Directly from the original source of voice dialogue is now issued the Voice Dialogue Newsletter.
These days every website, association or business produces a newsletter and unfortunately very few are anything more than marketing material. I’m happy to inform you that the Voice Dialogue Newsletter is indeed one of the good ones.
Issued once a year contains different sort of things from a variety of authors. There are poems, personal experiences of voice dialogue and article about how to apply voice dialogue to, for example, weight loss, working with the demonic side or vulnerability and power.
At the moment there are four issues available in the website of Hal and Sidra Stone.
What we do in everyday life is profoundly impacted by the way we think, by what we believe. We don’t even realize it becasue it is so deep in our conscience. The way we approach work and the relationship with money is a perfect example of how this work.
The article in the link below is meant as a ‘mind game’ or a thought provoking exercise to verify or challenge some of the beliefs we have about money and work.
Why we work instead of stealing from other who have in surplus?
How would we explain to an alien how our economy works?
It is quite unusual to find a quality as humility amongst the most important leadership quality, especially if it is found at the top of the list.
Ego is the most powerful force in business—for good or bad. More powerful than money, more potent than talent. Ego is the invisible line-item on every company’s profit and loss statement. The problem arise when ego is subtly managing us in the absence of 1) humility, 2) curiosity, and 3) veracity.
This is the theory of Dave Marcum and Steve Smith, the authors of egonomics. Their work was sparked by Jim Collins’ landmark research in Good to Great, who discovered that leaders of companies who break the gravity of good to become truly great have two common—but extremely rare— characteristics: 1) fierce personal resolve/ego drive, 2) extreme personal humility. We hope to make that unique combination far less rare in business.
Curious about this new concept I read some more about this theory and looked back at my 10 years of corporate experience as I was reading. I have to say it make complete sense. Some of the skills and attitudes considered most appropriate for leaders in business are actually counterproductive.
Below is the link to a 10 min. video that present this theory in more details. It is also a promotion of the workshop they offer, however there is a lot of interesting information to be found as well.
There is a growing trend in education and personal development: play!
It is more and more observed how playing can help people to learn at school, to learn about themselves and to engage in development within companies. There is a growing number of games that are designed to give much more than some fun time.
The most famous example is probably the Transformation Game developed by the Findhorn community. A powerful tool for personal insight that never stop to surprise me.
Another example is Insight, also a personal development game developed in Italy. The formula is always quite simple and the impact has on the players always important.
I’m pleased to report that also companies are starting to open up to game-based activities to develop their human resources.
In the U.S. there is also a National Institute for Play, committed to unlocks the human potential through play in all stages of life using science to discover all that play has to teach us about transforming our world
If you really want something the law of actraction will work for you.
All this things are true and CREATIVITY can have a great role in accelerating the process.
Looking at the same things from a different perspective, maybe doing it with others people. Set a goal and accept the challenge.
There is project called ‘Imagine it!’ that has doen exactly this. Within the environment of a well known university a little rivolution happen and creativity is put into motions with great results. Lucky for us there is an inspiring website full of videos and information about the process (see link below).
IMAGINE IT!
Our mission:
To inspire the next generation to imagine a more perfect world than the one we live in, and then to actually engage in making that happen.
The voice dialogue method and the psychology of selves were developed in the seventies by an inspired couple of psychologists Hal and Sidra Stone. This methodology is nowadays applied among others to psychotherapy, coaching, counselling and actor’s training.
I work with voice dialogue since 1993 and I’m still an enthusiastic.
Recently has become available on line a video that shade some light on voice dialogue and the psychology of selves:
Can you recognize in yourself any of the sub-personality mentioned in the video?
Learning to know your voices helps developing awareness and awareness support the expression of personal power.
Randy Pausch is a respected university professor in computer science that in the last six month has become an internationally renown and inspiring speaker thanks to his ‘last lecture’.
Randy Pausch is in the terminal stage of pancreatic cancer and despite that he has an incredibly positive attitude towards life that he shared in this lecture.
This below is a 70 minutes lecture.
After watching this lecture it is impossible not to think about your own dreams and how far you have already come in realizing them.
There are a lot of tools you can use in this lecture, a lot of encouragement and light-hearted laughter.
I sincerely hope you wil succeed in realizing your dreams.
Women earn less than men in the same job position. The European average says that women earn 15% less than their male colleagues.
I was surprise to find out that in England women are paid 30% less than men, while Malta, Hungary and Poland have differences in the order of 10-15%. (Source)
Scandinavian countries are considered the best example of women’s opportunity in the work place, mainly for the introduction of laws requiring a certain percentage of women in senior management position. However Scandinavian women earn on average 18% less than men. (Source)
On a more personal level this data are an invitation to reflect on your own income.
Are you satisfied with your income?
What do you personally feel worth (salary wise) today?
Is this good for you or do you want to learn to believe that you are worth a higher income?
There is nowadays a large number of resources available to help women improve their budgeting skills and learn how to be financially indipendent. However, only few look at the root cause of the mindset that still keeps a lot of women in a dependent situation.
The article below is about the Inner Patriarc, the archetypical subpersonality that discredit women as inferior to men. This voice is widely present in Western society both in men and women and its power is widespread and generally accepted as the status quo.
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE INNER PATRIARC by Hal Stone, PhD & Sidra Stone, PhD
When a woman is having difficulties in her life – particularly in areas having to do with her relationships, her power, her sexuality, and her ability to set and hold boundaries – ask her the following questions: “How would you act in that situation if you were a man?” or “How would you feel about that if you were a man?” The answers to these two questions lead directly to the discovery of the woman’s Inner Patriarch.. READ MORE
The celebration, this month, of Women’s day has brought attention on some statistical data that describe the situation of women in society.
The most interesting and peculiar news to me is the one I found in a small Dutch paper. The news is that on average Dutch newspaper dedicate 80% of the space to man’s related facts and only 20% to women’s related news.
The Pareto principle comes to mind.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes.
Based on this principle, 20% of the space dedicated to women in newspapers can make 80% of the impact on the world.
Here below I would like to share with you the link to a webspace dedicated to women.
In the official website of the International Women’s day 2008 I found the video messages of a number of inspiring women. They are from different cultures and different companies and each shares a message for the world about women.
Click on the link below to visit the International Women’s day website and enjoy the video.
On a personal level I invite you to reflect on the amount of information about yourself that you share with others. Do all your loved ones know what you are up to or which kind of challenges are you facing at the moment? I’m sure they would be really keen on listening to you and you could get so much comfort from their support.
It can be writing e-mails or old fashin letters, making phone calls or sending cards. You can even start a blog about yourself for your family and friends to read.
Celebrate your victories, share your sorrow and fight your battles with the people you care about. It is nurturing and motivating.
Some time ago’ I discovered the document that you find here in attachment. It is quite a courageous theory about new trends in the job market and I believe that this text can be not only inspiring but also reassuring. I personally hear so many people that don’t find anymore what they need and want in the traditional structure of employment. Well, there are alternatives.
This is how this document begins:
‘An exodus of amazing proportions is quietly overtaking corporate America. The twentieth-century linear career model, of rising to the top of a corporation and being a big, fat, ethically unscrupulous powermonger is, frankly, dead. An anti-corporate, suit my own lifestyle, not yours-Kaleidoscope Career is being born.’
Directly from the original source of voice dialogue is now issued the Voice Dialogue Newsletter.
