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IS SMACKING CHILDREN AN EFFECTIVE FORM OF DISCIPLINE?

Julian Hall — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:32 +0000

Coronation Street hit the headlines this week when Owen Armstrong smacked his stepdaughter in Monday night’s episode.

Smacking children has always been a controversial and emotive subject. MP John Cumming was quoted as saying that it is better that a child is disciplined than to grow up ‘untamed’. I believe that there are far more effective ways of disciplining a child.

All children need clear boundaries and positive parenting ensures that children are clear about what constitutes acceptable behaviour at every stage of their development. At every age, from toddler through to teenager, children will push their parents and carers to the limit, but this is designed to test the boundaries, and clear boundaries and consistent sanctions actually help children feel safe; a teenager pushing to stay out late at a party may actually be looking for their parent to say no in order to avoid losing face with their peers by admitting they don’t want to GO.

Smacking a child, on the other hand, is an abuse of parental power on every level, especially if smacking in anger. This is both physically abusive and also shows a complete loss of control, which is frightening for children. Smacking also perpetuates violent behaviour in children – a very negative example of role modelling.

Beating Anger Derby has developed a programme called Powerful Parenting which helps equip parents with practical tips for positive parenting, putting them back in the driving seat.

Stressful January Linked to Increased Anger and Health Issues in Women

Mike Fisher — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:55:59 +0000

Let’s be honest, the prospect of returning to work after Christmas is unlikely to fill you with anything other than dread. In fact, when you team wet and windy weather conditions with heightened workload, increased demand for performance and practically no job security – it is no surprise that January is identified as the most stressful time of the year.

Recent statistics produced by the British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) have found that the extra stresses of the season are having particuarly detrimental effects on the UK’s female workforce.

The survey concluded that stress in women has increased dramatically with 80% of women feeling unsupported, over-worked and insecure in their positions. Worringly, these increased stress levels have resulted in feelings of depression in 60% of cases and anger issues in 43%.

These peturbing statistics raise the question – is the workplace ill-equipped to deal with the needs of women and is this lack of empathy for the female workforce creating the increased stress which leads to depression and anger?

Mike Fisher, BAAM’s Founder, highlights the dramatic increase of females suffering from anger and health problems that are linked to stress at work:

“Our client base is approximately 40% female and we see the effects every day of stress and depression. The health effects are serious”.

Of the female respondents to the survey many reported feeling increased tension, negative changes in personality and hyper-sensitivity to colleagues, partners and other family members. Almost half of all surveyed claimed that the stresses of work had caused them to feel depressed and to increase their alcohol intake significantly. Even more concerning is the number of respondents who admitted to having experienced chest pains as a result of their heightened stress levels.

With nowhere to turn stressed out workers are bottling up their feelings causing them to lash out the people who love them the most.

Julian Hall, Director of the Derby Clinic, says:

“What these stats show is that an individual’s ability to deal with stress in the workplace is directly linked to their motivation, productivity and their health. What we know from our core client group is that since they are unable to express this at work they end up taking it home with them and acting it out on their families. An employer with foresight will place this at the core of their employee well-being strategy”

With the UK at risk of facing a “double-dip” recession and very little being done by employers to deal with the health of their staff, things are looking particularly bleak for our nation’s workforce and in particular, our women.

BAAM Blasts into its Annual National Anger Awareness Week - 1st - 7th December, 2011

Mike Fisher — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:30:19 +0000

If Christmas leaves you feeling pricklier than a holly bush, then help is at hand! The British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) is once again helping you have a calm Christmas and beat seasonal stress with its annual Anger Awareness Week, taking place nationwide from December 1-7, 2011.

BAAM has promoted its annual National Anger Awareness Week in the UK since 2000 and has, to date, helped over 14,000 people deal with their anger and stress. During the week’s activities, BAAM will offer information packs, courses and programmes designed to take the crunch out of Christmas. On its site BAAM offers a downloadable ‘Keep Your Cool Kit’, which can be used in the home or workplace to help deal with conflict. This year they have gone further to help you. With their 12 Tips for Christmas you can defuse those all-too-predictable seasonal rows with family, friends and colleagues.

Besides National Anger Awareness Week, Beating Anger – Anger Management BA-AM (the training arm of BAAM) runs various programmes throughout the year, delivered as long weekend sessions or a series of workshops and seminars spanning 10 weeks. Beating Anger – Anger Management has experienced facilitators across the country delivering probably the best Anger Management programmes in Europe to people of all ages and professions.

