No. 48 Living with Anger

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Group Session Plan from FUSN (developed by Holly Zeeb and Bob Zeeb)

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

As an old proverb has it, “Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind” -unless our mind is alert enough to set sail for a better course.

Michael N. Nagler

Check-in/Sharing

Topic/Activity:
There are many kinds of anger and many ways of thinking and talking about anger. But above all, anger is a part of what makes us human. We all live with anger; it is in the nature of things.

Consider a time when your anger separated you—from yourself, from those you care about, from that which is larger than the self. And consider a time when anger may have connected you—to yourself, to others, or to something larger and beyond your self. What might be the difference between these two experiences of anger?

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Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

The nonviolent are not people who don’t feel anger. On the contrary, they can often prize anger . . . because first of all that capacity to feel for others, which sometimes means getting angry over what is happening to them, is one of the things that makes them fully human. Second, and more important, that kind of anger is potentially the emotive power to correct the situation.

Michael N. Nagler

Let us all remember. . .that for its implementation, compassion frequently demands confrontation.
William Sloane Coffin