• Decide the context (e.g. your work) for which you want to elicit your values. Write it down.

• Ask yourself, in the context of …….. (e.g. my work), what is most important to me about ……. (e.g. my work)? Make a list of what comes to you spontaneously and just write these thoughts down as they come to you (not less than five and no more than ten).

• Go back and rank them in order of importance from one to five discarding those ranking below five or make the list slightly longer if more than five seem important. Just look at them and write a number behind them in pencil as it comes to you instinctively. Then rewrite the list in order of importance on a blank page in pencil.

• Then start from the bottom and ask, in respect of the second last value relative to the last, “If I have the second last one, is that more or less important to me than last one?”

• Work your way up the list and ask the same question as in step four above about the third last one relative to the second last one, and so on, until you finish with your most important value relative to the second most important one.

• Double check – start with the highest ranked value and ask yourself …. if I have one will it support having two? Work down your list in the same manner and, if necessary, adjust the rankings so that higher values support those below them.

• Now ask yourself the following questions in respect of each value, and write the answers down briefly next to that value:

1. How do I know when I am ……………………………?
2. What is the specific evidence of that ……………………?
3. What does this evidence mean to me ……………………?
4. Find (is there a?) the deeper or higher purpose, meaningful to more than myself, of this?