Mike Fisher says: “With National Anger Awareness Week, we specifically targeted the festive season because we know that so many people hurt each other with their anger at this time of year. If this is not dealt with then couples carry their stress through to the New Year which is why January is so busy for divorce lawyers. We are in the middle of a recession yet the pressure to purchase the latest toys and gadgets is still there. Whatever gets you angry, the likelihood is it will be magnified at Christmas. We give people proven techniques to manage their own anger and enable them to have a calm Christmas.”

Notes for editors

Beating Anger Facilitators can provide expert comment on diverse topics, including: anger in the workplace, road rage, anger in schools, parental/child anger, female anger, air rage and dealing with your angry partner.

The organisation has worked with over 15,000 people, including many international celebrities, and currently receives on average 10,000 plus website visits per month.

About the British Association of Anger Management / Beating Anger – Anger Management (nationwide clinic’s)

BAAM was established in 1999 in the UK. It is recognised by the NHS, BUPA, court authorities and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Its services are available to anyone who is dealing with their own or another person's anger. It has worked with over 15,000 people, from the unemployed to the high profile, including many international celebrities. It operates Beating Anger clinics across the UK.

BAAM’s Mike Fisher is a renowned anger ‘guru’ and author of the popular book, ‘Beating Anger’, with 65,000 copies sold since its launch in London 2005. Mr Fisher was the specialist on BBC’s ‘Can’t Stop Losing My Cool’ programme about angry people, and has been a regular guest on radio and TV slots discussing anger and stress management.   Mike Fisher also works at the London Anger and Stress Clinic - a subsidiary of BAAM which specialises in working with children and young people.

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Mike Fisher, British Association of Anger Management 

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Enough is Enough – Calling Time on Anger

Mike Fisher — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:30:49 +0000

PRESS RELEASE

Anger is considered by many to be the scourge of the 21st Century – with over-stressed, time-hungry lives and increasing expectations leading the average person to fly into a rage four times a day.

But one anger management expert is not only helping to call time on fiery tempers, he’s also offering crucial help to the victims of anger, thanks to a series of innovative workshops being launched across the country.

The British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) and their nationwide Beating Anger Clinics have just launched the End of the Line – Enough is Enough courses in several cities including Newcastle, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, London and Brighton.

The one day courses help men and women who are living with angry abusers learn coping strategies and a greater understanding of the situation they are dealing with.

They are aimed at real people like Alison *, who lived 18 years with a verbally and emotionally abusive husband before finally having the strength to leave the volatile relationship after he turned his aggression on their teenage daughter.

As Alison explained: “Seeing my husband go for my daughter made me finally realise that I had to get out of my marriage – ironically up to that point I had stayed thinking it was the best thing to do for the children.

“But it was by going on the course that I finally started to make some sense of the emotional chaos and abuse I had been living in for years, which in turn helped me to gain back some control of my life.”

One of the country’s leading anger Guru Mike Fisher explained that victims of anger and emotional abuse are all too often over-looked, with specialist help mainly being targeted at the person creating the problem.

He said: “Anger is very much a part of our society now as is so regularly demonstrated – from motorists losing control on the roads and rival football fans clashing to individuals struggling to deal with day to day stresses.

“Recently one Cardiff woman even smashed up her local bakery, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage after they sold out of her favourite cupcakes.

“While anger itself is a normal process that has allowed humans to evolve and adapt, if it is not managed and controlled, major problems can occur, as in Alison’s case.

“For the first time these new workshops are targeted at the victims of anger, or survivors as we prefer to call them – helping people to recognise the core mechanics of the abuser's agenda, how they themselves comply with it, and most importantly help them to choose a way forward.” These programmes will be delivered by highly trained anger experts from the Beating Anger clinics nationwide.

The one day workshops will investigate subjects such as the drama triangle, power and control, traumatic bonding, self esteem, setting healthy boundaries and resolving conflict.

They are being held in a variety of locations across the country including ones in Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Derby, Birmingham, Worcester, Bath, Oxford, Colchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bromley, Harrow, London, Guildford, Brighton, East Grinstead and Portsmouth.

