"Your training stands out as the best organized and most nurturing of all the many trainings I have done. I still use the techniques in my group work and get amazing results. Clients are really impressed with how effective Voice Dialogue is - it's especially powerful when resistance comes up." J. Thornton, CC
AND... it’s just gotten even better! In 2019 we've been "beta testing" a new 5-day format for each training session, increasing the in-person training days from 12 to a total of 15. These extra days have given us the breathing space needed for participants to deepen their practice, ground in the principles of the work, and become more skilled in working with the selves that are vulnerable. After all, it's our vulnerabilities that keep us and our clients locked into patterns of judgment and defense. Comments we’ve heard this year include, “more comprehensive with less pressure,” “more nuanced with time for deeper exploration,” and “incomparably engaging!”
Voice Dialogue Changes Lives!
Once you begin to meet your inner selves and separate from them, it becomes obvious that the landscape of your psyche is much more fertile, diverse, interesting, richly populated, and full of more talent and possibility than you may have ever imagined.
For professionals, it often happens that work with clients becomes suddenly much more alive, engaging, and profound once they begin using Voice Dialogue facilitation. People who have been stuck in the same old story and pattern week after week may reveal an entirely new side of themselves through work with inner selves. As a result, counselors and coaches often find new enthusiasm for their work – it becomes less predictable and a lot more fun!
Voice Dialogue is used worldwide by psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, and counselors. It is also used by corporate and life coaches, acting teachers, artists, body workers, consciousness teachers, and a wide range of “people who work with people” in many different professions. Lay people who are interested in personal growth and deeper, more conscious relationships are also drawn to learning Voice Dialogue Facilitation.
Join us for the 2020 Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training!
(in Seattle area)
88 CECs available*
April 22 – 26, 2020
June 24 – 28, 2020
September 16 – 20, 2020
Early Bird Specials
Earliest Bird: $3550 = $700 Savings
$500 deposit by November 15, 2019*
Early Bird: $3650 = $600 Savings
$500 deposit by January 31, 2020*
Sign up with a Partner! Get the Earliest Bird discount rate
when you sign up with a training partner:
Two Birds: $3550 = $700 savings (each)
$500 deposit (each) by January 31, 2020*
Better Late than Never Bird: $4250 = Full Price
$500 deposit after January 31, 2020*
"Don't let some part of yourself talk you out of this!
It's the best self investment you will ever make!" D. Quigley
The Voice Dialogue Institute’s Facilitator Training includes:
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Three 5-day training sessions in the Seattle area (all dates above)
6 Individual 1.5 hour Voice Dialogue sessions (3 with Miriam and 3 with Cassandra)
10 Teleconferences to work with facilitation questions, dreams, and additional teaching. (Teleconferences take place monthly between in person classes and for six months after the completion of the course.)
This class fills up very quickly, so if you know you want to participate please email Cassandra. (425-753-2490) right away and send in your application. Once accepted, send in your deposit to hold your place.
*Please note: Required Materials and CECs are purchased separately.
“I am in a state of awe at the subversive, quiet efficacy of this method. In all the inner work I have done, both with traditional therapists and in meditation, I have never encountered something so deeply clarifying.” I. Johnson
Interested in finding out more about the Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training? Please read on.
Under "Training Program" below you will find an overview of the Facilitator Training, an outline of the entire curriculum plus detailed information about format and daily schedule. You can also read about us under "staff" and find out what past participants in our programs have to say by clicking "Testimonials."
"Practical Information" includes all the information you need regarding tuition and Early Bird Specials, continuing education credits, required materials for the course, and a link to apply for the training, as well as VDI's refund policy.
In the "More Information" section, you can read “More About Voice Dialogue” as well as find answers to questions about everything from prerequisites to certification to travel information in the FAQ.
If you have any further questions, please do contact us. Miriam can be reached at: 206-932-1151 or
"Miriam Dyak and Cassandra Cosme De Pree provide some of the very best training in Voice Dialogue facilitation available. They are a great teaching team - brilliant, talented, creative and, perhaps best of all, lighthearted. Their Voice Dialogue Institute in the Seattle area offers great teaching programs."
