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Overview
Anger is the most debilitating emotions in terms of our health and well-being. Anger causes elevated blood pressure and heart disease. To manage anger effectively one first has to become aware of and acknowledge one’s anger. It is important to realise how excessive anger impacts negatively on your relationships with others, your quality of life and your ability to think and reason in a logical manner. There is probably nothing more destructive than anger, because it destroys our inner peace and equilibrium and prevents us from experiencing joy and fulfilment. Anger may impact adversely on productivity, because it prevents affected employees to function according to their full potential
Who Should Attend?
If you experience the following symptoms or receive the following feedback from colleagues, family or friends, you can consider this Module:
- Tendency to be sarcastic, sceptical, cynical, negative, complaining and/or blaming.
- Difficulty to accept negative feedback.
- Tendency to overreact to situations, raising your voice, acting impulsively and regretting it afterwards.
- Directing your anger towards innocent bystanders and using others as scapegoats.
- Difficulty establishing meaningful long-term relationships.
- Creating emotional distance between you and colleagues, family and friends.
- Exhibiting low frustration tolerance (a short fuse), moodiness and irritability.
- Engaging in excessive self-criticism, which leads to guilt and feelings of inferiority.
- Experience strained relationships, friction/conflict.
Specific Outcomes
The aim of this Module is not to eliminate anger, but to replace destructive tendencies with constructive anger management skills and techniques. Delegates will be taught how to express their anger in a socially acceptable manner without negative consequences.
On completion delegates should be able to:
- Identify the sources and reasons for their anger, historically and currently.
- Become aware of people, situations or events that trigger anger.
- Identify the destructive impact of their anger on significant people in their lives.
- Deal more effectively with their emotional triggers.
- Differentiate between appropriate and justified anger.
- Replace irrational beliefs with more realistic beliefs.
- Realise that anger often conceals more relevant emotions such as rejection, fear, betrayal, humiliation amongst others.
- Deal more effectively with their own instinctive (“flash”) anger.
- Realise that anger is always a choice.
- Recognise unrealistic expectations as a cause of anger.
- Manage the anger of others more effectively.
Duration
2 days
There is a balance between lectures, discussion and practical sessions.