Roshonna Plett has been facilitating the anger management group…Transforming Destructive into Constructive for a couple of years now. Roshonna knows that most folks don’t pick an Anger Management group course out of pleasant interest…like one might take a course on cake decorating or investing wisely or improving your swing. Folks take this course cuz the …
Empowering from the Inside Out
Let’s face it…when men meet for coffee, they get their coffee, talk for 20 minutes and go home. Why? Because they finished their coffee. When women meet for coffee, they get a steaming extra hot latte…so that it too hot to drink for 20 minutes…then they sip it glacially slowly. When there is about 1/4 …
Anger on Richard Cloutier Radio
Rod Minaker and I were with Richard Cloutier on Thursday at CJOB talking about anger…he wanted to talk about the perception that anger is “bad”…which is understandable, given that most of our most memorable stick-to-the-ribs recollections of anger were scary and not something we’d want to repeat. We talked about anger as information that is …
Empowerment from the Inside Out
Viola Desmond is one of my heroes. I like her. As a woman, I long to follow in her footsteps. In 1946, Viola had car trouble, and while waiting for her car to be fixed, she purchased a movie ticket, and sat down in the theatre waiting for the show to start. After she was …
Peace–It Could Happen Again.
“One frozen night in 1914, at the height of World War 1, the unthinkable happened: all along the Western front, the British and German soldiers lay down their weapons, an unofficial cease fire, to celebrate Christmas Eve together. They exchanged gifts, and saw each other as brothers, and that peace lasted for two more days, …
Thinking about the Thought
I posted a quote yesterday, and the process of typing it in got me to thinking… Melanie and I interviewed a wonderful woman this week for a part time administrative position at our office. We asked her to describe an experience at her current position where she needed to respond to a person who was …
Bitterness
Charlie was charming and funny when he was sober but if he had a glass of scotch in his hand you would soon hear the story of how his father ripped the pocket off a new shirt his sister had given him when the dad spotted a pack of cigarettes in it. Charlie left town …
In Da Press…
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned” Buddha Rod Minaker, our resident anger expert was interviewed by Maureen Scurfield for an article published in the “On 7” version of the Winnipeg Free Press on “Wrath”. …
Another TDC group graduates!
Rod Minaker just finished another group with people better prepared to deal with issues that stir up anger in their life. Many of the people that take our Transforming Destructive into Constructive Course have little alternative but to take it as part of dealing with a criminal charge or an employment situation. With people who …
A Vulnerable Bravery
Rosie O’Donnell has admitted her regrets, and learned from them. We can all learn from them. The other day, I had a rare opportunity to watch an episode of Oprah. Oprah was interviewing Rosie O’Donnell. Rosie had an infamous falling out with the TV talk show, The View, where she had been a regular part …