Embracing the inner critic
A program for practitioners who want to work skillfully with the inner critic and inner child - in themselves and their clients
A 6-week voice dialogue training to help you Develop An Aware Ego that can meet vulnerability with steadiness and care.
You're likely familiar with the inner critic ...
A voice that can appear through criticism, pushing, comparison or doubt.
It may say things like:
“You should be doing better.”
“You’re going to get this wrong.”
"You shouldn't be feeling this way ",
“You should be different! (better/ thinner/ younger/ smarter/ less ABC/ more XYZ)"
This voice, and the shame that it creates, can have a profound impact on our sense of self and what’s possible in life.
And sometimes it comes with a harshness that is hard to shake off.
A Different Approach
This program gives you the clear frameworks and experiential processes to work with the inner critic as a Part of you (or your clients) rather than as the voice of Truth.
A simple and effective intervention to find the roots of the inner critic's drive, and reduce or stop its attack.
Combining personal inner work with practitioner skill development, you will explore the relationship between:
• The inner critic
• The vulnerable inner child
• The developing Aware Ego (the caring adult self that can recognise vulnerability and respond with clarity, steadiness, and care).
So, rather than silencing the critic, this work helps you respond from awareness, supporting both your own growth, your work with clients, and their lived experience.
this program gives You tools to navigate inner conflict, reclaim agency, and integrate parts of the self - using Voice Dialogue, embodiment, and guided self-inquiry:
THIS INCLUDES:
🌿 Recognising the patterns and language of the inner critic (so you can catch it faster),
🌿 Developing boundaries around that inner critical voice (no longer Simply Believing everything that voice has to say),
🌿 Understanding the vulnerability the critic protects,
🌿 Experiencing your own inner critic as a supportive protector rather than a block to your thriving,
🌿 Practising voice dialogue to work with these voices directly,
🌿 Developing the Aware Ego - a steady, caring adult presence,
🌿 Creating more internal safety so procrastination and shame gently drop to the wayside,
🌿 Integrating these skills into your work with clients.
So you can
🌿 Reduce resistance, push-back and stalling in your sessions or groups, and
🌿 Use this powerful tool to help your clients reach their fuller potential in an elegant, powerfully effective way.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
👉 Coaches, therapists, and embodied practitioners seeking to navigate inner conflict with skill,
👉 Anyone ready to strengthen their aware ego, reclaim energy, and live authentically,
👉 And practitioners wanting effective tools to reduce resistance and inner judgement from stalling their otherwise powerful processes.
This course includes:
6 x Online Learning Modules (valued at $660)
Delivered in a clear and easy-to-understand format (video, audio and PDF manuals) so you can absorb the core material in your own time in an alive and integrative way.
6 x Guided Reflective Inquiry processes (valued at $90)
Explore your own relationship to the content, skills and information with these powerful inquiry questions to help you deepen your self-awareness and embodiment.
How to Do a Voice Dialogue Session (PDF GUIDE)
A step-by-step Guide to walk you through skillfully doing a Voice Dialogue session with yourself, friends and clients.
DEMO Voice Dialogue sessions
So you can watch sessions in action to deepen your learning and embodied understanding.
BONUS #1: Over 2hrs Additional Q+A Resources
Videoed Q+A answering questions like:
"What are the limitations for using Voice Dialogue with Mental Illness?",
"How do we Embrace and still have boundaries with a harsh Critic?", and "Does an early abuse experience change the way we do Voice Dialogue?"
BONUS #2: Nuances of the Inner Critic with Ana Barner
A recorded experiential workshop on the Nuances of the Inner Critic led by Ana Barner, an international Voice Dialogue therapist and trainer with over 30 years experience. Learn to uproot the source of strong critical behaviours to create more space and freedom inside.
PLUS AN OPTIONAL UPGRADE:
A Personal 1:1 session with Amanda
Add a 1:1 Voice Dialogue session to your course and receive personalised attention and mentoring so you absorb and integrate the program more deeply.
This session can be used to gain resolution to your particular struggles and/or to bring case consults and questions about the course content, so you can serve your clients better.
PRICING
Embracing the Inner Critic - Course
Enrol with $299 or just $166 (paid 2 x fortnightly)
Embracing the Inner Critic Course + 1:1 Session
Enrol with $555 or just $185 (paid 3 x fortnightly) to receive a session with Amanda as well as the course
TESTIMONIALS
"You will never make a decision in the same way again"
"If you are thinking of joining... You will never make a decision in the same way again.
Being aware of your inner critic gives you the tools to operate and make decisions from your adult self instead of your wounded child.
This work made a big difference during a career workshop I just attended for another course. I had more confidence and the ability to notice, but not listen to my critic when it was trying to tell me the same old things (that I am realising are not true).
