2017 SLI Role-Based Track Bonner Congress: Strategies to Communicate and Lead with Vulnerability

1. Strategies to
Communicate and Lead
with Vulnerability
2017 Bonner Summer Leadership Institute
Bonner Congress Track

2. Bonner Congress Role
1 Project Management
2 Peer Leadership
3 Communication and Public
Speaking

3. Project Management
• Designing and implementing the Ideas to Action
Project:
• Project connected to the BLT
• “Project” can also mean an event, a product, or an
initiative
• Developed more at Bonner Congress

4. Ideas to Action Project
Examples
• Ursinus Diversity Monologues: A compilation of uncensored,
open, and free monologues that are meant to share with the
Ursinus community how it feels for students to be themselves on
campus and in the greater community.
• Montclair State Bonner Buddies: A mentoring program within
the Bonner Program that gives students an chance to interact
with each other on a more personalized and individualized level.
• UR Bonnering Friends: An initiative of UR Bonners to increase
the number of students serving in the Richmond community, by
pairing Bonners with potential volunteers in order to understand
service and foster service mentorship.

5. You are leaders in your program and on your campus.
• Role models to underclassmen
• Leadership responsibilities
• Facilitating meetings
• Attending national conferences
• Fielding questions
• Supporting your peers
Peer Leadership

6. Communication and Public
Speaking
You are representatives of Bonner, your campus, and
community.
• Speak about Bonner, civic engagement, and different
social issues that your work addresses
• Represent and portray the roles your hold and issues
you care about effectively
• Essential skill to facilitate trainings, hold one-on-one
meetings with peers, mediate conflict, speak at large
events

7. Communication and Public
Speaking
You are representatives of Bonner, your campus, and
community.
• Speak about Bonner, civic engagement, and different
social issues that your work addresses
• Represent and portray the roles your hold and issues
you care about effectively
• Essential skill to facilitate trainings, hold one-on-one
meetings with peers, mediate conflict, speak at large
events

8. Vulnerability is a
characteristic that is
valued and supported
in our society.

9. Vulnerability is
correlated with
weakness.

10. Choosing to be
vulnerable is choosing
to be our authentic
selves.

11. When you shut down
vulnerability, you shut
down opportunity.

12. Vulnerability is the
birthplace of courage,
love, belonging, and
other meaning-making
experiences in our lives.

13. Vulnerability in
leadership is the
willingness to walk into
uncertainty, risk, and
emotional exposure.

14. https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YtQDiiT1U

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17. Choose one identifier that you
have felt requires the most
vulnerability to be associated with
Use that identifier to complete the worksheet

18. How can vulnerability be
a strength in your
leadership?

19. Why is vulnerability an
important skill to cultivate
in leadership?

20. What does it really mean
to operate from a place of
vulnerability?

21. When we embrace
vulnerability as a strength
rather than a weakness, we
allow ourselves to be more
empathetic and effective
leaders.