With Ji-Youn Kim and Cicely Belle Blain

Anger is a powerful force, and an appropriate and necessary response to injustice, violence, and harm. But anger is often associated with overwhelm, a lack of control and violence.

We may recognize the importance of honouring anger, but the questions still linger… How do we process and leverage anger without it consuming us or without shutting down? How do we process anger in non-violent ways and mobilize it as a transformative power?

When we mostly see anger expression that is explosive and perpetuates harm, we are taught to fear anger. We are afraid of causing harm or being harmed. In response, we may also learn to suppress our anger, which then can manifest in other disruptive ways.

We often ask ourselves…

Why do I have so much shame around anger?

How do I express my anger without triggering others?

How do I witness someone’s anger without trying to fix them?

Why can’t I access my anger?

The answer? Practicing a more empowering and transformative relationship with anger in the pursuit of collective liberation.

Processing Rage, the course!

Processing Rage is an experiential and relational course centered around the practice of processing and directing anger in tactful and liberatory ways. Learning how to emote anger with intention and structure can be helpful in releasing that energy so that we can respond to situations from a more grounded and choiceful place.

Why this course is different

1. Anger as a tactful, embodied skill.

In Processing Rage, we approach anger processing as a skill (or rather, a series of skills) that can be learned and practiced. We take the time to not only understand the importance, socialization, and power dynamics of anger, but we also focus on how to process and leverage anger in a strategic manner, depending on the priorities of each context.

This involves skill-building around identifying the priorities of our anger in each context, emoting and expressing anger non-violently, and communicating our needs and boundaries in ways that maintain connection. This course will help you shift not only how you think about anger, but also how you experience anger in the felt sense, in your body, through somatic practice.

2. Anger rooted in liberatory love

Processing Rage is also rooted in the beliefs that anger is rooted in liberatory love for the collective, and so doing anger differently is a politicized, transformative justice practice. When we practice intentional and tactful anger, we can navigate conflict, boundaries, and rupture in more loving and less harmful and hurtful ways. To co-create non-violent, more liberatory worlds, we must embody non-violent, more liberatory ways of relating — with ourselves, our emotional experiences, and our communities.

Meet the facilitators

Processing Rage began as a collaboration between these two in 2019 to integrate social justice and counselling psychology.

  • (they/she)

    Ji-Youn Kim 김지연 is a queer, neurodivergent while relatively non-disabled Corean femme, immigrant and settler, joy-seeker, liberatory dreamer, psych survivor, justice-oriented therapist-ish and ongoing creation of community.

    They work in private/alternative practice in relationships with predominantly Sick & Disabled QTBIPOC client community members with the orientation of therapy-ish as a space to practice embodied liberatory practices. She also facilitates teachings around anti-carceral mental health care for fellow mental health practitioners through guest teaching, programs, and workshops.

  • (they/them)

    Cicely Belle Blain is a Black/mixed, queer femme from London, UK, now based in Vancouver. They are noted for founding Black Lives Matter Vancouver and subsequently being listed as one Vancouver's 50 most powerful people by Vancouver Magazine in 2018 and again in 2020, BC Business's 30 under 30 and one of Refinery29's Powerhouses.

    Cicely Belle is the CEO of Bakau Consulting, the Editorial Director of Ripple of Change Magazine, and the author of Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Burning Sugar was shortlisted for the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. They also instruct Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University and serve on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.

THE CURRICULUM

THE CURRICULUM

MODULE 1

Emotions & Anger 101

  • Our different relationships with different emotions

  • The difference between emotions and feelings

  • What happens when you don’t feel & express yourself ie. emotionally constipated??

  • The purpose and importance of anger

  • The difference between anger and rage

MODULE 2

The Politics of Anger

  • The socialization process of anger

  • The history of hysteria and the pathologization of anger

  • Intersectional analysis of race, gender, and anger

  • Gender, sexuality, and the politics of desirability

  • Policing of rightful rage

MODULE 3

Practicing Personal Agency

  • Personal agency as transformative justice practice

  • 3 guidelines that differentiate violent and non-violent anger 

  • Violence in the context of power

  • Scripts for consensual and structured anger expression

  • Psychoeducation around emotional regulation including trauma response

MODULE 4

Non-Violent Emotional Expression

  • The difference between feeling and expression

  • The 3 ranges of emotional regulation

  • Emotional expression through the body

  • Examples of non-violent anger expression

  • Somatic practices for emotional expression and resourcing

MODULE 5

Healing-Centered Movements & Safe(r) Spaces

  • Constantly angry? Emotional boundaries and sustainable anger when everything is f*cked.

