Presentation of CRI

1. Values-Based Living
Helping People Articulate and Live By Their Values

2. Behavioral
Maturity
´ Behavioral Maturity is the
ability to make life decisions
based upon your values,
not your circumstances.
´ To help people mature, we
need to help THEM
articulate and practice
living by their values.

3. Why Does Values Education Fail?
´ We ASSUME people know
what a value is…
´ We ASSUME what values
people should have..
´ We ASSUME they should live
by the values of the
dominant culture
´ We ASSUME people learn
best from “being told”
instead of “being listened
to” (learning from, not with)

4. What is a Value?
´ A value is…
• The way I want to be treated
• The way I will treat others
• No matter how they treat me
´ A convenience is…
• Changing the way I treat others based
upon the circumstances
• Changing the way I treat others based
upon my peers

5. Learning Values
´ Transient Hypofrontality
´ We learn what we value from
who values us
´ We grow our values by valuing
others

6. Deepening
Values
´ Specific, public praise
´ Opportunities to network
with values beyond
classroom
´ 3P’s: Personal, Present-tense
and Positive
´ Review Values Habitually