From an early age, most of us are taught that anger is mean, dangerous, violent, and pointless.

Instead of learning to consciously apply anger clearly and intelligently in daily life, we learned to deny and repress it. As adults, our anger is either buried underneath years of repression or it comes out in erratic explosions and passive-aggressive gestures that harm our projects and relationships. 

In the Introduction to Rage Club and Rage Club series, we begin from scratch. We start from the premise that anger is neutral energy—not bad, not good—that has valuable information for us. Through exercises, practices, and initiations, we learn to consciously apply the energy and information of anger to support our projects, navigate our relationships, and bring what we want to bring into the world. 

Some of the conscious uses of anger we work with include:

• Saying clearly what we want and do not want.

• Making boundaries and distinctions.

• Empower and encourage one another.

• Healing old wounds and completing old communications.

• Taking a stand for something or someone.

• Being wildly alive and uncivilized.

• Coming into and maintaining integrity.

• Committing, and keeping commitments.

• Eliminating confusion. • Creating clarity.

• Speaking from resources other than knowing.

• Distinguishing clearly between your feelings and other people’s feelings.

• Staying centered, grounded, and in your personal bubble of space.

In other words, the basic ingredients for living an extraordinary life!

We do this work in a team environment that is safe enough to take risks, and dangerous enough that we can actually fall apart and allow a completely new relationship with anger to emerge.