What We Do: Our Training Programs & Services
Individual Training
One-on-one with a personal trainer, learn to control reactions and take responsibility for your behavior. Discover and manage your anger triggers, and develop strategies to respond to anger-related behaviors. Learn to use your anger in creative ways that help you be clear and communicate your needs and wants, and listen to the needs and wants of others.
Couples Training
Working together and separately, each partner learns to take responsibility for his or her behavior. Change those parts of the relationship that cause tension and may lead to stress, abuse or domestic violence. Together, learn to recognize and meet individual and shared needs inside and outside of the relationship.
Family Training
Family scripts are passed from one generation to another. Anger behaviors often pass from parents to children. By working with families, we have an opportunity to break these patterns and help parents and children stop the cycle of anger behavior.
Phone Consultations
Meetings and interviews done by telephone or video.
This service is suited for clients living outside of the Kansas City Metro area, for local clients who cannot reach our office, or for those who prefer to communicate by phone.
The Stoppit!© Program Anger Support Group
Stoppit!© is a professionally facilitated weekly support group. The program uses a ten-lesson curriculum developed over 35 years of experience that specifically teaches decision-making skills and strategies for responding to anger.
In a supportive and safe environment, members of the group share their responses to the lessons, talk about past and present experiences and learn to cope with stress and discord.
By sharing with others, participants learn valuable communication skills and coping strategies to enhance their relationships and lives.
Using Response Training© and Passive-Assertive Framework©, Stoppit!© teaches members to recognize signals, discover losses and wounds, and communicate wants. Through the group process, members identify new choices and alternative behavior strategies.
Stoppit!© groups are open ended. Members are welcome to continue meeting beyond the ten-week curriculum by updating and identifying new goals and new points of focus.
Anger Alternatives offers Stoppit!© Programs for:- Men and Women
- Couples
Location: Family Health Care Center, 340 SW Blvd. Kansas City, KS, 66103.
Northeast corner of Southwest Blvd and Rainbow (7th St.) at I-35 exit.
For more information, please contact us.
In-Service Presentations
Contact us if your organization or group interested in hearing first hand about dealing with stress and using anger creatively.
Anger Alternatives offers presentations for professional staff, support groups, church groups, adult education programs and others who would benefit from our expertise.
Training-the-Trainer
Professional staff training for individuals and agencies working with clients addressing anger related behavior issues. This is a two-day workshop that includes training in addressing anger through the use of Response Training© and the Passive-Assertive Framework©. The process of the workshop is a combination of didactic studies with interactive activities and simulations to create a common response protocol for trained professional staff.
The Gift of Anger Workshop
Cultivating the Positive Aspects of Anger
Anger is about what we don’t want. When we learn not to react to anger and look at it as a mirror, it identifies what we do want.
The Gift of Anger is to be able to go after what you want instead of fighting with what you don’t want.
In this workshop participants are taught to interpret anger’s message as an expression of need and use it creatively as an avenue for recovery.
Topics covered are:
- Demystifying Anger or “What Anger Accomplishes.”
- Addressing Different Forms of Anger.
- Discovering “Wants” in Order to Use Anger Creatively.
The workshop is appropriate for professional staff and consumers who want to address anger issues in themselves and others at deeper levels.
Respect-Based Relationships Workshop
Stress in relationships can undermine trust, intimacy and health. It can cause distance and isolation and a general unhappiness. Anger is the common denominator for all of these factors and is probably the most misunderstood of emotions.
The intention of this series is to learn how to recognize the anger in stress and use it creatively in making choices, identifying needs, sharing wants, and setting limits and boundaries. We will be looking at respect and safety as the vehicles for building respect-based relationships.