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On this page you will find a storehouse of Living Values Education materials for a variety of use.
- VbA – The Key to a Better Life
- Materials For Schools
- Materials For Living Green Values
- Rainbow Booklet Values Library
- Materials For Businesses
- Materials For Distance Programmes
Association for Living Values Education International Brochure
Please download and read the 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. 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.
Download ALIVE eBrochure print version
Value-based Atmosphere Book
Responses from the LVE community have allowed us to publish this beautiful 52-page book dedicated solely to LVE’s approach to a Values-based Atmosphere. 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. It’s a must read for everyone involved with children and also to all of us seeking to improve our own lives!
Download FREE Values-based Atmosphere Book (desktop & download version) or Values-based Atmosphere Book (phone version)
Materials for Schools - Free Downloads
Designed to address the whole child/person, Living Values Education activities engage people of all ages in exploring, experiencing and expressing values so they can find those that resonant in their heart, and build the social and emotional skills, which enable them to live those values.
The universal values explored are of Peace, Respect, Love, Cooperation, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance, Freedom, Unity and more.
The initial set of five books known as the Living Values Education series are:
- Living Values Education Activities for Children Ages 3–7
- Living Values Education Activities for Children Ages 8–14
- Living Values Education Activities for Young Adults
- Living Values Education Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide
- LVE Educator Training Guide
Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7, 8-14 and Young Adults
Recognising the many challenges faced by teachers today with all ages of young people we have created a Library of Values Activity booklets which are essentially ‘classroom aids’ providing ideas, using activities to assist in dealing with specific classroom issues, capturing student imagination, participation and discussion, perhaps bringing our young people to a different; more caring and responsible space.
Each value activities booklet of approx. 40-56 pages is easily printed on school printer as A5 booklet/pocket book size, landscape, 2 up, colour cover and b/w inside. If you have a machine that staples great, if not a long-nose stapler will do the trick. Alternatively, you could download the files and order your choice of booklets from your local photocopy shop (one colour) for about $3 each.
Download Rainbow Booklets Library Overview
Children Ages 3-7
Rainbow Library Activities Booklets for Children Ages 3-7, Book 1
Free Downloads - eBook download for reading online or self-print option and copying. Provide Activities For Everyone – Teachers, Care Givers, Parents, Individuals, Special Interest Areas, Living Values for Self and Community Development.
Materials and activities in these booklets are adapted from Living Values Education Activities for Children Ages 3-7, Book 1
Introduction and Overview
Part B Appendix
Unit 1 Peace
Unit 2 Respect
Unit 3 Love and Caring
Unit 4 Tolerance
Unit 5 Honesty
Unit 6 Happiness
Unit 7 Responsibility
Unit 8 Simplicity and Caring for the Earth and her Oceans
Download the full set of Rainbow Booklets for Children Ages 3-7, Book 1 here »
Posters for Children Ages 3-7
Living Values Education posters are Reflection Points for each value. They are offered to assist and remind students and others seeking values awareness the various qualities of each value. They can be printed as an A4 page in colour and easily displayed. They can also be increased in size to A3 (bigger) and used as display posters in the classroom.
Download Posters: The .docx versions allow for language translation.
| Happiness | docx | |
| Honesty | docx | |
| Love | docx | |
| Peace | docx | |
| Respect | docx | |
| Responsibility | docx | |
| Simplicity | docx | |
| Tolerance | docx |
Download FREE Songs in mp3 format
A variety of songs are included in the LVE lessons for children ages three to seven. You can download the songs to hear the melody or to play them for the children. Children benefit in many ways from learning and singing the songs together – and doing so builds feelings of happiness and belonging.
- I Am a Peaceful Star
- Something Kind
- These Little Hands
- Each One of Us Is Beautiful
- In Your Shoes
- True Blue Friend
- Share
- If Someone Says I Love You
- Happy Children
- Smile
- The Rainbow Song
- The Happy Stars
- Star Song
- My Wings
- Friends Make the World Go ‘Round
- Let Us Clap Together
Download FREE Stories used in Living Values Education Activities for Children Ages 3-7, Book 1
The creators of the Joy of Reading Project kindly gave permission to the Association for Living Values Education International for the posting of some of their stories on this website. They also gave their permission to offer them for free download. The stories below were chosen because of their relevance to a particular value. Each pdf file states the values unit and lesson in which the story is included; the name of the story and author are stated in the relevant lesson of the book.