Anyone wanting any more information about the workshops can contact

The British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) on 0845 1300 286 or email: info@beatinganger.com

*Alison is not her real name – it has been changed to protect her identity

CASE STUDY:

When Alison married her teenage sweetheart at the age of 19 she thought life couldn’t get much better.

However the rosy glow of being a newly-wed soon evaporated when she started to become the victim of her husband’s sporadic outbursts.

Alison explained that there didn’t appear to be a trigger as such for the verbal abuse, such as the dinner not being made or the house being untidy. Instead he would just suddenly erupt at something Alison would say.

However as her husband maintained the veneer of being a laid back, gentle man outside the home and constantly accused Alison as being the cause of his temper, Alison’s confidence began to erode and she stayed on, trying to look at ways of keeping her husband calm.

Alison said: “The hardest part was that I couldn’t really talk to anyone – all our friends and family thought my husband was such a gentle man and had no idea of the man that lived behind closed doors.”

As Alison struggled to keep things together, the couple went on to have three children. But further cracks started to appear in their relationship and the verbal abuse became more frequent and the behaviour increasingly more controlling.

Alison added: “Again there didn’t appear to be any obvious triggers and after the rage had stopped he would always say it was me who had caused it, before collapsing in a heap and apologising, adding that it wouldn’t happen again.”

Sadly it was a promise that he repeatedly broke, but Alison felt trapped and unable to leave – grounded by the thought that she must keep her family together for the sake of the children.

Alison added: “Obviously everyone I talked to thought he was such a gentle man too and would quickly dismiss anything I had to say and tell me that I should stay with him and try to work things out – that it was the right thing to do.”

Years of walking on egg shells and appeasement followed, with Alison regularly suffering bouts of depression and her health started to decline too.

Alison added: “I tried to keep as much as I could from the children, but I later found out that during his outbursts they would hide under their beds until it was all over.”

After nine years, Alison finally managed to persuade her husband to go to marriage guidance classes with her, but in hindsight she admits that is was a “papering over the cracks” exercise.

She added: “I didn’t really focus enough on the abusive part of our marriage in those classes and whilst on the surface things improved for a while and we went on to have another baby, soon the problems started to reappear.

Like many abused people, Alison started to feel withdrawn from life, losing her confidence and social skills and at times feeling depressed and trapped.

Those problems continued until one day last year when her husband went for her teenage daughter as she left the house.

Alison said: “We all weren’t ready to leave and my daughter said she wanted to walk on ahead. This led to a disagreement between her and my husband and he suddenly erupted, screaming and shouting at her outside the house.

“I was horrified and I think it was the first time the extent of his problem really hit home to me. I will never forget the fear in my daughter’s eyes and something snapped in me.”

After repeated attempts to get her husband to seek help for his anger failed, Alison finally asked him to leave the family home.

Then in the summer a friend of Alison’s noticed an article in a national newspaper about the BAAM courses that were being piloted for people that had suffered because of anger.

Alison added: “It was a year after my husband and I had separated and if I’m honest I couldn’t have done it any sooner, but I am so glad I did. I guess I needed to try to make some sense of everything that had happened and why my husband had been so angry.

“Going on the course gave me such a fresh insight into my life and the way I had been living for years – I essentially sacrificed what was me, including all my thoughts and feelings, to devote my life to appeasing my abusive husband and trying to stop his outbursts.

“It was so helpful to hear of other people in similar situations which reinforced the fact that it wasn’t my fault and that my husband’s behaviour was neither normal nor acceptable.

“I never thought that I would be a single mum with four children but I now realise that I stayed in my marriage for too long, believing it was the best thing for my children.

“Hopefully now though we all have a new fresh start without living day by day in fear.”

Notes to editors:

Information about those suffering from the effects of other peoples anger
http://www.beatinganger.com/survivors
Mike Fisher, the ‘brains behind BAAM’ has worked with over 14,000 people in 14 years, trained 166 students to a Diploma standard and has over 24 years of experience in the field of human potential and personal growth.

Mike is known as the leading guru and expert in the field of anger management in the UK and has contributed to hundreds of radio interviews, magazine and newspaper articles and many television documentaries including ‘NASTY BOSSES’ BBC3, ‘THE ANGRIEST MEN IN BRITAIN’ 2002 - ITV1 Landmark Films, 'ANGRY BRITAIN' 2004 - Landmark Films, 'LOSING IT' BBC3, 'VIOLENT FATHERS with Kilroy Silk' BBC3, 'BEAT IT: ANGRY WITH MY FATHER' 2006 Landmark Films.

