Wonder Stack: Children’s books that spark curiosity and nurture little values
Throughout 2025, we asked our community and social media following to recommend the children’s books that helped shape their view on values. Here is the list of children’s books that spark curiosity and nurture values from the very first page. This list wasn’t shaped by votes or rankings. Each book has been chosen on its […]
Real Pages: Non-fiction reads to inform, challenge, and grow your worldview
Throughout 2025, we asked our community and social media following to recommend non-fiction books that helped shape their view on values. Here is the list of books that informed, challenged, and shaped worldviews regarding values. This list wasn’t shaped by votes or rankings. Each book has been chosen on its own merits, so don’t read […]
Worlds Unbound: A list of fiction books to stretch your imagination
Throughout 2025, we asked our community and social media following to recommend fiction books that helped shape their view on values. Here is the list of fiction books that touched their hearts or opened their minds when it came to values. This list wasn’t shaped by votes or rankings. Each book has been chosen on […]
Values for the Future in Hungary for WVD 2025
Celebrations in Hungary for World Values Day 2025 started early in the year and involved different age groups across the country engaged around Values for the Future. A big new initiative was using the Living Values approach to help organisations develop their practice of values. Values training for staff at a day nursery and an […]
Laying Down the Feather
In an era marked by polarisation and discord, a deceptively simple initiative promises to restore something precious: the art of listening. Launching on 16 October to mark World Values Day, “Laying Down the Feather” draws upon ancient wisdom to address distinctly modern challenges. The brainchild of Professor Ann Teed of Adelphi University, New York, and […]
A New Global Alliance Aims to Transform Education Through Values
Leading academics unite to address crisis in schools worldwide The Global Alliance for Values-based Education (GAVE), a new international coalition bringing together some of the world’s foremost experts in values-based education, is being launched with an ambitious mission to reshape how schools prepare young people for an increasingly volatile world. GAVE unites scholars, educators and […]
Health, Humanity and Values: Bettina Buabeng-Baidoo and MESH
In a world increasingly preoccupied with the mechanics of health systems—budgets, technology, and targets—one voice is cutting through with a different emphasis: values. Dr Bettina Buabeng-Baidoo, a South African physician and public health scholar, is leading an ambitious global initiative that seeks to reframe healthcare not only as a technical or economic challenge, but as […]
WVD Nigerian Activists Prepare Ambitious Programme for World Values Day
Uncle Sele and Izehi Anuge launch exciting month-long celebration Lagos — Two of our leading supporters in Nigeria have launched an ambitious month-long programme of events for World Values Day on 16 October, building on years of grassroots work that has established Nigeria as a beacon for values-based learning in Africa as showcased in previous […]
Dipak Fakey’s Let’s Talk Memory Game Goes From Strength to Strength
Game-maker’s innovative resources help thousands of young people engage with core human values Dipak Fakey OBE, a highly experienced educator and founder of the Good Values Club, is preparing to support World Values Day for another year, bringing his distinctive approach to values-based education to schools and communities across Britain. The annual global campaign, which […]
Values20 South Africa Summit: Living Values
Values20 South Africa is mounting an ambitious campaign this year to embed ubuntu and other key values into the G20’s policy framework, as the continent prepares to host the global economic forum for only the second time.