Welcome - And Our Invitation

While education is itself inherently a values-laden endeavour and forms the beating heart of quality education so also values are an integral and defining aspect of the human being and we extend a warm welcome to this website to all those concerned with the place and extent of values in their lives.

We hope that you will find ideas for quiet reflection and contemplation, inspiration for ways of thinking, being and doing that you would like to adopt and practical resources that you can use for teaching in a wide variety of settings.

Values-based education then has an essential part to play in the development of the individual and the path towards a better world for all.

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What is Living Values Education?

What is Living Values Education?

Living Values Education is a global endeavour dedicated to nurturing hearts and educating minds. LVE provides an approach, and tools, to help people connect with their own values and live them.

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Living Values in Business

Living Values in Business

No matter whether you a small corner store or a large corporate, the essential ingredient for success in every business is 'Values'. We must build a Values Based Atmosphere in our workplace. Values that guarantee a happy and efficient environment, a quality product, and most important, service satisfaction. In this small booklet, discover the simplest ingredient - the one value that will bring success to your business.

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Why Develop Values?

Why Develop Values?

No matter what role we are currently playing, whether it be child in a family, parent, person in business, employee, school teacher, government official, retiree, whatever age, gender, nationality, spiritual belief, we all have one thing in common; a human requirement to meet our basic needs - to be Safe, Respected, Understood, Loved, Valued.

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ALIVE Brochure

ALIVE Brochure

For an overview of the organisation, its vision and aims, and how the Living Values Education Approach may be used in a wide variety of settings and ways including in schools, at home, and to support care for the environment, please download and read the ALIVE brochure. There are also brief introductions to our professional development courses for teachers, workshops, various online offerings, and extensive resource materials, all of which are designed to help nurture humanity's inherent goodness and made available around the world through our network of member organisations and supporting individuals.


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LVE Bookmarks

LVE Bookmarks

Living Values Education offers a set of bookmarks available for FREE download. These can be used in a multitude of ways; for daily reflection, questions to ask ourselves, a gift for practical use, even to use on display as posters in the home or classroom.

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LVE Events & Activities Report 2024

LVE Events & Activities Report 2024

LVE Events and Activities Report 2024 for January - June 2024 is out now! See what has been going on around the world in the first six months of 2024.

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Current News

Current News

This News section brings you up-to-moment activities and goings on from Living Values activities around the world source from our global membership of Associates and Focal Points in some 40 countries.

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Why do I want Values? Take our 15 min quiz...

Why do I want Values? Take our 15 min quiz...

How self-aware are you?

Try for yourself, and perhaps together with family members, this simple 15-minute"Living Values Awareness Quiz" to see the important role values play in all our lives. 

The 'Wheel of Life' can show you where and how your ride is through life, whether smooth or bumpy, and most importantly, highlights where corrections can be made.

This simple and quick to engage quiz was requested by our friend Guma from Uganda. Guma was seeking a means to capture the attention of people in his village bringing them to see the important role values play in all our lives. 

Overview of the Free LVE Download Materials available Download the Quiz here

Living Values Education: Parenting Guide

Living Values Education: Parenting Guide

Parents have the possibility to be the most valuable asset for any child, or the greatest detriment. From womb to our old age the experience we have with our parents has a lasting effect. Our parents laid down the foundation upon which we built our lives, the values and morals that are embedded in our foundation set the standard for how we live our lives, act with others around us and our environment.

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Find your country on Facebook

Find your country on Facebook

Thirteen countries are now represented on Facebook providing us the opportunity to feature new projects and resources that various countries are offering including, Zoom meetings, webinars, news and new resources available. There is also the opportunity for viewers to join the LV Self Reflection, a weekly Values personal self development game. 

Simply search for your own country's Facebook page, like and follow.

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LVE Download Materials Available

LVE Download Materials Available

As we are continuously adding more resource material, support information, books, values promotional material, etc., to the website it seems appropriate to show a summary of the current Living Values aspects available for FREE Download.

We know that many school teachers access these files to support their classroom activities as well as organisations, parents, and others seeking to engage in Living Values personally with family at home. Please feel welcome to use all the aspects presented to encourage the expansion of Values Awareness and the building of a values-based atmosphere in your work and home environment. Please share with friends and colleagues.

