The Vulnerability Equation
Vulnerability is an uncomfortable emotion that is a powerful driver of bonds, connections, and belonging. Without being silly, shed your defenses and embrace yourself and your colleagues in a an exercise guaranteed to drive relationships to last for decades.
How to run it
- This exercise helps to guide the focus on embracing your vulnerability and being to share it with those around you
- As a large group, create a guiding principle statement about vulnerability and confidentiality
- to share, what isn't?
- In pairs, have participants sit knee-to-knee with prolonged eye contact 3 minutes
- When the 3 minutes are up, have one person spend 5 minutes sharing a story on the topic of love that
- they have experienced
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This exercise helps to guide the focus on embracing your vulnerability and being to share it with those around you
As a large group, create a guiding principle statement about vulnerability and confidentiality
In pairs, have participants sit knee-to-knee with prolonged eye contact 3 minutes
When the 3 minutes are up, have one person spend 5 minutes sharing a story on the topic of love that
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: The Vulnerability Equation. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: This exercise helps to guide the focus on embracing your vulnerability and being to share it with those around you; As a large group, create a guiding principle statement about vulnerability and confidentiality; In pairs, have participants sit knee-to-knee with prolonged eye contact 3 minutes; When the 3 minutes are up, have one person spend 5 minutes sharing a story on the topic of love that. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
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