blogging for change!

What happens when 60 amazing graduate social work students get together to study shame, explore compassion, spread hope, and learn how to blog for social change?  More than I ever could have imagined.

During our summer course, the students formed groups based on their interests and each group had two weeks to create and launch a blog that included components on shame resilience, social justice, and education. Fewer than 10 of the students had any blogging experience and 2/3 of the students had never even seen a blog. These wise and wonderful groups blew my mind! Some of the blogs were developed for helping professionals, others are more targeted to the public. Check them out by topic!

Heart & Hope - Terminal Illness

Veterans Pushing Light

GLBT - Building Alliances

Male Body Image  

What If? Behavioral Health

Divorce 

Growing Pains - Puberty 

Self Injurious Behaviors 

Immigration 

Hospice 

For an extra credit project, students created over 200 hope notes and seed bombs. They spread the love all over Houston. Here's a video of the kind and generous students from our summer class!

Comments

[Megan]

What happens when 60 amazing graduate social work students get together to study shame, explore compassion, spread hope, and learn how to blog for social change?

We LEARN MORE than we could have ever imagined!

I know I have. Thank you, for everything.

[Jen Lee]

God, Brene--I'm so glad you're in the world.

Crying in the kitchen,
Jen

[Veronique]

Seeing this video got me quite teary. Thank you!

Crying in the kitchen too!

Veronique

[Farrah Braniff]

awesome work my awesome and inspiring friend!

[dawnfh]

Once again, you've touched my heart - along with thousands of others. You amaze me.

[Jen A.]

Simply phenomenal. Awesome. Positive. Happy. And, hopeFULL.

I want to thank you, thank you.

[Renae C]

Wow! Blogging for social change?....hmmmm.....

[leslie]

Exactly what I needed to see today - thanks to you and all your students for the video and making the world a more hopeful place.

[tracey]

Inspirational to say the least. Bravo to you Brene and all those incredible grad students. Nice work!

[Emily]

I found the blogs you linked created by this students quite helpful...I am an art therapist who works with clients struggling with many of these issues and they are good resources to find! Thanks!

[joan]

Wow! The work of your students is amazing! Brene, you are truly teaching and modeling connection.
The parenting CD and blog series is terrific, too!
I am so grateful. It is good to know that we are all on this journey together.

[Oscar]

I just saw it again. I still cry. It was an amazing experience. You were able to bring my hands to the light. Something I was so scared of for such a long time. Thanks for the moment of awakening. I love you! Oscar~

[Nereida Bucio Gomez]

What a great idea. I can see myself starting hope notes and leaving them around the house so my boys can see (myself included).

This summer we will be together full time and doing something similar with them would be w o n d e r f u l. We've gone to nature, picked up beauties we encounter, and gone inside the house to make art. This is another project we can take on...we would spread hope.

Thanks for sharing.