Values Clarification Worksheet: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Practices that may help

  1. Values Clarification, Made Practical
    Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research.
  2. Values Card Sort
    A values card sort is a structured exercise — originally developed in motivational interviewing — that forces you to rank competing values by choosing between them rather than claiming you hold all of them equally. The comparison process surfaces implicit priorities that self-report alone misses. Evidence for values-clarification as a lever for behavior change is observational to clinical; the specific card-sort format has good face validity but limited direct trial data.
  3. Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely
    The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  4. Clarify the concepts you are using
    Ask for precise definitions before arguments built on contested or ambiguous terms go far.
    Socratic Questioning
  5. Using values questions to deepen a conversation
    Ask "what matters most to you about this?" to surface values rather than surface preferences.
    Values Card Sort
  6. Check action against stated values — the alignment review
    Once a week, compare your stated values to your actual choices and name the gap honestly.
    The Pythagorean Evening Review
  7. Valued living audit: how much are you actually living your values?
    Rate both how important each value is and how consistently you have been living it — the gap is where to focus.
    Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
  8. Develop second-tier, systems-level thinking
    Practice holding multiple value systems as simultaneously valid rather than competing for dominance.
    Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
  9. Rate your current position in each domain
    Mark on each domain’s bullseye how closely your recent behavior has matched the value — honestly.
    Values Bullseye, Made Practical
  10. Map your values across the four life domains
    Write one core value statement for each domain — work, relationships, personal growth, leisure — before touching the bullseye.
    Values Bullseye, Made Practical

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