Peace I, Ages 3 – 4, Lesson 7 . . . “The Way I Feel” by Janan Cain
Peace I, Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 9 . . . “Simon’s Hook” by Karen Gedig Burnett
Peace I, Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 14 . . . “Because of You” by B. G. Hennessy and Hiroe Nakata
Respect I, Ages 3 – 6, Lesson 7 . . . “Hands Are Not for Hitting” by Martina Agassi and Marieka Heinlen
Respect I, Age 7, Lesson 7 . . . “Bully B.E.A.N.S.” by Julia Cook
Love Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 3 . . . “The Invisible String” by Patrice Karst
Love Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 9 . . . “Little Mouse, I Love You” by Dugald Steer
Love Ages 5 – 7, Lesson 9 . . “Library Lion” by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes
Love Ages 6 – 7, Lesson 9 . . . “Lin Yi´s Lantern” by Brenda Williams
Love Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 14 . . . “My body belongs to me from my head to my toes” by Pro Familia
Tolerance Ages 5 – 7, Lesson 8 . . . “Suki’s Kimono” by Chieri Uegaki
Tolerance Ages 3 – 5, Lesson 8 . . . “Whoever you are” by Mem Fox and Leslie Staub
Honesty Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 11 . . . “Jade and the Giant” by Todd Rice @1995, 2005 - in mp3 format
Honesty Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 12 . . . “One Seed” by Rosemary Phillips
Simplicity Ages 3 – 6, Lesson 8 . . . “Mortimer’s First Garden” by Karma Wilson
Simplicity Ages 3 – 7, Lesson 8 . . . “A Caterpillar Grows Up” by Edith Hunter; adapted from The Family Finds Out
Simplicity Ages 6 – 7, Lesson 8 . . . “Anju and the Stream” by R. P. Subramanian and Tamal Basu
Children Ages 8-14
Rainbow Library Activities Booklets for Children 8-14, Book 1
Free Downloads – eBook download for reading online or self-print option and copying. Provide Activities For Everyone – Teachers, Care Givers, Parents, Individuals, Special Interest Areas, Living Values for Self and Community Development.
Activities in these booklets are adapted from Living Values Education Activities for Children Age 8-14, Book 1
ATTENTION TEACHERS – PLEASE NOTE: for Rainbow Booklets in other languages we are able to provide the document in Word Docx so that it may be translated into any language using Google Translate. Request from [email protected]
Introduction and Overview
Unit 1 Peace
Unit 2 Respect
Unit 3 Love and Caring
Unit 4 Tolerance
Unit 5 Simplicity and Caring for the Earth and Her Oceans Part 1
Unit 5 Simplicity and Caring for the Earth and Her Oceans Part 2
Unit 6 Honesty
Unit 7 Happiness
Unit 8 Responsibility
Download the full set of Rainbow Booklets for Children Ages 8-14, Book 1 here »
Posters for Children Ages 8-14
Download Posters: The .docx versions allow for language translation.
| Cooperation | docx | |
| Freedom | docx | |
| Happiness | docx | |
| Honesty | docx | |
| Humility | docx | |
| Love | docx | |
| Peace | docx | |
| Simplicity | docx |
Download FREE Stories used in Living Values Education Activities for Children Ages 8–14, Book 1
The creators of the Joy of Reading Project kindly gave permission to the Association for Living Values Education International for the posting of some of their stories on this website. The 11 stories below were chosen because of their relevance to a particular value. Each pdf file states the value's unit in which the story is included; the name of the story and author are stated in the relevant lesson of the book.
Permission to share these stories and make them available for free download was kindly given by the Joy for Learning Project.
