ABSTRACT
This chapter defines voice profiling and explores its use as a method of collating characteristics of all the voices that a person hears with the purpose of helping them to move towards a more organised experience of their voices and linked sensations. Guidance is offered to both voice hearer and supporter for completing the profile in a helpful way that increases understanding of individual voices and how the profile data links with information gained from the other exercises described in this book, such as life mapping. This chapter offers an example of a way of constructing a profile and the kinds of information to record. The authors stress that the effectiveness of the process is in building a flexible and personalised profile, such as using diagrams or drawings as well as words. The creative use of a profile also includes other sensorial experiences such as seeing things others do not and unusual beliefs. This chapter concludes with one of the author’s (Ruth Lafferty (RL)) experiences of positive changes as a consequence of profiling and how this contributes to an ever-improving relationship with individual voices.
