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Voice dialogue is a powerful do-it-yourself skill that quickly helps you gain and grow your self awareness. It is a natural skill, open to anyone, not a form of therapy or a theoretical model dreamed up by academics. It works and as it works it increases your sense of self empowerment which assists you in your own natural self-healing. Discover what happens when you use voice dialogue, that is interviewing your inner selves, meeting and talking with your sub personalities. It works... (see your invitation at the foot of each page confirming FREE copying)

Discover who you really are, achieve what you really want to with your life. Learn how to use voice dialogue to expand your self awareness and increase your sense of self-empowerment.

Make positive changes in your life and your relationships (the changes you want, the changes that really make a difference)

Over 50 pages of information (all FREE to copy) transferred over lovingly from my older website

http://www.growingaware.com.au/

* This site is about Voice Dialogue and Self-Awareness work, one of my great passions. It is dedicated to Dr Hal Stone and and Dr Sidra Stone who developed this powerful process and their continuing work on the Psychology of the inner Selves.

If you are interested in Voice Dialogue training and Self Awareness groups in Queensland Australia you can check out the latest news on

This site.

I also have other passionate interests that all have to do with personal growth and inner child work. Some of these are connected to but not directly related to Voice Dialogue. So my articles about those topics won’t appear on this web site.

Examples:

Go to Love your Inner child and there's a special page where your own inner child can leave messages and ask questions.- That page is

http://www.love-your-inner-child.com/GIVE_YOUR_CHIL D_A_
CHANCE TO TALK.htm

Go to Core Beliefs Balance - A web site devoted to balancing your hidden negative core beliefs and the clamps and blockages and over-reactions they cause in peoples lives

For a full listing, synopsis and links to each site please scroll down to the foot of this page.

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ARTICLES ON THIS SITE

Other Articles

Boundaries

Rules for the School of Life

When NOT to use Voice Dialogue

Links and contacts:

Voice Dialogue - Practitioners

Voice Dialogue - Bibliography

Voice Dialogue - Video Links

About John Nutting

Old Website:

Growing Awareness 2000

Table of contents Ed 2000

For a complete list of all the pages on this website click here Site Map

What’s this about an “inner village”?

NOTE: Because this is my Voice Dialogue site, in most cases on this website you will notice I stick to well recognised voice dialogue terms to describe the inner selves, and explain how they protect us. I do however try to make my explanations easier to visualise by telling stories or fables to create a clearer picture in your mind.

Some abstract voice dialogue descriptions are a bit difficult to visualise, for example the “primary inner selves that make up the operating ego”. In my own world what goes on in my operating ego is so much like an old fashioned village that I have got used to describing my operating ego as my “inner village” and in these pages I often use that term. I hope it might help you also to visualise what is going on for you in your operating ego.

An interesting aspect to this is that when I dialogue with other people’s inner selves and I ask them about “life in your inner village” they often respond in a way that suggests they, as inner selves feel very comfortable talking about their daily work load and their responsibilities as if it was taking place in a familiar old and rather tradition bound village.

I imagine this is because most inner selves can’t quite get their busy minds around abstract psychological descriptions. What I have discovered is that the more I talk with them as members of an inner village the more this seems to help them develop their sense of character, and their ability to talk about their work more freely, which is one of the basic aims of voice dialogue. I have yet to talk with an inner self that tells me “Correction, I live and work in an operating ego not a village!”

Other people’s selves that I have dialogued with, live and work in an inner garden, an inner family, an inner tribe, an inner orchestra, an inner shop; an inner bus, on an inner ship, a train, an inner plane, an inner congregation. If visualising things this way helps people understand voice dialogue then I support the idea of letting your inner selves (as I allow mine to do) live wherever they want to, including an operating ego if that is their preference.

The best way as with all aspects of voice dialogue is to discuss this question with a few inner selves and ask them to tell you how they best like to describe the place where they live and work.

What is the AGUS?

On this website I often use the terms “self aware and grown-up” or AGUS to describe the part of us, the rather different kind of inner selves that we are all seeking to develop, our Aware Grown Up system.

I do not suggest that this is the same as the "Aware Ego" as Hal and Sidra Stone describe it, however the "AGUS” part of us reflects many of the characteristics of what Hal and Sidra describe as the "Awareness Self". In most people I work with the AGUS selves are identified by their more balanced energy and their desire to integrate the and work as balanced pairs instead of the previously unbalanced way that is typical of polarised opposite inner selves.

