Glossary

Gain a deeper understanding of the language of Learned Bravery through our meticulously curated glossary of terms. Accessible through our user-friendly digital repository, this glossary is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the concepts associated with Learned Bravery.

Accessibility is giving equitable access to everyone along the continuum of human ability and experience. Accessibility encompasses the broader meanings of compliance and refers to how organizations make space for the characteristics that each person brings.
Environments that allow participants, regardless of their social identity groups or alignment with the dominant culture, to share their lived experiences, perceptions, and ideas openly, honestly, and authentically without fear of reprisal or recrimination.
Ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from cultures that are different from one’s own.
Diversity means having a range of differing characteristics including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, generation, and cultural background.
Ability to recognize, understand, and regulate one’s own emotions, and simultaneously recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.
Equity refers to the creation of conditions and dissemination of resources that allow everyone the opportunity to excel and reach their full potential.
Inclusion is ensuring that everyone, regardless of their social identity group, is treated fairly, justly and respectfully.

Learning and developing processes focused on preparing current, emerging, and future leaders to be more effective in how they motivate, engage, and inspire their teams.
Evidence-based, interdisciplinary field of scholars and practitioners who work collaboratively with organizations and communities to develop their systemic capacities for effectiveness and vitality. OD is guided by humanistic values. Democratic principles and applied behavioral science.
Refers to how the findings from neuroscience are applied to leadership.
Utilizes a strengths-based approach to helping individuals, teams, and organizations prosper and thrive. Where traditional psychology examines problems for greater understanding, positive psychology identifies strengths to leverage for goal achievement.
Willingness, ability, and motivation of an individual, team, or organization to take the necessary steps toward a more desired state.
Wisdom of the body to inform on a person’s state of mind. Somatics comes from the Greek word “Soma” which means the living body.
Children who spend their formative years in locations different from their parents’ homeland. The “third culture” is the environment that’s created by the blend of the parents’ homeland traditions, customs, and language(s) and the traditions, customs, and language(s) of the country in which they are being raised.