Live Training Opportunities
The Angry Smile training courses are designed for anyone who lives, works, or interacts with a passive aggressive person and wants to better understand and manage the often- troubling dynamics. For your convenience, we offer The Angry Smile training in 3 different formats:
1-DAY TRAINING
Our 1-day training is designed to take an in-depth look at how to understand and change passive aggressive behavior. Using extensive discussion, video examples, and role play, participants will:
1. Define and distinguish passive aggression from other forms of anger expression
2. Understand how passive aggressive behavior is used situationally by many and develops as a personality style among some.
3. Identify 5 distinct and increasingly pathological levels of passive aggression
4. Recognize how passive-aggressive behavior is displayed in home, school, relationships, the workplace & online.
5. Identify how counter-passive aggressive behavior can occur and cause people to act in uncharacteristic and explosive ways.
6. Learn 8 specific skills for responding effectively to passive-aggressive behavior
7. Practice the 6-step process of Benign Confrontation, used to manage and change passive aggressive behavior over the long term.
2-HOUR TRAINING
Our two-hour training is specially designed for professional in-services, conference breakout sessions, and any other occasion in which participants need a comprehensive introduction to passive aggressive behavior. Participants will:
1. Define and distinguish passive aggression from other forms of anger expression
2. Identify typical passive-aggressive behaviors in children, teens and adults
3. Understand 5 distinct and increasingly pathological levels of passive aggression
4. Recognize how passive-aggressive behavior is displayed in home, school, relationships, the workplace & online.
5. Learn 8 specific skills for responding effectively to passive-aggressive behavior
ONLINE TRAINING
PRICE REDUCED! NOW JUST $99
See below for detailed information on our online training option.
Online Training for the Angry Smile
The Angry Smile Online is a video-based training that comprehensively examines passive aggressive behavior in children, adolescents, and adults within families, school settings, relationships, workplaces, and online.
Participants will discover how to stop:
- Endless conflict cycles
- Frustrating arguments
- Relationship-damaging wars of words
Online Course Format
- Following the simple registration process (see link below), you will gain access to 9 training modules, each presented via video by Signe Whitson, co-author of The Angry Smile text.
- The course is not timed; participants are free to watch the modules on their own schedule, and may re-watch each module as often as desired. It is highly recommended that the modules are viewed sequentially, however, as the course information builds on itself from one module to the next.
- Upon registration, you will be able to download the Participant’s Manual for The Angry Smile course. The manual provides the PowerPoint presentation and supplemental role play activities.
- Your registration and payment for The Angry Smile Online training also includes a copy of the textbook The Angry Smile: Effective Strategies to Manage Passive-Aggressive Behavior at Home, at School, In Marriages and Close Relationships, in the Workplace & Online. The book will automatically be shipped to the address you list in your registration and should arrive within 7-10 business days. You may begin to watch the video modules before the textbook arrives.
- Course Fee: $99
Getting Started
Click the link below to register for The Angry Smile Online training.