- Drs. Hal & Sidra Stone, originators of Voice Dialogue
Training Program
Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training Overview show/hide
The Voice Dialogue Institute offers a comprehensive year-long Facilitator Training that includes:
• An in-depth introduction to the Voice Dialogue method as a unique
way of understanding and working with our multidimensional
human reality.
• Theory of the Psychology of Selves and the Aware Ego - a key
to freedom and choice in every aspect of life.
• Training and practice in energetics - the power behind all
communication and what brings connection and
aliveness to relationship.
• Demonstrations of Voice Dialogue facilitation and supervised
facilitation practice.
• Introduction to and practice with the Voice Dialogue approach to
dreams, archetypes, and the Unconscious.
• Relationship as teacher – how our inner selves evolve in
relationship.
• Bonding Patterns – decoding the dynamics of power and
vulnerability in all relationships (including transference and
countertransference – bonding patterns in professional
relationships).
• Understanding and using judgment as a key to relationship and
personal growth.
• Creating a new and balanced form of intimacy through the
Aware Ego process.
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The training takes place in three 5-day sessions (15 days total) where we meet together in the Seattle area:
Session I
Wednesday 2pm-6pm *
Thursday 10am-5:30pm
Friday 10am-5:30pm
Saturday 10am-5:30pm
Sunday 10am-3:30pm
Session II
Wednesday 10am-5:30pm
Thursday 10am-5:30pm
Friday 10am-5:30pm
Saturday 10am-5:30pm
Sunday 10am-3:30pm
Session III
Wednesday 10am-5:30pm
Thursday 10am-5:30pm
Friday 10am-5:30pm
Saturday 10am-5:30pm
Sunday 10am-3:30pm
Please note: The first Wednesday of the training, we meet in the afternoon only, and in the evening there is an informal dinner for participants and staff.
Breaks: Each full day of the training there is a lunch break for an hour and a 15 minute break each morning and afternoon. Sundays we begin and end early to accommodate participants from out of state who need to fly home.
Teleconferences: In addition to the 15 days we will be meeting in person, we will also meet online for 10 teleconferences. The purpose of these online sessions is to answer questions that come up in practice, demonstrate and teach additional ways to use Voice Dialogue, and/or work with participants' dreams using a Voice Dialogue approach. Each teleconference is 1.5 hours long and can be accessed through a computer or phone. There will be two teleconferences between Sessions I and II, two teleconferences between Sessions II and III, and 6 teleconferences after Session III through March of the following year.
Individual sessions: The core of developing skill as a Voice Dialogue facilitator is to initiate and develop your own Aware Ego process through being facilitated by an experienced Voice Dialogue facilitator. We can only help others separate from inner selves and develop an Aware Ego process to the extent that we have done that work ourselves. While practice sessions with other participants are an essential part of learning the work and developing skill, being facilitated by teachers who have years of experience in this process puts a firm foundation under your practice with your peers and clients. As part of the Facilitator Training each participant will have a total of six individual 1.5 hour sessions - three with Cassandra Cosme De Pree and three with Miriam Dyak.
Curriculum Outline
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First Training Session Includes:
•Introduction to energetics.
•Psychology of Selves and the Aware Ego theory, including the Voice Dialogue Consciousness Model.
•Voice Dialogue facilitation demonstrations.
•Structure of Voice Dialogue sessions including interviewing the subject and mapping the selves, conversations with individual inner selves, and the initiation of an Aware Ego process.
•Introduction to the Eight Essential Skills for the Voice Dialogue Facilitator.
•Identifying and working with Primary Selves.
•Ground Rules for Voice Dialogue facilitation.
•Understanding the power of Vulnerability in the Self System.
•Introduction to the concept of Linkage.
•Video clips of Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, originators of Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of Selves and the Aware Ego.
•Participant practicing facilitation under supervision.