Respect 8–10 . . . “A Christmas I’ll Never Forget” by Linda DeMers Hummel
Love 8–12 . . . “Enemy Pie” by Derek Munson
Love 8–14 . . . “The girl with a brave heart: A Tale from Tehran” by Rita Jahanforuz
Love 8–14 . . . “Chicken Sunday” by Patrica Polacco
Tolerance 8–10 . . . “One Green Apple” by Eve Bunting
Tolerance 8–11 . . . “The Royal Bee” by Frances and Ginger Park and Christopher Zhong‐Yuan Zhang
Tolerance 12–Young Adults . . . “Brothers in Hope — The story of the lost boys of Sudan” by Mary Williams
Happiness 8–14 . . . “The Boy Who Grew Flowers” by Jen Wojtowicz
Happiness 8–14 . . . “Can I catch it like a cold? coping with a parent’s depression” by Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Responsibility 8–14 . . . “Running Shoes” by Frederick Lipp
Responsibility 12–14 . . . “Rickshaw Girl” by Mitali Perkins
Young Adults
Rainbow Library Activities Booklets for Young Adults, Book 1
Free Downloads – eBook download for reading online or self-print option and copying. Provide Activities For Everyone – Teachers, Care Givers, Parents, Individuals, Special Interest Areas, Living Values for Self and Community Development.
Activities in these booklets are adapted from Living Values Education Activities for Young Adults, Book 1
ATTENTION TEACHERS – PLEASE NOTE: for Rainbow Booklets in other languages we are able to provide the document in Word Docx so that it may be translated into any language using Google Translate. Request from [email protected]
Introduction and Overview
Unit 1 Peace
Unit 2 Respect
Unit 3 Love and Caring
Unit 4 Tolerance
Unit 5 Simplicity and Caring for the Earth and Her Oceans Part A
Unit 5 Simplicity and Caring for the Earth and Her Oceans Part B
Unit 6 Honesty
Unit 7 Happiness
Unit 8 Responsibility
Download the full set of Rainbow Booklets for Young Adults, Book 1 here »
Posters for Young Adults
Download Posters: The .docx versions allow for language translation.
| Cooperation | docx | |
| Freedom | docx | |
| Happiness | docx | |
| Honesty | docx | |
| Humility | docx | |
| Love | docx | |
| Peace | docx | |
| Simplicity | docx |
Living Values Education Values Cards
The simple values cards (setup as six per A4 page) are used as reminders for what the values offer to us and we offer to the values. Ideal for printing off and using one value each day for a week to remind ourselves of the treasure they can bring to our lives. The values cards are ideal for creating a point of focus in group situations, passing around and sharing with one another about what the particular value means to us, thus opening the doors for mutual discussion and self-discovery.
Living Green Values, Activities for Children and Young Adults – Free Downloads
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These Living Green Values activities are intended to help young people be more aware of the importance of taking care of the Earth and her resources. Part of that process is awakening love for nature and her creatures and learning about specific ways that they can help be a friend to the Earth.
Rainbow Booklet Values Library – Free Downloads
Free Download – eBook download for reading online or self-print option and copying. Provide Activities For Everyone – Teachers, Care Givers, Parents, Individuals, Special Interest Areas, Living Values for Self and Community Development.
Booklets available now:
- Living Values Education For Young Adults - (Taken from Activity Books)
- Living Values Education The Living Values School Experience - (LVE Criteria, Kuwait And Bali)
- Living Values Education 'Respect' for Children Age 8-14 - (Taken from Activity Books)
Values Booklet Library – Free Downloads
Free Download – eBook download for reading online or self-print option and copying. Provide Activities For Everyone – Teachers, Care Givers, Parents and Individuals.
- Living Values Education Criteria For LVE Model Schools
- Living Values Education Improving Facilitation Skills
Materials for Businesses – Free Downloads
Free Download – eBook download for reading online or self-print option and copying. Provide Activities For Special Interest Areas, Living Values for Self and Community Development.
In today’s business world, no matter whether a mum and pop corner store or a large corporate, the essential ingredient for success is Values. We must build a Values Based Atmosphere in our workplace. The source of all this is based on your organisation’s dedication to your business at all levels; management, workforce, and customers must be one intrinsically linked unit with defined and lived-in 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.
- Living Values in Business – For Associates, Focal Points and Facilitators
The purpose to this 52-page book is to bring to the attention of LVE facilitators the opportunity of assisting business of all types and size to the importance of values in business, to provide support information and how the material can be used. - Living Values in Business – For Owner / Managers
Of all the Values one would assume are important in the business environment perhaps the Value of Happiness would not be the first that comes to mind, yet as the booklet demonstrates the value of happiness is intrinsic to the wellbeing of very organisation from the mom and pop corner grocery store to the large corporate environment – without happiness in the workplace, employees and management, a multitude of dangerous potentialities emerge to destroy the customer and workmate relationship.
