On The Questions That Matter: The Power of Vulnerability

Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Power of Vulnerability

by Kyle Pandapatan

I wanted to share with you one of my favorite talks of all time, she speaks of how the "I" can gain the courage to connect with the others in our lives.

CONNECTION. Shame undoes connection. "Is there something about me that if other people find out about it, I won't we worthy of connection?" Vulnerability opens you to human connection.

"People who have a strong sense of love & belonging: believe they are worthy, that's it." What do they have in common? How do we learn to embrace vulnerability? She shares her 10 years of research in this story-telling talk.

Having watched this a long time ago, I can say I've a long way to go to master practicing this in daily life. (But I'm working on improving - cue Jordin Sparks' song, "One Step at a Time").

Discussing it is different from applying it and living it after all. However, becoming aware is the first step to the right actions - which is what I believe the philosophy we're learning is trying to do.

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About The Professor

Leovino Ma. Garcia, Ph. D. is a professor of the Department of Philosophy of Ateneo de Manila University. He finished his degree in humanities under the guidance and tutelage of Fr. Roque Ferriols, S.J., and eventually attained his doctorate degree in Philosophy in the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1988 to 1994 as its first lay dean, and then became the dean once again, this time of the School of Humanities from 2001 to 2007. He is the second recipient of the Natividad Galang-Fajardo Lifetime Chair for the Humanities in 2011 and currently the President of the World Conference of Catholic Philosophers (COMIUCAP).

But most of all, he is a thinker, a life teacher, a lover of the arts, and, as he always claims to be, "the poor boy who knows the fields and rivers of the Cagayan valley," truly human in his own way.

These lectures delivered for the school year 2012-2013 are transcribed and summarized by Earl Allyson Valdez (AB Philosophy, Pre-Divinity Track 2010), once his student and now his teaching assistant.