Naomi Sutherland

The voice is a complex instrument and far more magical than people may assume. We talk of ‘our voice’ but we have many: the murmur, the shout, the song, the spoken word, the public speech, the secret, the lie, the truth. The voice is also very old, the root more than 500 million years. It has a complex neurobiology and a long, complex evolutionary history. 

My work with voice spans a number of different areas, namely, that I became a singer after losing my singing voice at 16; as a metaphor for the multi-dimensional self; and as a tool in career development work. 

The theory of voice is the coming together of these disparate elements to explain what the voice is in all its rich complexity and how an understanding of it can help to improve our self-understanding, our careers, and our lives. 

• What is the voice? 
• How does it work in the brain and body? 
• Why was it used in divine work? 
• What are the many dimensions of our voice? 
• Why do people self-discover through their own voices?