ValuesJam Fanzine Edition 36
Value of the month:
COMMITMENT
Important dates this month:
1- 31st October
A month-long observance devoted to education about the history of Black people and the celebration of their contributions to history.
2nd October
Grandparents Day UK
The UK’s celebration of grandmothers, grandfathers and all grandparents.
5th October
A day started by Harvey Ball, creater of the smiley, as a day which is dedicated to smiles and kind acts throughout the world.
Where would we be without the value of Learning and education?.
15th October
World Singing Day is a global sing-along held annually on the 3rd Saturday in October. As a catalyst for positive human connection, this one day each year serves as an opportunity to celebrate our global family through the international language of music.
An annual celebration of the Welsh Language, encouraging people to have a go at speaking Welsh with their friends. Not sure this should be here but ValuesJam co-founder Alan is Welsh!
17th October
18th-20th October
World Kindness Movement General Assembly. Register at WKM General Assembly Sign-up (involve.me)
25th October
Diwali – the Hindu festival of Lights, which is celebrated with fireworks, decoration and feasting.
World Values Day
17th October 2024
What is World Values Day?
World Values Day is an annual campaign to increase the awareness and practice of values around the world.
Values are what matter most to us. They motivate and guide us. They are the passion in our hearts, the reason we do the things we do.
In a world that can feel increasingly divided, values help unite us. They are the glue holding together our communities and wider society.
The theme this year is Bringing Values to Life. So on World Values Day let’s put our values into action, reaching across the growing barriers that divide us to build stronger communities and a more united world. Celebrations take place from 1-31 October and ValuesJam is a great way to be involved with values-led conversations in your community.
ValuesJam co-founder Alan Williams is once again embarking on the ValuesJam Challenge where he will attempt to have 31 ValuesJam sessions in October starting on 1 October with a ValuesJam with UK Values Alliance colleagues Charles Fowler and Neil Tomalin.
People loved the Gratitude playlist last month so here is a playlist from @liam Flynn about living life which we think is a close fit with Bringing Values To Life 31 Best Songs About Life & Living It (Of All Time) – Music Grotto Check out I can See Clearly now by Johnny Nash which reminded us of this quote
‘When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.’
Roy E. Disney
ValuesJam on YouTube
ValuesJam Guide for Communities
ValuesJam have created a FREE guide for communities which can be downloaded from our website: https://values-jam.com/
To get you ready for ValuesJam sessions in October and embrace the ValuesJam vibe of passing it forward, use the promocode WVD24 when you order two card decks or more to save £10. About | Values Jam (values-jam.com)
If you are ready to step it up a level, consider joining Certified ValuesJammer Pro training – learn how to facilitate values-led conversations to connect people using the acclaimed ValuesJam card deck.
Please let us know what is your favourite session so far.
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If you haven’t done so already you still have time to complete our ValuesJam survey: https://www.menti.com/alifghi3mbcc We will be announcing the results in early November.
ValuesJammer in the Spotlight
ValuesJammer in the Spotlight is co-founder Alan Williams, ValuesJammer 000001
Who are you?
I am a values practitioner and father of four amazing grown up children. I enjoy travel, photography, good food and wine and football (soccer).
I design and implement values-driven concepts and operating models to create lasting impact for individuals, organizations and communities. In practice, this looks like a variety of diverse activities ranging from connecting people through values-led conversation with the playful ValuesJam card game, to helping individuals bring their values to life with the my31Practices approach, to helping organizations deliver better service with the CX in ConteXt development programme, to celebrating values with World Values Day, giving youth a voice through the creative arts with the Voices of Tomorrow initiative and others. I would love to explore any of these further according to what makes you curious.
What are your core values?
Excellence, Creation, Kindness, Adaptability and Enjoyment
Why did you join the ValuesJam community?
At a World Values Day planning meeting, people were talking about the value of values-led conversations but nobody could explain how to do this. I had the idea to create a card game and invited anybody to work with me on this. Lisa Birtles was interested and.long story short, we created ValuesJam together.
How are you using your ValuesJam card decks?
I run a Valuesjam Guest Session Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQArsHxkN8&list=PLEqpRBgYB8PJAti_z19kMotaVADy5EQg0&pp=gAQBiAQB which is published every week. The ValuesJam card decks are also extremely versatile so can be used in numerous ways from values sorting to sorter or longer one to one conversations to small or large group sessions.
Favourite rock n roll moment of magic from a ValuesJam session?
I still love the reaction from people who choose a card at random and then say something like “Wow. I journalled on this just this morning” or similar
How could greater commitment to Bringing Values to Life improve the world?
It seems that much progress has been made over the last ten years in the level of attention that the topic of values receives and people have a much greater awareness of the value of values. At the same time, this often seems to be a surface level or limited level of interest and the next step is to see more energy and commitment being put into bringing values to life in practice. Values are for living not laminating.
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