The voice is the muscle of the soul.  - Alfred Wolfsohn

Full Voice Online Train the Trainer

Due to COVID19, the nine-month Full Voice Coach Training course has been replaced by an online Train the Trainer course, which covers the same material included in the first weekend retreat.

Overall Purpose:
Each participant will be able to present the Five Elements Framework™, including origins, applications and their own connection to the work to groups and individuals.
 
This module will count toward the overall Full Voice Coach Certification for those who want to complete the certification program. It can also stand alone.
 
What You’ll Receive:
Eleven hours of online learning including full group, learning trios, and individual coaching with Barbara.
Handouts and resources for presenting the Five Elements Framework™, including diagrams, song lists, character lists, and exercises.
An exploration of your own voice in the context of the framework, including an individualized practice plan.
A vibrant learning community.
 
What Is Expected:
Show up on all calls – on time and ready to work
Complete homeplay assignments
Contribute whole-heartedly to your fellow pupils and the community at large
 
Cost $795 (payment plans accepted)
             
End Results:
 
Deepening our understanding of voice in various contexts – physiological, psychological, vocational, social, and spiritual.
 
Introducing the Five Elements Framework -- its origins in voice practice, the oral tradition, Jungian psychology, mindfulness, and yoga.
 
Gaining proficiency in guiding groups and individuals in a basic introduction to the Full Voice Framework ™, a tool for unleashing the full power and flexibility in the voice.
 
Discovering and developing your own voice within the Five Elements Framework, its strengths and challenges.
 
Creating an individualized practice plan to continue your own vocal development.
 
Exploring how simple songs and chants can support vocal development.
 
Establishing a community of learning and support.

To be considered as a candidate for this training, please email Barbara.

Full Voice Coach Training Certification Program
(on hold until we can meet together in person)

People are yearning to find their voices.
​As a Full Voice Coach, you will engage clients in unleashing the transformational power of their voices in their everyday lives and work.
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What you receive:
Discover and develop your own voice within the Five Elements Framework™, a tool for unleashing the full power and flexibility in the voice.

Develop a deep understanding of the Five Elements Framework™ --
its origins in voice practice, the oral tradition, Jungian psychology, mindfulness, and yoga.

Identify common vocal challenges and learn how to address them.

Acquire skills and techniques for guiding individuals and groups through a Full Voice learning experience. 

Discover how your unique gifts can be integrated into the coaching process. 

Receive individual guidance and support as you practice coaching and training individuals and groups.

Be part of an intimate learning community of practitioners.  

Schedule:

• Three in-residence retreats 

•  Individual coaching sessions with Barbara between retreats
• Peer learning trios between retreats

Tuition:  $6,000 plus $1,200 for lodging and food ​(Travel not included)
Space is limited to 9 participants

What you bring: 
Experience in working with Barbara on your own vocal development (this can be scheduled prior to the beginning of the course)

Basic coaching skills and/or the capacity to bring deep attention to others

Ability to hear pitch accurately - some singing experience preferred

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What are Full Voice Coaches doing in the world?

Several community song leaders are offering Full Voice to groups and individuals as they foster oral tradition singing in their regions.

A church musician with a music degree is now including Full Voice in her other offerings: spiritual direction, Dances of Universal Peace, and using singing as a form of activism.

A song leader and voice coach is using Full Voice in concert with Yoga of the Voice certification and community song circles. She is also an end-of-life doula who uses voice and harp with her clients and their families.

A therapist is incorporating Full Voice into her work with individual clients. She is also founder of a comfort choir that brings song and presence to people at the end of life.

A graphic designer, singer and father of four is teaching his children the Five Elements as part of their family singing culture. He is also leading weekend workshops that blend Full Voice with improvisational singing.

Testimonials from Graduates

Before I committed to Full Voice and even throughout the first few months of the program, I did not know what I wanted to "do" with the certification once I got it. What was clear to me was that
1. I revere Barbara and I knew that whatever I learned from her would be important and useful to me no matter what I did.
2. I knew the training experience would be life-changing.
3. I knew my goals would clarify along the way.

Full Voice was a lot of things to me, and I could write much about it, but what feels important to highlight is that it blended sacred and practical in the most right way I've ever experienced. The program blended ritual, spirituality, self-reflection, and trust-building with myself and others (who I've stayed in touch with. I think you'll make many new friends if you do Full Voice). AND the program incorporated very practical elements about pedagogy, leading groups, facilitation, and making lesson plans. I felt like I deepened my own Full Voice practice AND learned to teach others how to practice Full Voice. 
- Laura Nelson, 2018
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​​Full Voice Training was one of the best educational experiences of my life. Thanks to Barbara and Tom’s strong teamwork and joyous teaching styles, I re-discovered my love of learning. The curriculum and its challenges were so carefully considered that the early steps prepared me for the later steps — what was terrifying was at the same time possible and fun. The combination of personal journey work, skill acquisition, creative expression, and practical applications was brilliant. I have never felt so supported in a learning environment, with such attention to detail on every level of learning. The Full Voice Training is proving life-changing for me.
– ​Katharine Grant, 2018

My world expanded and became so much richer as result of the Full Voice course. Not only did I find my study of voice a deep and rewarding experience, but I learned how to coach others in expressing themselves more powerfully.  Barbara McAfee and Tom McSteen have created an informative, enlightening, challenging and fun course that offers a way to combine passion and purpose while earning some income at the same time.
- Ingrid Mattsson, 2018
 
I highly recommend Full Voice Coach Training if you long to serve others in accessing their voice to make a difference in their lives and for the sake of the world. Barbara’s unique Five Elements Framework™ offers me an embodied practice that intensifies the connections between my words, my meaning, my delivery, and my soul.  I apply the the skills I learned in my therapy practice and song leadership. Truly liberating the voice gives greater freedom to a person’s whole way of being in the world. 

Barbara is a force for the great flow of love, creativity, silliness, depth, integrity, and passion for a healed world.  Working with her in this training has been powerful and joyous.
- Dianne Baker, 2016
 
I have been touched and expanded by my participation in the Full Voice Coach Training program.  In the process of learning to coach others, I moved into new capacities within myself: I am more confident; my voice is more flexible, strong, and whole; my ears are more discerning; and I am more in love with being human.  Barbara and Tom create a potent container for learning.  In everything we did, my humanness was valued and my heart just kept opening. 

Throughout the course, our cohort became a bonded group, dedicated to each other’s growth, and excited about the ways in which Full Voice work can inspire growth in others.   This connection has continued after the end of the course as we support each other in bringing this good work to the world.
- Lia Falls, 2018
 
I'm so grateful I had the opportunity to work through the Full Voice Training Program. I gained the knowledge, skills, and confidence to do something I never I imagined I would or could. The course combined pedagogy, development of my own intuition, ritual, ceremony, laughter, tears, and deep reflection. The experience felt deeply personal and transformed my perception of the world. My teachers and fellow graduates have now become colleagues and friends  in carrying the work forward. 
– Laura Nelson, 2018