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Assess your current values and ideals and using the wisdom outlined in this lesson and the Values Worksheet to intentionally create a set of your core values. Write a high-quality essay, typically 900 words or more to explain and defend your set of core values AND evaluate your culture’s capacity to allow you to live your values. The most successful essays will include course concepts that you found meaningful and that support your essay responses. Follow rubric and use it for subtopics
VALUES& VIRTUES WORKSHOP
1. Make a list of everything that you value. Don’t worry about making this list perfect. Just write everything
you can think of for 5 minutes. The list might include things, emotions, character traits, career goals, and
visions for a better world.
2. Check for ends and means. For example, most people don’t value money or wealth in itself. They value
money as a means toward another end, which might be freedom, security, control, power, or pleasure.
Refine your list here into 10-20 core values (good and bad) that you are currently living.
3. Defining Good and Bad Values
Good Values
− Reality-based
− Socially constructive
− Immediate and controllable
Bad Values
− Superstitious
− Socially destructive
− Not immediate or controllable
List 5 to 10 Good Values that you live: List 5 to 10 Bad Values that you live:
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4. Use multiple levels (immediate family, structures/institutions, beliefs/religion) analyze how
your values are supported (or de-valued) by the culture you live in.
5. Edward Fischer’s work suggests that all cultures should provide 1. Hope, 2. Opportunity, 3. Dignity, 4.
Fairness, and 5. A sense of commitment to larger purposes. How does (or does not) your culture provide
each of these for you?
6. Does your culture provide these five elements to all people in your culture?
7. What (if anything) would need to change to increase these five elements in your culture?
8. Are there other elements you think should be added to Fischer’s list?
9. Take the VIA Character Survey at www.viacharacter.org
10. How did you feel while doing the survey?
11. How accurate do you think the survey is based on your experience? Do you think you are able to
adequately answer the questions about yourself? Do you think you would answer the questions
consistently over the course of a few weeks or would it depend on your mood and circumstance?
12. Based on what you have learned in this class, do you think the survey could work across all cultures?
13. What were your top 3 and bottom 3 character traits? Does this seem accurate to you?
14. Are there any character traits that you wish had been ranked higher?
http://www.viacharacter.org/
15. Brainstorm personal development goals for 5 minutes. These should be clear goals that you can
achieve in 1, 5, 10, or 20 years (try different time frames as you brainstorm). After 5 minutes of
brainstorming, look over the list and circle the 3 that are most important to you.
16. Re-write the 3 goals making sure that you use good metrics that are mostly within your control.
(Examples of bad metrics: I feel intelligent when I get straight A’s. To be successful, I have to write a best-
selling novel.)
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17. Based on your earlier cultural analysis in step 4, how might the culture you live in support you or create
obstacles for you? How do you plan to leverage the opportunities and overcome the obstacles?
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