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Brown breaks the broad word trust into observable elements with the BRAVING inventory. A difficult conversation becomes more actionable when people can identify whether the concern involves a boundary, a broken commitment, confidentiality or another specific behavior instead of declaring the entire relationship untrustworthy.
In a conversation: Name one behavior needing attention.
Keep in view: Uses Charles Feltman’s trust definition.
In Brown’s trust framework, reliability means following through while knowing one’s competencies and limits. Overpromising to appear helpful undermines that reliability. A smaller commitment that can be kept gives another person clearer information than an enthusiastic yes that regularly becomes disappointment.
In a conversation: Make a realistic, explicit commitment.
Keep in view: Renegotiate when circumstances change.
Brown includes confidentiality in the trust inventory because disclosure about absent people signals how someone else’s information might be treated. Closeness built by trading secrets is fragile. Respecting ownership of a story supports trust even when the speaker could gain attention by sharing it.
In a conversation: Ask whose information this is.
Keep in view: Safety or reporting duties can differ.
Curated official essays, authorized book adaptations and first-person podcast transcripts on vulnerability, trust, shame, accountability, boundaries, values and belonging. Eight opened primary pages support twenty cards. This is a finite educational selection, not the complete research corpus or a clinical service. Borrowed concepts and original coaching applications are identified.
Library version: 2026-10-14 · 20 documented ideas · 8 source references
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