As Sandra and I were working away a couple of weeks ago we realised we had a series on anger, the first event "Not your average anger management programme", our event a week today with Buck Black, and then on the 20th March "Anger, Rage & Relationship" with Sue Parker Hall.
So, we thought we needed a theme for this emerging series on anger and we put out a request on twitter and facebook for suggestions, with our favourite suggestion being used as the series title and a years free subscription to our video library offered to the person making the suggestion.
Here are some of the great ideas that came our way:
Transforming Anger Into Power
I'm Outta Here!
In Your FACE - Working With Angry Clients Offline
Look Back In Anger: Working With Anger Therapeutically
You Talkin' To ME?? Anger and the Therapeutic Relationship
When the bark bites. Anger can hurt.
Taming the beast
Beauty and the Beast
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness
Anger: The Royal Road To Congruence
And our favourite ... Transforming the beast
Thanks to Annie Fallaize for such a great suggestion!
This is a great suggestion as it communicates to me something about the natural place of anger within us a humans and its potential to transform into something healthful and useful to us, congratulations to Annie who now has a years free subscription to our video library at onlinevents.co.uk
We currently have two events in our emerging series "Transforming the Beast", so if you would like to present your way of working with anger, a theoretical perspective or perhaps suggest an author for us to interview on the subject we would love to hear from you!
Hoping to see you at one of our upcoming events!
Sounds great! I'm aware that anger is still very taboo in our societies, being linked with violence - which is not always the case. I've met any number of furious counsellors who smother their rage with Good Works or energetic smiling, all the old tricks that women have used to deny and hide true feelings. And men aren't allowed to be angry at all in case they, poor uncontrolable creatures, become violent.
ReplyDeleteThere's a great deal to be angry about and knowing how anger works helps put it in its most appropriate place. Bucks w/s and workbooks were very useful for this. Some of our clients are angry and we need to be able to meet them without fear or judgement. Looking forward to this session with you.