Our clients come from every walk of life: average men and women just like you, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, male or female, adolescents and even senior citizens.
And it matters not what education level you have attained. People with elementary and high school, college, graduate school, law school and medical school all exhibit Anger and the Angry Reaction.
We offer a skill enhancement program divided into four components: the first is Gaining Control where we teach you the tools necessary to control your behavior. This is akin to the first aid for anger; next is improving your Stress Management skills. Again we teach you the tools necessary to control your stress; this is followed by learning about Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
Emotional Intelligence means your ability to understand and be aware of your own emotions and managing your behavior accordingly, as well as your ability to understand the emotions of anyone with whom you’re in any kind of relationship and managing those relationships appropriately; lastly, we teach about Improving Communications, how to speak clearly and honestly, how to be assertive, how to listen actively and how to carefully acknowledge another person’s communications.
When a problem exists in any or all of these four major areas, the resultant behavior can be the angry reaction which in many cases may be catastrophic and violent, placing our relationships, our families or even our marriages and intimate relationships in jeopardy.
Anger is a normal emotion designed to protect us and keep us alive.
The Angry Reaction is the way we exhibit Anger the emotion. This reaction is an automatic behavioral pattern learned early in childhood which remains with us as we grow older into adolescence and adulthood.
The Angry Reaction is a memory in our brains which exhibits itself ONLY when we sense we are being attacked (hence the protection mentioned above). This memory will remain with us for our entire life.
The problems begin and continue when the Angry Reaction becomes aggression towards the person attacking us. This reaction cannot be removed from our memory. However, we can create new behaviors and memories which give us options for better, less angry and more controlled behaviors.
Getting your anger and angry reaction under control takes time. Our program is ten sessions long. It begins with an assessment examination measuring your Assertive skills, your Empathy level, your Stress Management skills, your interpersonal Aggression level, your level of Deference and your Motivation to succeed to improve your behavior. At the end of the last session we repeat the assessment examination to measure the improvement.
Isn’t it time you got your Anger under control? Isn't it time to improve your relationships? Isn't it time to have a better life?
For more information about The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management, please contact:
Steven W. Clark, CAMF, CDVF, COAMF
The WIN Institute
Minnesota Anger Management
763-913-0130
www.thewininstitute.org
www.thewininstitute.blogspot.com
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Beyond My Expectations --- A Testimonial
I just completed the 16 week anger management course at The WIN Institute. I have to admit my expectations going into the course we pretty negative. I was envisioning some type of psychiatrist setting where we would talk about our "problems". This was not the case at all. The course was very down to Earth. I am not sure I would call it a course or class at all, as the input from others in the class is almost as helpful as the feedback from the instructor. The best way I could describe the class is a guided discussion, using tools such a multimedia and texts.
I would highly recommend this class to anyone, especially those who are hesitant and have the same negative outlook on it I did. I would not really say it is just for those with "anger" issues. This class helps with coping with general life problems as well. I have a completely different attitude since beginning the course, and have to say it was completely worth the time and investment. --- Alex, Minneapolis
For more information about The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management, please contact:
Steven W. Clark, CAMF, CDVF, COAMF
The WIN Institute
Minnesota Anger Management
763-913-0130
www.thewininstitute.org
www.thewininstitute.blogspot.com
I would highly recommend this class to anyone, especially those who are hesitant and have the same negative outlook on it I did. I would not really say it is just for those with "anger" issues. This class helps with coping with general life problems as well. I have a completely different attitude since beginning the course, and have to say it was completely worth the time and investment. --- Alex, Minneapolis
For more information about The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management, please contact:
Steven W. Clark, CAMF, CDVF, COAMF
The WIN Institute
Minnesota Anger Management
763-913-0130
www.thewininstitute.org
www.thewininstitute.blogspot.com
Monday, January 16, 2012
A Truly Valuable Experience – A Testimonial
I have just completed the 16-week Anger Management course at The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management. I could not recommend it more highly.
For men who struggle with anger, who handle anger inappropriately, and are enduring the consequences of those difficulties, this course offers both invaluable tools for managing one’s anger and meaningful tools for improving one’s life. Rather than being an additional negative consequence that one must suffer through, this course turned out to be a genuine opportunity for personal growth that helped restore my hope that my life could get better.
There are several aspects that account for the value that I found in the program: the facilitator, the material, the presentation, and the atmosphere. Each of these enabled me personally, and others that I witnessed, to benefit from the course.
