Seminar Explains Techniques For Discharging Deep Anger

Sun., Sept. 29, 1996

By Dan Webster danw@spokesman.com

Ken Cochran and Lori Hansel can’t get enough of John Lee.

As counselors at Shaw Middle School, Cochran and Lee have traveled all the way to North Carolina to study Lee’s method of anger management. As Primary Emotional Energy Response - or P.E.E.R. - counselors, they’ve already sponsored one Lee-led workshop in Spokane.

Now they’ve scheduled another one. This one, though, is the first step toward making participants P.E.E.R. I trainers.

“Awakening the Emotional Body” will be Oct. 5-6 at Unity Church, 29th and Bernard. The two-day workshop, which costs $175, is aimed at mental health professionals, substance-abuse counselors, school counselors and, the organizers say, anyone “interested in emotional release work and personal healing.”

Workshop hours are 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Saturday and 1:30-5:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Here’s what you get for your money:

Emotional tension, brought on by a variety of sources, is difficult to release, so Lee will demonstrate “techniques that facilitate deep discharge of anger from you or your client’s body/mind.”

Participants will work on the denial that tends to block such discharge.

The workshop will provide a safe environment in which to do the needed work.

Lee’s visit to Spokane, his fourth, will include a 7 p.m. talk Friday on “Why we often lose ourselves in relationships.” On Sunday, Lee will deliver the church’s 9 a.m. sermon, “The Language of Spirituality.”

For registration information, call 624-0304.

Grounds for divorce: President Bill Clinton’s former advisor Dick Morris is facing a situation familiar to many married men. And more than a few married women.

How do you make amends for cheating on your spouse?

Morris, you’ll recall, was ousted as a philanderer when a paid companion sold her story to a supermarket tabloid. Whatever public explanations he has offered, you can bet that he’s been a bit more candid, and apologetic, at home.

Uniquely enough, Morris’ wife of 20 years, Eileen McGann, is standing by him - although she’s had some vivid, and understandable, fantasies.

“I’m not happy about what he did and sometimes I think about dismembering him,” she told Newsweek magazine, “and good friends have offered to help me dig up the back yard and bury him.”

Ah, the power of metaphor.

, DataTimes

Local journalism is essential.

Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Gifts processed in this system are tax deductible.

Meet Our Journalists

Jesse Tinsley

Meet Jesse Tinsley. As a certified drone pilot, this veteran Spokesman-Review photographer often can be seen capturing beautiful aerial photographs of our region. Sometimes though, the job requires getting down with the dogs.
Jim Meehan

Jim Meehan is no stranger to Zag Nation. As the lead writer covering the Gonzaga men’s basketball team, he tells the stories behind the game and gets fans a bit closer to their favorite players.
Molly Quinn

There is no artist in Spokane like Molly Quinn. Her whimsical style is instantly recognizable to readers of The Spokesman-Review. She has painted gorgeous illustrations that instantly elevate the journalism accompanying it. She brings to life the stories that defy photography. She makes our pages better.
Rob Curley

Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley loves to talk with people and learn about their lives, whether it's a best-selling author or a stranger he meets downtown on his walk to lunch. It's that inquisitive nature combined with a playful sense of storytelling that helps make our newspaper different than most.