Exploring Vulnerability
What is vulnerability, and how can it affect our interpersonal work & relationships?
In this lesson, student will explore concepts of vulnerability, specifically in the context of social interactions and story-sharing.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to define and explain concepts of vulnerability.
Students will understand the distinctions of meaning in different social contexts.
Materials
- Slides w/ graphs
Preview Lesson Plan
Launch: What is “vulnerability”?
10 min
- Launch the lesson by inviting students to jot short answers to a simple question: “What is vulnerability?”
- After jotting down short definitions and explanations, students share their responses with the group. Responses are collected, recorded & displayed for reference throughout the lesson.
- Present students with a simple single-axis graph.
- Say: “Most of your responses addressed the connections between vulnerability and risk. We can use a graph to imagine how we might measure our own vulnerability in a situation, moving from lowest risk to highest risk.”
