My number one tool in navigating life is having clarity on my values. It helps me to prioritise, overcome challenges, and make informed choices, even when life is demanding and at times overwhelming. My values also inform how I work and relate, which is why I would like to share them with you here.
Gentleness
Approaching life with kindness, compassion, and understanding. It involves softening judgments and embracing patience, both with myself and others. When I feel afraid to be judged, this value guides me towards loving compassion both to myself and the person that might judge.
Integrity
Staying true to my values, principles and boundaries irrespective of whether somebody is watching. It means to be honest about my capacities and needs for my well-being. It also includes owning up to mistakes and fostering repair, both in relation to myself and in connection to others.
Creative Expression
Honoring my unique voice and channeling my emotions, thoughts, and experiences into creative outlets. This value emphasizes freedom, self-discovery, and the transformative power of creativity to bring ideas to life and inspire others.
Sincerity/ Authenticity
Being genuine and true to myself, even if this means facing loss or conflict. Fostering a space where others are safe to be sincere and authentic. A continuous unmasking of conditioning and investigating where I can readjust. To be transparent , honest and open about my objectives, motivations and processes. To be visible both in strengths and in challenges.
Curiosity
To approach life with playfulness, actively inviting a ‘beginner’s mind’. To nourish joy and take on a perspective of wonder. Cultivating awe and appreciation for the beauty and magic of everyday experience. To investigate resistance and what prejudices and beliefs might feed into the resistance.
Connection
Nurturing meaningful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging. This involves being present, empathetic, and open to deepening bonds with others.
Self-worth
Cultivating self-respect and intrinsic worth, for myself and others. Setting a standard for how I deserve to be treated, and what I need to feel loved. To place my boundaries informed by this standard, and allow others to place theirs like this.
Dedication/ Surrender
To acknowledge that our capacities and senses as humans are limited, and this world is complex. To surrender to those factors out of our control and navigate them with trust. To show up with devotion and dedication, to bring a wholehearted presence, committed to what matters while trusting the process.
Mutuality
Fostering balance in relationships, where all involved are seen, acknowledged, supported and valued in a reciprocal way. With a focus on equity over equality: keeping an eye on individual differences and needs.
Openness to Change
This world is mutable by nature, everything changes. This value allows me to be curious in times of transformation, to be adaptable and flexible, even if it means to grieve loss of cherished attachments.