Meaning is the antidote to isolation and purposelessness
We know that people grow and heal when they move towards what's meaningful in life. Coaching frameworks and third-wave behavioral therapies like ACT and DBT already use values to foster client motivation and self-driven purpose. So why are we still having clients pick values from rigid, arbitrary lists?
In Values Lab, you'll learn a powerful, dialogue-based method for identifying, refining, and validating people's values. Informed by the moral philosophies of Charles Taylor and Joe Edelman, we'll equip you with a variety of tools that will upgrade how you work with values. Watch clients come alive, and help them orient their life around meaning.
Bring clarity to values
In Values Lab, Discover exactly what’s meaningful, when, and how by eliciting values in dialogue and guiding clients taking meaningful actions. It’s a 100x improvement over vague values clarification methods.
Enhance tools you already use
Leverage sources of meaning to enhance the visualization, parts work, and somatic tools you already use. From life visioning to in-the-moment awareness, build a library of techniques that you can use to clarify clients’ values and help them act.
Transform emotions to values
Learn a powerful way of working with challenging emotions. Tap into frustrations to reveal a blocked value, and discover a wise way of action.
Growthful change for you and your clients
Grow wiser and deepen your own values, while learning how to provide transformative reality shifts for your clients.
What you'll learn
- Inspect what’s meaningful about a moment or challenge and articulate a beautiful value
- Read your emotions and decipher a value that's missing in the moment, turning every frustration into an invaluable lesson
- Gain sensitivity to social pressures and a heightened awareness of how social norms influence us
- Learn how to smoothly navigate dual commitments to traditional and modern values
Your work with clients
- Refine meaningful moments and stories to reveal the wisdom your clients already have
- Translate challenging emotions and experiences into meaningful, actionable values
- Help clients identify environmental pressures that act against their values and accurately target leverage points for change
- Help clients negotiate conflicts around faith through deepening their personal sources of meaning
What you'll learn
Your work with clients
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Inspect what’s meaningful about a moment or challenge and articulate a beautiful value
Refine meaningful moments and stories to reveal the wisdom your clients already have
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Read your emotions and decipher a value that's missing in the moment, turning every frustration into an invaluable lesson
Translate challenging emotions and experiences into meaningful, actionable values
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Gain sensitivity to social pressures and a heightened awareness of how social norms influence us
Help clients identify environmental pressures to act against their values and accurately target leverage points for change
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Learn how to smoothly navigate dual commitments to traditional and modern values
Help clients negotiate conflicts around faith through deepening their personal sources of meaning
Meet the Instructors
We've adapted the groundbreaking work of moral philosopher Joe Edelman to build this course. We're both passionate and literate moral philosophers who have worked with Joe to bring values-based thinking into technology and social spaces. Now we want to equip behavioral health counselors with this powerful tool for personal meaning-making.
Ben Gabbai is a coach, educator, and scholar of Western and Jewish philosophy. He is passionate about cultivating independence and excellence. Ben holds a B. Ed, homeschools alongside his wife, and helps emerging leaders learn new capacities and flourish.
Toby Shorin is the founder of Care Culture. His research explores how communities from subcultures to wellness communities build meaning around values. He’s excited to help practitioners leverage values and cultural determinants of health to enhance clients’ wellbeing.
