To: Friends
of Voice Dialogue
This letter is to announce the completion
of a complete documentary on our work. This series consists
of 12 new videotapes and 8 new audiocassettes and was filmed
in the United States and Australia over the past three years.
Michael Domeyko Rowland, a well-known Australian consciousness
teacher and filmmaker, envisioned this series, conducted
the interviews, and served as its director. It was produced
by Dr. John Coroneos, a physician and filmmaker from Sydney.
In our wildest fantasies we couldn't have
imagined a more remarkable gift than that which Michael
and John have given us with the production of this documentary.
They have invested approximately $750,000 in the development
of the films and tapes in order to create a truly professional
product. We are very grateful to them for their deep commitment
to our work and for the excellence of this series. This
documentary is being distributed throughout the world by
their production company, Wiseone Edutainment.
If you are involved in Voice Dialogue and
the Psychology of Selves in any capacity, these outstanding
films will be of real value to you. The first tape of the
series is an eleven minute introduction to the work and
to the remainder of the series. It has been specifically
designed for use as an initial presentation to help to introduce
newcomers to the work and to arouse their interest in further
information. It contains special 3D computer graphics that
show how the personality forms and develops. The eleven
remaining hour-long tapes combine interviews (which contain
both personal anecdotes and objective information), demonstration
sessions where we use each other as subjects, and segments
of a two-day live Voice Dialogue Training Workshop that
we did on Michael's mountain property in Blackheath, Australia.
All these are interwoven most effectively.
As for specific content, the series begins
with the development of the primary selves and what it means
to separate from them. We move on to the disowned selves
and their impact on us. We discuss how these selves operate
in our lives and how the bonding patterns they create impact
relationships. We describe and demonstrate the nature of
the Aware Ego and speak of the new vision of spirituality
that emerges as we accept our commitment to embracing all
of the selves. We emphasize the energetics of relationship
and demonstrate how this works using the Voice Dialogue
process.
There are several hours of demonstrations
where we facilitate each other to illustrate the work. We
discuss the dream process and how inseparable the dream
process is from the psychology of selves. There is a section
on dream interpretation. The series is presented in a very
systematic way, and includes numerous bullet point screens
which sum up each 20 minutes or so of explanations.
If you are a teacher or therapist, these
films will support your teaching and your clinical work.
We can assure you of one thing and that is that watching
these films will change consciousness. We wish we could
have a chance to see and hear all of the dreams that will
emerge as you - and your clients and students - watch this
series.
As you well know, it has always been our
contention that the methodology of Voice Dialogue belonged
to the world and to all therapeutic models. This is why
we have refused to certify practitioners of the work. It
belongs to anyone who wants to take the time to use it.
If you are involved in training in any way, these films
will strongly support your teaching and your therapy.
What more can we say? When we watched the
rough cuts of the interview videos, with fear and trepidation
in our hearts, we loved them. Even our Inner Critics and
Perfectionists loved them. This was a remarkable experience
for both of us. At that time they didn't include the live
material from the training workshop and the extra explanatory
material that has been added. In their finished form, the
videos are gems. As an extra bonus, this set includes 8
audiocassette tapes that cover the individual selves in
some detail and an in-depth exploration of dreams.
From its beginnings in the early seventies,
Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of Selves have come a
long way. This documentary series, together with a number
of other current creative efforts, is going to push the
work over the top. It seems very appropriate to us that
they be released at the start of the new millennium and
as we begin our sabbatical year. We hope that you will enjoy
them as much as we have enjoyed our part in bringing them
to you.
We urge you to buy this series of tapes and
to use them as part of your work with others as well as
for your own personal growth. They give a powerful, personal,
and immediate update on our work and should add a great
deal to your knowledge and your skills.
With our warmest wishes,
Hal and Sidra Stone
Albion, California
December 1999
