This template has been refined. You find the leaner version below
- ❣ EMOTIONS TO 🌳 VALUES
- Step 1.1.) Recall a recent emotional situation
- Step 1.2.) Identify the emotion and its immediate cause
- Step 1.3.) Explore the value behind the emotion through questions
- Step 1.4.) Name your value
- Step 1.5.) Clarify your value
- 👣HARD STEPS
- Step 2.1.) Come up with potential Hard Steps
- Step 2.2.) Screen and Pick
- Step 2.3.) Refine and Final Check
- ⚙STRUCTURAL FEATURES - That make this value easier in
- 🎸SPACE JAM
- Step 4.1.) Frame the game
- Step 4.2.) (Simple) Instructions
- Step 4.3.) Design Materials
- 🎸JAMTIME
❣ EMOTIONS TO 🌳 VALUES
Step 1.1.) Recall a recent emotional situation
To begin with harvesting your own emotions, step back into your memory. Pick a situation you experienced in the past weeks that felt challenging and that stuck with you. This worksheet is most interesting to go through for a situation that brought up challenging emotions that are linked to the situation itself more than to previous trauma. Here are some questions to help you flesh out your memory.
Where were you? With whom? What happened? What emotions came up? How did they manifest in your body?
Step 1.2.) Identify the emotion and its immediate cause
As you have identified different emotions that came up, decide on the one that was most clear and present. Think about the immediate cause of the emotion.
Write down your emotion and its immediate cause.
I felt ___________________ because____________________________________________________________.
Step 1.3.) Explore the value behind the emotion through questions
Step 1.4.) Name your value
Using the guiding questions connecting to the feeling you identified, try to articulate your value as a sentence.
When you articulate your value try to use one of these pre-fixes or a similar kind in your formulation.
| From Step 1.1
Emotion:
| From Step 1.2
Immediate Cause:
Value
| From Step 1.3
Step 1.5.) Clarify your value
To make sure that your value isn't polluted with norms, goals, fears, etc. answer the questions below. Note that your value might already be on spot, in which case you don't need to that.
- Would it still be worth doing independent of the outcome? If so, continue to the next bullet point. If not, it's a goal or fear! Take notes below.
- Would it still be worth doing if no one knew you did it? If so, continue to the next question. If not, it's a social norm. Take notes below.
- Do you believe you could still be a good person even if you failed to be this way? If so, continue to the next question. If not, it's an internalized social norm. Take notes below.
- Would it still be worth being this way if no one else ever joined in? If so, (after all the questions above) it's probably a value! If not, it’s an ideological commitment. Take notes below.
"How would I want to approach things/treat people/etc. if I couldn't affect the outcome?"
"How would I want to approach things/treat people/etc. if no one noticed?"
"How would I want to approach things/treat people/etc. if there were no rules?"
"How would I want to approach things/treat people/etc. if I couldn't influence anyone?
🌳 Personal Value
Write your clarified value in the box below using one of the following pre-fixes.
👣HARD STEPS
Copy of your articulated 🌳 Personal Value
Step 2.1.) Come up with potential Hard Steps
Allow yourself to come up with many potential hard steps. You'll have time to select and refine later. In this stage, you can also list things you need, states you need to get to, social skills, sequences of actions you need to do, norms, goals, and limiting beliefs to overcome. You can turn them into hard steps one by one.
Step 2.2.) Screen and Pick
Look at the list of checked items and go through the list of potential hard steps one by one.
Which three potential hard steps seem essential and hardest in living by this value? Run through the next step with those three.
Step 2.3.) Refine and Final Check
⚙STRUCTURAL FEATURES - That make this value easier in
Copy of your articulated 🌳 Personal Value
🎸SPACE JAM
Space Jamming is a chance to create small games for people to practice living by their values. We want to support the value, but make sure not to jump over the hard steps. Space jams should be practice spaces to help us live by our values in everyday life.
Step 4.1.) Frame the game
A 👨👩👧👦 social skill or situation
A social skill that is being practiced through living the value and the situation it takes place in (e.g. giving feedback at a work meeting, listening to my friends at a bar).
Step 4.2.) (Simple) Instructions
Start with this, then do this, then this.
Step 4.3.) Design Materials
Copy your 🌳 articulated value here.
Copy your 👣 hard steps here.
Copy of your ⚙ structural features
🎸JAMTIME
Time to let your creativity shine. Rewrite your rules from above to make a game environment for someone to practice living by a value. Offer support, but don't let them skip over the hard steps!
Expect it to suck, put in 20h and 50 games and you'll rock. Have fun! 🎉