•Judgment as Teacher – 4-Part pattern* for discovering primary and disowned selves, demonstration and facilitation practice (*from The Benefit of People Who Bug You by J'aime ona Pangaia)
•Evolution of Primary, Disowned, and Vulnerable Selves.
•Beginning exploration of the Voice Dialogue approach to Dreams.
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Second Training Session Includes:
•Energetic exercises including exploration of linked and non-linked ways of relating.
•Review of the Judgment pattern.
•Introduction to Bonding Patterns.
•Working with Linkage in the Aware Ego – energetic exercises.
•Personal and Impersonal Energy – how to recognize and work with this key pair of opposites. Demonstration session and supervised facilitation practice.
•Identification of “Relational” and “Non-relational” Selves.
•Supervised facilitation practice sessions.
•Video clips of Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone teaching on relationship.
•In depth exploration of Positive and Negative Bonding Patterns including demonstrations, learning to diagram these patterns, and supervised practice with diagramming bonding patterns and facilitating the selves we become in those patterns.
•Identification of primary and disowned selves of both people in a relationship and discovering their underlying vulnerabilities.
•Discovering how internal relationships match the boding patterns we get into with other people.
•Discovering how internal relationships match the boding patterns we get into with other people.
•Continued Dream Work and practicing facilitating dream selves.
•Transference and Countertransference: Bonding Patterns in professional relationships.
•Further exploration of the Aware Ego process in facilitation." exercise
•Full hour facilitation practice session."
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Third Training Session Includes:
•Energy Awareness Exercises.
•Fishbowl format Facilitation Practice.
•Aware Ego, Selves, and the practice of Embodiment.
•Accessing Information and Guidance from the Unconscious – work with Voice Dialogue Sand Play work. Collage, Painting
•Working with the selves through Movement.
•Claiming your Energetic Inheritance – making your family of origin dyamics work inside your own self system.
•Continuing work with Dreams.
•Developing an Aware Ego relationship to Vulnerable Selves.
•Demonstration of the Awareness Position followed by small group practice with Awareness and pairs practice.
•Aware Ego Process in Conflict Resolution – balancing between relational and non-relational selves in conflict situations.
•Review of Facilitation Choices including ways of working with primary, disowned and vulnerable selves, with 4-Part and Bonding Patterns, with the Aware Ego process, with Awareness, with conflict situations, with dreams and imagery and movement, and using all the Eight Essential Facilitation Skills.
•Full hour and a half Facilitation Practice Sessions.
Cassandra Cosme De Pree and Miriam Dyak are co-founders of The Voice Dialogue Institute in Seattle, which has been offering Voice Dialogue workshops, teleclasses, and facilitator trainings since 2005. Both Cassandra and Miriam trained with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, the originators of Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of Selves, and have both been faculty members of Thera, the Stones’ institute in California. Miriam is also a guest faculty member for the Institute for Transformational Psychology (I.T.P.) programs in Holland, Switzerland, and Italy.
Miriam has been practicing Voice Dialogue since 1983. In addition to teaching, Miriam is the author of The Voice Dialogue Facilitator’s Handbook and Exploring Your Inner Landscape: Voice Dialogue Energy Awareness Exercises. Miriam sees individuals and couples in her private practice in Seattle, WA, and is one of the few facilitators in the world combining Sand Play with Voice Dialogue.
Cassandra fell in love with Voice Dialogue in 1995. In addition to teaching at the Voice Dialogue Institute, she has a private counseling practice seeing individuals and couples in Sammamish and Redmond, WA.
We typically have 2 - 3 additional staff for this training who provide wonderful support for all participants.
