Group Concept –
This group aims to assist those who know anger as a protector, a mask, and a blunt way to show others how we feel even if it is at their expense. Within this assistive group process the therapist works as a guide in unlocking each clients understanding of their anger and why the expression of this has become what it is in each person’s life.
Through this didactic group engagement participants will learn how to define anger and understand what lies beneath this emotion. How anger has served them well and how it has taken from them and most likely others around them. They will also be able to identify and explore coping skills to manage anger in moments of struggle as well as learn how to communicate their needs without lashing out or taking safety from others.
Anger’s Story
Anger is an emotion that has served humanity in many ways since our species first appeared on this planet. The trouble with anger is that from our origin to the present so much has transpired with human beings that we have ineffectively been able to translate anger into a healthy process. Within our society are many other factors that make anger more intensive for many of us increasing its use as a destructive force.
Neurobiology
Learn where anger emerges from in the brain and the basic functions of anger dating back to when our species was less evolved. How do animals outside of Human Beings understand anger and why does this matter to us?
Feelings that anger masks
Although we may only be able to talk about anger or frustrations felt in any given moment, there are other emotions at work that we may truly be unaware of until we do some searching. Clients will be able to look at past and present struggles to see how other emotions influence anger and what this means for their emotional processing.
Living with Anger
The object of anger management is not to learn to stop being angry. It is to understand why we get angry and to learn more productive and healthier ways to express our anger. Many of us have experienced loss because of anger and how we convey it. Learning how to manage this is the focus of this group and what ongoing management looks like after group concludes.
The world does not need to be perfect to be beautiful…
Perspective is a key component in how we relate to the others and the world. Through change and self exploration we can see how to look at life through a new lens and heal in ways we may have only dreamed of, or never knew were possible at all.
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Thurber
On the Journey: Therapy & Trainings 