Rage of the Heart: A 3-Part Workshop Series

When the first bottle, first rock, and loose change were thrown during the Stonewall Riots, collective rage was the expression of self-dignity, shared survival, and even hope. How do we let rage unveil what we love and what we are living for? How do we develop a deeper relationship with anger? 

This 3-part workshop series will encourage us to locate and feel the pulse of the rage awakening us to our full humanity, insisting that we live and learn to tend it with care so it might fuel our movements with heart.

We will explore how becoming undone can evolve into intimacy, how to discern between reactive and wise rage, and how to tend to the hearth of our rage to foster belonging and bring warmth to our convictions. 

Part 1: Orienting to Rage

Can we turn towards our rage and the rage of others? To do so, we must first locate where rage lives. In part one of this workshop series, we’ll focus on orienting. Just as we orient ourselves on a map, we will locate our proximity to rage. We’ll explore what we have learned explicitly and implicitly about how rage works and how it should live in our bodies and relationships. We’ll uncover our associations with rage and examine what our lineage says about rage.

Part 2: Accessing Rage / Containing the Fire

Can we welcome our bodies to feel rage together? How is the body speaking? Who is listening? Can we cultivate courage that is not armored? Can we feel the love and grief that gives rage its fruit? In part two of this workshop series, we let ourselves feel. We will purposefully activate our nervous systems with music and vibration, and let our body see the shape of our unique expression of rage. 

Part 3: Walking with Rage / Integration

Can we weave our rage together and create art from the aliveness invoked? Together we'll practice feeling and discerning how to let rage become fertile in relationships. We'll discuss investing in trust as part of repair after rupture. In part three of this workshop series, we'll practice walking with rage with containment, not as restraint, but as a means to access agency and agility in how we communicate what is alive in us. 

Meet your facilitators:

Mel Glaze (they/she) is a relational therapist, community builder, and creative devoted to embodied transformation and authentic self-expression. They integrate symbol, narrative, and love into all they do. Mel runs a small private practice in Puyallup, WA, where she supports individuals, couples, and families impacted by neurocomplexity, complex grief, and trauma. They are emerging into group facilitation, and this is their first group workshop on Rage.

crosscurrentcounseling.com/about

Finn Menzies (he/him) is a relational therapist, former teacher, poet, and trans dad whose work is grounded in embodiment, liberation, and love. He is a student of Prentis Hemphill and has been on a long journey of accessing his embodied awareness and wisdom. He’s held workshops on embodiment and writing, gender development, and this is his first workshop on Rage.

finnmenziestherapy.com/about


Additional Details:

Due to the nature of this workshop, the group will be capped at 12 participants.

About the Venue:

This event is hosted at the Center for Spiritual Living-Tacoma, located across from Wright Park and Gravity Coffee. All backgrounds, races, religions, and orientations are welcome. This is a wheelchair accessible venue. The ramp is located at the back building entrance. Street parking only.