"Since I've done the Voice Dialogue training, I can accomplish four times more in a session with a client than I did before, and the best part is it feels so organic and easy." J. Eilertsen, MS, LMHC
"I've taken several classes with Miriam and Cassandra on relationships and on Voice Dialogue and I have to say they are brilliant. They create a supportive interactive environment with lots of room for questions and discussion. Both Miriam and Cassandra have a gift for high-lighting the important elements of class discussions and reinforcing the points in a way that makes them easy to understand and use." P. Ljubicich
"It's so magnificent to have a tool that is so deeply respectful of people's process. This is the first work I've found to consistently come back to that place of honor. That's the thread that runs through the work - a deep respect and reverence for the potential within every person." E.K. Brant, MA
"One of the most important changes in my thinking and life approach is embracing all parts of myself as opposed to playing a right/wrong game. This work has provided the tools necessary to completely embrace my shadow." B. Miller, Certified Professional Coach
"I still use the techniques in my group work and get amazing results. Your trainings stand out as the best organized and most nurturing of all the many trainings I have done." J. Thornton, CC
"I've taken several of Miriam's and Cassandra's workshops and they have been excellent. The tools I gained in their Voice Dialogue trainings have helped me to live a richer, more aware life. I have more choice on how I operate in the world. I've gained skills and insights essential to my daily life. Miriam and Cassandra create a nurturing enriching environment for learning. They are engaging, articulate, clear and knowledgeable. Everyone would benefit from taking their classes." J. Karel, MA
Practical Information
Your tuition includes:
• All three 5-day in-person training sessions in the Seattle area (15 days total): April 22-26, June 24-28 & Sept 16-20, 2020
• 6 individual 1.5 hour Voice Dialogue sessions (3 with Miriam and 3 with Cassandra)
• 10 Teleconferences to work with facilitation questions, dreams, and additional teaching. (Teleconferences take place monthly between in person classes and for six months after the completion of the course.)
• Ongoing support by phone or email between classes
Please note: Required materials and CECs are purchased separately
Take advantage of discounts by applying early!
Early Bird Specials
Earliest Bird: $3550 = $700 Savings
$500 deposit by November 15, 2019*
Early Bird: $3650 = $600 Savings
$500 deposit by January 31, 2020*
Sign up with a Partner! Get the Earliest Bird discount rate
when you sign up with a training partner:
Two Birds: $3550 = $700 savings (each)
$500 deposit (each) by January 31, 2020*
Better Late than Never Bird: $4250 = Full Price
$500 deposit after January 31, 2020*
"Don't let some part of yourself talk you out of this!
It's the best self investment you will ever make!" D. Quigley
*This class fills up quickly, so if you know you want to participate, contact us by email or phone and send in your application as soon as possible. Once accepted, send in your deposit to hold your place.
Balance of tuition is due one month after deposit is made unless a payment plan has been agreed upon and established. Please note: we accept personal checks and accept credit cards (with an additional 3% service fee).
Required Reading and Listening show/hide
You will need:
- The Voice Dialogue Facilitator’s Handbook, Miriam Dyak. This is out of print, but we have copies available for our students. An e-book is available through Amazon and iTunes.
- Exploring Your Inner Landscape 3-CD set, Miriam Dyak (Available for purchase from VDI)
- The Aware Ego Process (5-CD set or mp3), Hal and Sidra Stone
- The Psychological Knower (CD or mp3), Hal and Sidra Stone
- The Psychology of Transference (Cd or mp3), Hal and Sidra Stone
- Embracing Each Other, Hal and Sidra Stone
Please Note: Materials are purchased at a separate cost. We will send participants a final list of required materials closer to the date of the class. Most materials are available for purchase through VDI, some at a 20% discount for participants. MP3 files and CDs are available for purchase and downloaded here.
We are sponsored by the Nation Association of Social Workers (NASW) to offer 88 Continuing Education Credits. These credits are available for $60 - payable at the end of the training.
Application for Registration show/hide
Please click here to fill out and submit your application for the 2020 Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training. Apply now
Refunds, Withdrawal & Cancellation Policy show/hide
We keep our trainings intentionally small so that we can give each participant the individual attention and personalized feedback we feel is essential in order to learn the energetically based process of Voice Dialogue facilitation.
Once you decide to train with us, we begin immediately to take your specific needs and interests into consideration as we develop the flexible part of our curriculum. Late withdrawals affect the quality of the training experience for the entire group if we are not able fill your place from a waiting list. It is, therefore, very important both for our planning and for people who may be on a waiting list to let us know as soon as possible if your plans change and you need to drop out of the training.