  • Anger through rupture and repair, as transformative justice practice

  • Somatic safety: feeling safe (enough) in an unsafe world

  • Cultivating moments of joy and ease as embodied liberatory practice

MODULE 6

Ancestral Healing & Culturally-Rooted Practice

  • Rage as anger that has aged and collectivized

  • Somatics and ancestral healing beyond Western counselling psychology

  • Intergenerational trauma to intergenerational rage to intergenerational mobilizing

  • How did our ancestors process and mobilize their rage?

We have two enrollment options

The Community Practice

An 8-week, experiential, cohort-based course composed of asynchronous content, live group calls, guided somatic exercises, and discussion with fellow participants.

This offering is designed for folks who experience cognition-based knowledges as insufficient and are looking for more interactive components, somatic tools, and relational learning to embody course materials. 

The Independent Study

A self-paced course composed of the same 8 weeks of asynchronous content of pre-recorded videos, text materials, and further resources, but without the guided somatic exercises and interactive pieces.

This offering is designed for folks who want to explore different frameworks of understanding and processing anger at their own pace, without the commitment of live calls or a discussion forum.

What’s included

8 weeks of content

Both enrollment options cover the same asynchronous content organized into 6 modules in 8 weeks, which is composed of pre-recorded videos and text materials.

Lifetime access

Both enrollment options will receive lifetime access to the asynchronous content, including any updates that are made in the future!

Guided somatic exercises

The Community Practice includes guided somatic exercises, in both audio and written format, that help integrate each week’s learnings and reflections through/in the body, which cultivates somatic shifts in the felt sense.

4 live calls with facilitators

The Community Practice includes Zoom calls on weeks 1, 3, 6 and 8 to help debrief and practice some of the course content in community and will also serve as a space for Q&A. They will be recorded for those who aren’t able to attend live.

Community discussion space

The Community Practice participants will have access to an optional Discord server to connect and share extra resources with one another. Everyone in CP and IS will share reflections on a whiteboard.

Resources & readings

We will share psycho-ed materials created by Ji-Youn as well as curated resources on other approaches to politicized anger expression by other brilliant practitioners.

Processing Rage was so life affirming and transformative--I literally want everyone to take and experience this course! CB and Ji-Youn were incredible facilitators who held conversations on rage in a container full of intention and care. This came in a period of my life overwhelmed with grief, and it created the spaciousness I needed to untangle the complex relationship I had to anger + the shame that came with it. I didn't realize how deeply gendered and violent the history of anger (first labeled under hysteria) possessed, and this course helped me reframe anger as a beautiful expression of love and political activation, as a magical and sacred force.

As an artist, organizer, and careworker, Processing Rage ultimately supported my re-orientation to deeply thinking about tending relationships as key to collective healing and liberation. I continue to think about the question, "are we ready for a world where oppressive institutions no longer exist; do we know how to relate with each other in that world?" The lessons and learnings from PR have not only helped empower me in my own healing journey--reclaiming agency and choicefulness--but have also strengthened my rootedness in transformative justice + my work in inviting practice shifts in my community, tending to our collective grief and rage and how we show up in relationships, because "practice shifts culture, and culture shifts systems" (the deep power of fractals!) My deepest gratitude to y'all for doing the heart work that is so needed <3

— Ammara, Community Practice Attendee

REGISTRATION UNTIL MARCH 27TH

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REGISTRATION UNTIL MARCH 27TH 〰️

The Community Practice

Course starts April 6, 2026. All prices are in USD.

$799 Upfront

Payment Plan: $270/mo for 3 months

REGISTER

The Independent Study

Course access begins April 6, 2026. All prices are in USD.

$349 Upfront

Payment Plan: $120/mo for 3 months

REGISTER

For payment plan, please check out the instructions in the FAQ or email us at hello@processingrage.com.

Registration for both offerings ends March 27th, 2026.

 FAQs

Got questions that aren’t covered below? Email us at hello@processingrage.com.

  • This course is for people who want to cultivate a different relationship with anger and recognize that anger is political in how it is socialized, experienced, perceived, and mobilized.

