Coaching practices for Environmental Influence on Values

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  • Some environments light me up and others drain me for reasons I can’t articulate, and I keep clashing with people who supposedly want the same things I do
  • If you ask me what I value I’ll say family, health, honesty, growth
  • I’m behaving in ways that aren’t like me
  • I say I value family, or health, or creativity
  • I keep avoiding this even though I’m capable of it and I do care, and I can’t explain why

Practices that may help

  1. Identify your center of gravity on the spiral
    Find the value system that currently organizes most of your daily behavior and motivation.
    Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
  2. The forced-rank sort
    Write your top 20 candidate values on cards, then sort them ruthlessly until you have a ranked top five.
    Values Card Sort
  3. Assess which life conditions are activating which levels
    Map how your current environment is pulling different value systems forward or backward.
    Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
  4. Values clarification through lived evidence
    Infer your actual values from your past behaviour, not from what you wish you valued.
    Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
  5. Socialise your values and expectations to reduce hidden motivation barriers
    Others’s expectations and transmitted values shape whether you believe you belong in a domain — making implicit messages explicit clears hidden motivation blocks.
    Expectancy-Value Theory: Why You Try (or Don’t)
  6. Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
    Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
  7. Rank your top values
    Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
    Values Clarification, Made Practical
  8. Clarify values and choose them actively
    Name what genuinely matters to you — not what should matter — and make it a live choice today.
    Psychological Flexibility, Made Practical
  9. Values clarification: what matters most to you?
    Identify 3–5 core values — not what you should value, but what actually matters when life is stripped back.
    Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
  10. Excavate your actual values from your history
    Use past choices and sacrifices — not aspirations — to find what you actually value.
    Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy

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