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REDISCOVERING ANGER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
A little about Pavel
Pavel Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice with over 25 years of clinical experience working with anger management, shame, guilt, self-criticism, eating issues, and perfectionism. Dr. Somov is the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change (PESI Publishing, 2013) as well as a number of self-help books on perfectionism, overeating, and addiction. His books have been translated into Dutch, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Estonian, and Russian.
Dr Somov has trained and worked in a variety of clinical settings including running a drug and alcohol treatment program in a county jail, veterans administration hospitals, pain clinics, psychiatric hospitals, community mental health centres, geriatric partial hospitalization programs. Dr Somov is currently in private practice with an existential-dynamic orientation. His work has been discussed in a number of radio interviews and in print publications including Martha Stewart's Body + Soul Magazine and Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine.
Dr. Somov is on the advisory board for The Mindfulness Project (London, UK) and has conducted a variety of trainings for mental health professionals both domestically and internationally on applying mindfulness-based interventions to a variety of psychological issues. Somov grew up in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the US after his service in the Soviet military. His interests include reading, chess, alpine skiing and CrossFit.
Please note that this workshop is a non-residential workshop. It is limited to 30 participants and is open to participants who are mental health providers and affiliated clinicians of various levels of education (psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, medical clinicians who encounter psychological issues, psychology students, substance use/addiction clinicians.)
What will you learn during this workshop?
In this 2-day training, Dr. Somov will challenge and change your approach to anger management with the mindfulness-based, acceptance-based and meta-cognitive tools and a repertoire of eclectic didactic-experiential clinical interventions to help your clients manage their anger, engage in treatment, and learn to peacefully coexist with others.
Training Highlights:
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Radically-humanistic reframing of anger (that is grounded in evolutionary psychology) to help facilitate deep rapport with reluctant clients
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“Rapid fire” tactics for de-escalating anger and modeling vulnerability in the moment
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Motivationally-enhancing guidance for engaging clients in treatment-related self-work/homework
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An original 4-session short-term approach to decrease levels of impulsivity and aggressiveness (that includes mindfulness-based, acceptance-based and meta-cognitive modalities)
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A didactic and experiential clinical curriculum for long-term anger management rehabilitation (that includes group work, attributional retraining and empathy training)
Dr Somov has written a wonderful book about anger management which might be helpful to read ahead of attending the retreat. He will bring some copies of the book with him which he can sell and autograph for you during the workshop. For those interested in getting a copy of the book ahead of the workshop, please see a link to purchase in the box opposite.
Dr. Somov's other self-help books include Eating the Moment, Present Perfect, Lotus Effect, Reinventing the Meal, and Mindful Eating Jumpstart. He has also published in peer-reviewed journals on the topics of psychodrama, logotherapy, group work and time-perception aspects of pain experience.
Training Course Outline: - what will the 2 day workshop cover
The Brain-Body View of Anger: Enhance Anger Management with a Neuroscience Perspective
Born Wild - evolutionary psychology of anger
Humankind & Civilization - a project of self-domestication and self-taming
Anger systems in the brain and threat perception
The R-Complex - the reptilian inside of us
The Limbic - the mammal inside of us
The Neocortical - the human inside of us
Neurophysiology of anger v. fear
Neocortical Breakdown: PFC & TPJ
The Survival Quartet: Fight-Flight-Fawn-Freeze
Breathing and the survival brain
The Mind View of Anger: How Perfectionism and All-or-Nothing Thinking Keep Clients Stuck in Anger
Dualistic & all-or-nothing thinking
Attention tunneling/hyperfocus
Perfectionism and righteous anger
Righteousness as confusion/ambivalence reduction
Anger, Substance Abuse and Emotionally Vengeful Self-Harm
Relationship between anger and addiction
Self-harm & suicidality as anger and emotional revenge
The Paradigm-Shifting Reframe - Anger Management as Fear Management: Teaching Clients to Distinguish Real Threats from Paper Tigers
Real fears
Symbolic fears
Courage of acceptance
Escape of action (“To act out is to run”)
An informal typology of anger - how anger style informs treatment approach
Motivate the Unwilling: 4 Intrinsic Incentives towards Treatment Compliance
Mood/affect stabilization
Relational stabilization
Impulse control
Damage control
Short-Term Anger Management Solutions: A 4 Session Approach to Improve Impulse Control, Self-Regulation & Emotional Invulnerability
Session 1: Mindfulness-Based Impulse Control Training
Session 2: Choice Awareness Training & Pattern Interruption
Session 3: Symbolic Threat Inoculation
Session 4: Bottom-Up Self-Regulation
Facilitating Homework Compliance
Real Life Anger Management Practice
Long-Term Anger Management: Strategies and Techniques for Lasting Behavioral Change
Attributional retraining – help clients to not take things personally
Effort acceptance – exercises to stop feeling shortchanged
Learning from fear & rascal sages
Relativity training to overcome righteous anger
Neurobehavioral empathy training & mirroring to promote relational stability
Neuroendocrine time-out & social fasting
Assertiveness training – teach clients to set healthy boundaries
Techniques to communicate anger without aggression
Group work - strategies to reinforce skill acquisition
Eastern know-how of equanimity – from anger to compassion
Manage politically and ideologically provocative client self-disclosures in therapy
Retreat Particulars
Applications are currently open for this NON-RESIDENTIAL 2-day workshop in Ireland from November 26th – November 27th, 2023
The workshop will take place over 2 days starting on Sunday November 26th, 2023 and concluding on Monday 27th, 2023. We will work from 9am – 5pm on both days with a morning and afternoon coffee break and a one hour break for lunch.
Workshop Cost is €550. The cost includes the workshop itself, a light lunch and teas & coffees during break.
This workshop is limited to 30 participants. An application form will be available to you once you register your interest and your place on the workshop will only be confirmed once a €300 non-refundable deposit is received. Please do not make travel arrangements until your registration has been fully accepted by us.
Any accommodation costs and travel costs to the workshop location in Killarney, Co, Kerry, Ireland is the sole responsibility of the participant.
IMPORTANT: Please read our FAQS page on this website for further guidelines and information on Covid, the arrangements we have in place in the unlikely event the workshop is cancelled due to Covid or in the unlikely event the workshop leader is not in a position to attend. The FAQS page also provides further general information which you may find useful when planning your trip. If after reading the FAQS page you have any further information, please feel free to email us at contact@souliology.com.