We often think of vulnerability as a weakness, but I have come to see it as a strength. Vulnerability is having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. I remember visiting Rome and taking a tour through the Coliseum. We learned that gladiators–usually prisoners of war, slaves or criminals–were kept locked in cells in an underground passageway and would be led up a stairway to a trap door that would snap open and leave them stranded on the ground floor in the colosseum to face their opponent and possible death. Talk about vulnerability as weakness, but maybe many of these people…