Keep Me Balanced!

Values
• Values are a fundamental building block of your
Mission in Life (Clarke, 2012).
• acquired as a result of value-laden information from
the environment interacting with the inherited
characteristics of the individual.
• play an important role in the career decision-making
process of individuals more than their interests.
This module will let you:
• identify their possessed values to keep them
balanced with those values shared by their
significant others—school, family, and
community. They may be able to know their
selves better as they continue navigating vast
opportunities in their lifelong journey.
Activity 1: Mine Me Game
• Group the class into five. Each group is given a set of
containing jumbled letters. The groups will be given
five minutes to rearrange the jumbled letters and
come up with the correct words/phrases and write it
in a yellow pad. This first to complete the task shall be
declared the winner and the group shall shout Karir na
Karir once its done.
Activity 1: Mine Me Game
1. Looking at the words/phrases on the board, what
do you think are these about?
2. How important are these values to a person’s life?
3. How does ones’ values affect his/her choice of a
profession?
 Activity 2: Side A, Side B
Directions:
1. Let the students answer the template for five minutes.
2. Once the template is completed, group students into 5–7 members each.
Each group will have to identify their group leaders to act as facilitators.
3. Instruct students to attach their template at their back displaying the SIDE
B portion using a masking tape. Members of the group will help each other
in doing this.
4. Direct students to identify values which they think their groupmates
possess and then let them write the value that best describes that person
on the Side B portion of his/her paper. Remind them to be candid in their
perception/s.
5. Each member within the group will move around and take turns in writing
the corresponding values of their group members.
6. Allow five minutes for this activity.
Activity sheet 1
Activity Sheet 1
Small group sharing: (15 minutes)
1. How did you find the activity?
2. How do you find your values compared to those written
by your groupmates on your paper?
3. How do you feel about those values attributed by your
classmates to you, which you may be unaware of?
4. How can your values contribute/deter the attainment of
your career goals?
Activity Sheet 1
Big group sharing (15 minutes) Group leaders consolidate
their group’s responses and share them to the entire class.
Each group leader is given two minutes to share.
Lecture
• Values are acquired as a result of value-laden
information from the environment interacting with
the inherited characteristics of the individual. Since
cultural background, gender, and socio-economic level
influence social interactions and opportunities,
priorities placed on values by people from various
multicultural grouping will vary and influence the
choice of careers and other life roles.
Kinds of Values
•personal values like self-respect, self-fulfillment,
health, privacy, peace of mind, financial stability,
independence
•family values like love, close family ties, family
happiness
•spiritual values like establishing a close personal
relationship with God, seeking His will in our life,
following His commandments, working for the good and
well-being of the less fortunate
Kinds of Values
•work values like precision work, power, exercising
competence, public contact, fast pace, change and variety
•career values like personal growth, advancement,
prestige and status, recognition
•social and humanitarian values like service to others,
helping people in need, love of country, moral
fulfilment, etc.
•cultural values like debt of gratitude or utang na
loob, getting along with others or pakikisama,
authority
 Conflicts in values may be intrapersonal,
interpersonal, or organizational. An
intrapersonal conflict is a situation wherein
one experiences conflict of values and needs
within oneself
 People with divergent values but who must
live or work together experience interpersonal
conflicts
 Organizational conflict is experienced by a
person whose personal value system clashes
with corporate values
 Value conflicts create tension and anxiety
which can lead to stress. They can make
people indecisive, a situation that can confuse
the ones they live or work with
To resolve an intrapersonal conflict, one has to
be clear about his or her priorities. Priorities
depend on one’s roles, goals, and personal
mission
Duane Brown’s Values-based Holistic
Approach to Career Development
Values have cognitive, affective, and behavioral
components which facilitate prioritization of values for
decision-making. Each person develops a relatively
small number of values that are prioritized in a value
system.
Values are prioritized when a person can rank the order
of importance assumed by his or her values in guiding
his or her behavior and when he or she can act
according to that priority.
Duane Brown’s Values-based Holistic
Approach to Career Development

Authentic values are brought out through an insightful

dialogue involving self reflection. True values, when
fully expressed, are capable of leading a person toward
focus, purpose, satisfaction, and happiness.
Activity 3: Rerouting Values
Reflection
Write your insights and realizations on the Side A, Side
B activity using the following format:

I learned that ………….

I realized that ………….
In order to achieve my career goal, I will.........
Title: Look Ahead!
1. Present the given scenario to the students. Ten years after
graduation, you were invited by your high school alma
mater as speaker to the Commencement Exercises of the
Senior High School with the theme “Values Brought Us to
Success.” Banking on your own experience and
realizations from the activities you just had, what are you
going to tell the graduates? You are given only five
minutes to convey the inspiring message.
2. Call one volunteer to deliver the speech.
Title: Look Ahead!
• The learners will discuss their career plans with their parents
or guardians and elicit suggestions/opinions on how they can
best contribute to the realization of their plans.
• Documentation is REQUIRED