Beyond Resilience : How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Brian Pennie will be visiting Four Swans Therapy on Thursday 29th January 2026 as part of our Winter Workshops series on mental health.

Brian Pennie is a former heroin addict turned doctor who is on a mission to show people that change is possible.

Since embracing his second chance at life in 2013, he has become a doctor of neuroscience and psychology, a consultant to some of the world's largest organisations, a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, an author, a TV presenter, and the founder of his company, Change is Possible.

Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth

We are not born resilient, nor does it come naturally. Resilience develops through our lived experiences, forged over time by learning how to overcome adversity. But resilience has its limits, even for the grittiest and most dogged of us, and if you take hit after hit, you'll eventually fall. That's why we need to move beyond resilience - learning how to use life's challenges to our advantage and, ultimately, using adversity as our fuel for growth. By combining his lived experience of turning anxiety into a superpower, Brian will deliver a series of evidence-based tools to help you transform life's inevitable challenges into a way to learn and grow.

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Tickets on sale now: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1970212083378?aff=oddtdtcreator

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