Materials for Distance Programmes – Free Downloads
We recognise that people everywhere, in all circumstances of life, age and beliefs live from Values at their core, this section is designed to bring you the ‘tools’ to discover and to uncover values for yourself. How you choose to use them and extend them is your choice and your imaginative process. The resources in this section allow you to engage in activities directly yourself, among your family, friends, and colleagues, or even students in the classroom or workplace. Through these activities, we can discover for ourselves the true meaning of Values and the power that Values have to bring positive change into our lives.
Created specifically for those desiring to share Living Values activities who do not have access to formal Values print resources or access to Living Values Education Associates and Trainers.
The materials for Living Values Education Distance Home Study include:
- Living Values Education Distance Values Activities for Groups and Individuals – For Adults, Families, and Groups – a colourful 52-page Rainbow Booklet – participation book of activities, drawn from Living Values Education for Young Adults.
- Living Values Education Distance Personal Journal – a 97-page book will help you record each of the activities and give you something to look back on.
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Living Values Education Values-based Atmosphere Book (desktop & download version) or Values-based Atmosphere Book (phone version) – ALIVE invited contributions from all its Associates, all Focal Points for LVE and LVE practitioners about what a Values-based Atmosphere means for them in their work as educators: What is it? How can it be created and sustained? Where can it be found? What are its benefits? Why is it important? What impact does it have on my personal life, my attitude and mood in school? How does my personal life affect my work as a values-educator? What is the relationship between a values-based atmosphere and LVE activities? What difference does a values-based atmosphere make to academic performance? How does LVE and values-based atmosphere make a difference in the home, in classroom and school? How can teachers and parents learn to create a values-based atmosphere in workshops and classrooms?
Responses from the LVE community have allowed us to just publish a beautiful 52-page book dedicated solely to LVE’s approach to a Values-based Atmosphere. The book offers different perspectives from different teachers, trainers, practitioners and parents as they share their thoughts and experiences with LVE. It’s a must read for everyone involved with education and also to all of us seeking to improve our own lives! - Living Values Education Audio-Guided Meditations
The materials for Living Values Education Distance Groups include:
- Living Values Education Distance Values Activities for Groups and Individuals – For Adults, Families, and Groups – a colourful 52-page Rainbow Booklet – participation book of activities, drawn from Living Values Education for Young Adults.
- Living Values Education Distance Personal Journal – a 97-page book will help you record each of the activities and give you something to look back on.
- Living Values Education Audio-Guided Meditations
- Living Values Education Distance Self-Reflection – Your 12 Week Values Personal Development booklet
- Living Values Education Distance Study Group Guidelines – A guide for Study Group hosts on 'how to' manage effective group activities.
The materials for Living Values Distance Facilitator include:
- Living Values Education Distance Facilitator Training Course Overview and Schedule – a must read before proceeding
- Living Values Education Distance Facilitator Programme Application Form
Please fill in and return to us by email, together with your completed Living Values Education Self Reflection booklet and Personal Journal showing the values you have chosen to explore during your 12 weeks – two activities each week. We will then connect you to your national Associate or Focal Point or, if not available, you can work directly with us at ALIVE - Living Values Education Distance. - Living Values Education Distance Facilitator Training – Part One – LVE Training Guide
This Training Guide delivers all the techniques and skills required to feel confident to facilitate activities and workshops using the Living Values Education materials with community groups, schools, families, etc. The Guide provides professional advice, recommendations as to how to be a successful facilitator, something quite different from a teacher, in that a teacher puts information in, while a facilitator draws out our feelings and beliefs. You learn about ALIVE, Living Values history, the resources available to you, and how to benefit fully from the www.livingvalues.net website. - Living Values Education Distance Facilitator Training – Part Two – Evaluation Questions and Agenda
- Living Values Education Distance Facilitator Training Course Outline and Schedule
The materials for Living Values Distance Self Reflection include:
- Living Values Education Distance Self-Reflection – Your 12 Week Values Personal Development
- Living Values Education Posters are Reflection Points for each value. They are offered to Distance Course participants seeking to use as daily reminders for values awareness with the various qualities of each value. They can be printed off as A4 colour and easily displayed. Use Reflection Points Posters for Young Adults.