Very empowering!!!".
Kez - Counsellor and Student
"It has literally changed my life!"
"Amanda is a wonderful wise, clear, compassionate and fun teacher.
I have learnt so much from her and it has literally changed my life!
I highly highly recommend diving into Amanda’s courses.
The world needs it".
Lisa Grant - Mind body nutrition coach
"I feel empowered, embodied and able to embrace all of me (including the messy parts!)"
"Before this training, my inner critic was extremely harsh, a bully and pusher, creating doubt and fear in me, which stopped me from being me. I never went after what I truly wanted, therefore not creating my life. Since the course I feel empowered and embodied, I'm able to embrace all of me, all my parts, Including 'my messy parts' and that's the Best Part!
I Love the 'gifts, understanding and freedom' this training, and truly loving all of me, allows me. Thank you Amanda for creating such a safe and nurturing space to explore this work and ourselves."
LN - Student
who runs this program?
Meet your Facilitator and Guide: Amanda Patterson
Hey there, I'm Amanda, and I'm here to help you experience natural inner harmony as you offer your deeply resonant and successful services to the world - and develop the skills to help your clients along the way.
Where this work comes from:
Growing up as a shy and introverted child, I developed a harsh inner critic that judged my quiet nature and love of the slower things in life.
I spent 25+ years learning to love myself honestly, and studied Parts Work, Voice Dialogue and Somatic Therapies amongst many others. Through my own process and working with hundreds of clients, I’ve seen how common this harsh inner voice is, and how transformative it is when we learn to relate to it differently.
Over the years, I have created and delivered trainings in the Somatic Soul Method, the Trauma Informed Practitioner Program, and the Mastering Trauma Informed Leadership Certification (recognised by IICT).
In this program, I share the insights and practices that help you work skillfully with the inner critic and the vulnerability it protects, bringing greater inner steadiness, kindness, and courage — both personally and in your work with clients.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU'LL RECIEVE:
Week 1: Understanding Your Inner Critic 🧠
Learn how the inner critic forms, why it intensifies around vulnerability and trauma, and how to gently reconnect with your essential self using awareness-based tools.
What You’ll Gain:
* A clear understanding of the inner critic as a protective survival pattern,
* Awareness of your inner critic’s voice, tone, and energy,
* Understanding its role in shaping thoughts, feelings, and behaviours,
* Practical tools to recognise, soften, and relate to it with awareness,
* Greater capacity to meet vulnerability - in yourself and your clients - without collapse or self-attack,
* Creating a foundation for curiosity and self-compassion.
Week 2: Discovering Your Inner Selves 🪞
Identify your core inner selves, understand their roles, and learn how to work with them consciously using Voice Dialogue principles.
What You’ll Gain:
* Clarity on your inner critic, inner child, and other active or disowned parts.
* Use Voice Dialogue to see your parts as separate from your aware ego.
* Understand the critic’s impact and cultivate gentleness toward yourself to create self-compassion,
* Strengthened the aware ego to observe and respond rather than react,
* Observe patterns in yourself and others: Recognise how parts show up in clients to enhance your facilitation skills.
Week 3: Strengthening Your Aware Ego 🏛️
Learn to communicate with your inner critic and inner child using Voice Dialogue to create safety, presence, and choice.
What You’ll Gain:
* Practical skills to communicate with inner parts without judgment or suppression,
* An understanding of polarities and how to work with them safely and effectively,
* Reduced identification with automatic patterns,
* Greater resilience, stability, and self-regulation - especially around vulnerability and trauma,
* Plus: Learn how to integrate practices into relationships, work, and client sessions.
Week 4: Integrating Voice Dialogue into Work & Relationships 🤝
Apply Voice Dialogue to your work and relationships, creating more harmony and curiosity between you and others.
What You’ll Gain:
*Reduce internal and external conflict by understanding the mechanisms of parts in relationship with others,
* Improve connection, collaboration, and emotional presence in relationships and client sessions,
* Gain practical strategies for supporting clients’ inner dialogue around their relationships, and
* Build confidence in facilitating conscious choice and integration,
Week 5: Transforming Your Relationship with Your Inner Critic Through the Body 🔥
Reclaim agency and access embodied strength and passion to counter collapse in strong "shame attacks".
What You’ll Gain:
* Recognise how the inner critic shows up on a physical and energetic levels (body, posture, and energy)
* Reconnect with strength, passion, and vitality to counteract collapse and shame,
* Practical Tools for Self-Protection: Respond to harsh criticism with clarity and presence,
* Use posture, breath, and movement to anchor the aware ego even deeper,
* Client Application: Guide clients to externalise their critic, embody protective energy, and reconnect with vulnerability.
Week 6: Living Your Best Life with Voice Dialogue 🌈
Integrate your awareness into daily life to sustain long-term growth.
