Exercise 1-Clarification of Personal Values PDF

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Clarifying Your Personal Values What is a value? A value can be defined as  something that is desirable or esteemed for its own sake;  something we prize, cherish or hold dear  values are reflected in the choices we make and in our actions and behaviours What is a belief? A belief is  our conviction that something is true Recognize that each person has the ability to act within his or her own personal value system and beliefs. What values guide practice? In situations of competing or conflicting values, your personal values and beliefs may influence you to hold to a certain value and promote a particular course of action. This can create conflict and tension in your relationships with clients or patients and with colleagues. Awareness of your own values and beliefs is a first step toward preventing and resolving conflict and ensuring that you are not imposing your own values upon clients, or patients, or colleagues. Your personal values are shaped by: Family Culture Religion Media Friends And.... For example, certain cultural groups, based on their beliefs about life after death, do not agree with the practice of autopsy and removal of organs. Other cultural groups place certain prohibitions on truth-telling, discussing dying and planning funerals ahead of time.

Values Clarification Exercise #1: What matters to you? Ask yourself: “How often am I able to feel the satisfaction of knowing I am honouring my personal value system each day?” For many people, the answer will tend to be “not very often really” since many of us may only have a rather vague sense of what our personal value system includes. Taking time to clarify your values can add more meaning to your everyday life. Directions 1. Look over the list (provided in class). 2. Highlight all the words that you are most motivated by (either in action or aspiration). 3. Narrow down your list to your “top ten”. 4. At the end of class, narrow down your list further to your “top five”. 5. Prior to next class, sit down & without looking back at your shorter list, see which ones come quickly back to mind. These are your current core values. Achievement Adventure Ambition (1) Aesthetics/beauty Authenticity Bliss Caring/Compassion Challenge (2)

Fun Generosity/giving Growth (4) Harmony Health/wellness Honesty Honour Hope

Charity Commitment Contribution Creativity Dignity Elegance Equality Empowerment Experience Faith Family (3) (1) Freedom Friendship

Humility Humour Independence Integrity Joy Justice/Fairness Kindness Knowledge Leadership (5) (2) Learning (6) Location Love Loyalty (7) (3)

Mastery Mobility Nurturing Orderliness Originality Passion Peace Personal expression Possibilities Potential Power Productivity Recognition Relationships Resilience (7) (4) Respect Responsibility Results Risk-taking Romance Safety

Security Self-worth (8) Serenity Service Simplicity Sharing Spirituality Success (9) (5) Tradition Trust (10) Truth Vitality/zest Wealth Wholeness Wisdom Wonder/awe

Know who you are and where you are coming from....