Peace: The Other Side of Anger

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Join educator and author Dave Wolffe for an interactive, conversational exploration of anger and anger management using the Anger Management Power program. A definition of anger management. The causes of anger, both obvious and those less so. The effects of this emotion, physical and emotional, as well as the thoughts that accompany it. Anger Management Techniques to diminish the feeling’s intensity and to express anger. Situations to which these methods can be applied. About The Presenter Dave Wolffe earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master's Degree in Education from Queens College. He has been an educator for over thirty-five years. He taught grades one through nine for most of his tenure with the New York City Board of Education and was a high school guidance counselor for the last thirteen years of his career. He served as an Adjunct Lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City for fourteen years where he taught the Sociology of Conflict in the Dispute Resolution Program. He was certified as a Peer Mediation Specialist from the International Center for Conflict Resolution of Columbia University Teachers College. While working as a high school counselor, Dave utilized this training to teach high school students how to facilitate peer mediation sessions with their peers. During this experience, he and many of these young people helped to establish, facilitate, and participate in schoolwide and boroughwide violence-prevention programs. In addition, he was certified as a mediator by Westchester Mediation of Cluster, located in Yonkers, New York. He is also a Fellow in the National Anger Management Association (NAMA). In addition, Dave Wolffe developed an anger management program known as the Anger Management Power Program (AMP), on which two of his books are based. He has facilitated this training experience with over 1,000 high school students and well over 600 parents, educators, and other individuals who are concerned with youth in this area. He also established and has presented violence-prevention workshops based on this program for the New York City area teacher education college programs, has worked with mediators in this area, and has created a facilitator-training method for this program. Dave currently resides in Connecticut with his life partner.