Black Lab's Beyond Performance Series: The Values Advantage. Unlock Your Potential by Understanding & Living your Values with Gunther Weil

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Values News

I've started a new page at this Blog Site: Values Education-Values News to provide links to past editions of our weekly newspaper, Values News. Please contact me if there is something you would like featured in a future edition of  Values News.

Jeff Mowatt - Purpose Activist & Practitioner

Many thanks to Jeff Mowatt who supplied links & suggestions to material to include in this week's issue of Values News. 

This week's theme is summed up very nicely by these three images...

Minessence Key Affiliate Jackie Le Fevre is now about half way through her doctoral research at the University of Hertfordshire exploring conscious connection with values and wellbeing.

Jackie has a short online anonymous questionnaire on that topic (only takes about 5 minutes to complete) and would be deeply grateful for more participants.

There are nine short questions which invite you to share your reflections on various aspects of life and values.

To share your experience please CLICK HERE

Thank you in advance for your participation,
Minessence Group

Values, Motivation, & Creativity

As you will have noted, I strongly argue that, "It doesn't matter what values people have. What matters, is how they live them." What also matters is we don't try and force people to live the values of someone else, that's tantamount to slavery.

People are only motivated through the energy released in being able to live their own values--forcing people to live values other than their own is demotivating and unproductive. Here are some links to material which reinforce this perspective:

• http://www.minessence.net/Presentations/Creativity.aspx
• http://www.minessence.net/progress/sld004.html
• http://www.minessence.net/presentations/SelfOrganisingSystems.aspx

Key Principle of Values Education

"Teaching values, recently a political theme, can’t be done. So, while the candidate for office declares, 'We need to teach our kids family values!' the fact is that our children form their own values. Most often, they have very good values. What they need to learn is how to use their true values as a basis for making decisions. Let’s adjust our political candidate’s talking point to say, 'We need to teach our kids how to organize their lives around their own values!' While this doesn’t sound as good on the stump, and our candidate may lose the election by a landslide, at least our politician was honest." [Robert Fritz]

The AVI (A Values Inventory) was designed to help people identify their values. It's false to assume most people know what their values are. In reality, most people are living the values of other's. Only when we undertake a conscious process taking an inventory of our values, identifying why these values are important to us, then committing to those we choose to commit to, are we able to live our own values.

Values Education

This blog focuses on how to use the tools and techniques developed by the Minessence Group in values education