How Can We Value Things that Have No Price Tag? By Network of Wellbeing
“Often people know the price of things, but not the value… If we do not have value, we have no life” – Satish Kumar, Resurgence Editor-in-Chief and Network of Wellbeing Chair of Trustees The pressures of everyday life can make it easy to take for granted those things that are really important in life. Connection is […]
The Power of Persuasion – Values in Jane Austen, by Jackie Le Fevre
Jane Austen created many fabulous female characters. Whether your taste warms to the prejudice of Elizabeth Bennett or the meddling of Emma, I guarantee you will find at least one central protagonist amongst the 6 novels by this cutting-edge writer of fiction in the early 1800’s, who resonates with the experience of 21st century life. […]
Are Our Values Stuck in Our Heads? By Liz Murphy
The body is the key to becoming free to live our values fully At the centre of World Values Day is the call to live our values more fully. Usually this starts with thinking about our values, talking to each other about our values, deciding on an action to take or behaviour to change. This […]
Empowering Our Values, Creating Our Destiny – Event Report
Charles Fowler reports back on a beautiful day in quiet of the country at the Global Retreat Centre, a serene Palladian mansion in rolling parkland at Nuneham Courtenay near Oxford, where with a group of 22 others he spent the day reflecting on and discussing the subject of Empowering Our Values, Creating Our Destiny. The […]
Everything I Have Learned About Values, by Richard Barrett
The following is a summary of my new book, Everything I Have Learned About Values. It is dedicated to all those who aspire to live a values-driven life. You can download a free PDF version by clicking this link now. The free download will be available until October 31st In order to download the book, […]
Pearls of Wisdom on Leading an Association, by Heather Lishman
One of the most important and rewarding parts of running any organisation is listening to your stakeholders and reacting to their needs. It is however even more rewarding when you are part of an association where the feedback is coming from an involved membership. With this in mind the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers […]
Redefining Prisons with a Values-Driven Approach, By Alan Williams
How a values-driven approach is being implemented at what will be one of Europe’s largest prisons, Berwyn, in Wrexham, Wales. World Values Day is an opportunity for everybody to think about our most deeply held values and to act on them. This year special attention is being paid to the values of groups and organisations, […]
Are Leaders Experiencing a Restriction of Consciousness? By Terry Sexton
In ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ (1949) Joseph Campbell stated “every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness”. In today’s Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world many of our leaders express they are now finding it difficult to cope with their work […]
The Value(s) of Dialogue, by Jessica Ball
“A society is a link in relationships among people and institutions, so that we can live together. But it only works if we have a culture-which implies we share meaning; i.e. significance, purpose and values. Otherwise it falls apart. – David Bohm David Bohm was a quantum physicist, a contemporary of Einstein, whose work focused […]
Values and Pooh, By Jackie Le Fevre
In Chapter Four of Winnie The Pooh, which is entitled “in which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one”, there’s a problem. Eeyore (who, for the uninitiated, is a donkey of dour disposition) plunges into sadness as he becomes aware that his tail is missing; something he only becomes conscious of because Pooh points […]