The Values Lab: Living What You Stand For

The Values Lab is a 4-week relational learning experience for people who want to better understand what they stand for and how to live in closer alignment with those values.

This course is rooted in the understanding that values are not abstract concepts floating somewhere above our lives. Values live in our relationships, our decisions, our boundaries, our habits, our reactions, and the ways we move through the world every day.

While many learning spaces focus on analyzing systems from a distance, The Values Lab invites participants to ground themselves in what is within their direct proximity: their inner world, their immediate relationships, their routines, and the environments they help shape. Inspired by the emergent strategy principle “small is all,” this course centers the understanding that meaningful change often begins locally and relationally.

Many people move through life carrying values they inherited but never examined. Others know what matters to them but struggle to live in ways that reflect it because of expectations, burnout, survival, or systems that pull them away from themselves. This course offers space to slow down and explore those tensions.

Together, participants will explore:

• What values are and how they shape our lives

• The stories and experiences that formed our values

• The gap between what we say we value and how we actually live

• How values influence relationships, work, identity, and decision-making

• What it might look like to move through life more intentionally

This is not therapy, leadership training, or productivity coaching. The Values Lab is a relational, reflection-based learning space rooted in conversation, witnessing, storytelling, and experimentation.

This course is designed for:

People who feel a sense of misalignment between their values and how they are currently living

Mid-career professionals experiencing burnout or questioning their direction

Care workers, educators, and helpers who spend time supporting others but rarely have space for their own reflection

Individuals in transition (post-grad, career shifts, life changes) who are re-evaluating what matters to them

Thoughtful, introspective people who want a structured space for deeper reflection and conversation

You do not need to have everything figured out.

Curiosity and a willingness to engage honestly are enough.