World Values Day – Blogs
World Values Day 2020 – How did it go?
By the World Values Day team World Values Day on social media Our social media campaign this year was a tremendous success. On Twitter Read More
Let’s Start Now – Values in action can change the world
By Charles Fowler One thing that’s become clear from our experience of the Covid crisis is that we must find a way to reach across the ... Read More
What we can rely on
Danger threatens our world from every side – where can we find hope? By Charles Fowler Many of us have spent the last six months ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Why Compassion Begins at Home
Credit: Pexels From people exchanging harsh words online to even hurting each other in public, it goes without saying that the ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Some Highlights from World Values Day 2019
By the World Values Day Team What an amazing World Values Day we all had this year! We can capture some of its flavour from some of the Read More
PEOPLE WRITE STORIES; STORIES WRITE PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOUR
by Graham Boyd, Founder & CEO, Evolutesix Everything you say or do comes out of your meaning-making stories. All of your ... Read More
Values, Voice and Community Wellbeing
A Brief Story of Manitoba Cultural Communities and their Community Values-in-Action Approach October 18, 2019 Prepared by Martin ... Read More
Finding your Values SuperHero, Why values are good for your wellbeing
by Alan Williams, Director, SERVICEBRAND GLOBAL Illustration by John Montgomery. Alan Williams and Steve Payne (2013) Chapter 2 Why?, ... Read More
THE POWER OF HUMAN VALUES IS TO DISTRIBUTE GOODNESS AND WELLBEING
By Manjola Perja M. Sc., CEO & Founder ALVA – Albanian Values “World Values Day” makes you realize that the importance ... Read More
Whose Values?
By Kate Cooper Tammy Erikson speaking at the 2012 Global Drucker Forum, identified 12 things that she believed were no longer true, one Read More
Values and living on purpose
By Liggy Webb Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same but you leave them all over everything you do Elvis Presley For some Read More
98% of workers want to feel valued at work
By Claire Farrow, Conference Director and Head of Content for Mad World Today is World Values Day and the theme for this year is ... Read More
Synergy Between Wellbeing & Values Is Key to a Successful Company Culture
By Charlotte Church, Marketing Manager, Virgin Pulse WHY IS CULTURE SO IMPORTANT? Believe it or not — it pays to keep your people ... Read More
Values in Latvian Schools
By Neil Hawkes I was invited by School 2030, which is an agency that has been commissioned by the Latvian Government to reform its ... Read More
A Values Driven NHS
Delivering the Long Term Plan for the NHS By Rob Webster, Chief Executive, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust At the Read More
Driving Businesses from Values: VALUES CREATE VALUE (and higher profits)
By Gautam Mahajan, President of Customer Value Foundation Values and governance are often the motherhood part of corporate statements. ... Read More
A 20:20 vision for wellness in the workplace
By David Emanuel, Managing Director, i-FM Wellness is rapidly becoming a key value at many organisations. Facilities management should ... Read More
3 simple techniques for powering values-driven action and boosting your wellbeing
By Liz Murphy, Director of Research and Collaboration at the Sophrology Academy Credit: Photo by Nathan Lemon on Unsplash Discover the ... Read More
Re-purposing corporate purpose
By Craig Smith You may not have heard about it, but maximising shareholder value is no longer the stated purpose of the corporate ... Read More
“Start with why” is bad advice
By Ben Sands In his seminal TED talk, author Simon Sinek offers a simple, compelling framework to explain how the best companies, and ... Read More
Piracy – black hearted or wholehearted?
By Jackie Le Fèvre Founder & Director, Magma Effect Work wasn’t working. At least work wasn’t working for a younger generation ... Read More
Seeds of wellbeing
By Dr Prabodh Mistry A simple mathematical model based on human values shows that small actions based on right thought and right ... Read More
Values and Wellbeing – An Interview with Prof Tim Kasser
The theme of World Values Day 2019 is ‘Values and Wellbeing’, but why is the link between values and wellbeing so important? Ahead of ... Read More
How values are linked to mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
By Claire Farrow, Head of Content and Conference Director, Mad World Summit This year, World Values Day will be making the crucial link Read More
Values and Wellbeing
By Judith Mills Values have been debated and discussed for centuries. Plato wrote about them and the Indian text The Bhagavad Gita ... Read More
The dark side of vacation and how our values guide us back home
By Corina Roobeck Have you ever noticed that when you are on vacation a strange phenomenon can occur? Suddenly all the self-imposed ... Read More
Can the answer to managing our stress be found in our values?