Mike´s book Beating Anger published in 2005 has sold well over 65,000 copies and his new book Mindfulness and the Art of Managing Anger will be published by Leaping Hare Press in April 2012.

Can We End Suffering Early?

Julian Hall — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:19:02 +0000

I want to use this blog to announce a new course that has been developed by Beating Anger Derby in association with the British Association of Anger Management. It has taken almost a year, a lot of research, two pilot courses and 8 people 2 days of work consolidating the feedback.

Why a New Course?

This came out of a meeting almost a year ago where we identified that there was a pattern of contact developing with our angry clients. The pattern was one of enquiry but not committing until it was almost too late. Its is described in another blog called Danny’s (or Dannielle’s) Story. In the meeting we discussed how we would like to help people before they got to the stage where it was too late. Dealing with the anger in a relationship can heal it and we want to help people.

We already knew that by delivering our Anger Management Training we were helping more than just the person who came to us for help. We help the family that they live with. More to the point, we realised that if we let the pattern of contact but no commitment to change continue we were guilty of helping to prolong the pain for a lot of people. So we committed to do our part and the concept of the End of the Line was born.

The original concept was to run a course that highlighted to those that live with an angry partner that they have choice. Their choices may be limited and difficult but they have choice. As we researched the subject and spoke to those in angry relationships we quickly realised that there was a whole group of people choosing to stay in emotionally and verbally abusive relationships because they believed their partner would change. In fact these people research and look for anything that may help them “fix” the person they live with so that the relationship may go back to how it was when they fell in love.

It was at this point that we realised we have a duty of care. We have a duty to -

Educate and inform.
Deliver the tools you need to make a decision
Deliver essential coping strategies and techniques that will support you if your choice is to stay in the relationship.

We have always known that our core client group are in a lot of emotional pain. What we realised as we met those on the other side of it is there is a whole section of the population experiencing more pain, undermining of self esteem and daily fear. We always knew this intuitively but the research hammered it home to us.

It is at this point that I would like to pay tribute to the people who came on our pilot courses in East Grinstead and Birmingham and who gave us their views. We were amazed at how generous people were in their feedback. Some took the time to sit down and write two pages or more of comments. That is how much they care. We hope we do them justice.

So, a year later, a lot research done and we are ready to start helping those suffering in the relationships with the angry. We are ready to help those being damaged by the damaged.

If you live with an angry person then have look at The End of the Line. We could save you a whole lot more pain.

Does getting rid of my anger remove an essential part of me?

Julian Hall — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:07:39 +0000

This subject was brought to mind when an article on anger in sports was run on BBC TV last Saturday (25^th August). Essentially England’s Rugby team coach was saying anger in sport is not good. The journalists were asking whether a certain amount of anger and aggression is necessary in sport.

What they were really saying was “does removing my anger take away the secret of my success?” This is a question that hangs in the mind of a lot of my clients.

Lets deal with sport first. There are sports where controlled aggression is important. Sports such as Boxing and Rugby spring to mind. Even when I watch Tennis I see aggression on the court as Andy Murray clenches his fist when he wins a crucial point. That, however, is all part of the sport psychology and is well controlled. Even when John McEnroe was famously losing his temper it was all part of the way he controlled the game and his opposing players timing.

Before I go any further lets remember that a crucial part of anger is Stress and the physical components of stress are adrenaline and cortisone. The combination of these two hormones, which are produced as part of the body’s Fight, Flight or Freeze mechanism, speed up thinking times and physical responses. So a certain amount of stress will produce a better sprint performance from Usain Bolt and will sharpen up the reflexes of a title contending boxer. Again, this is part of controlled aggression.

So, controlled aggression and controlled stress in certain amounts are ok. What happens when they spill into anger?

Very simply if a sportsman is angry he/she will make mistakes. Anger gives you tunnel vision. This is why one of our rules of Anger Management is “Stop, Think, Look at the Big Picture.” As one commentator said “an angry boxer is the easiest one to hit!” In other words it impedes your game. It takes away your focus, saps your energy and ruins your chances.

That’s sport dealt with in a few paragraphs. Is business, is my career and is my life any different? Let’s look.

