The Daring Way™ 2026

I’m thrilled to announce that beginning in 2026, we’ll be offering The Daring Way™ workshops, an immersive, small-group experience based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown.

January 2026 | $425 (+tax and fees)

Start your new year with courage, clarity, and wholehearted accountability. Over two transformative days, join Bryn Meadows (MPCC, CDWF) and Dr. Tracy Wayne (Rodgers) OBGYN & Menopolooza co-founder for a deep, compassionate dive into Brené Brown’s The Daring Way® curriculum.

Think of it as a winter reset for your soul, with science, sisterhood, and good humour woven through every step.

What This Intensive Is All About

This is a guided exploration of vulnerability, courage, shame resilience, and the stories we tell ourselves.

It’s not about “fixing” anything, it’s about finding our footing again, in the solid, grounded place where our values meet our real lives.

Together, we will:

* Explore the shields we use to protect ourselves (and gently set them down)

* Build skills for shame resilience and emotional regulation

* Identify your core values and how they guide brave action

* Examine old stories that are ready to be rewritten

* Step into the kind of courage that shapes how you show up in 2026

And yes… there will be laughter.

Schedule Overview

Day One: The Reckoning with Ourselves

* Welcoming, grounding, and intention setting

* Understanding vulnerability and its role in meaningful change

* Mapping your armour: perfectionism, over-functioning, numbing & invisibility

* Gentle guided reflections + small group discussions

* Integrating rest, compassion, and emotional awareness

Day Two: The Rising & The Revolution

* Core values + clarity work

* Shame resilience skill-building

* Rewriting old narratives that keep us small

* Claiming your brave next steps

* Closing ritual to anchor your 2026 intentions

💛 Who This Is For

This intensive is ideal for women, clinicians, helping professionals, and anyone ready to step more fully into their life with:

* less fear

* more grounded courage

* deeper connection

* and a sturdier sense of self-worth

You don’t need any prior experience, just a willingness to show up as you are. (Messy, tired, hopeful, or all three… we welcome it all.)

💸 Investment

$425 (+tax and fees) for the full two-day intensive

• Price includes:

• Workbook

• Two full days of programming

• Morning coffee/tea and muffins

• Light lunch: Soup, sandwiches, salad, cookie, and coffee/tea.

Start your year with intention, courage, and community.

Each workshop is held in person over two days, with a maximum of 10 participants to ensure an intimate, supportive environment. The workshops will be held in a private meeting space at The Union Club, in Victoria BC.

The first group of 2026 is planned for the weekend of January 24/25, 2026

Together, we’ll explore what it means to live and lead with courage, connection, and compassion, drawing on Brené Brown’s powerful research on vulnerability, shame resilience, and wholehearted living.

Why This Work Matters:

The Daring Way™ is facilitated in more than 30 countries, yet there are fewer than 600 certified facilitators worldwide. I began my facilitator training in 2012, and after 25 years as a counsellor, I can say without hesitation that this approach continues to change lives, including my own.

These workshops offer a space to:

• Cultivate deeper self-awareness and resilience

• Reconnect with authenticity and self-compassion

• Build the courage to show up fully in your work, relationships, and life

• If you’ve ever felt ready to step into a braver version of yourself, this is your invitation.

Frequently Asked Questions about The Daring Way™

Q: What IS The Daring Way™?

A: The Daring Way™ is a 12 session Psycho-Educational curriculum developed to help individuals and organizations work through what is getting in the way of showing up fully to our lives, our work, our passions and our relationships.

Q: What will the format of the workshop be delivered in?

A: The Daring Way™ is presented in a multi-media, multi-disciplinary format to support different learning styles. Activities and content formats will include: lectures, video clips from Brené Brown, workbooks, books by Brené Brown, in-group discussion, worksheets, letter-writing, and experiential group process.

Q: Is this like group therapy? Will people be encouraged to get openly emotional?

A: The Daring Way™ is a therapeutic and experiential program facilitated by a Registered Counselor. This is primarily an educational process, so it will not always feel like we are digging deep. We will be laughing and learning and sharing. To be clear however, there will be times when people will drop into parts of their story. People may share around their fears and what makes them feel vulnerable. Someone’s story may bring up real emotion, for either the person who is sharing or for someone hearing it. We do process some difficult feelings, and yes, it is also a therapeutic process. Some moments during the workshop will feel challenging. Some moments will feel uplifting. It will all be powerful.

*Please be assured that you not be pushed to be emotional in any way that isn’t coming naturally to you. The space we create is all about safety. You choose to participate and share as much or as little as you feel comfortable. You can pass on sharing at any time and that is OK – in fact, learning our boundaries and asking for what we need will be a fundamental aspect of the workshop experience.

Q: Will this Workshop “fix” my feelings of shame?

A: We are not promising a permanent “fix” to negative emotions, because negative emotions are simply a part of life. After The Daring Way™ you will still experience struggle.  But when shame, fear, and disconnection threaten your sense of worthiness, you will now have actionable tools that make dealing with difficult and/or shameful feelings easier. You will learn how to stop disconnecting from others and from yourself, blaming or attacking when you’re feeling shame.  You will learn tools for how to come back “online” sooner and not feel like you sense of core worth is depleted.

Q: Can the secret to overcoming shame really be taught?

A: There is no secret to overcoming shame. There is empathy. Empathy is the antidote to shame. Empathy is a learned skill that each of us has to practice. Through this work, you’ll learn how the power of empathy to work through shame. You will learn how to practice empathy in ways that you keep you connected to yourself, to others, and to life, rather than letting shameful feelings take you out of commission. You’ll learn the role of boundaries (not walls) in healthy, thriving personal and professional relationships.

Q. What is the big deal about doing this work with a trained The Daring Way™ professional? Can’t anyone lead this work?

A: Choosing who will lead you in a shame resilience practice is an important decision. Brené Brown and her team developed thoughtful and specialized training to ensure the highest ethical and professional standards are practiced when leading people in developing their shame resilience practice. Shame work is trauma work. Finding a clinician who is a part of The Daring Way™ community ensures you are working with someone who has develop both head and heart mastery of this important work. Also, only trained facilitators have access to these curriculums.

Q: I’m terrified of people/being vulnerable with a group of people I don’t know. Can I still benefit from attending even if I’m super shy, socially awkward, suffer from social anxiety, or really don’t like sharing things with people I don’t know?

A: The common thread of being human is that we all can relate to the experience of feeling not quite good enough. We all have our struggles and frankly, no one is really fully comfortable when experiencing vulnerability. You may be shy, awkward, or even deal with social panic and anxiety, please know that everyone in the group will likely feel uncomfortable to some degree, at some point during the experience. It's likely that others in the group may share the exact same experiences that you do. It is also possible that someone who appears more ‘outgoing’ or comfortable may find your extra level of vulnerability refreshing, because it gives them permission to be vulnerable, too.  We all need compassionate support as we redefine our relationships to shame. You may feel awkward or uncomfortable at times, and you may even need to leave the room for a few minutes to breathe (and that’s okay), but we ask that you remain willing to be in the process.

Please contact me if you have further questions.