If you have a problem with anger you've probably got people on your case telling you that you should do Anger Management training. If you're resisting the advice this presentation covers the benefits to you in getting your anger under control. There is strong evidence that frequent and / or intense anger does you physical harm. Plus it's impossible to be happy and angry at the same time. Learning Anger Management allows you more time to feel enjoyable emotions. If you're not happy ... change something.

1. Anger Management
Stop damaging yourself and your relationships
with uncontrolled anger and aggression.
© Skillshare Pty Ltd 2013

2. Joanne Law
• Collaborative Coach
• Conflict Coach
• Mediator
• Family Dispute
Resolution Practitioner
(in training)
• Really good at
emotional state control
au.linkedin.com/in/joannelaw/

3. My mission:
Reduce and Resolve Conflict and
Increase flow

4. Lets start with a quick diagnostic

5. Why learn Anger Management?
Do any of these apply to you?
• You have intense anger that feeds aggression
• You feel anger and irritation every day
• You repress your anger and feel guilty about it
• Your anger is damaging your relationships
• Your anger gets you in trouble at work
• Your anger gets you in trouble with the law

6. Anger
doesn’t
just affect
the person
you are
angry at.

8. W
Why is holding
anger harmful?
What happens
when you get
angry?

9. Anger triggers your
Autonomic Nervous system
Fight Flight

10. Your immune system
is suppressed

11. Your heart rate and blood pressure increases.
If this happens frequently your arteries harden
and your heart can be damaged.

12. Your digestive
system is
suppressed
increasing the
risk of Ulcers
and Bowel
Cancer

13. Your mental
focus narrows
and becomes
rigid.
Problem
Solving is
impaired.

14. Chronic Anger or Stress
causes harm
Anger triggers your sympathetic nervous
system which shuts down all functions
not needed for immediate survival.

15. Your body needs time with the “rest and digest”
parasympathetic nervous system activated for
growth, healthy circulation and digestion.

16. System / Function Bodies Response /
Effects
Long term effects
Circulatory
System
Increases constriction,
rate and output of your
heart
Hardening of the arteries,
elevated blood pressure,
heart damage
Digestive
System
Decreases digestion Gastrointestinal problems
like ulcers and cancer
Endocrine
System
Releases
norepinephrine,
adrenaline and cortisol
Damage to the endocrine
system e.g liver, kidneys,
adrenal glands
Immune
System
Suppressed Lower protection from
cancer and infection
Energy
System
Increased release of
glucose and/or fat into
the blood stream
Damage to artery walls, liver
and kidneys
Nervous
System
Changes in focus /
attention,
Difficulty focusing, problem
solving, anxiety, depression
Anger affects all the systems in your body

17. What causes anger?
The unwanted actions of another person
who you feel is being disrespectful,
demeaning, threatening or neglectful.

18. MYTH # 1
OTHER PEOPLE
MAKE ME ANGRY

19. People don’t get in your head, you
only imagine them in.

20. You see,
feel or
hear
something
Thoughts:
Conscious
or
Automatic
Emotions:
based on
thoughts
Actions:
based on
feelings
ANTs:
Automatic
Negative
Thoughts
Your mental
filtersPastEmotions

21. You can control
your thoughts and emotions
The pay off:
• Ability to avoid or snap out of negative
emotional states
• Ability to see the reality of the situation not
distorted by mental filters and Automatic
Negative Thoughts
• The power that comes from living above the
line

22. Blame others
Excuse yourself
Deny it
Accountable for Actions
Responsible for Result
Ownership of Outcomes
The Line
PowerfulPowerless

23. Choose your TEA
Thoughts
Emotions
Actions

24. MYTH # 2
ANGER IS A BAD
EMOTION

25. There are no bad emotions
Every emotion has positive biological benefits
when experienced and expressed in the
moment.
• Anger warns us that we are threatened or
disrespected.
• Anger is an active emotion that can help us to
speak our mind or make changes
• Anger helps us not to settle for less than we
deserve

26. Depression
Anger is an energetic emotion
Take Off
Slow Down
Cool Down
RATIONAL BEHAVIOR

27. Unhelpful Ways of
Dealing with Anger
Ignoring anger
Being
aggressive
Passive
aggression
Not
communicating

28. Anger Management Training
We offer a customised Conflict Coaching
program to help you to avoid the negative
effects of anger
• Learn to example and change your “mental
filters”
• Learn how to change ANT’s (Automatic
Negative Thoughts) into CAT’s (Conscious
Alternative Thoughts)
• Learn how to instantly snap out of a negative
emotional state

29. Life’s too short to be unhappy

30. Change something
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