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”.
THE POWER OF HUMAN VALUES IS TO DISTRIBUTE GOODNESS AND WELLBEING
“World Values Day” makes you realize that the importance of this day dedicated to values around the world is enormous.
Whose Values?
Canadian psychoanalyst and management consultant, Elliot Jaques, was one of the first to recognise the importance of values in organisations. Since then many academics and practitioners have identified the importance of values, devised tools and models to calculate and describe them, and more recently, marketing professionals have considered articulation of brand values as essential. It’s increasingly recognised that brands are no longer owned and controlled by the organisations who have the copyright of the trademark of the brand, brands are defined by all stakeholders, those who feel they share a sense of the values the brand represents to them.
Values and living on purpose
For some people, adding value and having a purpose in life are essential and fundamental aims. An increasing amount of research indicates that people who have meaning and purpose in their lives are happier, feel more in control and get more out of everything they do. They also experience less stress and are less prone to prolonged bouts of depression and this clearly can have a positive impact on personal well-being and mental health.