ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a method for people who hear voices to organise their life experiences in a personalised way that creates a life map of pertinent events, experiences, important relationships, and places that may have a direct link to the characteristics identified in the voice profile. An example of a life map is offered and, as with voice profiling, a personal creative construction is encouraged in order for the process of mapping to be as congruent with the voice hearer as possible. The life map is also a building block for the next exercise described: voice mapping. Voice mapping has its roots in the Voice Dialogue approach and the authors adapt this for mapping voices to illustrate the dynamic world of the voice hearer described in stage one of mapping voices. Stage two of the voice mapping exercise is explored to help illustrate how the dynamic movements of voices relate to the voice hearer’s historic and present interpersonal and intra-personal relationship conflicts. Why and where voices move is discussed and what needs to change to gain agency in these internal and external relationships. Finally, position exchange with a voice is described and its purpose in assisting the development of a more harmonious relationship with a voice.
