Anger Management – Anger Is My Friend – Outline

Anger Management – Anger is my friend – outline

OUTLINE

Welcome — A message from a 12 year old: “Anger is my friend.”

Prayer

Introductions

The strategies that help to manage anger: What can I do about it?
I am responsible for managing my self

Meet your messengers:

1) Internal

2) External

Setting intent and purpose for this workshop

Commitment to healing and self management statement:

Communication
The Bridge: Connecting two sides

Anger’s relatives:
a) Family of emotions.
b) Naming emotions: How are you feeling?
c) Emotional literacy. Reading emotions.
d) Emotional expression
e) What do emotions do?
f) Why do we have emotions?
g) How do they show themselves?
h) What do you do with them?

What does anger look like? (the medicine wheel map)
Physically – on the body?
Mentally – in words?
Emotionally – what other emotion? – Anger as a secondary emotion.
Spiritually – beliefs and relationships

a) Self
b) Children
c) Couples
d) Family
e) Experiences
f) Religion
g) Friends
h) Nations

The Story of Anger: its purpose; its function and its many faces:
Anger as:
a) the loudest emotional messenger;
b) a protector;
c) a boundary maintainer and limit setter;
d) energy and power to movement (E-motion – energy in motion);
e) a volcano – letting the energy out – a release;
f) a learned behavioural response;
g) a problem solver;
h) the avoidance of something else (bigger, more pressing, or more difficult, greater emotional impact);
i) a roller coaster;
j) a wall: Stuffing it in – not expressing it – not expressing what is feeding it;
k) an instrument of abuse;
l) an instrument of self harm;
m) an instrument of healing;
n) my friend.

The triggers to my anger? (the match that lights the gas on fire) What makes you angry.

Anger in context: the story of my anger.
Deconstructing situations when anger showed itself.
– Where does it come from?
– What happened before?
– How did it show itself?
– What happened next?
– The consequences positive and negative.

Anger containment versus anger blocking.

Fear of anger – the fear of anger getting out of control.

Anger and frustration.

Anger and stress: the pressure cooker.

Anger and responsibility.

Anger and beliefs.

Out of control anger.

Anger as an indicator of past abuse and pain: anger as the unpacker. What’s underneath my anger?

Responding to other people’s anger.

The Dance of Anger – what does it look like for you?

SCHEDULE

TBA

Upon registration, you will receive confirmation and detailed information regarding location, accommodation listing, etc.

TUITION

• $470.00 plus GST per person;
• Includes a 4-day intensive workshop, materials, certificate of participation, coffee break refreshments/pastries;
• Does not include travel expenses: transportation, accommodations, meals and incidentals.
• Payment must be made 10 days prior to the workshop by cash, cheque, money order, purchase order, or direct billing authorization;
• Due to the sensitivity and interconnectedness of the workshop, partial attendance is not advised, punctuality is essential, and cell phones and blackberries are to be turned off.

ON-SITE WORKSHOPS

To arrange an on-site workshop in your community, please call Elaine Woodward at 1-403-931-1094.

QUOTE FOR ON-SITE 4-DAY ANGER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

Facilitator Fees for Workshop Delivery $1,000/day x 4 days $4,000
Facilitator Fees for Travel Days $500/day x 2 days $1,000
Materials $700
Report (participant list, evaluations, recommendations, photos) $300
Sub-Total $6,000
GST 5% $ 300
TOTAL $6,300

Note:
# Travel, meals, incidentals and accommodations will be arranged for and paid by community organization(s).
# Quote may vary pending travel distance, time and flight schedules, and weather conditions.
# Pending organization needs, this quote may vary slightly.
# Quote based on a maximum of 20 participants and 1 facilitator. If moe than 20, then we require a co-facilitator, and we charge additional costs.

ABOUT LIFE WORKS COUNSELLING AND TRAINING SERVICES INC.

Life Works Counselling and Training Services Inc., established in 1994, is a business specializing in:
i) Therapeutic Assessment, Counselling and Referral Services;
ii) Contracted Face-to-face and Telephone Counselling Services, On-Site in Communities, upon request;
iii) Counselling services for a broad range of issues;
iv) Critical Incident Stress Management Services;
v) Employee and Family Assistance Programs and Services;
vi) Workshop delivery across Canada;
vii) Services utilizing Elders, translators and interpreters of client’s choice, if required.

The Life Works Counselling and Training Services Inc.’s office is located in Millarville (Calgary area), Alberta.

Services have been extensively provided to individuals, families, communities and organizations. Their work with Aboriginal people and communities throughout Canada has helped them develop a high level of respect for the diversity of peoples, cultures, languages and traditions.

Life Works Counselling and Training Services Inc. provides the highest possible level of services to their clients. They have a reputation for being mindful of the position of trust, confidentiality, and responsibility in their work with clientele. Integrity, honesty, confidentiality and fairness are essential to the way in which they conduct business.

TERRY GARCHINSKI, FACILITATOR

Terry Garchinski, R.S.W, is an experienced and dynamic trainer, facilitator and speaker, in areas such as, (but not limited to): loss and grief, ending abuse and violence, trauma recovery, suicide prevention, life mapping and cycles of abuse, self-harm and healing, conflict resolution. He has designed and facilitated numerous workshops and programs for various client groups: First Nations, governments, non-government, industries, businesses, medical and educational institutes, in communities throughout Canada. Terry is founder and President of Life Works Counselling and Training Services Inc., and owner of Bag Man Productions.

As a trained professional with education in Social Work, Philosophy and Counselling, he works as a Therapeutic Counsellor and Trauma Specialist, providing services such as: grief and loss counselling; palliative counselling; youth inhalant abuse counselling; comprehensive psycho-social community assessments following suicides and traumatic events; Employee and Family Assistance program services; counselling to children-in-care and to their natural and foster families; working with youth in a secure custody facility; and family counselling.

This work requires him to travel to communities to lead Critical Incident Stress Defusing and Debriefing sessions following suicides, murders, tragic deaths and other traumatic events, and to travel to communities to provide counselling services.

Terry completed the 2007 Facilitator Training: Family, Community and Organization Constellation Program.

Terry was the Recipient of the 2005 Social Work Distinguished Service Award; recognized by the Association of Northern Social Workers in Northern Canada for his compassionate and creative therapeutic work in counselling and workshop facilitation throughout the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut.

Terry brings with him a life-long passion in music, a deep spiritual base, and an interest in complimentary healthcare.

Terry’s life and cultural experiences include working in aboriginal communities throughout Canada’s North, teaching English in Peru; working as a volunteer for Hogar Belen, a children’s orphanage in Peru; and living the life experience of a homeless person on the streets of numerous cities throughout Canada and United States. Terry is also author of the book “I Believe”, and 2010, he released his CD “Healing Ground”.

CO-FACILITATORS/COUNSELLOR SUPPORT

Life Works Counselling and Training Services Inc. contracts various co-facilitators, pending workshop requirements.

Sometimes we are asked to provide a female/male balance; sometimes, we are asked to bring a third co-facilitator, who will provide massage, Reiki, Meditation, and other healing services.

Often, the host organization chooses a co-facilitator/counsellor from the community to assist the facilitator.

ANGER MANAGEMENT
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