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The Voice Dialogue Facilitator's Handbook, Part I:
A step by step guide to working with the Aware Ego process

PREVIEW of Section One of The Handbook explains the Voice Dialogue process
and talks about what is involved in being a Voice Dialogue facilitator

Chapters are:

What is Voice Dialogue?

What is Voice Dialogue facilitation?

How do I become a Voice Dialogue facilitator?

The first chapter includes a special section called:

"Picturing the Process: Understanding the selves, awareness, and the Aware Ego"

This section is designed as a teaching tool for facilitators to use in explaining the selves to their clients, and it will be available in ready-to-copy form in addition to The Handbook.

The interrelationship of the selves, awareness, and the Aware Ego:

The Voice Dialogue Facilitator's Handbook includes a set of illustrations to help your clients better understand their inner family of selves and how Voice Dialogue work affects their energy and their consciousness. To make the concepts of primary and disowned selves more real and alive, we have pictured these selves as an actual family living inside of a person we'll call Andie.

In our first drawing of Andie we see what a normal operating ego looks like. Andie has a whole family of selves that live inside her, but she is not yet conscious of these parts, even the primary ones that manage her life. Andie's decisions and actions in her life will be based on how these selves want her to be, especially the selves that are primary and have the most power and authority in her personality. These primary selves live on the ground floor, the part of the house that you would get to see if you came over to visit. Down in the basement, out of view of "polite company," are the disowned parts of Andie, selves that she is ashamed of, or that are too volatile or too vulnerable to let out. (Of course, this metaphor is true for Andie's inner family and probably for a lot of people, but for others the basement may not house the disowned selves. What is disowned territory for one person may be the home of someone else's primary selves. For example if someone came from a biker background, their primary selves might be pretty earthy and live in the basement with the bikes and the tools, and there might be a disowned accountant locked away upstairs!)