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Review PowerPoint: Chapter 9- Understanding Your values:Stress Symptoms: Across the top of your paper write a brief list of your physical, emotional, and behavioral responses when you are under stress. Then explain them more fully in an essay.Physical = what happens to your body under stress ( ie. Insomnia, back pain)Emotional = how you feel under stress ( ie. Lonely, worthless, unaccomplished) Behavioral = what you do under stress ( ie. Yell at others, drink too much, withdraw)This should not be more than 2 pages.
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Chapter 9: The Importance of
Values
Ice breaker
What do you value most?
Do your actions support
your values?
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
Describe mediocrity as it relates to feeling stuck in your life.
Explain the connection between values clarification and stress
management.
Clarify and prioritize your highest values.
Differentiate between instrumental values and terminal values.
Participate in values clarification activities.
The Importance of Values
Values
• Value:
− A way of thinking that guides choices by evoking a feeling of basic principles of right and
wrong.
• Values:
− Guide our actions
− Provide direction
− Give meaning to life
Your Values
• When values and actions are not aligned, the consequence is stress
and inner chaos.
• Discovering your values
• Cognitive dissonance
Discovering Your Values
• Dharma
– When you find your place in life, you find satisfaction
in life.
– It results in inner peace, wisdom, and happiness.
Discovering Value Activity
• In small groups, brainstorm a list of those things you value most.
• When the list has been finished, try to identify who was responsible
for shaping those values in you.
Discovering Value Activity Debrief
• When we live by an agenda set by others, we easily get caught up in
living someone else’s life. One primary task involved in becoming an
adult is to become independent and self-directed in our thoughts and
actions.
• Separating from the control and influence of parents and others and
moving toward self-direction is a fundamental right of passage into
adulthood.
Source of Values
Source of Influence
• Values are influenced by:
• Culture
• Friends
• Television
• The Internet
• Social media
• Parents
• Family
• Teachers
Values within Cultures
• Culture is a pattern of learned behavior based on values, beliefs, and
perceptions within a community.
• Cultures are based on underlying values that encourage or
discourage actions and beliefs.
• Your identity becomes linked with the work you do
Predominant Values in the United States
• Personal achievement and success
• Activity and work
• Moral orientation
• Efficiency and practicality
• Progress
• Material comfort
• Personal freedom and individualism
• External conformity
• Science and rationality
Predominant Alaska Native Values (1 of 2)
• Show respect to others
• Share what you have
• Know who you are
• Accept what life brings
• Have patience
• Live carefully
Predominant Alaska Native Values (2 of 2)
• Take care of others
• Honor your elders
• Pray for guidance
• See connections
The Dynamic Quality of Values
• Values are not static; they change over time.
• When young, we have values similar to our parents.
• As we grow, values become a mix of what we learned from
family, cultures, coworkers, and relationships
Acquiring Values
• Values are assimilated from family, friends, religion, and society.
• Values acquisition: we assume new values consciously.
Beliefs about Values
1. We can change our thoughts and actions.
2. We are responsible for creating long-term change in our lives.
3. When we set our sights in a new direction, we have the power to
move in that direction.
4. Our values determine our actions and behaviors.
Types of Values
• Instrumental values:
– Those that consist of personal characteristics and character traits
▪ Hardworking, capable, cheerful, forgiving, responsible
• Terminal values:
– Outcomes of efforts, those we feel are essential and desirable
▪ Self-respect, security, inner harmony, freedom
Values Clarification
• Values Clarification:
• The process of discovering and applying what we genuinely value
• Reduces the stress of making decisions that are inconsistent with our values
• Mental and spiritual process to help close the gap between what we value and
what we do
Creating Your Personal Constitution
To clarify and apply your fundamental values, create a personal
constitution:
1. Identify your values
2. Prioritize your values
3. Write a clarifying paragraph for your values
Step 1: Identify Your Values
• Review the list of instrumental and terminal values
• Identify which are most important to you
• What is your most important value?
Your funeral Activity
• With your eyes closed, imagine what you would like others to say,
think, and feel about you and how you lived your life.
• Brainstorm these ideas on paper.
• Which of these values are you living right now? Which do you need
to continue to work on?
Your Funeral Activity Debrief
• Students can use the Instrumental and Terminal Values list and apply
those values to how they would like to be thought of.
• What came to mind as the highest, most important value?
• There are likely inconsistencies. There might be some values that are
not being work on right now. This activity will help students prioritize
their values as they move into step two of the Creating Your Personal
constitution process.
Values Clarification and Realization
• It is an ongoing process.
• Values should be reflected in how
• we live each day.
• Our personal constitution can be
• a private guide to decision making.
Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
Temperance
Silence
Justice
Moderation
Cleanliness
Tranquility
Chastity
Humility
Order
Resolution
Frugality
Industry
Sincerity
Summary (1 of 2)
• A value can be defined as a belief upon which one acts by
preference. Values give us direction and meaning in life.
• Clarifying our values and understanding what is central to defining us
as individuals helps to reduce our stress.
• Dharma teaches us that when we find our place in the puzzle of life,
we attain satisfaction with our lives, and we feel fulfilled, happy,
content, and worthwhile.
• Cognitive dissonance happens when our behavior is inconsistent with
our values, beliefs, and our self-image.
• Most of our values are at the unconscious level unless we work to
examine them consciously.
Summary 2 of 2
• Values acquisition, which is the conscious assumption of a new
value, has 6 criteria.
• Instrumental values primarily consist of our personal values and
character traits.
• Terminal values are goals, or end states, that we work toward.
These make our lives fulfilling, satisfying, and worthwhile.
• Values clarification, which is the process of applying what we
genuinely value, helps reduce the stress that comes from making
decisions that are inconsistent with what we value.
• The three-step action plan for values clarification results in the
development of one’s personal constitution.
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