Graphic of Acceptance by Eben Greene from Seattle, Washington Full Team Ahead By Susan LePlae Miller Every person is an artist awaiting his or her muse. Awaiting his or her community. Awaiting his or her own sense of acceptance and belonging. For some, this feeling and sense of being never comes to fruition. The […]
How Lewes Football Club Runs on Community Values By Karen Dobres Every day players from Lewes FC Women make their way to the club’s all-weather pitch for training, where they run, bend, stretch, jump, kick and sweat. Except for Tuesday, their day off, when they relax a bit, drink coffee with friends in town, walk […]
The recognition that our organisations are living systems not machines By Fabienne Vailes To many of us who work in education, articles about our country being ‘in the grip of a mental health crisis’ won’t come as a surprise. The pandemic simply accentuated the patterns that were already there. A crisis is ‘a time of […]
Using a Values-based Approach to Education to Better Understand the Islamic Community Terence Lovat The Australian Values Education Program included a five-year longitudinal study focussed on values-based curriculum interventions in 312 schools across the country. Each intervention was guided by principles outlined in the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools. The principles focussed […]
Could micro and small businesses really provide a big part of the solution to the challenges we face in our fractured world? By Jill Poet The theme for World Values Day 2022 is Values for the Community. This article looks at how that theme relates to micro and small businesses and, more precisely, considers why […]
Does big business support community values? Most people would say it’s a mixed picture. By Tom Rausch Corporations spend significant financial resources in advertising, marketing, and public relations to convince us that they only have our best interests in mind with their products and services. In the United States, for example, many of the largest […]
When business over-promises and under-delivers on their corporate values, they devalue society. By Theran Knighton-Fitt I want to tell you about company X. They lied about their company values. They over-promised and under-delivered on their brand. I won’t tell you what company it was. (I’m not in the business of trying to pull others down.) […]
The theme for this year’s World Values Day is Values for Community. Our values guide us to understand the good from the not so good, the right from the not so right. By Minal Kering They are the principles that we use to define and live our lives on. These chosen values help us make […]
Inspiring one million values-led conversations By Alan Williams and Lisa Birtles This blog series for the month of October in support of World Values Day 2021 started with our blog about the launch of the ValuesJam card game on 1st October so it seems fitting to close the series with an overview of the past […]
How community builds resilience By Chandima Dutton Someone recently asked me what I’d learned about resilience during the pandemic. One word came to mind immediately: Community. The word itself is from the Latin ‘communis’, having the same root as the word ‘communication’. For me, community is about social connection with purpose. Why is social connection […]
