SCCC’s Rage Resolution group: Counselor Rolf Danner shares his experience

Each Friday, the Southern California Counseling Center offers a Rage Resolution group to those seeking to respond without violence when faced with stressful, frustrating or unfair situations.  The group focuses on empowering participants to act as their “preferred person”, or person they’d hope to be, when confronted by difficult scenarios. Counselor Rolf Danner, a long-time facilitator of the group, provides us with insight into his experience with the program below. “My father’s rare but explosive outbursts, simmering under the surface even in quiet times, taught me to be afraid of anger. Whether expressed by myself or others. So ...