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Paul Gale-Baker
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News

Voice Dialogue training 2010

We are offering Voice Dialogue Training in short course format for professionals. This short format means you can train in Voice Dialogue over a series of weekends. Each weekend course is designed to provide you with skills which can be applied immediately. Further wekends are offered to provide further skills in the method.>Read details, dates and cost here.

London Convergence

Voice Dialogue Australia will once again be attending the International Convergence for teachers of Voice Dialogue. Held in London, The Convergence is an intensive exchange of views and planning for the future of Voice Dialogue.

One of the most exciting things to come out of the 2008 Convergence was the interest in researching the evidence-base for the effectiveness of Voice Dialogue.

Voice Dialogue Australia is co-ordinating information about this to assist in a wider acceptance of the method. We are particularly interested in the contribution that neuroscience can offer to our understanding of what it is that makes Voice Dialogue so effective.

Course Update

Who's Running Your Life?

Who's Running Your Life? is our headline personal growth course. This lively, engaging one-day course introduces participants to the diversity of selves running their life.

The course allows participants to identify parts who are running their lives and others which are absent and shows the way forward to lasting change. Click to read more about the course.

Relationship Renovation

Relationship Renovation is a unique course bringing the best Voice Dialogue tools together with cutting-edge emotionally-focused and systems therapy approaches.

The course is lead by Paul Gale-Baker and is the culmination of many years presenting relationship and Voice Dialogue courses.

This course can help you build a more satisfying, intimate and communicative relationship, whether you are currently in relationship or not. The course provides a safe, comfortable environment to explore your relationship. You will not be asked to share personal information. Click to read more about the course.

Articles

Voice Dialogue with Couples

Since my training 15 years ago in Family Therapy, I have been deeply interested in working with couples. Couple work can be stimulating and intensely rewarding for the facilitator. It is also usually complex, since the dynamics with two clients in the room are significantly different.

Working with couples requires a different approach from working with individuals. Individual Voice Dialogue work is able to focus on one part at a time. Even when thinking about the person in their relationship context, there is space to work in a more focused way. We are able to concentrate on the inner world of the client - the intrapsychic space.

Working with couples, on the other hand, it is important to pay attention to what happens (and is happening), between the couple - the interpsychic.

As practitioners, we need to have a multi-focused approach.

Voice Dialogue works extremely well to help manage this approach. Working with the selves in mind allows us to understand both what is happening within the person and what is happening between the couple. In part this is due to the way in which we are able to experience the selves, rather than having to take an intellectual position about what is happening.

This is obviously a complex topic. I am currently in the process of writing more about the intersection between Voice Dialogue and other relationship modalities. Advanced Voice Dialogue training includes the possibility of learning how I use the various modalities together.

Paul Gale-Baker, August 2010

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