Our policy on withdrawals/cancellations/refunds is as follows:
Deposit refunds:
• Before December 31, 2019, if we receive notice of your withdrawal from the Training your $500 deposit minus a $75 processing fee ($425) plus any additional funds paid will be refunded.*
• After January 1, 2020: Deposit is NOT REFUNDABLE, but it is possible to transfer your deposit (minus the $75 processing fee) along with any additional payments made to a future training within the next two years.*
Tuition refunds:
• Through December 31, 2019, any tuition you have paid over and above the amount of the deposit may be refunded in full, OR you may decide to apply both your deposit and tuition payment to a future training within the next two years. This choice is final and must be submitted to VDI in writing.*
• Jan 1 - Jan 31, 2020 any tuition you have paid over and above the amount of the deposit may be refunded at 50%, OR you may decide to apply both your deposit (minus the $75 processing fee) and tuition payment in full to a future training within the next two years. This choice is final and must be submitted to VDI in writing.*
• From February 1, 2020 on
Deposit and Tuition payments are NOT REFUNDABLE, but Tuition payments (minus the $500 Deposit) are TRANSFERABLE toward a future Training within the next two years. Your intention to transfer your payments toward a future Training must be submitted to VDI in writing.*
• *Please Note* Transferred funds need to be used within the next two years in which trainings are offered. You will be notified in our newsletter about the Training rates each year and about any Early Bird Discounts offers. Please understand that if the cost of the tuition has increased you will be responsible for any difference.
• There is no refund if a participant decides to leave the training before completion. VDI may decide on, a case by case basis, to apply unused tuition funds to a future training.
The Voice Dialogue Institute (VDI) reserves the right to postpone, cancel or otherwise change any training program schedule prior to the beginning of its first weekend. At no time is VDI responsible for training students' travel, lodging, or incidental expenses. VDI also reserves the right to substitute training staff whenever necessary without obligation to students enrolled in the training program. VDI will attempt to reschedule the training in a reasonable amount of time and in doing so will strive to find a time that meets all the participants’ needs.
If for some reason VDI has to cancel the training and cannot reschedule, participants will receive a full refund. Or, if the participant prefers, the deposit and payments may be applied to a future training.
If you have any questions about our policy, please contact Cassandra at 425-753-2490 or
More Information
More about Voice Dialogue show/hide
Voice Dialogue and The Psychology of Selves describe human personality as multifaceted, made up of numerous [perhaps innumerable] selves. These selves, which are also often called "voices," "sub personalities," "parts," or "energy patterns" have their own feelings, desires, memories, opinions, world views. Many of our more dominant selves have grown up with us our whole lives, taking care of our early survival, our identification as individuals, and our success in the world. These "primary" selves form the core of our personality – we think of them as who we actually are. Other "disowned" selves have experienced a lifetime of repression, becoming evident only when we lose control and act contrary to our character ("I don't know what came over me!" "I'm not myself today!"). Or, more commonly, we project these disowned qualities out on to others, usually those we either overvalue or deeply dislike.
The Selves: Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, originators or the Voice Dialogue method, point out that what we think of as our ego is not really a single entity at all but rather a group of primary selves that run our lives, an "operating ego." Understanding the reality of the operating ego explains the mystery of why so many of us sometimes sabotage our efforts at success. From the perspective of the primary selves that make up this operating ego, success is safety, comfort, and the status quo. Taking on a bigger project, becoming more accountable, getting out there in the world, being more visible, leaving a relationship, etc., all threaten the security of this group of primary selves – to them success can be frightening unless it makes as few waves as possible.
The Aware Ego: Voice Dialogue facilitation gives us direct access to the selves and their experience. It also enables us to separate from the selves and become aware of them. Out of this separation and awareness is created the space to birth a new aspect of personality, an Aware Ego. It is this Aware Ego that can stand in balance between opposite selves, honoring both of them, perceiving their sometimes mutually exclusive needs, and taking action based on wholeness and integration rather than on duality, control, and repression. That Aware Ego is capable of perceiving both sides of the story and can make choices that honor the concerns of the primary selves while allowing us to evolve beyond their constraints.
