The Wisdom Track: Recent Episodes
Mike Fisher
Rebooting the concept of ‘wisdom’ for the 21st Century! Globally-renowned emotional intelligence coach Mike Fisher and friends from the world of wellbeing take listeners on a journey to rediscover the art of self-knowledge. Wisdom is an ancient concept, but it’s arguably needed now more than ever. Find out more about Mike at www.angermanage.co.uk.
Discover the transformative journey from powerlessness to empowerment on The Wisdom Track. In this video, "Embracing Our Sense of Powerlessness: A Path to Empowerment," we explore the universal experience of feeling powerless and its profound impact on our lives.
Through personal anecdotes and deep insights, we uncover powerlessness’s isolating nature and vulnerability’s importance. By accepting our emotions and sharing them authentically, we forge deeper connections with others and create space for new possibilities.
Acceptance becomes the key to overcoming powerlessness, offering a moment of rest and self-care. It doesn't mean giving up or surrendering, but rather acknowledging our circumstances and taking thoughtful steps towards change. By embracing acceptance, we gain clarity and purpose, transcending impulsive reactions driven by raw emotions.
Join us on The Wisdom Track as we navigate life's complexities with wisdom and compassion. Subscribe now to embark on this transformative journey from powerlessness to empowerment.
This month we’re talking about when relationships turn from medicine to poison with Mike Fisher and Snake Bloomstrand.
Each year millions of relationships arrive at the intersection of respect or contempt. The last few years of enforced togetherness have stressed families and businesses to the limit. It’s becoming clear as we circle the evolving post-covid recovery process that primary relationships have endured much of the stress and the price has been high. Contempt flourishes under stress and it remains a dangerous strategy to flirt with at work or at home.
Find us at www.angermanage.co.uk or @angermanagementuk on Instagram and @BAAMUK on Facebook.
This month we’re talking about the skill of making up with with friends, lovers or colleagues after a falling out.
Psychotherapists call this ‘rupture and repair’. There is evidence to suggest that building up our talent to repair after ruptures is key to our overall sense of being able to cope with life’s struggles. It’s healthier to lean in to conflict and try to keep relationships alive while maintaining boundaries, compared to abandoning contact altogether.
But what if there are complications – like anger issues, historical hurt or gaslighting? Or maybe you’re experiencing what relationship expert Dr John Gottman calls ‘gridlock’ where there’s an unyielding impasse in communication and neither of you want to back down?
Moreover… when is it time to acknowledge that the relationship cannot continue? Join Mike, Snake and the team to find out.
The Wisdom Track is where The British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) takes a closer look at its core values of growing self-knowledge, honing emotional intelligence, and learning communication skills.
Find us at www.angermanage.co.uk or @angermanagementuk on Instagram and @BAAMUK on Facebook.
BAAM co-founder Mike Fisher and Craig 'Snake' Bloomstrand are joined by Paul Abramowitz. Paul's the writer of a new book, Sexed.
Sexed examines heterosexual male sexuality, and proposes that we “Develop personal methods of enquiry into greater self-understanding, meaningful sex and conscious relating and that in fact , when we are able to change the way we understand perceive and embrace our sexuality as men our entire reality changes.”
Paul’s late father was a gynaecologist and sex therapist. Paul’s 14-year involvement with the men’s consciousness movement confirmed his long standing suspicion of a “Disappeared conversation around heterosexual male sexuality and its impact on our sense of self agency and overall wellbeing as men.” Paul has studied both eastern and later in western sexology, and operates a therapy space for couples and individuals working in matters of sex and intimacy, using his own model of deep transformational sex therapy detailed in Sexed.
Sexed is out now from Amazon.
Find The British Association of Anger Management at www.angermanage.co.uk.
BAAM co-founder Mike Fisher and Craig 'Snake' Bloomstrand are joined by Paul Abramowitz. Paul's the writer of a new book examining male sexuality in an era when the entertainment industry conflicts with the intimate, transformative nature of sex. How can we return to a sense of sex being communication, rather than gratification alone?
Paul Abramowitz is a periodontist, former university professor and Shiatzu expert with a rich history of examining sexual mores. Sexed is out now from Amazon.
Find The British Association of Anger Management at www.angermanage.co.uk.
Emotional resilience is our ability to cope with stressful situations; adapting to life’s ups 'n' downs. It certainly comes in handy when rolling with any blows landed by the C-19 pandemic!
Developing emotional resilience is a key skill taught in BAAM’s anger management programmes. Becoming emotionally resilient doesn’t mean that you’ll never be stressed again. But it does mean you'll be able to cope better when the going gets tough.
Join Mike, Snake and the team to discuss the nuances of emotional resilience, how it differs from keeping your emotions bottled up, and how to hone it.
You can read a guide to emotional resilience on the BAAM website here.
This podcast is a special for Anger Awareness Week 2021.
Mike, Snake plus guests Alex Von Bitter and Scott Fee discuss our often most neglected relationship – the one we have with ourselves. This is October 2021's podcast – we're back on December 4th with an Anger Awareness Week special on Emotional Resilience.
The Wisdom Track Podcast is brought to you by The British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) www.angermanage.co.uk
Recapturing a sense of wonder and playfulness is one of the hottest topics in coaching today. To do so we can attempt reconnection with our ‘inner child’.
Join BAAM founder Mike Fisher and Craig 'Snake' Bloomstrand discussing how you can be more in touch with your ‘inner child’, the childhood self that remains part of our psychological make-up.
Reconnecting with our ‘inner child’ can help us recapture a sense of enthusiasm that our anxious adult lives suppress. It can also put us more in touch with our core identities, and offer a little love to a part of ourselves that might have once felt neglected.
