I returned to Asheville one week ago from Rivercane Rendezvous, an Earthskills gathering in South Carolina, USA. There, seven Rage researchers experienced their own Rage, and the other feelings and emotions that came with walking into their Inner Fires.

Rage Space is powered by the authentic necessities of the people in the space and the maps and experiments of Possibility Management. It is something like a Dojo and a laboratory. In Rage Space, we experimented with saying "No!" without explanation, and for no reason. We completed incomplete emotions with people in our lives, removing hooks of triggers, traumas, etc., so that we can live ever more in the present. We wrung our red rage towels to evoke the bodily sensations of anger. Our voices reverberated throughout camp, down into the valley where others carved and weaved, tanned hides and played, sang and made instruments. We discovered blocks to our anger, particularly in the form of other emotions (like sadness) that we habitually and purposely mix with our anger, even if we knew not yet that we made the decision to do so at some point. We explored shame and guilt. One participant commented how these mixed emotions may have been motivating forces in noble, intact cultures where group-threatening behaviors could be dicscouraged for survival. Shame is a mixture of fear and anger and sadness that stagnates us in the absence of any type of life-sustaining culture.

The tracks of Rage. One woman's rageful space and footprints after completing incomplete emotions with her parents.

A Space for Rage is not a class and it is not school. I am not the teacher when I am the spaceholder. This is perhaps the most challenging part for me of holding a space like this: holding the space and not being an authority figure, not being the "expert." Truly, I am neither of these things, and yet I hold a clear space with precise distinctions as the basis for experimenting. It is not Anarchy. The space is like a laboratory with only three rules: do not hurt yourself, do not hurt anyone else (meaning, no blood, not "hurt feelings"), and, do not get arrested. It is a space to practice using your real voice, interrupting, and asking questions of yourself and others about what you have the necessity for. Politeness does not have a place here. Nor does rudeness, or other labels, for that matter. Playing full out to bring yourself and others to their next doorway for the possibility of a new way are our continual tasks.

We have maps for our experiments. Not rules, not formulas, not a textbook, but maps that one can build into their Being as they experience the maps through experiments. These maps and experiments that I encountered in Possiblity Management (www.possibilitymanagement.org, rageclub.mystrikingly.com) and continue to experiment with bring Clarity to my life. In Expand the Box trainings and Possibility Labs, I understood and experienced that we interact with the world based upon our maps of the world, and I've lived with that distinction since. New maps give me new possibilities.

Here are the maps we drew in Rage Space.

First, the New and Old Map of Anger. It makes sense why one would not want to feel anger on the old map of anger. If we live with the New Map of Anger, how could we live without it? Our Destiny and real life are not possible without it.

We drew the map of the Numbness Bar, and listed all of the ways that we numb ourselves to feeling. Our feelings exist only from 0 to 100% intensity, and when we feel the high levels of our feelings, we have the direct experience that we are bigger than our feelings and that they are not out of control. When our Numbness Bar is up, we may experience explosions of emotion and/or the repression of feelings and emotions.

The distinction between feelings and emotions (and simultaneously developing inner navigation skills) provides me the Clarity to navigate my relationships without needing to numb myself to the pain (sadness, anger, fear, and joy and mixed emotions) that inevitably arises. It is also the foundation of my path for healing and creating more possibility for myself and others.

A Space for Rage is a new kind of fun. I feel scared and glad when I am in the space, and angry that there aren't more spaces like it. My anger fuels me to create space. In this new kind of fun, we dare each other to discover our next steps, to serve ourselves, each other, and all of life.

An important distinction about A Space for Rage is that we do not theorize or discuss much. A Space for Rage is a team environment for each of us to experience, discover, and experiment with our Rage and Clarity, so that we can take our stand for what we came to Earth to take a stand for. No one will ever again be you, and, so, you alone have the opportunity to do it.

So, do it.

Here are places to start:

A Space for Rage: Introduction to Your Conscious Anger (In Person)

Saturday May 20th 3-5:30 PM in Asheville, NC (Woodfin), exact indoor location sent after registration.

-For questions, email site@matthewcolombo.com.

-Sending $25 - $45, you choose the amount, to Paypal (matthew@matthewcolombo.com, select "For friends and family.") or Venmo (@MatthewColombo, do not select "Turn on for purchases") confirms your registration.

Limited to 9 participants.

A Space for Rage: Introduction to Your Conscious Anger (Online via Video Call)

Sunday May 21st 3-5:30 PM Eastern Time.

-For questions, email site@matthewcolombo.com.

- Sending $25 - $45, you choose the amount, to Paypal (matthew@matthewcolombo.com, select "For friends and family.") or Venmo (@MatthewColombo, do not select "Turn on for purchases") confirms your registration.

Limited to 9 participants.

A 4 week series for diving deeper, with a Team, will follow these spaces.

More information about A Space for Rage is here.

Also, others holding this type of space can be found at rageclub.mystrikingly.com (mostly online possibilities for those of you in the US).

As always, reach out to me with any questions, feedback, thoughtful and feelful comments.

Ragefully Yours, in Clarity, Authenticity, Possiblity, and Connection,

Matthew