Clare and Steve continue to build on the lockdown series of podcasts by exploring the nature of vulnerability and its place in supervision. Our podcasters explore the negative connotation that comes with being vulnerable and, using Brene Brown’s work, explore how the need for connection and the fear of disconnection drives us to hide vulnerability or fear being truly vulnerable. They discuss how to build trust and how, to find connection, you have to open yourself up to be truly seen. They move on to explore how society and even the coaching profession itself sets us up to fear vulnerability, be it the hierarchy, badges, labels found in the profession of simply the training by observing an expert. They ask how introversion and extroversion affect propensity to be vulnerable; they explore links to learning and growth and the role of trust. The invitation to listeners is to consider how to bring their vulnerability to supervision, or talk to their supervisor about their difficulty with vulnerability as the supervisor will doubtless be only too pleased to provide support with that.

Link to Brene Brown - vulnerability - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Qm9cGRub0