anger management

22/23 FEBRUARY 2012

Anger is a conundrum. In principle it is unacceptable. Every religious and moral code says so. We feel bad about it. “Thou shalt not kill!” (and so on). We fear anger whether it comes at us from the outside or if we experience it inside us. And yet from the moment we’re born anger does feel somehow ‘right’. When there’s any kind of injustice, there it pops up again! It seems to be our natural, organismic response to something not working for us, something unbearable or unacceptable or just not matching what we need or desire.

Anger can be very hot or very cold. Some of us tend to be explosive, others implode. Some are over-inflamed, others withholding. Some of us expel and spill out our feelings in an unformed, uncontrolled way, others over-contain, and withdraw from the world to protect other people and ourselves from our anger. These are universal habitual behaviours, quite undifferentiated responses to the world. Maturely considered responses  -  whether to discharge or to contain the emotion  -  often don’t seem to be accessible to us.

This workshop will look at and practise constructive, appropriate ways of expressing or meeting anger, and we will learn how we can get a satisfying resolution to a problem without acting out our anger.

The longer-term goal is to be able to express anger in the service of being more fully alive, and yet also to control our anger, end it, and work towards being the master of the emotion rather than victim to it.

    If you want to discuss participating in the workshop or to reserve a place, please call me on 07973 322819 or email marcusgottlieb@gmail.com. The workshop fee is £170.
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