For example, one of my clients is hugely successful by a lot of people’s standards. He is a millionaire several times over. He has a beautiful large designer house, several expensive cars, a holiday home and a huge motor yacht. His business was started and driven by anger.

He came to see me because 3 years earlier his wife had suggested marriage guidance counselling. As a result of that process he had begun to realise that there were parts of his life that he had not really enjoyed, paid attention to or, indeed, appreciated. His wife and his children were a huge part of that.

When he came to me he had made the connection. He knew that his anger was taking away more than it had ever given him.

Many years before he had been overlooked for promotion. This started him on the path of setting up his own business. It was this anger, this determination to show the rest of the world he was a success, which drove him for many years. What he came to realise was that what really made him a success was his skill, his knowledge and his care for the end product. The anger started the business but if he had left it behind at that point he would have been even more successful. He can look back at deals he lost that were caused by his ego and his anger.

He, like a large number of my clients was what I call a “High Achiever, Low Self Esteemer.” These are people who have spent theirs lives proving others and especially themselves wrong. People, who have turned their need to be appreciated, respected and loved in to hard work and results. The have invested massive efforts in a courageous battle to beat their own negative programming. These are the people who will go to the end of the world to prove themselves and then will not be happy with the praise, respect or the rewards they get for it. Why? Because they will never be truly happy until they are happy with themselves.

So, does getting rid of anger get rid of my edge? No! My edge is my skill and self discipline. It is my ability to reflect and improve. It is my ability to imagine the future and create it. When I am angry I do not do these things effectively.

No excuses! Your anger is not the same as your determination. It is not the secret of your success. It is a hindering, cloying , suffocating comfort blanket that started out protecting you and has outstayed its welcome. That’s why you need to deal with your anger.

After reading this I hope you will be one step closer to taking the decision to deal with your anger. If you are not please ask yourself this...

“Is this really about removing something vital to my success or is it really about not wanting to deal with my issues? Am I simply trying got find a coherent reason to sell to myself that will give me an excuse to go no further?”

If you want to know the answers ask your friends, partner, children and anyone else who knows you.

Teachers - Do they need physical help or emotional help??

Julian Hall — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:32:47 +0000

In The Daily Mail today (August 5^th 2011) their reporter suggests that “Teachers should be given shin pads.” This is responding to calls from the main Teachers union the GMB. Click here for main article.

The article goes on to list the offences carried out on teachers in the role by violent and aggressive pupils and discuss the protection they need. It is no coincidence that the teaching profession suffers high levels of stress and depression.

My view, and its no surprise given what I do is that decent Anger Management for pupils with issues would be a really good starts. Follow this up with some really good emotional resilience training(see www.stressexperts.co.uk) such as Dealing with Difficult and Challenging People to support the teachers.

The net result will be lower levels of aggression and emotionally stronger teachers with pupils that are open to learning. Less stress and depression, less absence, lower costs and better teaching.

All for the cost of decent training applied in the right places.

Anger - Is it gender specific?

Julian Hall — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:57:52 +0000

I am often asked this question. What the questioner often really means is, are men more angry than women?

I’ll tell you what I know to start with. Our courses are made up of about 40% women. I also know that in terms of the root causes of a person’s anger they can affect men and women alike.

So why are there proportionately less women on our courses?

My informed opinion is that it is a mainly social or societal factors that cause this. Despite the emancipation of women caused by the likes of Emily Pankhurst and the revolution in women’s rights led by those including Germaine Greer true equality does not exist. Women will find it difficult to justify payment and time away from their family for course like ours when compared to their male counterparts. Also, despite theoretical equality is in play, it is viewed differently for a woman to explode with anger as opposed to a man. In reality, simply in terms of whether they are able to express themselves as freely as a man can they are not on equal terms. This, of course, can be a source of deep seated anger and resentment especially if both partners are under pressure. Furthermore because greater control, or at least less aggression, is expected of women then there is likely to be more suppression of anger being experienced by them. This is certainly my experience as women join our groups and tell their stories of years of stuffing their anger inside themselves before finally starting to explode with anger.

Remember, very few of our clients come to us expressing, and being conscious of expressing, passive anger which is just as damaging to relationships. They only come when they explode leaving their aggression to infects others and people point out to them they have an issue controlling their anger. That really is the subject of another blog.

Another factor that stops women coming to our courses is the shame that being angry carries with it. We know that everyone who attends the course does so in a state of some anxiety and this is increased for women. This is doubled or more if they have been letting their anger out on their children.

