What is Inner Team Dialogue?
ITD is a Theory of Personality
ITD provides an elegant framework for understanding what’s going on in your client’s inner world. The Inner Team metaphor makes the conflicting drives within us easy to understand.
ITD is a field guide to the inner world.
The Inner World is populated by distinctive characters who are consistent from person to person. ITD features a “field guide” to these characters, describing their thoughts, feelings, behaviors and beliefs, the gifts they offer and the problems they create.
ITD is a Coaching Technique
ITD is a technique which complements and deepens your existing coaching tools. It rapidly generates the kinds of insights which open up new possibilities for your clients, whether you work as a life, executive or career coach.
Lasting Insights. Sustainable Results.
Awareness of the Inner Team begins the journey. To achieve lasting results, ITD provides the tools to help your clients cultivate an Inner Leader.
Only the Inner Leader help the Inner Team make the leap from fractious rabble to high performing.
As the Inner Leader strengthens, so does the capacity to align the Inner Team with outer results.
Inner Team Dialogue is a powerful new contribution to the field of coaching. If you want a profound personal experience as well as an entirely new and enlightening process to work with your clients, then take this course immediately!
Donna Zajonc, MCC
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Where does ITD come from?ITD was created by Paul Wyman, PCC. Paul build ITD on the foundation of a parts-work method called Voice Dialogue, which was originally created by PhD Psychologists Hal and Sidra Stone in the 1980’s. ITD maintains the elements of Voice Dialogue which fit the scope of practice of a coach, and blends them with coaching frameworks including Polarity Management and vertical development.
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Is ITD the same as IFS (Internal Family Systems)?No, they are distinct practices. ITD and IFS do have similarities, however. Both systems see the personality as made up of distinct parts, and operate from the premise that there are no “bad” parts. Both systems emphasize the development of a coordinating presence, which is called “Self” in IFS, “Inner Leader” in ITD. The major difference between the systems is their goal: IFS is designed to support achieving the kinds of objectives a client would set with a therapist (for example, healing of early wounds, resolving trauma). ITD is designed to support achieving the kinds of goals a client would set with a coach (personal development in support of achievement of external goals). There are also some significant differences in techniques of how these models are used in session with clients.
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Isn’t Parts Work a type of therapy? Can a coach use it safely?Parts work approaches (including IFS, Psychosynthesis and Voice Dialogue) all originated in the therapy world, and were designed for use in this context. They can, however, be used in an adapted form to fit the scope of practice of a coach. ITD includes clear guidelines about what client needs fall outside of a coach’s scope, and when a referral to a mental health professional is necessary. Following these guidelines allows ITD to be used safely and ethically by formally trained coaches. ITD is not intended to be used as a replacement for mental health services, but as an approach to help coaches support their clients in achieving their coaching goals.
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I have other questions!Contact paul.wyman@innerteamdialogue.com, and I’ll do my best to answer them for you.