    It is for folks who:

    • feel shame or fear around your own anger and find yourself suppressing it

    • feel overwhelmed by the immensity of your anger

    • feel triggered by others’ anger expression, even when it’s not harmful, and want to respond differently.

    • experience reactive anger expression creating rupture in relationships and want to learn how to mobilize it for connection and change

    This course is for folks who don’t subscribe to individualized and pathologizing approaches to “anger management” or “anger control” and are curious about processing anger as a liberatory mobilizer.

  • This course is not for folks who solely want to approach anger as individual and interpersonal, and not political or collective.

    On the other hand, it may also be less helpful for folks who are already comfortable and familiar with their rage and anger expression.

    This course is not therapy or a replacement for therapy and should not be treated as such.

  • In short, no. This course is open to any and everyone who feels like it will be of value to them, since there are many aspects to the course, no matter where you’re at with your relationship with anger.

    We do recommend that participants have a passion for and basic understandings of social justice values by way of formal education, community education, self-learning and/or lived experience.

  • The asynchronous content is hosted on Thinkific, an e-learning platform. For the Community Practice Course, participants will be invited to join a private (and optional) Discord server and attend live sessions via Zoom. We also make use of Canva whiteboard.

  • Please check out our Access Info for our current practices and considerations.

    Folks who register for the Community Practice are also encouraged to share about any additional access needs.

    For further questions/feedback, email us at hello@processingrage.com.

  • Forever! Or for as long as the internet is a thing.

  • The cohort officially starts on April 6th! The live sessions for the Community Practice are on:

    • Week 1 - Sat. April 11th, 2026, 10AM PT / 1PM ET

    • Week 3 - Sat. April 25th, 2026, 10AM PT / 1PM ET

    • Week 6 - Sat. May 16th, 2026, 10AM PT / 1PM ET

    • Week 8 - Sat. May 30th, 2026, 10AM PT / 1PM ET

    Each session is 1.5-2hrs long and they will be recorded for folks who can not attend live. However, since live sessions are one of the core relational components of the course, participants must intend to attend at least 2 out of the 4 sessions live. Email us if you want to register for the Community Practice but attending live does not work for you.

    Please check out our Access Info for more details.

  • Yes! A big part of Processing Rage is about how to navigate anger in strategic ways for change, much of which can be applied to workplaces and organizations. Ji-Youn has facilitated workshops on this topic for large non-profit organizations and Bakau Consulting. Folks have used Professional Development funds from their workplace in the past as well (see below).

  • Yes! We highly encourage you to talk to your employer about covering the cost of this course as professional development. You can share this post as well as this letter to your employer. For registration, invoicing, and extra details, email us at hello@processingrage.com.

  • If you would like to pay by payment plan, indicate as so in the form when you click “Add to cart”. Then, check out using the code PAYMENTPLAN which will make the product "free."

    You will receive the first and following invoices via Stripe to the email that you indicated in billing at checkout. Early bird discount will be automatically applied if you check out during early bird period, though your first payment must be completed during this period as well.

  • If the payment plan option is still a financial strain, we have limited spots for scholarships for the Community Practice course (not for the Independent Study). Priority goes to BIPOC and/or sick & disabled folks but all are welcome to apply.

    Please fill out this Google form to apply. Applications close on March 18, 2026.

  • Although the co-facilitators are based in so-called Canada, all of our expenses for this program is paid in USD and we found that the majority of our registrants have been based in the US, which influenced our decision to charge in USD.

    Given the imperial power of USD, folks from non-Western currencies who cannot afford the tuition are encouraged to apply for scholarships.

  • Folks who register for the Community Practice Course can get a full refund until the end of Week 2. Folks who register for the Independent Study Course can get a full refund before the start date. Contact us for a refund.

I had been intrigued about Processing Rage for a long time so I'm grateful to have had a chance to be a part of this! The information and ideas helped to deconstruct and rewire my thinking on anger and rage, while the somatic practices helped to stretch "muscles" in reconnecting with my body. The learning experience was exciting, fun, connecting, and eye opening. Being in the Community Practice, I felt understood and seen by others who shared overlapping intergenerational relationships to anger, as well as shared challenges with understanding and expressing anger in ways that feel aligned with ourselves and our values. Thank you to the instructors, Ji-Youn and Cicely, for role modelling thinking about rage and anger in ways which honours us as humans, our relationships to the rest of existence, and our ancestral roots. What a beautiful offering you’ve created!

— Amy, Community Practice Attendee