The Values Cards

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Because values can ground and direct our therapeutic work, enriching client lives, it is essential to understand what they are (LeJeune & Luoma, 2019):

However, when implementing a strengths-based approach with strength cards, it is up to the coach to take it further and provide implications to practical scenarios in the workplace. For example, ‘How can these strengths be used in a team context?’ or ‘How can you apply these strengths to get that promotion?’ Values Cards are a self-exploration tool that you can use to think about what is most important in your life -- your values. Your values are clues to your talents, and your dominant talents will naturally influence your values. For more information about strengths in the workplace, we recommend our Cultivating Strengths at Work article for examples and ideas to help jump-start career goals.If you are not quite ready to embark on this incredible course, you might want to consider a collection of tools first. For science-based ways to help others discover meaning, this collection contains 17 validated meaning tools for practitioners. Use them to help others choose directions for their lives in alignment with what is truly important to them. A Take-Home Message

Kaiser, R. B., & Overfield, D. V. (2011). Strengths, strengths overused and lopsided leadership. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 63(2), 89–109 These Values cards are great for those who enjoy visual and/or activity-based learning and support. The Values cards can be sorted, prioritised, added to, or subtracted from and used in a multitude of activities that have been developed to explore Values. Values are a major psychological motivator and form part of the focus under the DNA-V Model; a model being increasingly adopted in organisations working with young people whether that be within community youth-work settings, education, mental health services, social services, or the criminal justice system. I will create fascinating podcasts for people interested in psychology to apply science-based learning in their everyday lives. 2 ACT Values Worksheets

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The result is a series of highly valued goals broken down into manageable chunks of work. Your Core Values Worksheet

What do you want to happen with this strength? Do you want to do this more or become better at doing this? The developer of the cards, Dr. Louise Hayes has chosen to share the cards to raise money for a village health service in Nepal. Her hope is that if you find these cards useful, you will consider making a small values based donation to Sanjiwani Health Service. To find out more or donate, please go to: After they’ve placed the cards in the pond, ask them to “make a wish” about each strength. Some ideas to help the child think of a wish are listed below: PositivePsychology.com has many resources and worksheets to help clients focus on value-based living.In this exercise, the client answers several questions to help them define their mission, including: I have found the VALUE cards to be an invaluable part of my facilitation tool-kit. They were perfect when recently the subject of personal values was raised on a leadership development programme. The cards worked really well to get the discussion going and to help individuals pinpoint their value-set. Being so compact I keep them in my bag all the time now, and its great knowing how versatile they will be for both group work and one to one coaching sessions.” We are often highly critical of those we have relationships with. As a result, we can damage the bond between us and how the other person feels. Each of the 53 values represented on the cards has been carefully chosen following testing in various settings. The words are deliberately open to individual interpretation to cover the broadest possible range of values within a user-friendly set of cards. We have also included 3 blank cards for any specific values that may arise but are not represented in the set.

Awareness and deep knowledge of values can help them reduce complexity in their day-to-day life, while boosting clarity in all they do and what they strive for when overcoming obstacles. that are included. Therapist Aid has the exclusive right to reproduce their original works, prepare Once done, they repeat the exercise, indicating how much fulfillment each value brings to their lives right now (where 1 is “no fulfillment,” and 10 is “total fulfillment”). The client can circle all that resonate with them and group similar or related ones. The groupings may include:

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