Community, Education, Individual, Organisational, World Values Day 2020
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 bitter divisions that divide so many of us around the world. Memories of those heart-warming experiences in the early days of the...
Education, Individual, World Values Day 2020
Credit: Pexels 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...
Community, Individual, World Values Day 2018
By Jessica Ball “It is a process which explores an unusually wide range of human experience: our closely held values; the nature and intensity of emotions; the patterns of our thought processes; the function of memory; the importance of inherited cultural myths; and...
Community, Individual, World Values Day 2018
By Richard Barrett, Chairman and Founder, Barrett Values Centre Introduction In 2010, I wrote a book called The New Leadership Paradigm.[1] In that book, I described the seven levels of leadership consciousness and explained the concept of a full spectrum...
Individual, World Values Day 2018
By Neil Tomalin Personal values are unique to every individual and can loosely be described as a set of beliefs or intuitive feelings inside our heads. They act unconsciously as a guide – telling us how comfortable we feel about different situations and are unusual in...
Individual, World Values Day 2018
Who are we collectively? By Richard Barrett, Chairman and Founder, Barrett Values Centre Where are we as a human race in terms of our development? What do we value? What levels of consciousness do we mainly operate from? To answer these questions, at least in...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
As World Values Day approaches I am considering my own personal journey to spending more time considering and living by my values. I first began thinking deeply about values when I was tasked with writing a research essay during my masters course; Fashion & The...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
If you are a creative person, or a coach, or run a purpose driven business which supports the well-being of people/the world – or if you are simply drawn towards more value-laden and collaborative ways of working, this post is for you. There really is only one...
Community, Individual, World Values Day 2017
“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...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
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...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
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...
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...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
“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...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
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...
Individual, World Values Day 2017
“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 book. This one appears in Chapter 18 of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when a troubled Harry is remembering with his...
