Embracing the inner critic
Melt Resistance, Procrastination, Perfectionism or Shame
Into Acceptance, Flow, Action & Worthiness
For practitioners who want to Dissolve their biggest barrier to freedom and Easeful Momentum
so both Your business and clients Shine
You're ready to do amazing work in the world ...
To put yourself out there, take risks and contribute meaningfully.
You want to go at your pace and make a big impact, even as you learn or make mistakes on the go!
And you want to get to the roots of real change for your clients so they can experience genuine thriving and inner peace.
But the voice of the inner critic (in you or your clients) can get in the way so much that progress and change completely stalls under a paralysing barrage of "should's" and "shouldn'ts".
If you or your clients are getting stuck in negative self-talk and self-judgment, making it difficult to achieve results, relax and receive, or engage in the processes you want to lead your clients through.
If you hear phrases like:
"I shouldn't be feeling this way ",
"I'm going to muck it up", or
"I'm not good enough!" and "I should be different! (better/ thinner/ younger/ smarter/ less ABC/ more XYZ)"
And you witness feelings of powerlessness, collapse, inner judgement, self-hatred or hardening up and "pushing through" despite all the best efforts to relax and trust the process...
Quite likely you are seeing the impact of the Inner Critic.
How it works...
In 20+ years of self-development and 100s and 100s of client hours, I've witnessed a universal human block to healing, presence and easeful momentum.
This block is often the cause of procrastination, shame spirals, perfectionism, and disconnection from your heart, playfulness or vulnerability.
When this block is directly (and curiously) addressed, what felt like permanent barriers can easefully dissolve, bringing with it deeper understanding, self compassion and genuine connection in the heart - as well as the capacity to move through life with greater warmth, courage and self connection.
This universal barrier is the Inner Critic (and they're actually here to help!)
That is why I have created this 6-week journey for
embodied practitioners, coaches, and therapists
to navigate inner conflict, reclaim agency, and integrate all parts of the self - using Voice Dialogue, embodiment, and guided self-inquiry
So that you have an embodied experience of embracing your own inner critic (we gotta walk where we want to take our clients)...
And can use this in service of the greater freedom and thriving for your clients too.
Here's what a previous student said:
"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
Rather than letting the Inner Critic run amok and delay or scramble the wonderful work you're ready to do, this course will help you:
🌿 Understand and map the inner critic and how it relates to the vulnerability and deeper heart,
🌿 Externalise and develop boundaries around that inner critical voice (no longer Simply Believing everything that voice has to say),
🌿 And to embrace, and even appreciate the role the critic is trying to play, without being governed by it.
So that:
🌿 1) you can experience life and challenges as a relaxed unfolding, with willingness to take risks and try new things - without perfectionism or heavy expectations on how things go.
and,
🌿 2) You can show your clients how to do it too.
All of this means your clients (and you - because you'll learn by doing this for yourself first!) can enjoy the wins and natural learnings, and be empowered to access deeper healing and reach your fuller potential.
Who is this for?
👉 Coaches, therapists, and embodied practitioners seeking to navigate inner conflict,
👉 Professionals wanting to integrate inner child, inner critic, and other parts into daily life,
👉 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.
Meet Jane:
Jane is a skilled acupuncturist who specialises in female reproductive health, but she struggles with her confidence and clarity in promoting her work.
Despite having multiple modalities under her belt and a great reputation, Jane has an inner voice that berates, criticises and compares what she does and how she does it, leading to a lack of certainty and confidence in her skills.
She wants to continue charging more for her services and running groups and programs but is held back by her own inner critic.
Meet Ed:
Ed is a highly sought after men's coach who helps his clients get into their bodies and use their intuition to succeed at work
He's great at what he does and gets his clients creating momentum and change, but finds them unable to enjoy or maintain their momentum because of their harsh inner critics.
As much as he doesn't want to (after all the work he's done on himself) he sees himself in his clients, and wants to experience more relaxation and enjoyment of his success and to be able to help his clients overcome this last hurdle as well.
Can you relate to Jane or Ed's struggles? If so, read on...
"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)
Let me help you discover the missing piece that's preventing you and your clients from healing and change without Needing to Harden Up or Override.
so that you can personally:
• Overcome procrastination or perfectionism,
• Learn to feel the embrace of your own inner critic as a supportive protector rather than a block to your thriving,
• Feel connected to yourself and become willing to take risks and try new things with a loving inner attitude,
• Create more internal safety so procrastination and shame gently drop to the wayside and the path can open up in front of you.
And so that you can:
• Confidently guide your clients to understand and embrace their inner critic for more internal harmony and ease,
• Create more safety and ground for vulnerability (and deeper change) in your processes,
• Reduce resistance, push-back and stalling in your sessions or groups,
• Use Voice Dialogue to help your clients to reach their fuller potential, in an elegant, powerfully effective way.
This Online course includes:
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 behaviors,
* 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
EXACTLY WHAT YOU'LL RECIEVE:
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.
BONUS #1: (PDF GUIDE):
How to Do a Voice Dialogue Session
A step-by-step Guide to walk you through safely doing a Voice Dialogue session yourself and with clients in the future.
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 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.
6 x Weekly Personal 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.
PLUS over 2hrs Additional Q+A Resources
Over 2hr hours of additional 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?"
PLUS DEMO Voice Dialogue sessions
So you can watch sessions in action
to deepen your learning and embodied understanding.
OPTIONAL UPGRADE: A Personal 1:1 session with Amanda
You have the option to 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.
Testimonial:
"You will never make a decision in the same way again"
"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 starting to realise are not true."
"AND, to those 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.
Very empowering!!!".
Kez - Counsellor and Student
Join us in this powerful program.
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.
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
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)
WHO RUNS THIS PROGRAM?
Meet your Facilitator and Guide: Amanda Patterson
Hey there, I'm Amanda and I'm here to help you understand yourself on a deeper level and experience natural inner harmony as you offer your deeply resonant and successful services to the world.
Growing up as a shy and introverted child, I had a lot of harsh inner judgements about my shyness and love of the quieter things in life. Over 25+ years of self development and study in Parts Work, Voice Dialogue and Somatic Therapies, (as well as observing the inner workings of 100s and 100s of clients), I discovered that this harsh inner voice is common to all of us and that there is a simple way to create a healthier inner dialogue, and short-cut your journey to relaxation and inner peace.
In this course I have gathered many of these insights and tools for you to work with the inner critic to bring more harmony, inner kindness and courage. So you can personally experience significant shifts in yours and your clients' ways of being in the world.
As the creator of the Somatic Soul Method, the Trauma Informed Partitioner program, and Mastering Trauma Informed Leadership Certification, I specialise in helping practitioners who have a soul calling to be of service, who want to integrate the body, mind and soul in their work so they can confidently deliver their own offers, groups and programs, while backing themselves all the way.
What Others Have Said...
"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 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
"Such a valuable learning experience and tool"
"Such a valuable learning experience and tool, noticing the inner critic has begun a deep healing process and cultivated more self-acceptance. So glad I jumped into the course".
Briony Montgomery - Therapist
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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