how

How WE WORK

Workshops

Workshops are the core of The Anger Project. They prioritize privacy, safety, and choice, including the right to be anonymous, the right to be witnessed, and the right to opt out. During sessions we might scream, dance, draw, paint, write, play, smash things, share stories, sing together, or hold space for silence.

While this work continues to evolve, most sessions are not recorded, and many contributors remain unnamed. Their voices shape this process in profound, often unseen ways. We honor and thank each and every one of you. Your presence has helped create work and relationships that are more tender, expansive, and rooted in integrity.

The offerings below are shared with permission by participants who have chosen to make aspects of their experience public.

drawing of person walking with anger bubbles rising for the Haas Anger Project

Grief Workshop Freewrite Exercise

Facilitated by Maria Renée Johnson

Enough to take me away or down or to the edge of the ocean where I'd sit and scream if I could feel it or see the moon or hold a candle in my hand and wait wait wait to tell you all the things I tried when you closed your ears and mind and tried to eat me. To silence what was there. My face. And voice. And still. Enough. Be still. Don't cry. Don't talk. Don't tell. Pretend. Enough. Enough isn't enough. To push you off the edge of the earth. To bury my heart. To hide the things I saw and know. You. Told me to sit still. Stay quiet. Enjoy it. Forget. Enough. Of you and your sadness and the hole you dropped me in. Enough of the walls I've build inside me at your request. Enough. To say and eat and pray and feel and be. I am enough. I've had enough. Of you. Forever. I told you once that I saw it, both of us falling in your lies. And wondered what I would have without them.

-----------------------------------------------

WRITING BY HAAS (SERIES 2)

Performances

While most aspects of our time together remain private—shared rituals, ceremonies, and acts of closure—some experiences take shape as public invitations that open audiences to the layered, vulnerable, and deeply human nature of the work.

Films

Currently underway is a documentary-style film series, each short film highlighting one person’s anger story through movement and conversation. To date, two films are complete and one is in process.

Rage-Mobile (in development)

A new component of The Anger Project is a Rage-Mobile, intentionally designed with and for our community.

While commercial rage rooms offer important outlets for release and can be powerful experiences for many people, the feedback we’ve received from participants who have experienced them across the U.S. (including Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Texas) has ranged widely. Some describe them as freeing and deeply cathartic, while others have expressed a desire for clearer consent practices—particularly around public recording—along with more emotional support and space for reflection and processing. These varied responses have been important in shaping this next iteration of the work and in clarifying the need for a mobile offering grounded in care, consent, and community.