Brené Brown | Daring Classrooms | SXSWedu 2017

SXSW EDU・2 minutes read

The speaker explores the concept of courage and vulnerability, emphasizing their importance in fostering resilience and overcoming setbacks, highlighting the link between vulnerability and love, trust, and creativity. They stress the need to create spaces for vulnerability in schools to combat shame, encouraging empathy and real conversations about courage and vulnerability to create a braver world.

Insights

  • Courage is broken down into four skill sets: vulnerability, clarity of values, trust, and rising skills to overcome setbacks, with resilience being crucial in getting back up after falling.
  • Vulnerability is a key component of courage, linked to love, belonging, joy, empathy, trust, innovation, and creativity, emphasizing its necessity in fostering accountability, adaptability, hard conversations, feedback, problem-solving, and ethical decision-making.

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Recent questions

  • What are the key components of courage?

    Vulnerability, values, trust, rising skills.

  • How is vulnerability linked to other qualities?

    Love, belonging, joy, empathy, trust, innovation, creativity.

  • Why is vulnerability important in fostering accountability?

    Accountability, adaptability, hard conversations, feedback.

  • How can educators create a culture of courage in schools?

    Fostering vulnerability, empathy, understanding, real conversations.

  • What are the negative outcomes associated with shame?

    Addiction, depression, negative self-perception.

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Summary

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"Courage, Vulnerability, and Ethical Decision-Making"

  • The speaker recounts a conversation with a friend about attending South by Southwest to hang out with teachers, not rock stars.
  • On the way to the event, the speaker got pulled over for speeding without a driver's license or proof of insurance, mentioning they were going to talk about failure at the conference.
  • The speaker discusses the concept of courage and whether it can be taught or is inherent, drawing from 200,000 pieces of data collected over 15 years.
  • Courage is broken down into four skill sets: vulnerability, clarity of values, trust, and rising skills to overcome setbacks.
  • The most courageous individuals acknowledge the importance of resilience in getting back up after falling.
  • Vulnerability is highlighted as a key component of courage, with the speaker challenging the audience to think of a courageous act that didn't involve vulnerability.
  • The speaker delves into the fear of joy and foreboding joy, sharing personal experiences and emphasizing the importance of gratitude in embracing joy.
  • Vulnerability is linked to love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, trust, innovation, and creativity, with the absence of vulnerability hindering these qualities.
  • The speaker stresses the necessity of vulnerability in fostering accountability, adaptability, hard conversations, feedback, problem-solving, and ethical decision-making.
  • A story is shared about discussing vulnerability with high compliance-driven bankers facing ethical decision-making challenges, highlighting the vulnerability required in making ethical choices against the group's direction.

13:41

Fostering Vulnerability: Key to Resilience in Education

  • Vulnerability is the greatest casualty of trauma, with racism, poverty, classism, homophobia, and heterosexism being forms of trauma.
  • Creating a space for vulnerability is crucial in schools and homes to foster a culture of courage.
  • Shame is a significant threat to vulnerability and must be avoided in classrooms.
  • 85% of individuals recall a shaming incident at school that impacted their self-perception as learners.
  • Over 90% remember a teacher, coach, or administrator who boosted their self-worth.
  • Understanding the difference between shame and guilt is vital, as shame is highly correlated with negative outcomes like addiction and depression.
  • Guilt is inversely correlated with negative outcomes and is a protective factor.
  • Humiliation differs from shame as it involves feeling undeserving of mistreatment.
  • Embarrassment is fleeting and often shared, unlike shame which thrives on isolation.
  • Defending against shame involves moving away, moving toward, or moving against, with moving against being the most destructive shield.

28:32

Empathy: Shield Against Shame in Education

  • Daughter wore a hoodie in middle school in Houston despite the heat, calling it her invisibility cloak from Harry Potter, explaining it shields her from being seen when she puts her hands in it.
  • Encourages sharing this concept with students to address shame, emphasizing the antidote to shame is empathy, highlighting the three elements that fuel shame: secrecy, silence, and judgment.
  • Discusses the importance of perspective taking and critical awareness in combating shame, pointing out that empathy is crucial in creating an environment hostile to shame.
  • Urges teachers to engage in real conversations about shame, vulnerability, and courage in classrooms, emphasizing the role of educators in making the world a braver place by addressing hate with empathy and understanding.
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