Full Course Description
Vulnerability, Courage, Shame, and Empathy:
The Living Brave Course
New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned researcher Dr. Brené Brown has spent the past 15 years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. Now, for the first time, the full foundation of her work is available in a unique online course, where you'll explore what it means to fully show up in our lives — to be brave, lean into vulnerability, and to rumble with the challenges that come with living a daring life.
Vulnerability, Courage, Shame, and Empathy: The Living Brave Course is a two-part online CE course where Brené Brown will guide you step-by-step through her highly praised Daring Greatly and Rising Strong programs, which are filled with expert insight, powerful techniques and proven strategies that will your clients fully show up in life - to be brave, lean into vulnerability, and to rumble with the challenges that come with living a daring life!
Outline
Daring Greatly / Daring Leadership
Daring Greatly Introduction / Values Light the Way
Courage over Comfort
Empathy and Self-Compassion
The Arena
The Armory
Daring Greatly
Rising Strong / Leaders Rising
Rising Strong Introduction
The Reckoning
Strategies for Reckoning with Emotion
The Rumble
The Revolution
Living BIG
Objectives
Daring Greatly Lesson 1 – Daring Greatly Introduction / Values Light the Way
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Describe how values operate in our lives and the role they play in daring greatly.
4. 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.
Daring Greatly Lesson 2 – The Myths of Vulnerability
1. Examine how your early experiences of vulnerability shaped your understanding of what it means to experience uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
2. Describe the relationships between vulnerability, courage, and full engagement and how those affect the way we live, love, and lead.
3. Identify the potential barriers you may face when practicing vulnerability and how the practices of laughter, song, and dance help build connection.
Daring Greatly Lesson 3 – Empathy and Self-Compassion
1. Practice empathy skills through understanding the five attributes of empathy.
2. Identify the differences between empathy and sympathy and learn how to connect with empathy or “feeling with” vs. “feeling for.”
3. Assess your own level of self-compassion through Kristin Neff’s Self-Compassion Scale.
4. Develop skills to help you connect meaningfully with people who have different perspectives from you.
Daring Greatly Lesson 4 – The Arena
1. Define shame and examine why we must develop the language to talk about shame in order to develop resilience and increase empathy.
2. Recognize how shame, scarcity, and comparison show up in our lives and how they affect engagement, trust, and connection.
3. Examine how social-community expectations relate to shame, vulnerability, and courage.
4. Differentiate between the four self-conscious emotions: shame, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment.
Daring Greatly Lesson 5 – The Armory
1. Identify the armor we use to protect ourselves against feelings of shame and how the uncertainty associated with vulnerability affects our ability to practice authenticity and experience connection.
2. Explore how and why perfectionism, numbing, and foreboding joy are three of the most commonly used armoring practices and how to move through them toward increased authenticity.
3. Describe how to recognize shame including our physiological responses.
Daring Greatly Lesson 6 – Daring Greatly
1. Make sense of why the gap between our aspirational values and the values we actually practice is where we often struggle to maintain our integrity and where disengagement most often happens.
2. Explore the actual gaps between our aspirational values and practiced values and develop strategies for staying aligned with our values through daily practices.
3. Develop our own manifesto to set intentions around our values and the daily practices that support those values.
Rising Strong Lesson 1 - Rising Strong
1. 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.
2. Explore the ten primary vulnerabilities associated with falling and the related rising strategies.
3. Examine why we are neurobiologically wired for story and how understanding the basic structure of a story aids us in our own rising process.
4. Choose a story of struggle to explore in this course and use as a learning tool.
Rising Strong Lesson 2 – The Reckoning
1. Describe the Rising Strong process and the critical role that curiosity and recognition of emotion play in rising.
2. Practice identifying emotion, recognizing when you are emotionally hooked, and getting curious about emotion.
3. Identify the six primary offloading strategies and when/where you are the most likely to use them.
Rising Strong 3 – Strategies for Reckoning with Emotion
1. Practice and develop skills to recognize, engage with, and get curious about emotion.
2. Integrate the skills you have learned so far in order to begin writing your own Rising Strong story.
Rising Strong Lesson 4 – The Rumble
1. Describe the importance of meaning-making in humans and how, left unchecked, our reliance on story can shape our thinking, emotion, and behavior.
2. Discover how to rumble with a story by challenging the conspiracies and confabulations that are often a part of the narratives we make up when we are in struggle.
3. Deepen your emotional vocabulary and self-awareness by further exploring your SFD and using the Story Rumble Glossary.
Rising Strong Lesson 5 – The Revolution
1. Write a new ending to your story through identification of key learnings that emerge by comparing your SFD with insights from your rumble.
2. Develop skills to extract key learnings from your rumble .
3. Develop tools to empower you in creating your own brave new ending to your story.
4. Determine how you will integrate key learnings from this course into your personal or professional life.
Rising Strong Lesson 6 – Living BIG
1. Develop a deeper sense of compassion for yourself and others.
2. Develop tools for boundary setting in order to work from a place of integrity and generosity towards the assumptions and intentions of others.
Copyright: 10/1/2015