Next CAM Live Professional Training March 5, 2010

Century Anger Management, the professional training company of The Anger Coach and AJNovickGroup , announces its first “live training” in 2010. The training will be held in Orange County, CA (location to be announced) on Friday, March 5, 2010 from 9AM – 5PM and will satisfy the first 8 hours of our 40-hour certification program…

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Gratitude Skill Important For Anger Control

Learning to respond instead of react to frustration and anger triggers is anger tool #3  in our “tool kit” of anger control strategies. An important skill to use this tool is the skill of being grateful for things in your world and in your life. It is almost impossible to be angry and grateful at…

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Nets Point Guard Devin Harris “Learns” Anger Management

Devin Harris Point Guard to The Nets Basketball Team & Children from The Nets Big Brother Program were taught Martial Arts from Sensei Dan at TheDOJO in Rutherford NJ. In addition to learning the punches & kicks of the martial arts Sensei Dan Lead through a discussion about The 8 Tools of Anger Management Designed…

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Anger Management Certification Training Date Announced

Century Anger Management, the training company of The Anger Coach and AJ Novick Group, announces the first of its “live” certification trainings in 2010 in Orange, CA. This training, to be held on Friday, February 12,  will satisfy 8 of the required 40-hour certification program. The remaining 32 hours is done online in our unique…

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Participate in Coping With Rage Documentary by Discovery Channel

Would you like to be in a documentary? I was contacted recently by Discovery channel to find someone interested in being part of a documentary called “Coping with Rage. According to the producer: ” In our documentary, we will meet individuals whose anger is impairing their functioning and explore how it affects them, their families,…

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AngerCoach Show Episode#8 The Positive Emotions

This months episode discusses the positive emotions and what we can do to acquire, and put into practice nine different emotions that will help reduce stress and anger. Please note: This anger program and these anger tips are not meant to substitute for professional diagnosis, treatment or advice. If you have intense, serious or chronic…

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How Q-Tip can Help With Anger

One of the really nice “side benefits” of teaching up to three anger classes per week is that of learning from my students who are struggling with their anger control. One such incidence took place this Tuesday night in our weekly class in Orange, California at which time we were learning Tool #4 of anger…

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Children’s Anger Has Many Causes

“I have a ten-year old,” the caller said, “and he just can’t control himself. He was playing soccer last week and completely lost his temper on the field, assaulting another boy, resulting in his being suspended from the team.” Another frantic mother called and said her 13 year old daughter “bullies her sisters and talks…

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Wecome New Marital Arts Anger Educators

On behalf of Tom Callos and myself, welcome to the following forward-looking martial arts instructors/owners who have recently completed training as Anger Management Educators for Marital Arts Instructors with The Anger Coach.  Completion of this innovative 20-hour online program identifies them as forward-thinking members of their community and their profession. They see their mission as…

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Reduce anger by stress guarding your life

There is no way to completely stress-guard your life, as stress is a normal part of life, growth and evolution, but scientists have discovered that developing an attitude of reducing stress as much as possible (and then actually doing the appropriate things) can put you in a health envelope, increase longevity, and promote peace in…

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AngerCoach Show#7 – Does Happiness Counter-Balance Anger?

This months episode handles the question: “Does Happiness Counter-Balance Anger? The answer might surprise you. Research into the field of happiness suggests that it is possible for people to counter-balance negative emotions with positive ones. In this podcast we explain how easy it is to put this into practice. Please note: This anger program and…

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Professional Anger Management Certification Training October 23rd, 2009 – Sacramento, CA

Century Anger Management’s next anger management certification training is October 23rd, 2009 in Sacramento, CA Register at www.angercertification.com Download our Flyer October 23, 2009 9:00am – 5:00Pm United Way 10389 Old Placerville Rd. Sacramento, CA 95827 Entrance is on the west side of the building. The Live Training: includes adult content training, assessment and intake…

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Martial Arts Message from Sensei Tom Callos

Following is a special article from sensei and community activist Sensei Tom Callos who is a strong advocate of anger management as a preventative self-defense tool: Tom is on a mission as he inspires the martial arts community to be leaders in reducing the amount of anger and conflict in the world. Here is his…

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How Positive Emotions Help with Anger

In past blogs I have spoken of a new movement in psychology called “positivity” and have discussed how it has an “undo” effect with negative emotions such as anger. Put another way, positive emotions erase the lingering traces of negative emotions. So, if we did “lose it” and get angry, a great way to repair…

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Apologize correctly to deal with conflict

Did you know there is a science and an art to learning how to properly say “I’m sorry”? Just saying the words “I’m sorry” usually doesn’t get it and often does not resolve the conflict while apologizing the right way just might. If you are asking forgiveness, the following seven steps have been found necessary…

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Humor Is Anger Management Technique

Humor is a positive emotion that helps counter-balance anger and other negative emotions in a conflict situation. Think of a teeter-totter. On one end sit anger, resentment, irritation, and all the friends and relatives of these negative feelings. But, on the other end sit humor and other positive emotions. What will happen? The teeter-totter will…

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Having Joy in life reduces anger

Forty-four year old Martha was a single mother of a thirteen year old girl (Reva) toward whom she was always feeling angry. They seemed to fight about everything, producing huge amounts of negativity in their home.Things finally got to the point that therapy was required by Family Services who had received a complaint from a…

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The AngerCoach Show – Episode 6 – How to deal with a passive aggressive

This months episode handles the topic of how to deal with a passive aggressive person. To help us understand this behavior, we interview Dr. Roselyn Laudati who helps us recognize passive aggression in ourselves and others as well as provides excellent tips on how to handle this behavior. Please note: This anger program and these…

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Positivity an antidote to anger

I just came across fascinating new research by Barbara Fredrickson,Ph.D., at UNC, Chapel Hill, described in a book she published called “Positivity.’ In it, she provides much data showing that positivity can enhance relationships, work, and health and also counter-act negative emotions like anger and resentment. The unique findings in this book is not that…

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Can you control happiness?

As I mentioned in my last blog, psychologists are now doing major research in determining what makes people happy. These researchers are called Positive Psychologists and some of what they are discovering is fascinating. Take Sonja Lyubomirsky at The University of California at Riverside who wrote a book based on her research called “The How…

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Is Happiness an antidote to anger?

I just returned from a 3-day conference in Philadelphia sponsored by the International Positive Psychology Association. The positive psychology movement is about ten years old but has really “taken off” in the last year or so. It is about scientific research related to concepts like optimism, happiness, resilience, courage, love, achievement, and goodness. The emphasis…

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