Clarifying & Prioritizing Personal Values
Values: Clarifying & Prioritizing Core Values with Positive Psychology Exercises and Applied Emotional Intelligence
What Is Values Clarification?
Values are fundamental attitudes guiding your mental processes and behavior that lead to the belief that life is meaningful and serve as a measure of how meaningful are your actions are, that are consistent with your personal value system.
Values clarification is an aspect of CBT that involves identifying a person’s personal value system and creating a hierarchy of values that are important to that person.
This value system can be used to help you exit your comfort zone in order to achieve your goals and improve your quality of life.
What are Values?
Your values are the things that are most important to you. Personal values can be almost anything. For example some personal values include family, loyalty, knowledge, health, financial security, and respect but the list will be different for each person.
Knowing your values is important because they help you understand what you want out of life, guide your behavior, influence your decisions and help you achieve your goals.
You can think of your values as a compass that makes navigating life a little easier. You tend to be happier, more fulfilled, and less overwhelmed in difficult situations when you know our values and live in line with them.
What will you learn in this course?
- identify and prioritize personal values
- come up with a shortlist of core values
- become aware of the dynamic nature of values
- have the power and freedom to adjust or change their values
Examples Of Personal & Core Values
- Authenticity
- Achievement
- Adventure
- Autonomy
- Balance
- Beauty
- Compassion
- Challenge
- Community
- Competency
- Contribution
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Determination
- Fairness
- Faith
- Freedom
- Peace
- Popularity
- Recognition
- Religion
- Reputation
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Security
- Self-Respect
- Service
- Spirituality
- Stability
- Success
- Trustworthiness
- Wealth
- Wisdom
- etc.
What are the requirements or prerequisites for taking this course?
- a willingness to learn
- desire to grow
- discipline to do the positive psychology exercises
- discipline to do the thought-feeling practices
Clarifying & Prioritizing Personal Values
Values: Clarifying & Prioritizing Core Values with Positive Psychology Exercises and Applied Emotional Intelligence
Positive Psychology?
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of people's strengths and aims to maximize the human potential, help you become the best version of yourself, having you focus on your character strengths and behaviors, as opposed to your weaknesses.
Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living, focusing on both individual and societal well-being.
It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions and it aims to improve quality of life.
Many positive psychology exercises are considered classics – and for good reason.
While activities such as gratitude journaling and loving-kindness meditation have been shown time and again to lead to positive outcomes, the goal of this course is to provide a variety of new and novel ways to include positive psychology in your personal growth.
These science-based positive psychology exercises explore fundamental aspects of psychology including strengths, values and self-compassion (to name a few) will give you the tools you need to enhance the your wellbeing and set goals for an achievable outcome.
Why?
When you are unsure about your own values, you risk many negative outcomes.
First of all, being unsure about your values can lead to stress and anxiety.
Even worse, being unsure about your values can lead you to behave contrary to your values, which can lead you to even more stress and anxiety (along with guilt).
For these reasons, it is important for you to know what your values are (whatever they may be) and learn to behave according to your personal values.
Carmen Sauciuc
Carmen Sauciuc is the creator of FeelFulness® Feel a Feeling by Choice, building on the wonderful work of Dr. Carl Jung: Individuation, Dr. William James: Functionalism, Dr. Milton Erickson: Tailoring & Utilization, and Dr. Martin Seligman: Maximizing Human Potential, Applied Positive Psychology.
Feelfulness® is a practice designed to help you generate specific states of being and develop or modify your traits. It takes the concept of mindfulness to even greater depths by allowing you to become aware of your emotional states and then modify or influence it positively, all made possible by the incredible power of neuroplasticity. Feelfulness® -Feel a Feeling by Choice- employs methods where a feeling /emotion is experienced in anticipation by using unique linguistic elements such as evocators, movers, and descriptors arranged in triplicates, to evoke an experience in which you can cultivate a positive psychological state and develop new or modify existing personality traits.
Carmen Sauciuc is board certified by American Board of Hypnotherapy, International Association of Counselor and Therapists, International Certification Board of Coaches and Hypnotists, American Board of NeuroLinguistics, trained with the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, is a Contemporary Shaman, a Reiki Master Teacher and designs Thought-Feeling® practices as Feelfulness® techniques for both therapeutic purpose, peak performance and mastery.
Carmen Sauciuc coined the term “Feelfulness®” in 2011. A Mensa member and an international best-selling author Carmen professes “all it takes is willingness” and by deliberately practicing chosen thought-feelings on a regular basis you experience a significant tangible shift in your State of Being. The verb To Be is an example of a "State" which relates to the State of Being. In other words, if you ARE, then you are in the State of Being.
The masterful self never entertains a feeling which does not contribute to a desired achievable outcome. This is the secret of Mastery!
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