Sidra Stone co-founder of Voice Dialogue, still contributes to the Voice Dialogue community at 88.
Recently, I had an online conversation with her. I’m glad we can still meet in this way. We regularly talk to each other about our process, developments in the work, the state of the world and how Voice Dialogue can play a role in it. This time we decided to record our conversation.
Although Voice Dialogue is known for engaging with different parts of ourselves, our conversation focuses more on our essence. Topics like ‘essence’, our ‘psychic fingerprint’, ‘what belongs to us’ and the Aware Ego process came up.
Besides this, Sidra also interprets the current political situation in America from the Voice Dialogue viewpoint. It visibly grips her. If we manage to integrate some of our disowned selves and are careful not to becóme our disowned sides, we can balance with the complexity of life.
Sidra believes we all have a psychic fingerprint, which is like an energetic signal, our pin code for the universe. As she gets older, she is able to look more and more at what resonates with her psychic fingerprint. She is more and more aware of what ‘belongs’ to her.
How do you make sure you live your life according to your psychic fingerprint, your essence, your energetic signal?
‘The immortal soul in me, greets the immortal soul in you – namaste’
It is well worth listening to the whole podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnZKun5Z_o&t=22s
Working with dreams
From the Jungian principle of compensation, our dreams show us our disowned selves. In Voice Dialogue, we work with a dream in two ways: the poetic way and the psychological way.
In the poetic way, you step back into your dream, so to speak, and you are guided to experience your dream in the here and now as you might experience a poem or a piece of music. This fully honours the mystery of the dreamworld and no attempt at interpretation is made. For some – more mystical – dreams this is the best approach. If you work in the psychological way, you can step into the energy of the different persons, animals or objects in your dream and enter into conversation with them. This gives the experience of this energy just like in a normal Voice Dialogue session. In the dialogue, the dream characters can express things that can be enlightening for our daily life. Very powerful and special.
In Crete, where I conducted the training towards the archetypes this April, I gave a beautiful dream demonstration in which the participant was introduced to her octopus and snakes. And it was a revelation for her that is still resonating today.
The power of deepening programs
What strikes me every time I work with a group for a longer period of time on a beautiful location is that the combination of place, time and attention creates such a strong deepening that the training also takes on the character of a retreat. We have training locations in Bergen aan Zee (since 1988), Crete (since 2008) and in the lake area in northern Italy (since 2012).
I saw it happen again during the training week in April in Crete: by staying in this beautiful place for a longer period of time and involving nature in the programme, a special group energy is created that forms a safe bedding for the deepening of each individual’s knowledge, skills and experience. We worked with dreams, archetypes and “the field”.
Voice Dialogue Summer Academy
Every year we organise the Voice Dialogue Summer Academy near Varese, where both beginners and experts in Voice Dialogue can participate. The Summer Academy enables deep learning, through the place, through the group and the program. It is an excellent opportunity to get to grips with the Voice Dialogue method and to refine the work. And at the same time, you can work on your own themes. Not for nothing do participants regularly come to these longer training sessions several times.
Do you also want the power of deepening? There is still room for the upcoming Summer Academy from 4 to 12 July. Sign up or pass on the tip to someone you think would be a perfect fit!
Our other courses
Of course we offer more: our new edition of the Voice Dialogue and Transformational Psychology Year Course for coaches, therapists and others who work with people starts on September 17, in Bergen aan Zee. We still have room. Will we see you there?
Or if you’d like to learn Voice Dialogue on your own: recently we also started the Voice Dialogue Individual Course. This consists of a complete package with three e-learning modules. You you can conclude with an exam and accreditation. Entirely at your own pace, in your own time. And with the possibility of individual supervision sessions about your learning.
And for those who want to study relationship coaching: the Linkage Relationship Coach Course starts at the end of November. It is the only relationship coaching course based on Voice Dialogue in the world!
CALENDAR
July 2025
4 – 12: Voice Dialogue Summer Academy, Varese, Italy.
4 – 12: Hybrid Year Course Varese, Italy.
September 2025
17, 18 and 19: Start Year Course Voice Dialogue & Transformational Psychology
23 – 26: Online Voice Dialogue Training, 4-day basic course (9:00 am – 12:30 pm CET)
October 2025
27, 28 and 29: Voice Dialogue Training
31: Voice Dialogue Day for alumni
November 2025
3, 4 and 5: Masterclass Deepening: working with mourning, death and dying 3-day training/retreat, part of the Masteryear that can be followed separately
12, 13 and 14: Year Course Voice Dialogue & Transformational Psychology
25 – 28: Linkage Relationship Coach Course
December 2025
9 – 12: Online Voice Dialogue Training, 4-day basic course (5.00 pm – 8.30 pm CET)
