Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Abstract

Author Brené Brown is not only a best-selling popular author, but also a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. This review examines the perspectives and findings she presents in Daring Greatly, summarizes the research method that led her to these findings, and discusses the potential utility of this book in the college student context. http://journals.naspa.org/jcc

Finding Courage and Confirmation: Resisting Impostor Feelings through Relationships with Mentors, Romantic Partners, and Other Women in Leadership

“…The themes were generated inductively and were compared and collapsed until the surviving themes offered a problem to explore. As research professor Brené Brown (2012) pointed out, researchers should not come with a problem or a hypothesis or a literature review when employing grounded research. They should come with a topic and let the participants define the problem.…”

Assessing how Spirituality Affects Resiliency in the Pediatric Healthcare Practitioner

“…True belonging never asks us to change who we are, it demands that we be who we are. (Brown, 2013) The research revealed that PHCPs would like to have a sense of belonging individually, socially, and institutionally.…”

Diversity, Equity, and Belonging in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)

“…Most institutions in the United States do not contain the infrastructure to support leaning into vulnerability (Brown, 2012;Brown, 2018). Employee reviews that rely heavily on productivity measures, for example, structurally create and uphold a workplace culture that privileges perfectionism, hyper productivity, and inertia over risk, failure, and growth; and comparison, blame, and competition over connection, empathy, and collaboration (Brown, 2018;Lobell, 2021;Okun, 1999).…”

“…The Equity 101 curriculum includes a strong container to make room for brave [r] conversations within a healing, supportive environment (Brown, 2012;Brown, 2018).…”

“…Most people and systems within the United States rest on norms of the dominant culture that limit the kinds of emotions (as well as the identities of people who are permitted to express them) that are welcomed in the workplace (Brown, 2018;Motro et al, 2022;Okun, 1999). Giving people the space to feel these feelings, and to share them, is both important in the context of these conversations, and it can also lead people and teams to recognize that there may be another way to show up at work (Brown, 2012;Brown, 2018;Okun, 1999). The results indicate that the Equity 101 curriculum is clear and accessible for people on a variety of places in their DEB journey (though there were some questions about how to best support true beginners and people who are very far along).…”