What You’ll Gain:
* Maintain curiosity and openness, reducing its influence without suppression or denial.
* Expand presence and authenticity: Cultivate the ability to hold vulnerability, strength, and flow simultaneously.
* Sustain practice beyond the program: Develop strategies to continue exploring and integrating inner selves in life and client work.
PLUS These two Bonuses to deepen your embodiment
BONUS #1 (PDF GUIDE):
Step-byStep: How to Do a Voice Dialogue Session 🪄
A step-by-step method for facilitating Voice Dialogue
Voice Dialogue is an elegant way to externalise your internal drives, vulnerabilities and gifts as “parts” of you that are running your life and the life of your clients'.
This Bonus gift will help you to take the content from the program and translate it into tangible support for your own life and your client work.
What You’ll Gain:
* Facilitate inner dialogue independently: Learn to explore primary and disowned parts on your own, safely and effectively.
* Practice self-exploration with structure: Follow a clear, step-by-step method to meet, hear, and understand your parts.
* Strengthen your aware ego: Increase conscious choice by observing parts without being dominated by them.
* Prepare for client application: Build confidence and familiarity with the process before guiding others.
BONUS #2 (Video):
Nuances of the Inner Critic with Ana Barner
A recorded experiential workshop on the Nuances of the Inner Critic
Ana Barner is an international Voice Dialogue therapist and trainer with over 30 years experience. Over her years of indepth Parts work, she developed Voice Constellations, Transpersonal Dialogue and Soul Dialogue.
In this experiential workshop, she guides you through "the Gang" and to distinguish between the Rule Maker, the Pusher and the Critic and uproot the source of strong critical behaviours to create more space and freedom inside.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a practical, embodied toolkit to respond to your inner critic, connect with your vulnerability, and live and work with clarity, presence, and ease.
To then share this with your clients
PRICING
Embrace Course
Enrol with $299 or just $166 (paid 2 x fortnightly)
YOU'LL RECEIVE:
6 x Online Learning Modules
6 x Weekly Inquiry processes
Bonus #1: PDF Guide "How to do a Voice Dialogue Session"
Bonus #2: Workshop "The Nuances of the Inner Critic" with Ana Barner
BONUS #3: Over 2hrs of Q+A recordings, additional teachings and demo sessions so you can watch voice dialogue in action.
EMBRACE COURSE +
1:1 session
Add $250 to include a 1:1 session
YOU'LL RECEIVE:
6 x Online Learning Modules
6 x Weekly Inquiry processes
Bonus #1: PDF Guide "How to do a Voice Dialogue Session"
Bonus #2: Workshop "The Nuances of the Inner Critic" with Ana Barner
BONUS #3: Over 2hrs of Q+A recordings, additional teachings and demo sessions so you can watch voice dialogue in action.
PLUS 1 x 1:1 session with Amanda valued at $300.
Just $250 with this course
(PLEASE NOTE THAT 1:1 PLACES ARE LIMITED)
"The Inner Critic often does not know when to stop.
It does not know when enough is enough.
It has a tendency to grow until it is out of control and begins to undermine us and to do real damage.
Its original intent gets lost in the sands of time.”
– Hal Stone (developer of Voice Dialogue)
What Others Have Said...
"I feel the capacity to hold it all and be it all".
Hi Amanda, I have so many revelations and I wish to share with you. Having explored voice dialogue, doing the energetic exercises and letting the energy be verbalised and expressed, journaling, inquiry, and bringing safety and healing to the wounded parts….I notice what I truly want is to feel big and expansive, and boldness! To be me! To be every parts of me. To be it all.
It feels like there is a balance between my adult & child parts, there is a protective strength, boldness, yet it comes with flexibility, fluidity, sensitivity and OKAYNESS. Also, playfulness, purity, joyfulness… I feel the capacity to hold it all and be it all.
I just cant help myself but to share this joy and excitement!"
- Edison Tan, Sound Healer and Yoga Teacher
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Create more space for creative flow, momentum and relaxation, as well as gaining powerful frameworks to use with your clients for their faster and deeper results.
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FAQs
How many hours will I need for this each week?
It will take approximately 30mins-1.5hrs per week to absorb the content and work with the journalling prompts and processes. Please also leave space in your life for the absoprtion of the content - give yourself room to feel it and dance with it in between the teaching modules.
Is this suitable for me if I'm not working with clients?
This training is designed for people who are, or who want to be, working with clients. You don't have to be working with them currently, but the content is created to support you towards your successful work in the world.
Are there any refunds?
Due to the digital nature of this course content, we're not able to offer refunds. Please ensure you are clear about the content and format of this program before purchase, and reach out here if you have any questions: admin@wisdombody.com.au