Choosing Your Values
This Choosing Your Values exercise is designed to help clients clarify their values and practice making intentional choices about what matters most to them.
Choosing Your Values
Values reflect the kind of person you would want to be as you move through life. They are the ‘principles for living’ that capture what matters most to you and what you want your life to stand for.
One of the key aspects of values is that they are choices. Sometimes people get caught up in trying to discover their ‘authentic’ values, as if they are buried someplace within them. But values are chosen as much as they are discovered.
This Choosing Your Values exercise will help you:
- Practice choosing your values.
- Identify your most important values.
- Reflect on ways to take your values forwards.
You don’t need to pick the ‘right’ values. The important thing is making intentional, deliberate choices about what matters to you.
Overview
Values are the “principles for living” that capture what matters most to people. clarifying these values can fulfill various therapeutic purposes, such as providing a sense of purpose, guiding goal setting and treatment planning, and motivating clients to confront challenging experiences or engage in therapeutic tasks. Values-focused interventions are utilized in many forms of psychotherapy, with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) being one of the most prominent. The Choosing Your Values exercise is designed to help clients identify their values and make intentional decisions about what matters most to them. This exercise can be especially beneficial for individuals who may be unfamiliar with their own values or who have a limited vocabulary to describe them.
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