Dr Frederik G. PferdtFrom Stanford & Google — To You

How to show vulnerability

6 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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After 2.5 years of practicing vulnerability, the speaker shares how to do it without turning it into trauma dumping. They model it through personal stories in presentations, then offer concrete tactics for groups to practice vulnerability safely and aligned with work goals.

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Showing up vulnerably the first time, it's really a true act of courage. But after that, and getting it right, it's a learned skill. But you wouldn't know that unless you tried over and over and over for weeks, months, years. And that's what I've done for the last 2.5 years. So now in my talks, I've both tried to model vulnerability by sharing my story, but then I quickly get into tactics of, hey, here's how you actually show vulnerability with one another in a way that will feel safe for the group and stays wedded to the work. So it's not just people trauma dumping on one another.