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Classes, Groups & Workshops
Anger Management Associates classes offer a class size format which provides opportunities for personalized learning. Participants have opportunities to identify the primary ways anger activates and escalates within their mind and body and then develop a personal plan that will be most effective in helping them stay cool, calm, and in control during stressful situations.
Classes are led by an instructor with certified training through a national professional counseling association. Scheduled over multiple days, classes have at least a week between meetings to allow participants to practice techniques, integrate them into their normal daily routines, and then return to receive feedback and additional help with problem areas.
The 8-Hour Basic Level 1 Class provides easy-to-use exercises to help participants identify major issues, anger triggers, and beliefs that make them vulnerable to anger arousal and expression. Anger management techniques are introduced and practiced during class time and outside in real life settings. Techniques include ways to: calm physical arousal; restructure anger-inflamling thoughts and beliefs; manage emotional tension; improve communication with others; and appropriately release anger energy so it doesnt build up within the body. Also, explored are the effects of stress and diet choices as contributing factors to increased anger arousal and health disorders.
The 16-Hour Level 2 Class expands on the concepts learned in the basic class. In addition, participants build their emotional intelligence skills by learning ways to: resolve conflict; enrich relationships; identify and release old core anger issues of the past; deal difficult people in family and workplace settings; and use the energy from anger to achieve positive outcomes. Focus is on helping participants develop confidence by mastering skills through problem-solving of their personal situations and issues.
From Anger to Closeness:
A Relationship Reconnecting Class for Couples
Do you sometimes wonder how the closeness and caring you once had with your partner could change so dramatically into hurt, resentment, anger and feeling totally disconnected? Often when a relationship becomes distressed, couples fall into a painful cycle of day-to-day relating --- negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors that take over their relationship. Each partner triggers the other as part of a blame/defend or pursue/withdraw relating pattern that easily escalates into frequent arguing, followed by hurt feelings, and eventually feeling disconnected. Underneath this anger and resentment lies deeper feelings of anxiousness, abandonment, rejection, aloneness, or even desperation. Partners no longer feel safe to engage emotionally with the other for fear of being hurt by their partneršs reactive responses. The vital life energy of their relationship is drained.
This 4-week class helps couples learn ways to break away from the painful cycle and return to closeness. It helps each partner strengthen the relationship by adopting a new, confiding style of communication where thinking and actions are directed by onešs heart. During the workshop, partners will learn how to:
* put aside anger and blaming to become allies toward positive change
* have sensitive conversations to ask for what they really want without feeling criticized or devalued
* stay emotionally responsive and accessible for each other
* have their feelings and needs validated and understood by their partner
* resolve conflict in a way where each partner gets some of their needs met
* develop trust that their partner will be there for them in a time of need
See class dates below. For register or for additional information about any of the above classes or workshops, call 425-736-6980
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July Classes and Workshops
8-Hour Level I Class
4 Tuesday Evenings, July 8, 15, 22 & 29
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Tuition: $95
Location: Anger Management/Orsan Associates, Bellevue
From Anger to Closeness: A 3-Week
Relationship Reconnecting Class for Couples
3 Monday Evenings, July 14, 21 & 28
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Tuition: $190 per couple
Location: Anger Management/Orsan Associates, Bellevue |
August Classes and Workshops
8-Hour Level I Class
4 Monday Evenings, August 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Tuition: $95
Location: Good Shepherd Community Center, Seattle
8-Hour Level II Class
Saturday, August 9th
9:00 am - 5:30 pm, Tuition: $95
Location: Anger Management/Orsan Associates, Bellevue |
September Classes and Workshops
8-Hour Level I Class
4 Tuesday Evenings, September 9, 16, 23 & 30
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Tuition: $95
Location: Anger Management/Orsan Associates, Bellevue |
October Classes and Workshops
8-Hour Level I Class
4 Monday Evenings, October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Tuition: $95
Location: Good Shepherd Community Center, Seattle |
November Classes and Workshops
8-Hour Level I Class
4 Tuesday Evenings, November 4, 11, 18, 25, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Tuition: $95
Location: Anger Management/Orsan Associates, Bellevue |
December Classes and Workshops
8-Hour Level I Class
2 Saturday Mornings, December 6th and 13th, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm both days, Tuition: $95
Location: Good Shepherd Community Center, Seattle |
Private Classes Available |
We will provide a private 8 or 16 hour class for two or more participants. Classes can be scheduled during the week or on weekends.
Call Lou Orsan at 425-736-6980 for more information or to be put on a class wait list.
To register for a class online, send your name, address and phone number by clicking on the email link below. We will then send you a registration confirmation by reply email. |
Private Individual or Couples Counseling is available.
Click on "Private Counseling" button at left or call 425-736-6980 for more information. |
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