ValuesJam Fanzine Edition 39

 

Value of the month:

LOVE

Important dates this month:

13th February

LOVE VALUESJAM DEEPDIVE CONVERSATION Tickets, Thu 13 Feb 2025 at 17:00 | Eventbrite

 

14th February

Valentine’s Day

 

20th February

World Day of Social Justice | United Nations

 

ValuesJam on YouTube 

Studio Highlights

ValuesJam Guide for Communities

 

ValuesJam have created a FREE guide for communities which can be downloaded from our website: https://values-jam.com/

The 2025 weekly ValuesJam Guest Session Series is up and running on the ValuesJam Studio YouTube channel. The full playlist from January 2022 is at ValuesJam The Guest Sessions Series – YouTube and there are lots of brilliant sessions in the back catalogue..

We also had the first ValuesJam Deepdive Conversation of the year and enjoyed a lively exploration into the topic of EDUCATION introduced by Mayank Solanki, Founder and CEO at Val-Ed Initiatives.  

 

A big round of applause to the ValuesJam band

We hit the 100 subscribers to unlock a custom URL for ValuesJam and make it easier for us to be found. Please continue to subscribe and share the channel link ValuesJam – YouTube

The Guest Session Series has now racked up thousands of views since it was launched Thank you so much 🙏🏼

Latest publications on the ValuesJam YouTube channel: ValuesJam

 

Gig Reviews

We’ve had feedback about how the ValuesJam card decks can be used in a variety of ways in the workplace, either 1:1 or with small or large groups: at interviews, icebreaker for team gatherings, part of a performance review or career development conversation etc.  We have even done an online company event for more than 2000 people.

 

Collaborations

World Values Day 2025

Pitch for a free ValuesJam card deck

The ValuesJam Deepdive Conversations series uses a donation model so that people can attend for free if they want to and can also make a donation.  These donations mean that, for 2025, we can offer 10 free ValuesJam card decks for people who want to create a series of values-led conversations in their community as part of the World Values Day 2025 celebrations. This year’s theme is Values for the Future.

You can submit your application at www.values-jam.com or email jamming@values-jam.com with the following information:

Title: Free ValuesJam card deck

Name: [my name]

Organization/Community: [organization/community name to receive the card deck]

I would love to receive a ValuesJam card deck. My/our idea for creating a program for values-led conversations for World Values Day 2025 is:

[insert maximum 300 words]

 Applications will be reviewed for Passion, Plan and Positive Impact so get your message across 😊.  Applications to be received by midnight GMT 28th February. We will cover UK postage costs and are asking people to cover the cost for overseas shipping.

Did you know?

There is a JOKER card in the ValuesJam card deck in case you want to ValuesJam with a word that is not in the deck.

Special Offer

Love is in the air with Valentine’s Day. Save £10 with a “Yours and Mine” ValuesJam duo pack for £50.00 (plus VAT in UK). Just use the promocode LOVE£10 anytime until midnight 14th February.

 

Whats Coming Up

Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine and through later folk traditions, it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. 

Valentine’s Day – Wikipedia

Favourite Lyrics

What are your favourite song lyrics about LOVE?

Here’s some to get you started: https://youtu.be/T4KS2JUrQCY 

Join the conversation on our socials and share your favourites!

ValuesJammer in the Spotlight

Adrian Ashton

Who are you?

It depends on who you ask: I work with market traders to government departments, on issues relating to policy development, charity mergers, and what happens if you’re the founder of a social enterprise who’s just been given 6 months to live by your Doctors… – but my favourite description of who I am and what I do, comes from a client: “he’s a tiger striped chaise lounge with pink flamingo cushions”.

What are your core values?

          Accountability (if we don’t answer to anyone, then there’s nothing to regulate us, and stop us becoming people that we all don’t like)

          Fun (life can easily become overwhelming, without a well-placed whoopee cushion)

          Challenging (using data to ‘poke a stick’ at accepted wisdom to help us all live better lives)

          Grace (there’s always 5 more sides to someone’s story that we’ll never know about)

          Equity (we’re incredibly lucky to be born into the lives we have)

          Solidarity (nothing ever changed for anyone until other people got involved)

Why did you join the ValuesJam community?

A lot of organisations and people talk about values, but when you scratch the surface of them, it turns out to be bullsh!t. The ValuesJam community seems to be one of the few places that people are genuinely committed to working out values, and realising the potential of them for all our benefit.

How are you using your ValuesJam card decks?

In the same way that some people use Tarot decks: drawing several when facing or reflecting on a significant choice or event, to consider it from alternate perspectives.

 

Favourite rock n roll moment of magic from a ValuesJam session?

Either: (i) the impromptu trumpet playing, or (ii) showing the power that rubber ducks can have, as part of the session on the value of Generosity.

How could more LOVE improve the world?

          We’d be more accepting of each other, and so less antagonistic, fearful, and unkind.

          We’d be braver, knowing that people would still support us if it failed.

          People wouldn’t need to eat so much chocolate (it’s known to contain stuff that mimics the feeling of love in our brains[1])

 

Contact details

https://linktr.ee/adrianashton adrian.ashton2@gmail.com

 

[1] https://researchoutreach.org/blog/love-chocolate/#:~:text=Dopamine%20makes%20our%20pupils%20dilate,eating%20chocolate%20is%20so%20enjoyable

ValuesJammer Top Tips

You can use the ValuesJam card deck like some people use Tarot cards to draw a few cards at random when contemplating a situation or considering a decision to help see things from multiple perspectives. 

We already distribute from Australia, UK, USA and now Canada.  Please be in touch if you know somebody who might be interested to set up a ValuesJam studio and distribution arrangement in other parts of the world eg EU, India, Far East etc

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