The final stereotype that we have been told holds women back from attending our courses is that they perceive the room to be full of angry, aggressive men. The fact is of course that I have never worked with anyone yet who I have not found to be likeable, normal, and a genuine meaningful human being. The factors that bring us all together may be wide ranging, difficult to acknowledge and disparate in their nature but we are all, at heart humans.

So, are women more angry then men? I don’t think so. They just need to give themselves permission to be so and to seek the help that is there for them.

Anger & Addiction

Mark Urry — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:28:16 +0000

As an organisation, the British Association of Anger Management has counselled many people when anger has been affecting their lives.

When working with individuals who have had addiction in their lives, we have found that, after the initial rehabilitation process, feelings and emotions come to the surface. If left unaddressed they have the potential to affect lives in unhealthy ways.

One of the strongest of these feelings is anger. In principle this is a neutral feeling but how we express it makes it healthy or unhealthy. Unhealthy anger can be expressed passively by being internalised or externally through aggression.

In our experience there are two main triggers of anger in rehabilitating addicts. These are Primary Needs and self-defence anger.

Primary Needs are something that we require in order to succeed, achieve, or even survive.

When these needs are not met, anger, hurt, and fear are activated. It is at this point that our survival instincts kick in. When an individual responds forcibly with anger, underlying that anger will be strong feelings of powerlessness and helplessness. When we deconstruct the anger we find that below it lies hurt, and underneath that, fear.

The fear is that you (people, a person, or the world) will not meet my unmet needs.

This is a major trigger for anger because our belief is that others are there to meet out needs, even if they do not know that they are.

We need to meet our own needs and not expect or assume or believe that it is the responsibility of others to do so. People are not mind-readers.

In my experience shame is another big source of anger for individuals recovering from an addiction and in particular self-defence anger. This is because when we feel shamed or humiliated we are unable to tolerate these overwhelming feelings and anger becomes the only way to cope.

Healthy shame is an emotional signal that we have made and will make mistakes; it gives us permission to be human.

Toxic shame is no longer an emotional signal of our limits; it becomes a state of being, a core identity.

In toxic shame the self becomes an object of its own contempt that cannot be trusted. It produces a feeling of being isolated and alone. People will readily admit guilt, hurt or fear before they will admit shame.

We avoid facing our own shame by using behaviour such as anger, resentment and being judgemental. Each of these behaviours focuses on the other person and takes the heat off us.

As long as our shame is hidden there is nothing we can do about it – in order to heal our toxic shame we must embrace it.

We need to change our shame from being internalised to externalising it. The only way out is through.

By acknowledging and accepting our feelings and learning how to express them in a healthy and constructive way is empowering and part of our becoming fully functioning human beings.

by Mark Urry, Director Beating Anger Bath
www.beatingangerbath.co.uk

Introducing Beating Anger Bath

Mark Urry — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:26:16 +0000

My name is Mark Urry and I am the director of Beating Anger Bath. I specialise in anger and emotional management and my clinic currently covers the South West and South Wales regions.

My background is the Royal Navy having served 12 years as an aircraft engineer. It was during this time that I experienced the negative effects of unhealthy stress and anger in my life, particularly due to tough working conditions and extended period of separation from my family.

I decided to train as an anger management specialist with the British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) because of the effectiveness and the positive effect the course have had not only on my life but also more than 12,000 individuals who have attended courses over the past 14 years

Mike Fisher director of BAAM, author of the bestselling book ‘Beating Anger’ and a leading international authority on anger management has personally trained me to facilitate a variety of courses.

My courses are designed for anyone interested in exploring and understanding their anger, as well as discovering the necessary tools and knowledge to express it in a healthy, constructive and positive way. They are challenging, thought provoking but above all life changing and have positive effects in all aspect of life including increased self-esteem, assertiveness and confidence.

If you are reading this blog because anger is affecting your life in how you express it or maybe you are on the receiving end of someone else’s anger please take a look at my website www.beatinganger.com/bath where you will find information and resources on all aspects of anger and emotions.

If you would to stay in contact you can follow me in a number of ways.

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If you would like more information on anything contained within this site or would just like an informal chat on any issue then don’t hesitate in getting in contact.

Phone: 0845 505 4150
Email: mark@beatingangerbath.co.uk

Thanks for reading.