By Sarah Barker
What’s Happening
• What some might call a cheaper alternative to the therapist’s couch, the Break Room at Sarah’s Smash Shack in San Diego lets frustrated folk vent by hurling glassware and dishes, for as little as $12.
• Marketed as a cathartic good time, the Smash Shack provides breakables, a safe and sound-proof room, and protective gear. Smashers are encouraged to bring their mp3 player to heighten the experience (may we suggest Smashing Pumpkins?).
• Sarah’s Smash Shack offers discounts to police, fire, military, students, and seniors. Shards are donated for art projects, or for $10, they’ll box up your spent bits as a memento.
What This Means to Business
• Destructive therapy: The naughtiness, the surrender to feelings of frustration, the permission to lose control—it’s way wild.
• The physical and sensory experience of exploding dishes, crashing glassware, and pitching stuff is a fun break from talking about our problems.
Young adolescents twelve to sixteen years, more susceptible to things their own way because they feel that their emotions are monitored and freedom, the results of unmanageable anger.
Posted by: www.mckinney-consulting.com | March 10, 2010 at 02:37 AM
This may be fun but hardly a breakthrough in anger management intervention. Venting only increases the feeling or anger.
Posted by: George Anderson | October 09, 2009 at 10:45 AM
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Posted by: pakistan | June 08, 2009 at 08:27 AM
Discounts for seniors. That *IS* nice.
Posted by: Josh | January 18, 2009 at 09:17 PM
Can I bring in my colleague's notebook computer and smash it?
Posted by: Whatsername | January 16, 2009 at 02:50 PM
definitely some stress relief!
Posted by: elizabeth | January 14, 2009 at 06:13 PM