Anger is a Powerful Force

Processing Rage is an experiential and relational course centered around the practice of processing and directing anger in tactful and liberatory ways. Learning how to emote anger with intention and structure can be helpful in releasing that energy so that we can respond to situations from a more grounded and choiceful place.

Anger is a powerful force, and an appropriate and necessary response to injustice, violence, and harm. But anger is often associated with overwhelm, a lack of control and violence. 

We may recognize the importance of honouring anger, but the questions still linger… How do we process and leverage anger without it consuming us or without shutting down? How do we process anger in non-violent ways and mobilize it as a transformative power?

When we mostly see anger expression that is explosive and perpetuates harm, we are taught to fear anger. We are afraid of causing harm or being harmed. In response, we may also learn to suppress our anger, which then can manifest in other disruptive ways. 

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Pricing options

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Why this course is different:

  • Anger as a tactful, embodied skill.

    In Processing Rage, we approach anger processing as a skill (or rather, a series of skills) that can be learned and practiced. We take the time to not only understand the importance, socialization, and power dynamics of anger, but we also focus on how to process and leverage anger in a strategic manner, depending on the priorities of each context. This involves skill-building around identifying the priorities of our anger in each context, emoting and expressing anger non-violently, and communicating our needs and boundaries in ways that maintain connection. This course will help you shift not only how you think about anger, but also how you experience anger in the felt sense, in your body, through somatic practice.

  • Anger rooted in liberatory love.

    Processing Rage is also rooted in the beliefs that anger is rooted in liberatory love for the collective, and so doing anger differently is a politicized, transformative justice practice. When we practice intentional and tactful anger, we can navigate conflict, boundaries, and rupture in more loving and less harmful and hurtful ways. To co-create non-violent, more liberatory worlds, we must embody non-violent, more liberatory ways of relating — with ourselves, our emotional experiences, and our communities.

FAQ

  • Who is this course for?

    This course is for people who want to cultivate a different relationship with anger and recognize that anger is political in how it is socialized, experienced, perceived, and mobilized. It is for folks who: feel shame or fear around your own anger and find yourself suppressing it feel overwhelmed by the immensity of your anger feel triggered by others’ anger expression, even when it’s not harmful, and want to respond differently. experience reactive anger expression creating rupture in relationships and want to learn how to mobilize it for connection and change This course is for folks who don’t subscribe to individualized and pathologizing approaches to “anger management” or “anger control” and are curious about processing anger as a liberatory mobilizer.

  • Are there pre-requisites to join?

    In short, no. This course is open to any and everyone who feels like it will be of value to them, since there are many aspects to the course, no matter where you’re at with your relationship with anger. We do recommend that participants have a passion for and basic understandings of social justice values by way of formal education, community education, self-learning and/or lived experience.

  • Can this course be used as professional development?

    Yes! A big part of Processing Rage is about how to navigate anger in strategic ways for change, much of which can be applied to workplaces and organizations. Ji-Youn has facilitated workshops on this topic for large non-profit organizations and Bakau’s very own Facilitation Certificate Program. You can also check out their chapter, Anger at Work: Processing Rage in Liberating Ways in Bakau’s e-book, What We've Learned: A Year Fighting White Supremacy in a Pandemic (2021).

  • How long do I have access to the course?

    Forever! Or for as long as the internet is a thing.

Instructors

CEO Cicely Belle Blain

they/them Cicely Belle Blain is a Black/mixed, queer femme from London, UK, now based in Vancouver. They are noted for founding Black Lives Matter Vancouver and subsequently being listed as one Vancouver's 50 most powerful people by Vancouver Magazine in 2018 and again in 2020, BC Business's 30 under 30 and one of Refinery29's Powerhouses. Cicely Belle is the CEO of Bakau Consulting, the Editorial Director of Ripple of Change Magazine, and the author of Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Burning Sugar was shortlisted for the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. They also instruct Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University and serve on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.

Therapist Ji-Youn Kim

they/she Ji-Youn Kim 김지연 is a queer, currently non-disabled Corean femme, immigrant and settler, joy-seeker, liberatory dreamer, psych survivor, justice-oriented therapist-ish and ongoing creation of community. They work in private/alternative practice in relationships with predominantly Sick & Disabled QTBIPOC client community members with the orientation of therapy-ish as a space to practice embodied liberatory practices. They also facilitate teachings around anti-carceral mental health care for fellow mental health practitioners through guest teaching, programs, and workshops.