Most people who experience Voice Dialogue report more "breathing room" inside themselves, more ability to access their inner strengths, and an expanded range of self expression. Using this process often reveals new potentials and at the same time creates a new ability to hold center and stay grounded. This makes it possible to truly evolve our human capacities rather than just expand into overwhelm.
The Voice Dialogue Difference: Several aspects of Voice Dialogue work make this modality very different from many other approaches to psychology and personal growth. An essential element of the work is a focus on "energetics"[our personal energy] and teaching the person being facilitated to become conscious of how they use their energy and how to manage their energy field. One important result is achieving a new form of intimacy that allows us to maintain both warmth and closeness and create healthy boundaries. Voice Dialogue is also collaborative in nature and profoundly non judgmental and non-pathologizing in its approach.
What is psychospiritual work? Voice Dialogue is a psychospiritual practice for evolving human potential and human consciousness. It is psychological because it involves understanding the nature of human personality as being multi-dimensional – getting to know the selves, their stories, their beliefs and desires.
It is spiritual because it is a practice of over and over again bringing the unconscious, automatic behavior of the many selves to conscious awareness, separating from them, and developing an ongoing process of creating a new ability to hold center, to be in an Aware Ego that can see farther and know much more than any one part of the self system. There is also a natural, organic compassion toward our own selves and those of others that develops along with the Aware Ego process. When we’re no longer locked into being a self that is driven, or controlling, or judgmental, it’s easy to have empathy and understanding toward the part.
Combining Voice Dialogue with other modalities: Voice Dialogue is a tool and not a separate psychological discipline. This means it can be used creatively in combination with many different therapeutic, healing, and coaching modalities. The Stones comment that "It is an approach to working with human consciousness and relationship that can be used by individuals for their own personal growth or by professionals in the fields of psychotherapy, counseling, personal coaching, and business and organizational consulting. Voice Dialogue is a powerful and compassionate medium for personal and spiritual growth.
Who participates in the Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training?
Voice Dialogue is a psychospiritual practice that provides experiential tools for developing consciousness. Voice Dialogue can be used by therapists with their clients and it also adapts well to other contexts such as business, the arts, general health care, personal growth, and any context that involves relationships between people. At VDI, in addition to counselors, coaches and psychologists, massage therapists, lawyers, software developers, artists, doctors, school teachers, nurses, university professors, personal trainers, acupuncturists, entrepreneurs, and more have participated in our Facilitator Training.
How much background/experience do I need in order to take the Facilitator Training?
It is very helpful to have experienced Voice Dialogue facilitation as a client before the training – in fact we require participants to have at least one session before the program starts. You will also need to complete several readings and listening assignments by the time the training begins. If you are intending to use this work professionally as a counselor or coach, you will need to fulfill the credentialing requirements of your state or country in order to do so.
I’m a coach, not a mental health counselor – is the Facilitator Training appropriate for working with my coaching clients?
Voice Dialogue is used world wide as a tool for coaches in working with their clients, both in corporate settings and in life coaching. Voice Dialogue is essentially a process that helps people use their internal opposites to their advantage rather than remaining stuck in a conflict between them. An example of opposites might be on the one hand a part of a person that really wants success and another part that is afraid that success will cause problems in their personal relationships.
I don’t really want to facilitate Voice Dialogue professionally. What would the benefit be for me taking the training?
The Facilitator Training is open to both professionals who would like to use Voice Dialogue with their clients and also to individuals who are drawn to learning this work for their own personal development. The training offers everyone, professional and lay person alike, tools to live gracefully and successfully as a human being in our very complex world and the ability to understand and live relationships of all kinds on a new and deeper level. Our graduates have reported improvement in communication with their bosses, co-workers and employees, as well as with their partners, family members and friends. We have often received feedback from our professional graduates that the training gave them as much for their own personal growth as it did for their professional development. Remarkably, individuals who took the training purely for their own personal growth have also reported to us that Voice Dialogue became useful to them in the context of their work in surprisingly effective ways, even though their work was not in a therapeutic or coaching field.