Book now for our Mentoring the Inner Child workshop series in September 2021:
https://www.angermanage.co.uk/product/mentoring-the-inner-child-4-day-workshop/
Find us at www.angermanage.co.uk
Long-term relationships are among the greatest emotional challenges we all face. During the pandemic, with no choice but to remain together in close quarters, some relationships have come under tremendous strain – while others have thrived.
What are the latter group doing that the former are not? What emotional intelligence skills are required to balance two sets of needs? How do we know when to compromise, and when to draw a boundary? What can we do to make things better, rather than wishing our partner felt differently?
Joining Mike, Snake and Steve is coach and therapist Karina Andersen. Karina is a sought after travel companion and intuitive depth coach. She teaches awakened leadership paths to leaders, coaches and entrepreneurs and is known for harnessing the listening environment with a level of adeptness that allows her to skilfully guide her diverse clientele towards full potential.
BAAM founder Mike Fisher and Craig 'Snake' Bloomstrand are joined by Doctor Stephen Blumenthal, an analytical psychologist who’s written about couples rowing and loneliness for The Daily Telegraph during the pandemic, and Ronnie Turner, grief and bereavement counselling specialist and also a mum to a very bubbly six year old who understands the challenges of parenting and home-schooling during COVID times…
A special workshop examining and treating ‘shame’, the disproportionate sense of inadequacy and guilt becoming ever more prevalent in Western society. Joining Mike Fisher and ‘Snake’ Bloomstrand is Chris Cherry. Chris is an experienced psychotherapist and the co-founder of You Okay, Doc?, the medical charity providing mental health and wellbeing advice for medical professionals.
If you'd like to examine this topic further, and learn techniques for managing toxic shame, we're holding a four-part weekly Shame Workshop from 2.30-5pm on Sat 6, Sat 13, Sun 21 and Sat 27 March and we'd love you to join us. Details here.
A special workshop examining and treating ‘shame’, the disproportionate sense of inadequacy and guilt becoming ever more prevalent in Western society. Joining Mike Fisher and ‘Snake’ Bloomstrand is Chris Cherry. Chris is an experienced psychotherapist and the co-founder of You Okay, Doc?, the medical charity providing mental health and wellbeing advice for medical professionals.
If you'd like to examine this topic further, and learn techniques for managing toxic shame, we're holding a four-part weekly Shame Workshop from 2.30-5pm on Sat 6, Sat 13, Sun 21 and Sat 27 March and we'd love you to join us. Details here.
We examine the tricky subject of forgiveness and reconciliation, alongside members of Inner Circle, featured in multiple award-winning prison documentary The Work.
How can couples help each other during tough times, providing mutual support and not letting those challenges drive us apart? David Waters from The School of Life and author Stella Newman AKA Vicky Zimmerman join Mike, Snake and Steve to find out!
Our ‘inner narrative’ is notorious for making up unhelpful stories. It can also propel us to heights of creativity. Join Mike, Snake, Steve plus special guest artist Katy Moran to separate helpful fact from unhelpful fiction.
We discuss the art of wisdom itself and how it can help our approach to living and interacting. Featuring Ten Club Amsterdam’s Joachem Janssen, Tara ‘Love’ Perry and The Responsible Individual author Karina Andersen.
We deep dive into the fractious state of Western life. Our society is being held hostage by our own repressed emotions and the unhealthy ways we find to express them. How do we free ourselves from this state of toxic anger?
Adversity is a challenge for us all. In this new podcast, Mike Fisher author of the book Beating Anger and Mindfulness and The Art of Managing Anger shares his experiences of how to deal with adversity and turn it into an opportunity for growth success and of course happiness.
Mike has extensive experience in the field of human potential and with his vast experience in this field he offers many of us the opportunity to reframe our relationship to virtually all negative experience that we face in our life’s. In his view adversity gives us choices whether we emotionally sink or swim.
In this podcast Mike offers us the opportunity to consider and reflect on some key pointers to reframe out experiences by using this basic formula for change in our lives.
Such as above every dark cloud is a silver lining and when one door closes another door opens. He talks about trust your future self because it's your future self that has inside information into your own potential well-being.
He reminds us that every single situation is an opportunity for growth and the key to that is living fully in the present but keeping an eye on the past and the future. One of his favourite quotes ‘Prepare for your future and know you cannot control it’ Another bit of advice is ‘If you want to change your circumstance then you have to change your reality’.
His conversations a pretty much common sense so in small ways he is just reminding us of what we already know but have forgotten. This podcasts is rich with over 14 ways to view diversity as an opportunity for growth. I most like his one on when life throws you curve balls become the curve ball. If you want to know more about Mike work in the field of stress and anger management visit his website www.angermanage.co.uk.
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Above every grey cloud there is blue sky and sunlight. Below every dark cloud there is a silver lining
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One door closes and another opens. Opportunities knock at your door everyday
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Trust your future self, he has a clear idea of where he is going even when you don’t.
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Remind and reassure yourself that every situation is an opportunity for growth
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live fully in the present in the here and now and don’t worry about the future
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You can prepare of the future you cannot control it.
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If you want to change your circumstance then change your reality
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Step outside your comfort growth and be open and willing to learn
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the subtext to fear according to Susan Jeffers in her book ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ she suggest that the under underbelly of fear is us thinking to ourselves ‘I cannot handle it’. There is nothing that you cannot handle you can handle everything that life throws at you or have you never notice just how far you have come?
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Become as fast and agile as a curve ball - To catch a curve ball you need to become as agile curve ball
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Never say never, never say ‘I can’t’. There is no such thing as can’t
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The is nothing more limiting when you say yes but! Or what if! Yes butts and what if’s will most certainly hold you back.
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Don’t ask why it does not work. Instead say when it works!
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Finally - Believe in miracles