Over the years there have been many changes in our approach to working with selves using Voice Dialogue. First of all, we have increased our emphasis upon the energetic components of the work with selves. Second, and perhaps even more important, we have emphasized the use of Voice Dialogue not only to explore the selves, their history, and their impact upon the way we live our lives, but to use it quite deliberately to create an Aware Ego.
The new Voice Dialogue Facilitator's Handbook outlines the basics of Voice Dialogue and provides clear guidance on our most recent approaches to the work. Miriam has been active in the Voice Dialogue community since 1983, is a senior Voice Dialogue teacher, and is an author in her own right. She has served on staff with us at "Summer Kamp" and for our Level II and Level III trainings at Delos. While writing The Voice Dialogue Facilitator's Handbook, Miriam spent three years attending our training intensives as both staff and observer to gather and organize the most up to date information on this body of work. She listened to our presentations, watched us conducting sessions, watched our very best facilitators at work, and watched novices as they began their very first facilitations. She taught facilitation to workshop participants at all levels of expertise and carefully observed what was needed to help them to do their very best.
A tremendous amount of material in the form of notes and audiocassette tapes was generated in this way. This information covered both the theoretical and practical aspects of the work. To add to all of this, Miriam also interviewed other senior teachers and facilitators, soliciting input based upon their expertise. She also brings her own extensive experience as a very gifted and insightful facilitator to the understanding of Voice Dialogue. All of this information is combined into a remarkable handbook that truly invites the reader to explore Voice Dialogue facilitation through its clarity of presentation and simplicity of language.
So we say to you, if you are - or wish to be - a Voice Dialogue facilitator, we urge you to buy, enjoy, and use this incredibly valuable tool. It is currently the definitive "how to" work on Voice Dialogue facilitation.
Hal & Sidra Stone Albion, California January, 2000