20 things I’ve learned from a decade of running Brené Brown workshops
There is clarity AFTER we take action.
When we are vulnerable and honest, it looks like courage to others. When we do it, it feels scary and sometimes like weakness.
With practice, i’s possible to experience shame, whilst running a workshop about shame, witnessed by a group, one of whom (accidentally) triggered the shame, and end up with a brilliant story to tell.
There is magic in groups with a consciously designed container that prioritises connection, respect, and stretch.
The music that energises, galvanises and lifts us, is deeply personal and individual (and may even be silent).
Life will always bring us what we need to learn. This is deeply uncomfortable, but necessary for our evolution.
We are individating, and deconditioning. Not everyone goes through this process, but those who do, will seek and find the right role models and teachers at the right time. Some deeply magical attraction is at work. I don’t understand it, but I do trust it.
When I would be willing to choose some dates and book a venue, incredible humans would come OUT OF NOWHERE and join me. I still don’t really get how we were brought together.
I can teach a thing, without deeply embodying the thing, but eventually this catches up, and the thing demands that I do it with deep sincerity.
Teaching and role modelling the skillsets of vulnerability, values, trust and learning to rise (resilience), empathy, self-compassion and shame resilience, is the work that has felt most like ‘mine’ to do, so far, and has felt the most wholehearted right through to my bones.
There is magic afoot, when we say yes to the work that lights us up, energises and satisfies.
I offer this post as a gratitude note to the daring way, daring greatly and rising strong workshops, and all the courage-building that being a facilitator of Brene Brown’s shame resilience work has brought me, and those who trusted enough to let me guide them through.