Exploring Anger Management

Exploring Anger Management

​Coping Skill: Mindfulness Choices

Poll

How are you feeling today?

• Define anger & anger management

• Identify triggers and coping skills

• Tips to grow

• Flipping your lid

• Maintaining your power

• Exploring mindfulness choices

• Quiz time
  

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Agenda:

Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, neither good nor bad. Like any emotion, it conveys a message, telling you that a situation is upsetting, unjust, or threatening.

The goal of anger management is to understand the message behind the emotion and express it in a healthy way without losing control.

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Definitions: Anger & Anger Management

• Do you know what sets you off?

• Are you aware of when your emotions are running hot?

• Is there a moment to think before you react to the situation?

• What coping skills do you use when you are triggered?

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Identifying Triggers

• How do you recover from anger?

• Are you aware of what brings you joy?

• Do you rely on others to reduce your anger?

• How do you help yourself when you have been triggered?

​Identifying
Coping Skills

• Once you become angry and lose it, your brain is incapable of making rational decisions.

• Checkout the illustration of flipping your lid.

• Responsible decision making skills will decrease during this time.

• Self-awareness and self-management skills will help you recover and repair.
  

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Tips to Grow

• Our power is released when we make decisions to do something or become something.

• Our power can be taken away from us by others who trigger feelings of anger.

• Controlling your reactions to others and your environment helps you maintain your power.

• Reflecting and thinking before you react can also help you maintain your power.

​​​ ​Who holds your power?

• Set boundaries

• Follow your values

• Stop complaining

• Take responsibility for your emotions

• Acknowledge your choices

• Forgive and move on

• Stop trying to prove others wrong

• Don't let the opinions of others affect your self-worth

• Stop thinking about unhealthy interactions

Tips to maintain your power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsUEOUaWpY

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Mindfulness Choices

Multiple Choice

Is it acceptable to feel or express anger?

• Yes

• No

• Sometimes

• Never

Multiple Choice

What is the goal of anger management?

• To express anger without any control
• To ignore and suppress anger
• To let anger control your actions
• To learn how to recognize and control anger in a healthy way.

Word Cloud

Name an anger trigger you have.

Word Cloud

Name a coping skill used to reduce anger.

Multiple Choice

What happens when you flip your lid?

• You lose control and cannot make responsible decisions.

• You become more focused and attentive
• You become more relaxed and calm
• You become more patient and understanding

Poll

Why is it important to know what triggers your anger?

• To know what makes you mad before it happens

• To know what situations to avoid or manage closely

• To understand how some people use your weakness to control you

• To gain time to stop and think before you respond

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of maintaining your power?

• To ensure the ability to influence and make decisions
• To give up control and influence
• To limit decision-making abilities
• To decrease the ability to impact others

Multiple Choice

Name a tip to maintain your power.

• Ignoring the boundaries you set for others

• Complaining every chance you get

• Blaming others for your emotions

• Not letting the opinions of others affect your self-worth

Poll

Did you learn anything new today?