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LIVING VALUES EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE EVERYWHERE:

Early last year Suzanne and I were presented the opportunity to develop a national organization for Australia and became the Australian Focal Point for this UNESCO endorsed global educational program called Living Values, promoting –

Peace, Love, Respect, Honesty, Humility, Happiness, Tolerance, Responsibility, Simplicity, Cooperation, Freedom, Unity.

Established in 1996 Living Values Education is already active in 56 countries with some 7,000 ‘sites’ – effectively creating change where there is community conflict, in police training, helping street children, helping in war and disaster zones, complimenting drug and prostitution rehabilitation and reshaping the values culture in many schools in regular communities throughout the world.  This reflects the unique capability of Living Values Education to be adapted to suit all ages and situations, in particular when adopted people change the dynamic of their daily lives. 

SO WHAT IS LIVING VALUES ALL ABOUT?

REMEMBER WHEN…..

• We could go out to the corner store and leave the house unlocked?
• If we dropped a ten dollar note someone would run down the street after us?
• Our neighbors could be counted on to help one another in times of difficulty?
• Our children could walk to and from school without concern for their safety?
• And so much more…..

Although for some of us these are memories of what we might call the ‘good old days’, the truth is that many people are inherently good and well meaning and do care about one another.  The speed of life is overwhelming, but we can if we choose, we can still take time to smell the roses, lend a helping hand and offer a smile to a stranger.  How would we truly like people in our community to behave, react and respond to life’s challenges and opportunities, now and in years to come?  We each have the responsibility for creating a positive legacy for future generations.

What are the LIFE QUALITIES that each of us yearn for?  To be:  SAFE, UNDERSTOOD, VALUED, LOVED and RESPECTED.  What if all people in our community could come together with a new vision that offered these qualities, bringing Values Awareness that everyone would benefit from? 

IMAGINE the impact on our own lives, if these simple twelve primary values were to be fully embraced and became the benchmark by which we lived our lives and treated one another.

PEACE, LOVE, RESPECT, HUMILTY, HONESTY, HAPPINESS, TOLERANCE, RESPONSIBILITY, COOPERATION, SIMPLICITY, FREEDOM AND UNITY

Living Values Educational Program has the capacity to be the vehicle by which any family, school, group or community could come into harmony with values that everyone can understand and live from.  It is surprisingly simple.  And that’s our dream….

"The thing that makes Living Values different to every other approach to human development is that it is not a teaching.

It does not rest fundamentally on ideas or in ideals...It offers the notion of what might be embodied in a Value, but it totally acknowledges that these qualities are beyond words or ideas, they are innate in the heart and soul of every man, woman and child and the journey to their fully lived expression comes through ‘feeling’.

Would you like to know more, or how you can part of this?  It’s open for everyone wherever you live….come and have a look and be inspired by how thousands of people are joining together as a family to bring values awareness to the world…..

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