Ian Brennan

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Ian Brennan Quick Facts

Main Areas:Anger Management, Violence Prevention, Conflict Resolution

Ian Brennan has successfully trained tens of thousands of people across the country in violence prevention, anger-management, and conflict resolution since 1993 at shelters, schools, hospitals, clinics, and drug-treatment programs nationwide including such prestigious organizations as the Betty Ford Center, Bellevue Hospital (NYC), and Stanford University. His presentations are consistently reviewed as "the best" of their kind and, when studied, frequently demonstrate significant reductions in aggressive incidents, complaints, and injuries (e.g., one 1996 study revealed a more than 50% reduction in such episodes and was written up on the front page of the local daily-paper).

These trainings are based on his over 15 years experience working as a mental health specialist in locked, acute-psychiatric settings, the job rated as “the most dangerous” in the state of California. From 1991 to 2001, he conducted psychiatric triage-interviews in the county emergency-room for Oakland, CA (one of the busiest in the country).

Additionally, he works throughout the United States providing one-on-one, anger-management sessions for individuals facing criminal charges for violent conduct, and, relatedly, regularly provides expert testimony in such cases.

Other Programs & Highlights

Program founder, Ian Brennan, draws on his over 20 years of experience working in locked, psychiatric-settings as well as his experiences conducting one-on-one Anger Management counseling with some of societies top celebrities and executives during their recovery process after having “lost it”. Quite literally, based on the tens of thousands of hours he has spent presenting across the country for police, universities, and hospitals since 1993, he is quite possibly “the most lecturing lecturer anywhere”, on just about any topic.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Ian Brennan

“To win 100 victories is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”

Sun Tsu

THE ART of WAR, 400-320 BC

For years I worked with a staff member on a locked psychiatric-ward in Oakland, CA who regaled all newcomers by listing his extensive

on-the-job injuries. The intention was to prove to them his superior level of achievement in the field, but unwittingly all he managed to expose through these “war stories” were his shortcomings.

Making peace is not as dramatic as war. It is much harder to brag about what didn’t happen, than what did.

We should embrace that most, but not all, situations are preventable and predictable, and not confuse what is difficult with that which is impossible.

Here’s hoping for a quiet life, led courageously.