Whose values are these? Part 3: Recognizing our own Values

In this four part series, we will discuss a path to discerning your own values from those of your friends, family, and society. During the first session, we learned about the importance of and ways to create a space or an environment for optimal self-observation. During the second session, we dove deep into the values of those individuals and groups around us that often shape our thinking and decision making. During this third session we will work to recognize and distinguish our own values from those around us. And during the final session, we will discuss the concept of differentiation where we work within the tension of being ourselves and remaining in connection.

Many of us have a sense of our values. We’re able to identify when we agree with or disagree with an action somebody else takes or they may guide us subconsciously when something feels or doesn’t feel quite right. But what happens when you take the time to put words to that intuition? What happens when you identify, write down, and define your own values and why they are meaningful to you specifically?

During this session, we’ll start you on the path to do just that. This process of value identification and articulation takes time, so we likely leave with this mission unfinished. But we should be able to get far enough along to have a discussion about the impact this process can have in helping to guide decisions in your day to day life.

Wisdom Traditions we will engage during this session:
Stoic Evening Self-Examination
Socratic Self-Examination (the Examined Life)
Yogic Svadhyaya (Self-Study)