Let’s Start Now – Values in action can change the world
One thing that’s become clear from our experience of the Covid crisis is that we must find a way to reach across the bitter divisions that divide so many of us around the world.
What we can rely on
Many of us have spent the last six months stressed, anxious, and isolated. Some have had to fight for our lives, and some have lost that fight.
Mindful cooking: how to introduce values to children during a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted everyone’s needs and made us consider what we really ‘value.’ Now, more than ever, as we assess what is fundamentally important to us, we have an opportunity to explain values to our children and how ‘values literacy’ supports their well-being.
Why Compassion Begins at Home
From people exchanging harsh words online to even hurting each other in public, it goes without saying that the world is becoming a less kind place to live in by the day. With today’s current events, it isn’t surprising that we found compassion to be the most important value in our Lockdown Values Poll.
Compassion the top value in our Lockdown Values Poll
At our World Values Day Planning Session on 28th April we took a poll of those present to discover what they felt were the three most important values for them during the lockdown so far.
Let’s Celebrate our #ValuesHeroes
By the World Values Day Team, The theme of Values in Action had just been chosen for this year’s World Values Day (15th October) when the coronavirus crisis unexpectedly exploded and confronted us with a life-and-death issue that now threatens every community on the planet.
Some Highlights from World Values Day 2019
What an amazing World Values Day we all had this year! We can capture some of its flavour from some of the multitude of images that poured in during this year’s campaign. This year’s theme around the link between values and wellbeing resonated strongly in many different countries and communities.
PEOPLE WRITE STORIES; STORIES WRITE PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOUR
Everything you say or do comes out of your meaning-making stories. All of your behaviours. These meaning-making stories are how you answer the questions “What does this mean, and therefore who should I do what for?”
Values, Voice and Community Wellbeing
For almost 11 years, a group of committed cultural community contacts and informal leaders had been meeting and developing relationships with representatives within the child welfare system in order to ensure that these community voices would be heard, validated and respected.
Finding your Values SuperHero, Why values are good for your wellbeing
Today, I celebrate a big birthday and myPractice for the day is “I agree and communicate sense of purpose, so people understand the “why””, in honour of myValue “Creation”.