Overview of the Free LVE Download Materials available Download an overview of the Free LVE Download Materials available

Living Values Education: Climate Change & Values Book

Living Values Education: Climate Change & Values Book

In celebration of World Values Day 2022, we are offering everyone from around the world the opportunity to receive a FREE download copy of our Climate Change and Values Book.

Reflect for a moment on the world your heart longs for. How might the values of peace, love, respect, honesty, cooperation and freedom create a social fabric of harmony and change? Our goal is to affirm our Values and stimulate positive action in our daily lives, to change the way we live, and start to give our Earth and Her Oceans the opportunity to heal - before it is too late.

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Values For Schools

Values For Schools

Living Values Education has all the components to brighten up not only the energy of the classroom, but also change the dynamic of your students themselves. Our full range of Values-based Resources for use with the three age groups, 3-7, 8-14 and young adults is all available to you listed here. Download our overview and choose what you feel would make the changes you would enjoy.

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NOW AVAILABLE! Rainbow Booklets - Values Activities for Children 3-7, 8-14 and Young Adults

NOW AVAILABLE! Rainbow Booklets - Values Activities for Children 3-7, 8-14 and Young Adults

We have created a Library of Values Activity booklets that are invaluable for families and teachers. They are designed to encourage awareness of how Values play a big part in our lives by engaging activities to assist in dealing with specific home or classroom issues.

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Quote of the Month

Quote of the Month

Each month we will present you with a thought or situation to consider. If you feel these refelctions points bring anything you would like to look further into, then join this 12 week personal introspection of your life, and discover the truth of 'Who You Are'.

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Webinars

Webinars

The Covid-19 pandemic made us consider how we can continue to promote LVE without meeting in traditional ways. We have consequently, like so many others, used Zoom to put on a series of webinars. We welcome everyone to join in.

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Workshops

Workshops

LVE has a cadre of trainers on every continent. They are a unique group of people - professional educators who are dedicated to helping young people grow toward their potential in safe, caring, quality learning environments and committed to 'living the values'.

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JUST RELEASED! Living Values Education Values-based Atmosphere

Values-based Atmosphere Book

 

Responses from the LVE community have allowed us to publish a beautiful 52-page book dedicated solely to LVE's approach to a Values-based Atmosphere (VbA).

The book offers different perspectives from different teachers, trainers, practitioners and parents as they share their thoughts and experiences with LVE over the past years and respond to some of the questions above.

This is a must read for everyone involved with education and also to all of us seeking to improve our own lives!

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Success Stories & Testimonials From Educators

Success Stories & Testimonials From Educators

Positive and heart-warming stories from educators as well as educator evaluations have been collected from teachers implementing Living Values Education around the world. The most frequent themes noted in the reports are positive changes in teacher-student relationships and in student-student relationships both inside and outside the classroom.

Educators note an increase in respect, caring, cooperation, motivation, and the ability to solve peer conflicts on the part of the students. Aggressive behaviours decline as positive social skills and respect increase. Living Values Education helps educators create safe, caring, values-based atmospheres for quality learning.

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Country Support

Country Support

Contact your country member and tell them of your interest and ask what you can do to help, to become involved. Start developing your own awareness for your own values right now by participating in the online 12 week LVE Self Reflection.

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Friends: Partnership & Member Support

Friends: Partnership & Member Support

Cooperation is so important and unifying of our collective aims, we invite discussions from like minded groups who are inspired to join together with us to create a better and wider world of values Awareness.

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Quotes - Cormac McCarthy

What People Say About Values

"I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all."
~ Cormac McCarthy

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What We Do

Values For Those At-Risk

Values For Those At-Risk

We are working with people of all ages affected by natural disasters, areas with conflict, personal hardship circumstances, incarceration and rehabilitation.

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Distance Programmes

Distance Programmes

In recognition that it is completely impractical for most of the world's population to attend workshops and participate in organised Living Values activities due to cost, time and travel ...

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Download Our Materials

Download Our Materials

This section is designed to provide access and bring you the 'tools' to discover and to uncover values for yourself, family, community and the classroom.

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