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Vulnerability, Courage, Shame, and Empathy | How Values Light the Way
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Lesson Objectives
- Identify 1-2 potential barriers to engagement in the course and begin to develop strategies to deal with those barriers with a permission slip exercise.
- Choose an arena in your professional or personal life where you want to demonstrate the courage it takes to show up, be seen, and live brave.
- Describe how values operate in our lives and the role they play in daring greatly.
- Identify the key values in your life and identify the behaviors that support them so you can learn to recognize when you are in value alignment and when you are not.
Reading Assignment
Daring Greatly - Introduction and Chapter 1
Exercise: Permission Slips
Sometimes the first step is giving ourselves permission. Think about what you need in order to get the most out of this class.
Maybe you need to give yourself the gift of time
Maybe you need to give yourself permission to be honest or look at issues with a new eye
Sometimes we just need to give ourselves permission to "not know" - to stay curious and open
01. What do you need to give yourself permission to do, feel, or not do?
Exercise: Identify Your Arena
Think about an arena in your life where you want to show up and be seen. Having something specific to think about as you work through future lessons will help you get the knowledge in your bones.
Your arena doesn’t have to be a big event or moment. It can be any place in your life where you would like to be more authentic.
Sometimes our toughest arenas are the small moments or the goals we've forgotten or the relationships we're neglecting.
It is important to be as specific as possible –
- I want to have a more honest relationship with my sibling.
- I want a closer, more intimate relationship with my partner.
- I want to have the courage to run for my son’s school PTO.
- I want to start making and selling my own jewelry.
- I want to ask for a promotion.
- I want to take a new class at the local community college.
01. Where would you like to show up, be seen, and live brave?
Exercise: Values Clarification
Under the "Handouts" you will find a "List of Values." Use this document to identify the values that you consider most important and essential to who you are.
Be creative! Don’t feel limited by the sample list provided. Think of new words for any value that’s important to you but not on the list.
Reflect on those words and the following questions:
01. What are the 1-2 values that really light the way for you?
02. Who/what are the people and behaviors that support my values?
03. I'm out of alignment of my values when...
04. Identify a time when you embodied your most important values?
Exercise: Into the Bones
The Physics of Vulnerability Guiding Principles
- If I am brave enough, often enough, I will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability.
- Once I fall in the service of being brave, I can never go back.
- This journey belongs to no one but me; however, no one successfully goes it alone.
- I’m wired for story.
- Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. I move what I’m learning from my head to my heart through my hands.
- Rising strong is the same process whether I’m navigating personal or professional struggles.
- Comparative suffering is a function of fear and scarcity.
- I can’t engineer an emotional, vulnerable, and courageous process into an easy, one-size-fits-all formula.
- Courage is contagious.
- Rising strong is a spiritual practice.
Brené Brown, PhD, MSW
Dr. BreneĢ Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.
Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers and is the host of two award-winning podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead.
Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her titles include Atlas of the Heart, Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience.
Brené’s TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 60 million views. Brené is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix, and in March 2022, she launched a new show on HBO Max that focuses on her latest book, Atlas of the Heart. Brené spends most of her time working in organizations around the world, helping develop braver leaders and more courageous cultures. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie, and a weird Bichon named Lucy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Brené Brown is the CEO for The Daring Way and Founder and CEO of COURAGEworks and Brave Leaders Inc. She is a research professor at University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She is an author of numerous books and receives royalties from various publishers. Dr. Brown receives compensation as a speaker for numerous other organizations. Brené Brown receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Brené Brown has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.
