As many of you will know or have guessed by now, I love Brené Brown’s research and writing.

Over the Summer I have been re-reading Daring Greatly (2012), and in Chapter 6 she writes about re-humanizing education and work. One way is through enabling workplaces to have honest and hard conversations and reach into the potential of being vulnerable.

Perhaps best known for her million-hit talks on TED and TEDx, Brené is a highly influential researcher in the fields of vulnerability, shame, emotional resilience and creativity.

At this moment in our current news, we are seeing many people from different walks of life speaking up.

Ending years of silence and oppression.

Speaking up about the atrocities they have experienced, the abuse they have suffered, and the sorrow they have carried.

In Brené Brown's book Rising Strong she talks frankly about what happens to us after we "fall down".

I don't know many writers, or researchers, who discuss so openly the real difficulties of showing up as authentic in our lives.

Brené talks about authenticity as stepping out into the arena - being vulnerable, opening your heart, entering into your emotional world. It is inevitable that if you step out and show up, that sometime you will "fall down".