Transform the way you live, love, parent, and lead with The Daring Way™ - a highly experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown.

The work focuses on courage building, shame resilience, and uncovering the power of vulnerability.

The method was designed for work with individuals, couples, families, work teams, and organizational leaders.

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• It can be facilitated in clinical, educational, and professional settings.

• During the process we explore topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness.

• We examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding us back and we identify the new choices and practices that will move us toward more authentic and wholehearted living.

• The primary focus is on developing shame resilience skills and daily practices that transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead.

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ABOUT BRENÉ BROWN

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The Daring Way™ method is based on the research of Brené Brown, Ph.D. LMSW. Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past twelve years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Her groundbreaking research has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday.

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Brené is the author of two #1 New York Times bestsellers; Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (2012), and The Gifts of Imperfection (2010). She is also the author of I Thought It Was Just Me (2007).

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Brené’s 2010 TEDx Houston talk “The Power of Vulnerability” is one of the top ten most viewed TED talks in the world, with over 14 million viewers. Additionally, Brené gave the closing talk at the 2012 TED conference, where she talked about shame, courage, and innovation.

Session Outline:

1. Courage and Permission

2. How Values Light the Way

3. Trust and the Marble Jar

4. The Myths of Vulnerability

5. Empathy and Self-Compassion

6. The Arena

7. Shame and the Arena Door

8. Understanding Shame

9. The Armory

10. Shame Shields

11. Identities and Triggers

12. Cultivating Shame Resilience

Session Outline:

1. Courage, Compassion, and Connection: Tools for the Wholehearted Journey

2. Guidepost #1: Cultivating Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think

3. Guidepost #2: Cultivating Self-Compassion: Letting Go of Perfectionism

4. Guidepost #3 – Cultivating a Resilient Spirit: Letting Go of Numbing and Powerlessness

5. Guidepost #4 – Cultivating Gratitude and Joy: Letting Go of Scarcity and Fear of the Dark

6. Guidepost #5: Cultivating Intuition and Trusting Faith: Letting Go of the Need for Certainty

7. Guidepost #6 – Cultivating Creativity: Letting Go of Comparison

8. Guidepost #7 – Cultivating Play and Rest: Letting Go of Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Productivity as Self Worth

9. Guidepost #8 – Cultivating Calm and Stillness: Letting Go of Anxiety as a Lifestyle

10. Guidepost #9 – Cultivating Meaningful Work: Letting Go of Self-Doubt and “Supposed To”

11. Guidepost #10 – Cultivating Laughter, Song, and Dance: Letting Go of Being Cool and “Always in Control”

12. The Wholehearted Revolution

Session Outline:

1. Introduction

2. Clarity of Values

3. Act I – The Reckoning

4. Offloading Hurt

5. Strategies for Reckoning with Emotion

6. Act II – The Rumble

7. Common Rumbling Themes

8. Rumbling with Vulnerability

9. Rumbling with Shame

10. Rumbling with Living BIG

11. Rumbling with Trust and BRAVING

12. Rumbling with Grief and Forgiveness

13. Rumbling with Anxiety

14. Rumbling with Criticism

15. The Delta

16. Act III – The Revolution

17. Integrating and Creativity