I’ve been receiving private Voice Dialogue sessions for some time now and am beginning to become interested in learning facilitation. What other preparation do I need to do to be eligible for the facilitator training?
Actually, receiving sessions is one of the very best preparations one can do to be ready to learn how to facilitate, and we require all training participants to do sessions in conjunction with their training.
I’d like to learn to use the Voice Dialogue method, but I don’t want to be part of a therapy group. How personal is the sharing in your Facilitator Training?
All our trainings and workshops at The Voice Dialogue Institute are psycho-educational, not psychotherapeutic. We encourage people to share personal information only to the degree that they feel comfortable. You are the one who determines your focus for the work, and you are always free to request that your partner in a practice exercise keep their sharing to a level that is comfortable for both of you.
I’d like to use Voice Dialogue with my life partner, not as a professional with clients. Is this training appropriate for me?
Definitely. Voice Dialogue was actually first developed by psychologists, Hal and Sidra Stone, as a way learn and grow in their own personal relationship with each other. Relationship has always been and remains a central focus of this work. If possible, it would be optimal for you and your partner to take the training together.
Will I be able to use Voice Dialogue long distance – over Skype or FaceTime?
Right from the start, we encourage our students to begin practicing with each other long distance. For participants who live in areas where there are no other facilitators, practicing over the phone, Skype, or FaceTime is the best alternative. What we want people to learn and get good at is picking up on energetic shifts regardless of whether they can see the person they are working with – they need to be able to feel the person across the world! That said, practice in person, with supervision during the times we will be meeting together, is crucial for developing a level of energetic sensitivity that can then be used effectively in working long distance.
Is it possible to become certified as a Voice Dialogue Facilitator?
Voice Dialogue is a psychospiritual practice. The goal of the work is consciousness; and even though facilitators can become very skilled, one’s level of consciousness is not something that can ever be certified. Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone make the following statement on their website: “As the originators of Voice Dialogue, we do not support certification and we have never certified anyone... As far as we are concerned, there is no certified Voice Dialogue facilitator or teacher and no teacher or trainer qualified to certify others.” The joy of working with this method is in unfolding an approach to personality and relationship that can enrich your work with others and also deepen your own personal process for a lifetime. It is far more complex and evolving than a set of skills or theoretical knowledge that can be certified.
Room and Board:
You are responsible for your room and board during the Facilitator Training’s in person sessions. We will gladly send you a list of accommodations in the area.
Are tuition payment plans available?
Yes! We want to make it workable for you to do this Training.
Balance of tuition is due one month after deposit is made unless a payment plan has been agreed upon and established. You may pay the balance in segments that work best for your finances. The total balance needs to be paid in full by April 1, 2020. Please contact Cassandra to set up a payment plan agreement, and if you have any special circumstances to discuss, or if you have any other questions about payment. You can reach Cassandra at 425-753-2490 or
What does the Certificate of Completion mean?
The Voice Dialogue Institute offers a Certificate of Completion that states that the participant completed the Facilitator Training and the total amount of education hours. This certificate allows you to apply for Advanced Trainings at VDI.
Please Note: This is not a certification in Voice Dialogue facilitation, and we do not guarantee that this certificate is acceptable towards CECs required by your state or for your credential.
Are there make-up sessions if I miss any part of the training?
This training is designed for a small group and your absence makes a difference both for you and for the entire group. We can schedule a makeup session if you miss up to one day of a 4 day in person class. You will be charged an additional fee (our discounted private session rates) for the makeup session. However, if you are taking this training for CECs, missing any part of a class is not possible as attendance is mandatory for CECs.
More Questions about the Training?
Both Miriam and Cassandra are available for phone conversations to answer your questions. Please feel free to call us or e-mail your questions.
Miriam can be reached at: 206-932-1151 or
Cassandra can be reached at 425-753-2490 or