It all begins with the facilitator, Steven Clark. I have found myself describing him as a very “solid” individual. He is the type of person that one immediately respects and likes.
Steven has a talent for creating a safe environment and drawing out participant’s thoughts. Repeatedly I found myself observing that he genuinely cares about others and wants to see them succeed. As Steven guided us through each segment of the course, he consistently brought us back to his larger concern: how can we as individuals change our thinking and behavior to improve ourselves and to achieve more of want we wanted in life.
As we studied the course material, Steven challenged us to think more deeply about ourselves and observe the internal dynamics that led to one’s anger. He has a way of asking the right questions to guide one in probing oneself and gaining a greater understanding of oneself. He would then help us connect the dots, bringing the conversation back to how our internal process and behavior patterns affects achieving life goals.
Once again, he created a secure space in which participants felt comfortable sharing their thoughts and self-observations. With participants of diverse ethnicities, educational levels, cultural backgrounds, careers paths, and age groups, Steven established a level playing field in which everyone was regarded as an equal, and everyone’s input was given equal courtesy, respect, and consideration.
The material itself offered useful techniques to help one preempt their anger, diffuse their anger, or cope with their anger. All of which was based upon gaining personal insight into one’s thoughts and emotions. The presentation is best described as a “multi-media” approach. We constantly shifted between slide presentations, reading from the workbook, making notes in handouts, and group discussion. This shifting of approaches kept the sessions engaging.
In my experience, The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management is aptly named. It became clear to me that the intent was to help men succeed, not just in managing their anger, but to help them to succeed in life. The focus was not negative, merely upon the mistakes one has made; and the focus was not narrow, merely upon anger management; but the broader perspective was upon how one can make changes to become a larger person and to realize one’s life goals. --- Steven, New Hope
For more information about The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management, please contact:
Steven W. Clark, CAMF, CDVF, COAMF
The WIN Institute
Minnesota Anger Management
763-913-0130
www.thewininstitute.org
www.thewininstitute.blogspot.com
For men who struggle with anger, who handle anger inappropriately, and are enduring the consequences of those difficulties, this course offers both invaluable tools for managing one’s anger and meaningful tools for improving one’s life. Rather than being an additional negative consequence that one must suffer through, this course turned out to be a genuine opportunity for personal growth that helped restore my hope that my life could get better.
There are several aspects that account for the value that I found in the program: the facilitator, the material, the presentation, and the atmosphere. Each of these enabled me personally, and others that I witnessed, to benefit from the course.
It all begins with the facilitator, Steven Clark. I have found myself describing him as a very “solid” individual. He is the type of person that one immediately respects and likes.
Steven has a talent for creating a safe environment and drawing out participant’s thoughts. Repeatedly I found myself observing that he genuinely cares about others and wants to see them succeed. As Steven guided us through each segment of the course, he consistently brought us back to his larger concern: how can we as individuals change our thinking and behavior to improve ourselves and to achieve more of want we wanted in life.
As we studied the course material, Steven challenged us to think more deeply about ourselves and observe the internal dynamics that led to one’s anger. He has a way of asking the right questions to guide one in probing oneself and gaining a greater understanding of oneself. He would then help us connect the dots, bringing the conversation back to how our internal process and behavior patterns affects achieving life goals.
Once again, he created a secure space in which participants felt comfortable sharing their thoughts and self-observations. With participants of diverse ethnicities, educational levels, cultural backgrounds, careers paths, and age groups, Steven established a level playing field in which everyone was regarded as an equal, and everyone’s input was given equal courtesy, respect, and consideration.
The material itself offered useful techniques to help one preempt their anger, diffuse their anger, or cope with their anger. All of which was based upon gaining personal insight into one’s thoughts and emotions. The presentation is best described as a “multi-media” approach. We constantly shifted between slide presentations, reading from the workbook, making notes in handouts, and group discussion. This shifting of approaches kept the sessions engaging.
In my experience, The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management is aptly named. It became clear to me that the intent was to help men succeed, not just in managing their anger, but to help them to succeed in life. The focus was not negative, merely upon the mistakes one has made; and the focus was not narrow, merely upon anger management; but the broader perspective was upon how one can make changes to become a larger person and to realize one’s life goals. --- Steven, New Hope
For more information about The WIN Institute – Minnesota Anger Management, please contact:
Steven W. Clark, CAMF, CDVF, COAMF
The WIN Institute
Minnesota Anger Management
763-913-0130
www.thewininstitute.org
www.thewininstitute.blogspot.com
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