Values Discovery
Your client's values, ranked and in their own words.
Your client picks from 80 value cards, makes them their own and ranks them one pair at a time. You get the report and a debrief that is ready to start on the whiteboard.
Values Discovery, step by step
Tobi from metaFox shows the assessment from your client's side, then the report and the debrief on the whiteboard.
Why work with your client's values
A goal can be reached and ticked off. A value is a direction your client keeps living by, at work as much as at home. A clear, ranked list is something you can come back to in every session that follows.
Decisions get easier
With a ranked list, your client can test a choice value by value: does this option feed the value, or take room away from it? The report walks them through that check, starting at the top of the list.
In your client's own words
“Courage” on a card means something different to everyone. When your client merges Courage and Personal Growth and calls the result “Going where it scares me”, the value carries their meaning.
A clear place to start
At the end, your client rates how much room each value gets in their life right now. A value near the top of the list that gets barely any room shows you where to work first.
What Values Discovery covers
Your client works through it alone in 20 to 30 minutes. You get the report and a debrief you can start with one click.
Values in their own words
Your client merges cards that mean the same to them and gives every merged group its own name. They can rename any value, add values the deck does not have and note what each one means to them.
Ranking in pairs
Every value is weighed against every other one, once: “Which is more important to you?” Afterwards your client checks the whole list, moves values up or down and adds anything that is missing.
Room in life
For each value, your client can say how much room it gets in their life right now, on a five-step scale from “Barely any” to “As much as I want”.
Anti-values (optional)
What does your client dislike the most? They pick from 25 anti-value cards and can rank them or skip the ranking. When you invite someone, you decide whether this part is included.
Report and PDF slides
The ranked list with the cards behind each value, your client's meanings and the room each value gets. The report places the values on Schwartz's value model and names up to three possible value tensions. Download it as 16:9 PDF slides.
Debrief on the whiteboard
“Start values debrief” creates a coaching session with prepared boards, from the values ladder to value tensions and next steps. The value cards are on the boards, and you and your client can both move them.
From invite to debrief in four steps
Invite your client or send a link
Create a Values Discovery, choose English or German and decide whether anti-values are included. Send the invite by email or copy the link. Your client does not need an account.
Your client picks values and makes them their own
From 80 value cards, each with a short definition, your client picks what matters to them and can add their own. Then they merge cards that mean the same and name each group in their own words.
Your client ranks and checks the list
One pair at a time, your client decides which value matters more, then checks whether the whole list feels right. At the end they say how much room each value gets in their life.
You get the report and run the debrief
The results appear in your Values Discovery list. Open the report, download the PDF slides or start the debrief: a coaching session with your client's values already on the whiteboard.
Free and without an account. At the end you can have your full report sent to you by email.
Values Discovery in workshops
Create one group link and show its QR code to the room. Everyone who opens it gets their own Values Discovery, assigned to you.
One link, one QR code
Copy the link or show the QR code full screen. You can set a maximum number of participants and close the link when the workshop is over.
Results for every participant
Each participant works alone and gets their own results. You find all of them in your Values Discovery list, filtered by workshop.
An email when someone finishes
If you want, we email you each time a participant finishes.
Participants are not added to your clients and do not use up sessions on your plan.
Where the method comes from
Values Discovery builds on two psychological models and borrows several steps from a coaching book.
Schwartz's theory of basic human values
Shalom Schwartz arranged human values in a circle. Values next to each other share a motive, and values on opposite sides can pull against each other. The report sorts your client's values into nine of these value families and shows where their top values may pull in different directions.
Read the Schwartz value model guideAcceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT treats a value as a direction you choose and keep following, unlike a goal you reach and tick off. That idea runs through the assessment, from the first screen (“A value is not a goal”) to the own words your client gives each value.
Read the ACT guideInspired by The Clarity Method
Tim Brownson's book The Clarity Method inspired several steps: ranking values in pairs by gut feel, defining them in the client's own words, looking at anti-values and checking whether the final list feels right. metaFox is not affiliated with Tim Brownson.
The Clarity Method on AmazonFrequently asked questions about Values Discovery
Try Values Discovery on yourself first
It takes 20 to 30 minutes and no account. When you want to use it with clients, sign up as a coach.