As I see it, identifying and dialoguing with the AGUS selves quickly gives us a way of consciously connecting with our sense of self empowerment, and self-awareness. As we dialogue with them, talking with those selves, identifying them and addressing them as the “self aware grown-up system” helps us:

* provide that person (and her or his inner child) with clear evidence that there is a stronger more self aware system now working within them

* identify what tasks the self aware grown-up selves are ready to take over from the older more polarised “we’ve always done it that way” selves

* create a stronger sense that this stronger part of us is already “up and running” and available right now to start protecting our inner child and reducing our underlying vulnerability.

There is bit of a problem with the term “ego” in Australia because down here it has so many different connotations and different meanings for individual people (most of them negative). For this reason I don’t often make a direct reference to the “aware ego” by that name.

Some people have suggested that’s also because I still haven’t developed much of an aware ego of my own.

I will leave it to you to make that judgement for yourself.

Voice Dialogue and Growing Awareness

“..... A remarkable tool for self help and empowerment”

From Hal Stone PhD and Sidra Stone PhD authors of “Embracing Our Selves” and creators of Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of the Selves

Free Inner Self Profile Sheet Restricted Offer (Conditions apply)

For many years I have been using an Inner Self profile sheet that allows you to keep a visual record of your inner selves as you meet and talk with them.

There are different places for different kinds of selves on the sheet according to their different energies or the different ways they do things to protect you.

If you meet the conditions (some understanding of inner self work) and would like a free copy of the latest version of this Profile sheet please Click the link for details on how to get it.

My 2012 websites - each one dealing with a different topic

My 2012 Flagship site

www.voice-dialogue-inner-self-awareness.com

The latest information on voice dialogue - a powerful tool for growing self-awareness, self empowerment, self-healing and the Key to Balancing your Life..This site explains voice dialogue and self awareness using recognised terms and descriptions. It is dedicated to Dr Hal Stone and and Dr Sidra Stone who developed this powerful process and their continuing work on the Psychology of the inner Selves.

My newest site, just launched

www.emotional-age-power.com

My first website now in its 15th year

http://www.growingaware.com.au

Most pages from this original site are being transferred to the new Flagship site (above) but there are still many pages well worth while reading. More information about voice dialogue - a powerful tool for growing self-awareness, self empowerment, self-healing and the Key to Balancing your Life.

Balance and unblock your inner clamps

www.core-beliefs-balance.com

Core beliefs are one of the main causes of clamps and blockages that stop us growing or doing what we want to in life. This site will help you to diagnose your own unique negative core belief and then balance it.

Loving and Protecting Inner Children everywhere

www.love-your-inner-child.com

Dedicated to inner children everywhere. A magical site with some practical advice on how to love, protect and care for your own Inner child using voice dialogue and other skills including visualisation and story telling..

A Self Awareness site to help Men and Women overcome the toxic influence of their Inner Patriarch and Inner Matriarch

www.growingaware.net

Self awareness and self empowerment work differently for women and men. At the heart of these differences are two extremely dangerous inner selves - the Inner Matriarch and the Inner Patriarch. They fight each other constantly and they encourage fights between men and women. The only thing they have in common is that they are both dedicated to keeping all men and all women out of loving, successful grown-up relationships at home, at work or anywhere else. We all have an Inner Patriarch and an Inner Matriarch inside us but there is much we do to reduce their toxic influence.

Healing a Broken or damaged relationship

http://www.healing-relationships.growingaware.com

About broken relationships and what it takes to heal them.

Experiments in an alternative style of Voice Dialogue

www.growingaware.com

An experimental and alternate way of explaining voice dialogue using easy to visualise descriptions, fables and analogies based around life in the the "inner village" and the journey as we climb further up "Awareness Hill " WARNING this website does not use classic voice dialogue wording.

Fellow trainer and author Jill Spring’s websites.

http://www.releasing-goddess-within.com

http://upowercoaching.com

Amazing UK Life Coach Sarah Strudwick's site http://balance-and-empower.com

http://www.reunion.org.au

Making positive changes in your life, the way you want to make them and at your own pace.

Personal growth and freedom through self-awareness, increasing the positive choices you have in life.

Making your relationships work. Partnering skills, developing intimacy, trust and stronger linkage.

Voice Dialogue and how it helps to create all these positive changes in your life.

Growing your self-awareness, and how this increases your self empowerment.

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Advanced Voice Dialogue Training Bookings - The Relaxation Centre - Alderley Brisbane Qld. Phone 07 3856 3733 Next training starts August 2012 -

Once a week on Thursday evenings 7:00pm to 9:30 pm

Phone 07 3261 2882 for information

Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training Groups - South East Queensland - North Brisbane - South West Brisbane - Sunshine Coast

Trainer John Bligh Nutting has been facilitating since 1993. He trained with Drs Hal Stone and Sidra Stone in Australia and in the USA and is the author of several voice dialogue books in the “Growing Awareness” Series.

You can contact John by phone on Brisbane Qld 07 3261 2882 or by e-mail