Since Brené Brown is one of my spiritual masters, I jumped at the chance to bring part of her Dare to Lead curriculum into my workplace. We had a four-hour workshop yesterday honing in on two of her courage building skills: rumbling with vulnerability and braving trust.
I’ve consumed Brené work obsessively but it was still awesome to go through this specific content in the context of the workplace. I could see (and was told about) the impact it held for my coworkers, many who have never engaged with this work.
The last part of the workshop was the hardest. After talking about how the relationships we trust we’re built — how that trust develops and how it shows up — we went through a worksheet that asked us to identify someone we wanted to build more trust with. We filled out multiple specific behaviors we could do and they could do to increase trust. It’s tough. And clarifying. It surfaced root blockers I didn’t realize I had about the relationship I chose. It surfaced things I wanted from the relationship but didn’t think mattered . . . but clearly mattered a lot to me.
It felt great to show up for this work. To take four hours out of a very busy time at work and to see many of my peers do the same. It’s so easy to opt-out. It’s so easy not to show up. Especially when the work is about vulnerability and shame and trust and hard fucking things.
Show up anyway.
With Love,
Natalie