What You ll Learn. Learning Objectives

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1 What You ll Learn Module 1 - DARING GREATLY The critical role vulnerability plays in our lives and how our willingness to show up determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose How the four major myths of vulnerability undermine our bravery How fear, blame, and scarcity drive "I am not enough" and how our self-worth is tied to our willingness to show up in our lives How shame works and the four elements of shame resilience How to identify the values we hold most sacred and how to practice those values in the face of struggle The critical role that self-compassion and empathy play in daring greatly Actionable strategies for embracing vulnerability that can help transform the way we live, love, parent and lead Module 2 - RISING STRONG The physics of vulnerability ten guidelines for rising after a fall The power of story in our lives and how stories drive our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors How to reckon with emotion The major emotional offloading strategies and how they move us away from our values How and why emotional curiosity is the key to rising strong How to recognize and capture the stories we make up when faced with struggle What it means to rumble with emotions like shame, guilt, anxiety, blame, accountability, resentment, grief, forgiveness, and perfectionism. How to write our own daring endings to our tough stories Learning Objectives COURAGEworks is an online learning community developed to bring Brené Brown's research on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness to a global audience. Offerings include ecourses, workshops, and interviews developed for anyone who is ready for braver living, loving, and leading. 1 P age

2 Daring Greatly / Daring Leadership Lesson 1 Daring Greatly Introduction / Values Light the Way Understand how the metaphor of the arena will be used to explore the topics of vulnerability and courage. Choose an area for exploration during the class. Identify the area where they need to practice self-compassion and selfcare by completing permission slips. Identify the personal values that are the most important in their lives. Begin to understand how values clarification is essential to the development of resiliency. Identify specific behaviors that align with their values. Identify specific people who support their efforts to practice their aspirational values. Lesson 2 Courage over Comfort Dispel the four myths of vulnerability as discussed in Brené Brown s theory on vulnerability and courage. These myths are: 1. Vulnerability is weakness. 2. We can opt out of vulnerability. 3. Vulnerability is oversharing. 4. We can practice vulnerability in isolation. Identify the two major vulnerability paradoxes that prevent us from practicing vulnerability. Define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Differentiate over-disclosing from mutual vulnerability. Begin to understand the importance of connection in the human experience (from neurobiological hardwiring to spiritual needs). Lesson 3 Empathy and Self-Compassion Identify and explore the five attributes of empathy based on Theresa Wiseman s research and Kristin Neff s research. Differentiate empathy from sympathy. Differentiate the roles that experience and emotion play in practicing empathy. Understand why the commitment to practicing empathy includes making mistakes and making multiple attempts at connection. Evaluate an assessment of self-compassion as measured by Kristin Neff s Self-Compassion Scale. 2 P age

3 Daring Greatly / Daring Leadership (cont.) Lesson 4 The Arena Understand and begin to utilize the metaphor of the arena to examine the challenges associated with feeling vulnerable or with engaging in behaviors that lead to uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Utilize a shared language in the class to talk about the various components of the arena. Begin to understand the relationships among vulnerability, scarcity, shame, and comparison. Begin to understand the relationship between vulnerability and messages, expectations, and stereotypes involving race, class, orientation, and otherness. Understand the relationship between shame and vulnerability, and why we are the most susceptible to shame when we are practicing vulnerability and courage. Begin to define shame. Recognize shame as a universal human affect. Begin to differentiate shame, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment. Understand the relationships between shame and addiction, depression, violence, aggression, and behavioral health outcomes. Understand that resilience is understanding shame, walking through it with courage, compassion, and connection, and cultivating authenticity. Lesson 5 The Armory Differentiate perfectionism from healthy striving. Begin to identify the defensive strategies they use to protect themselves against feelings of shame and vulnerability. Understand the relationship between shame and perfectionism. Differentiate numbing from comforting. Identify their physiological responses to shame. Comprehend the concept of foreboding joy, and the relationship between joy and vulnerability. Understand the concept of shame shields and recognize that it is based on the concept of strategies of disconnection as posited by the researchers at The Stone Center at Wellesley. Identify the specific shame shields they use and the context in which they use them. Lesson 6 Daring Greatly Explore the gaps between their aspirational values and their practiced values. Identify what specific behaviors are out of alignment with their aspirational values. 3 P age

4 Rising Strong / Leaders Rising Lesson 1 Rising Strong Introduction Begin to understand the physics of vulnerability and the ten rules of engagement for rising strong. Understand that all stories have three main acts and that humans are wired for story. Identify a fall you will use to explore the lessons throughout the course Lesson 2 The Reckoning Increase familiarity with the Rising Strong process and goals: rise from our falls, overcome our mistakes, and face hurt in a way that brings more wisdom and wholeheartedness to our lives. Understand that the Rising Strong reckoning includes two parts: 1. Recognizing when we are hooked by emotion 2. Getting curious about those emotions. Raise participants awareness about: 1. The feelings associated with emotions 2. Their response to emotion 3. How emotion, thought, and behavior are interconnected. Identify emotions and experiences using the Story Rumble Glossary. Increase curiosity about emotion, and identify the messages and values that participants heard growing up. Recognize curiosity as an act of courage and vulnerability. Identify the various ways that people offload hurt and put up barriers to reckoning with emotion: chandeliering, bouncing hurt, numbing, stockpiling, high-centering and The Umbridge. Understand the difference between offloading emotion and integration. Lesson 3 Strategies for Reckoning with Emotion Practice and build skills to engage with and experience emotion. o Mindfulness / Paying Attention o Breathing o Tactical or Box Breathing Lesson 4 The Rumble Comprehend that as humans, we have meaning-making in our biology and are compelled to make up stories even if they are based on incomplete information. Challenge conspiracies and confabulations. Personalize the experience of storytelling by writing a shitty/stormy/sucky first draft of a difficult experience. Deepen participants emotional vocabulary and their self-awareness by further exploring their SFDs and using the Story Rumble Glossary. 4 P age

5 Rising Strong / Leaders Rising (cont.) Lesson 5 The Revolution Empower participants to write a new ending to their stories through identification of key learnings that emerge by comparing their SFDs with insights from their rumble. Understand that the difference between what we make up about our experiences and the truth we discover through the process of rumbling is the delta. Draw upon the key learnings from The Delta to resolve how they will bravely: o Apply their insights in their own lives o Take some daring steps in their families, communities, and workplaces. Lesson 6 Living BIG Support participants grasp that people are doing the very best they can; grow participants compassion for self and others. Understand how to put boundaries in place in order to work from a place of integrity and extend the most generous interpretations of the intentions, words, and actions of others. Identify that others are doing the best that they can. ABOUT BRENÉ BROWN, PH.D., LMSW Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past fifteen years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of three #1 New York Times bestsellers The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong. Her TED talk The Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 25 million views. Brené is the Founder and CEO of both COURAGEworks an online learning platform that offers classes for individuals and families on braver living and loving, and BRAVE LEADERS INC a platform that brings her latest research on leadership development and culture change to teams, leaders, entrepreneurs, change makers, and culture shifters. Brené lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Steve, and their children Ellen and Charlie. 5 P age

6 TARGET AUDIENCE Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, and other Mental Health Professionals 6 P age