By Lindsay West The World Health Organization calls stress the “health epidemic of the 21st century.” Stress is all around us; can you Read More
What are Values for?
By Charles Fowler Although often overlooked, values are central to our individual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of our world. The first ... Read More
Albania becomes part of the global values community on World Values Day
A report by Manjola Perja on Albania’s first-ever values event On World Values Day, 18th October 2018, at the National Historic Museum ... Read More
The Spaces of Hope Podcast on World Values Day
The Spaces of Hope Podcast is a monthly offering, looking at themes related to Spaces of Hope. The idea is that this is a digital and ... Read More
How Values Can Support Resilience at Work
By Jackie Le Fèvre & Alan Williams Is there such a thing as too much advice? Google “Resilience at Work” and see what you think. We Read More
Living your values
By Sinead Hasson Companies can’t just talk about ethics, they have to demonstrate those values are intrinsic to how they operate ... Read More
A Journey of Values and Dialogue
By Jessica Ball “It is a process which explores an unusually wide range of human experience: our closely held values; the nature and ... Read More
The Values of a Full Spectrum Community
By Richard Barrett, Chairman and Founder, Barrett Values Centre Introduction In 2010, I wrote a book called The New Leadership ... Read More
Do you value what’s personal to you?
By Neil Tomalin Personal values are unique to every individual and can loosely be described as a set of beliefs or intuitive feelings ... Read More
Are our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
By Terry Sexton, Leadership Psychologist. Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we ... Read More
The Top Ten Values of Humanity
Who are we collectively? By Richard Barrett, Chairman and Founder, Barrett Values Centre Where are we as a human race in terms ... Read More
Get engaged with World Values Day on 18 October 2018
By Charles Fowler It’s almost time for World Values Day again. This annual campaign has grown massively since the first one was ... Read More
Values: A Foundation for Sustainable Thinking, by Jessica Ball
As World Values Day approaches I am considering my own personal journey to spending more time considering and living by my values. I ... Read More
Valueism: A Role for Values, by Nigel Cohen
Capitalism is under fire. Populist parties argue that capitalism should be neutered, and mainstream parties argue for more of the same. Read More
How to Grow a Loyal Audience for Your Work – By Leading With Your Values, by Pete Mosley
If you are a creative person, or a coach, or run a purpose driven business which supports the well-being of people/the world – ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
How does Values Literacy Enhance Young People’s Life Proficiency? By Rosemary Dewan
“Values literacy” is about understanding a wide spectrum of values and being able to choose and apply appropriate values within ... Read More
Which Values Are Required for Development? By Priscilla Bamfo
Generally in Africa, and more specifically in Ghana, we list a number of causal factors for our appalling rate of economic, social and ... Read More
Development of Good Character Matters More than Passing Exams, By Anthony Seldon
The current focus in our school system is a single-minded drive to improve educational attainment. Yet education is much more than a ... Read More
Send Us Your Values Stories!
In the run-up to World Values Day 2017 on Thursday 19th October, we’re inviting people to share their personal stories about their ... Read More
Reconciling our Values with Diversity, by Sylvana Caloni
On World Values Day, 19th October 2017, we acknowledge the importance of values in our personal and professional lives. Values are ... Read More
Values and Finance – The elephant isn’t even in the room, by Anna Laycock
This year’s World Values Day falls 10 years on from the first rumblings of the financial crisis. We all now know how the story panned ... Read More
Closing the Values Gap, by Charles Fowler
Organisations usually have no problem working out what values they should have. They spend a lot of time and effort planning, ... Read More
Heartbeat and the Five Senses – by Matt Stephens
Over the years, while I have seen many places that have values, there are but a few where they have real impact, and sadly is a lost ... Read More
Values, Choices and Harry Potter – by Jackie Le Fevre
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” One of my favourite lines from any Harry Potter ... Read More
Life is a Game of Cards, by Ed Mayo
Introducing values through a game on co-operation With World Values Day approaching, I am thinking about how to have the conversation ... Read More
Shhh… the Values Economy has arrived, by Alan Williams
We are living in extraordinary times – volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. The pace of change will never be this slow again. In ... Read More
Aligning Your Values Leads to Better Performance, by Joy Rees
If you have ever played mixies with a child you will know what fun it is to create characters that obviously don’t fit together. A bear Read More