Organizer: Living Values Education
This initiative aims to create an online learning platform to share (or make available) information about the Living Values Education approach – and in particular our focus on a values based atmosphere – with schools, corporations and individuals from all wallks of life.
Please join is in our endeavour to change the current world culture into a way of life whose foundation is based on values
About the Course
- Starts Saturday 14th December, 2024 – registrations are now open!
- One day Online Course with 14 days to complete
- No cost participation
- Available internationally – to all countries
- Available to all – teachers, educators, parents, business people
- Living Values Education International Certificate awarded on completion of points-based activities
- It’s fun to do the Course with a Friend!
DISCOVER YOUR OWN VALUES-BASED ATMOSPHERE; IT CHANGES EVERYTHING!
Facilitators and Trainers from Living Values Education will share their knowledge, provide practical examples of Values activities, explain how to apply them, share them with others, and most importantly, demonstrate how this dynamic
— a Values-based Atmosphere — can be embedded in your life, the lives of others, and
the world around you.
You can feel the difference.
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Feeling Loved, Valued, Respected, Understood, and Safe
As values must be “caught” and “taught”, the adults involved are integral to the success of the LVE Approach, for all people learn best by example and are most receptive when what is shared is experienced.
The establishment of a values-based atmosphere is essential for optimal exploration and development.
Such an environment naturally enhances learning, as relationships based on trust, caring, and respect positively affect motivation, creativity, and affective and cognitive development.
Why were these five feelings ”loved, valued, respected, understood, and safe” chosen for the LVE Theoretical model?
Love is rarely spoken about in educational seminars.
Yet, isn’t it love and respect that we all want as human beings? Who doesn’t want to be valued, understood, respected, and safe?
When anyone of these elements is missing in ourselves, we use a facade or ego-based response, and in so doing, we lose connection to our participants who feel the missing element even if they cannot identify it physically.
As children we all have these needs as fundamental to our growth; sadly, they were seldom a prerequisite of our parental upbringing, yet still, as adults, we crave, need, and deserve these qualities.
In Living Values, we ensure that these elements are present in us.
This is the fundamental difference in LVE, compared to other workshops and educational practices.
Real Learning Comes Alive in a Values based Atmosphere
Modelling of values by adults is an essential element in values awareness building.
Participants are interested in facilitators who have a passion to do something positive in the world and who embody the values they espouse and are likely to reject values education if they feel facilitators are not walking their talk.
LVE workshops and meetings require a willingness from facilitators to be a role model, and believe in dignity and respect for all.
This does not mean we need to be perfect to share LVE; however, it does require a personal commitment to “living” the values we would like to see in others, and a willingness to be caring, respectful and non-violent.
Skills for Creating a Values based Atmosphere
It is important to build participants’ ability to analyse their behaviour and develop positive self-assessment and intrinsic motivation.
In this approach, there is a focus on human relationships as well as sensitivity to the level of receptivity and needs of the participants.
Skills for creating a values-based atmosphere include active listening, collaborative rule making, quiet signals that create silence, focus, feelings of peace or respect, conflict resolution, and values-based discipline.