A Four Part Series
The sun comes breathing fire, yet we don’t think something’s wrong with it.
Thunder and lightning appear, we may even run away, but we don’t question whether they are part of nature.
Yet, when anger arises, we move to suppress it, release it, meditate or heal it away.
In short, we treat our anger as a pathology – a symptom of an illness to be fixed, corrected or remedied.
In this workshop, we will meet anger with respect, honor, even love. We will meet it as an ally.
Session One: Suppression &Shame of Anger
Working with Shame and Internalized Oppression or "Why not be free to be angry?"
In this session you will learn about how and why you suppress anger by looking at your early personal story as well as social conditioning (e.g., sexism & racism). Identifying these conditionings is critical to understanding your relationship with anger.
Session Two: Inner Anger
Working with Inner Criticism or the building up of anger and the need for anger internally.
In this session you will learn how anger builds up as a result of persistent inner criticism that goes without notice or response. Identifying these inner dynamics is critical in developing self-love and abating projection onto others.
Session Three: Angry Words
Working with Anger in Relationships or using anger to work through co-dependent pattern.
In this session you will learn to connect with the words your anger wants to speak in order to stand up for your needs and break through co-dependent cycles in relationship. Having access to these words is critical in developing deeper relational intimacy.
Session Four: Angry Energy in the World
Working with Anger in the World or finding your power and ferocity to help follow your life path.
In this session, you will make contact with the deeper energy of anger – a force that can become an ally in your coming out with your dreams, creativity and social identity into the larger world. Making anger an ally is critical to bringing your gifts to the world and following a path of authenticity.
Self-Guided Course - Session Format:
The live classes are now complete so each of the four sessions are a recording for self-guided study.
Each recording consists of teachings, discussion, an exercise, and work with individuals in order to deepen the learning and model depth psychological techniques in working with anger.
The exercises are designed for you to meet anger somatically (in your body), in movement and dance, in sound, and in art.
Investment: $350
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" There are no words broad enough to describe David's unique qualities, skills and insight. Not sure where I would be right now if he were not a part of my journey."
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MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:
David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW, is the founder of the UnShaming Way — a depth-psychology approach built on one conviction: your symptoms, struggles, and survival strategies carry intelligence, not pathology. He is the author of five books, including The Unshaming Way (North Atlantic Books), endorsed by Gabor Maté, MD. He has trained hundreds of clinicians and taught thousands of individuals. Before psychology, he practiced law; before law, he survived the home that taught him everything the books later confirmed. That is his deepest credential: he knows both harms — the violence, and the denial of it — from the inside. His work has appeared in Psychology Today and reaches hundreds of thousands of readers through his essays on trauma, shame, and the witness.
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