Sidra: "Theoretically. We knew a lot about that, theoretically, in other people.

Hal: "And I just asked her to move over and asked her if I could be with a part of her that was vulnerable. Suddenly, our theories about vulnerability were shattered because in front of me was an absolute, real Child. Pre-verbal. Unable to talk. Who just say there numb. A two-year old. Aone-year old and that really was the beginning of this process."

Sidra: "I couldn't believe what that felt like on the inside. It just felt like a little bit of a kid curled up in a corner of a cave."

Hal: "So, having come from a Jungian background where I worked with complexes, the idea of selves was very natural to me. But what was't natural and what I learned in that initial experience and what never left us was that these selves are real people. They have personalities, and they behave like real people. And, that's how the whole process of Voice Dialogue really began.

Sdra: "And that's why,basically, Voice Dialogue is so loving and non-judgmental. It came out of of relationship and we used it to explore each other and explore the relationship. And, I believe, one of the reasons why everybody says it's such a beatiful way of working with people."

"Before we actually start talking about Voice Dialogue and what it's like, we'd like to make a distinction between Voice Dialogue as a method and the Psychology of Selves as a theory. This tape presents the method of Voice Dialogue only. We strongly recommend that you take some time to listen to our other tape, the one entitled 'Meeting Our Selves.' That'll give you the introduction to the Psyhology of Selves and that will provide for you the proper framework for the Voice Dialogue experience."

Hal: "Another thing that we would like to point out, and this is an idea that is very important to us, and that is that Voice Dialogue is compatible with any system of psychotherapy or growth. It can be integrated into any way of working with consciousness. That's a very exciting idea to us. It's true also with the theory of Selves, the theory of Selves is not incompatible with any way of working, too. So, it's important to realize for anybody with a Gestalt background, Jungian background, psychoanalytic background, bodywork background, doesn't make any difference. This is the kind of work that can be integrated into your own system."

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Delos Inc; 1 edition (June 15, 1997)
• ISBN-10: 1565570081
• ISBN-13: 978-1565570085
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,710,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)