Vulnerability is Power!

WISDOM WATCH PARTY

A Powerful Talk by Brene Brown

Session Length: 20 Minutes (video length) + 15-30 Minutes (discussion and tasks)

Session Benefits: Engage with Brene Brown’s transformative insights on vulnerability during this Wisdom Watch Party. This session reveals how embracing vulnerability can unlock courage, foster genuine connections, and spark innovation. By understanding and practicing vulnerability, you'll enhance your emotional resilience, enjoy deeper relationships, and live a more authentic life. Participate in this powerful session to challenge your perceptions, strengthen your capacity for joy, and commit to showing up bravely in every aspect of your life.

Introduction:

Many people don’t want to discuss shame or vulnerability. In fact, today, people are lonelier, more obese, and more addicted than ever before because they opt to distract or numb themselves rather than address their insecurities or shame.

"We can measure how brave you are by how vulnerable you're willing to be."

The above quote by Brene Brown is the exact reason why we want you to watch her powerful Ted talk as part of today's Wisdom Watch Party.

If you have watched it before, watch it again. It's important to be reminded of this concept. As you move through your Wisdom Gym timetable you will constantly be asked to get vulnerable, to surrender, to feel all the difficult feelings. You are brave for doing this work. You are courageous for facing your pain. You are incredible for owning your truth.

To get the most out of this session watch the video, read the below takeaways and then complete the tasks set by your PT Claire Anstey.

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Takeaways & Tasks:

Be brave and vulnerable

Many people don't want to discuss shame or vulnerability. In fact, today, people are lonelier, more obese, and more addicted than ever before because they opt to distract or numb themselves rather than address their insecurities or shame.

At The Wisdom Gym, we teach you how to reconnect with your feelings and express your vulnerability.

Listed below are the important lessons we learn about vulnerability from Brene Brown and a task to encourage you to embrace your shame and vulnerability by sharing some truths with our community.

1. Vulnerability is not a sign of weakness

Despite what some may think, Brown said, "Vulnerability is our most accurate way to measure courage, and we literally do that as researchers."

"Vulnerability allows them to assess fearlessness," said Brown.

2. Brown teaches us that there are many benefits to opening-up

Brown asserts vulnerability is the "birthplace" of things like love and joy.

Highlighting the risks of love, Brown polled the audience: "Are you 100% sure that person will always love you back, will never leave, will never get sick? How many of you have ever buried someone you love? How many of you have lost someone you love?

"To love is to be vulnerable, to give someone your heart and say, 'I know this could hurt so bad, but I'm willing to do it; I'm willing to be vulnerable and love you,'" she added.

Of joy, Brown said, "When we lose our capacity for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding. It becomes scary to let ourselves feel it."

3. Brown showed us how being vulnerable at work has advantages as well

Vulnerability was Brown's recommendation for a company with a "huge creativity and innovation problem" that wanted to hire her to speak.

"No vulnerability, no creativity. No tolerance for failure, no innovation. It is that simple," she advised. "If you're not willing to fail, you can't innovate. If you're not willing to build a vulnerable culture, you can't create."

4. Vulnerability is inescapable - This is a huge lesson we must always embrace.

Brown said even those who think they are avoiding being vulnerable are in fact experiencing the emotion.

"You do vulnerability knowingly or vulnerability does you," she said.

She explained the importance of openness.

"It is so much easier to cause pain than feel pain, and people are taking their pain and they're working it out on other people," she said, "and when you don't acknowledge your vulnerability, you work your (expletive) out on other people. Stop working your (expletive) out on other people."

5. Brown explains how the choice to embrace exposure is easier in the end

"Vulnerability is hard, and it's scary, and it feels dangerous, but it's not as hard, scary or dangerous as getting to the end of our lives and having to ask ourselves, 'What if I would've shown up?' 'What if I would've said, I love you?' "Brown told the crowd. "Show up, be seen, answer the call to courage... 'cause you're worth it. You're worth being brave."

TASK 1:

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TASK 2:

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