Beyond Anger, Bitterness and Revenge: Forgiveness
What you’ll learn
- You will recognize that ANGER MANAGEMENT ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH. Replacing anger and bitterness with better reactions to nasty events is the key to happiness
- You will learn how to develop better path emotional and behavioral reactions to unpleasant, unexpected and unwanted life events.
- You will recognize that bitter path reactions such as contempt, hate, grudges, spite, and revenge eventually lead to negative outcomes for you.
- You will learn about the few positives and many negatives of seeking revenge.
- You will recognize that better path reactions such as forgiveness, tolerance, acceptance, and compassion eventually lead to a better and more satisfying life.
- You will learn about the differences among forgiving, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion.
- Each bitter path reaction and each better path reaction is examined and you will be taught how to move towards the better path.
- Kassinove and Tafrate’s five-step forgiveness program is fully explained for you to consider incorporating into your life.
We all face nastiness from other people and we all tend to react with bitter path reactions such as anger, contempt, hate, a desire to get even and seek revenge, spite, and even with aggression. Yet, these reactions are typically not fulfilling in the long run. This exceptional course goes well beyond traditional anger management by teaching you how to incorporate better path reactions such as forgiving, compassion, tolerance and acceptance into your life. You will learn how to move towards those better path reactions as a general life perspective since neglect, rejection, unfairness and other forms of adversity affect all of us. You will also be taught how to develop better path reactions if you have suffered as the victim of a major, traumatic negative life event. Therefore, the course has a double goal – first, to reduce the anger and bitterness and desires to get even and punish wrongdoers and perpetrators that is so common when adversity happens and, second, to replace them with life enhancing skills of forgiving, tolerating, compassion and radical acceptance. This replacement model makes this course unique as we know from scientific findings and clinical experience that simple anger reduction is not enough. Replacement with better life skills is the true road to life happiness. The course contains educational lectures, diagrams of the model, definitions of all concepts, a series of six quick quizzes, many self-reflection exercises to help you discover your own thoughts and attitudes about bitter and better path reactions, case descriptions of people who have forgiven very harsh treatment, and a presentation about our five-part that will teach you how to take it for a “test drive.”
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who reacts with anger and bitterness to the nasty, unpleasant and offensive behavior of others
- Anyone who understands that these are not life enhancing reactions and wants to move forward and not continue to live as a victim of past events.
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