Friday, June 25, 2010
A Redditch businessman used a little adult education to turn a basic
interest of his into a new career when he found himself unexpectedly
redundant.
Austen Gower had undergone some training in stress management in the early
1990s and had been interested in the causes and countermeasures of
workplace stress and anger ever since.
Attending a programme entitled Beating Anger – Anger Management early last
year only heightened his interest. So when the father-of-two was made
redundant from his job as a business analyst and project manager towards
the end of the year, he knew where he wanted his career to turn.
He saw the value of making the programme available to a wider audience, so
set about becoming a trained practitioner, enrolling in an accredited
distance learning programme and pointing his career in a completely new
direction.
50-year-old Mr Gower said training to offer counsel and solutions to stress
and anger problems was incredibly valuable, both for him and his
clients.
“Training people to manage problem stress, anger and rage successfully
offer benefits that go far beyond simply managing anger," he said. “Anger
is actually a healthy and perfectly natural feeling but in many of us, it
is expressed in an unhealthy way, and often linked to self-worth and
self-esteem – or more correctly the lack of it."
At the top of his agenda is the desire to help individuals and
organisations survive change, to manage stress and underlying problems of
anger and unhappiness.
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