General, World Values Day 2020
Danger threatens our world from every side – where can we find hope? By Charles Fowler 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. For all of us, it has been a...
General, World Values Day 2020
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. The results were really interesting. Compassion, Collaboration / Teamwork, and...
General, World Values Day 2020
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. Times of crisis so...
General, World Values Day 2019
By Lindsay West The World Health Organization calls stress the “health epidemic of the 21st century.” Stress is all around us; can you think of anyone who isn’t stressed at some point in their day? The issue is whether we can manage that stress to avoid a sustained...
General, World Values Day 2019
By Charles Fowler Although often overlooked, values are central to our individual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of our world. The first three World Values Days in 2016, 2017 and 2018 focused on values from an individual, an organisational, and a community point of...
General, World Values Day 2018
A report by Manjola Perja on Albania’s first-ever values event On World Values Day, 18th October 2018, at the National Historic Museum in Tirana, the first-ever values event in the history of Albania was held. It was organised by ALVA – Albanian Values and...
General, World Values Day 2018
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 accessible space for listening, reflecting, having fun and giving us a practical next step, based on a conversation between Matthew...
General, World Values Day 2018
By Terry Sexton, Leadership Psychologist. Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little...
General, World Values Day 2018
By Charles Fowler It’s almost time for World Values Day again. This annual campaign has grown massively since the first one was launched in 2016 supported by a few hundred individuals and organisations around the world who were united in their passion for values. Last...
General, World Values Day 2017
Capitalism is under fire. Populist parties argue that capitalism should be neutered, and mainstream parties argue for more of the same. But there is a movement of new thinkers who have been developing another, progressive solution. A new, neutral term has been coined...
General, Individual, World Values Day 2017
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...
General, World Values Day 2017
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...
General, World Values Day 2017
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...
General, World Values Day 2017
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 out: a tale of greed, short-termism, unaccountable institutions and public outrage. What caused the financial sector to drift so far...
General, World Values Day 2017
Introducing values through a game on co-operation With World Values Day approaching, I am thinking about how to have the conversation with those I work with around the Values Challenge – how do we live up to what we hold most dear. Values are the compass guiding...
General, Organisational, World Values Day 2017
We are living in extraordinary times – volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. The pace of change will never be this slow again. In the service sector, many traditional approaches are no longer relevant and there is a new business agenda emerging. The landscape of...
