Over the past twenty years, Dr Gary Brooks has taught, lectured, participated in symposia, and provided continuing education workshops on a wide variety of topics related to gender issues/men and masculinity.  His presentations have taken varied formats, from one-hour addressers and keynotes, to more lengthy presentations of 4-hour to 2 day workshops.  These presentations have ranged from those geared toward a general audience, a broad mental health audience, psychologists, and to psychotherapists.  Listed below are many of the past presentations.

General Topics

Men, masculinity and relationships

Creative paths for reaching troubled males: Reaching men in denial

Communicating with Men: Implications of men’s emotional complexity

Raising boys: New challenges and opportunities

Boys and sports: The good news and the bad News

Pornography: Hidden toxicity in men’s lives and relationships

Why good men die young

Road Rage: Do we really care?

Homophobia: How men’s friendships improve their relational lives

Fatherhood: Pathway to new Masculinity

Men and Aging: Generativity versus stagnation

A Men's Gathering: An experiential workshop for men

From Snow White to Lion King: Deconstructing Disney

Falls from grace: When traditional sexual scripts destroy men's lives

Beyond polarities: Shaping realistic and compassionate masculinities

Gender equity in families: A promise worth keeping

Bridging the gap from Mars to Venus: Couples' impasses

Becoming a father: An experiential workshop for rookies and veterans

Confronting visual politics to enhance intimacy between women and men

From backlash to partnership: Confronting men's fears of empowered women

The Centerfold Syndrome: Unrecognized debasement of men's sexuality

Bridging separate gender worlds: Why men and women clash and how to bring them together

Gender-sensitive parenting:  New challenges for evolving families

Envisioning families as agents of gender equity

The Men's Movement:  Widening the horizons

The Men's Movement: What's it all about?

Men and divorce:   issues and strategies

Fathers and children

Professional Topics

Beyond the crisis of masculinity: A transtheoretical model for male-friendly therapy

Ethical Issues in Treating Male Clients

The phenomenology of male veterans.

Men, masculinity and relationships: Critical issues for psychotherapists.

Men, masculinity, and relationships: Critical issues for treatment of male violence. 

Revising the rules of engagement: Therapeutic connection with difficult men

Interpersonal violence and relational coercion in the life cycle of heterosexual men

Multicultural Competence with male clients

Self-disclosure: Benefit or pitfall in therapy with men

From outreach to psychotherapy: Creative paths for reaching troubled males

Therapeutic implications of men’s emotional complexity

Recent advances in the study of men and depression

Warrior masculinity: Implications for treating male military veterans

Normative male sexual socialization: Prostitution, trafficking, sexual compulsivity, and trauma

Conceptualizing normative male sexuality: Moving beyond stereotypes

Substance abuse, men, and masculinity: Integrating theory, research, and treatment.

Sex, power, intimacy, and housework: Sex therapy and the second shift

A heterosexual perspective on homophobic paralysis

Developing gender awareness: When therapist growth promotes family growth

Critical challenges in training therapists to work with traditional men

Male sexual integrity: New hope for inter-gender harmony

Gender-sensitive supervision

Men's pain and distress: Walking the political and psychological tightrope

A Men's Gathering: An experiential workshop for men

Falls from Grace: When traditional sexual scripts destroy men's lives

Men's issues in the VA: National follow-up study

Improving psychotherapy with men:  Reconciling mythopoetic and anti-sexist Men's Movements

Aberrant men: Is there hope?

Gender neutrality - The unaddressed myth of psychotherapy practice

Group therapy for resistant traditional men

Men treating men--A case study approach

Gender and divorce:  Clinical issues and therapist strategies

Marital and family therapy for military veterans