Personal Values Card Sort (Miller et al.)

Source: Training Development Resources/Values — "Personal Values Card Sort," W.R. Miller, J. C'de Baca, D.B. Matthews, P.L. Wilbourne, University of New Mexico (2001) — instructions doc + full card set, public domain

The classic values card sort originating from Motivational Interviewing practice. The person sorts roughly 80 value cards (acceptance, achievement, authority, autonomy, beauty, caring, honesty, health, family, spirituality, wealth, and so on — each with a one-line definition, e.g. "AUTONOMY: to be self-determined and independent") into five piles: not important to me, neither important nor unimportant, important to me, very important to me — with a hard cap of no more than 10 cards allowed in the top pile. The person then rank-orders just that top pile from 1 (most important) down. The instructions include a verbatim facilitator script for introducing the task and for the follow-up ranking step. This is a well-validated, ready-to-use tool — good for a values-clarification session with a young person who has too abstract a sense of "what matters to me" to answer the question directly.

Core Values Clarification Exercise (generic/adapted)

Source: Training Development Resources/Values — Core Values Clarification Exercise, adapted from Brock and Jeannie Brown (Integrity Consulting Services), via a farm-succession-planning workbook

A simpler paper-based variant of the same idea: circle 8 values from a list, narrow to 3-5, then for each write an "outcome statement" (e.g., Integrity → "Do the right thing") and 3 concrete behavior indicators (e.g., "tell the truth at all times," "be trustworthy"). Explicitly frames values as needing a priority order, since real decisions often pit two values against each other (e.g., choosing Integrity over Financial Growth when offered money obtained unethically) — whichever value is ranked higher should win the trade-off. Closes with a gap-check: is your actual behavior aligned with your stated values, and if not, what would closing that gap look like? A good second-step tool after the card sort, for turning a chosen value into observable behavior rather than leaving it abstract.

Core Values — Workplace Edition (Youth Era original)

Source: Training Development Resources/Values — "Core Values Workplace Edition," Youth Era

A Youth-Era-branded values list organized into four categories, aimed at staff/workplace context rather than youth clients: interpersonal (acceptance, caring, collaboration, community, compassion, connection, dignity, diversity, empathy, inclusion, trust), professional (accountability, accuracy, achievement, adaptability, ambition, commitment, competence, dependability, discipline, efficiency, integrity, leadership, professionalism, responsibility), personal growth (adventure, authenticity, balance, challenge, change, courage, creativity, curiosity, freedom, growth, joy, learning, resilience, self-awareness), and ethical (advocacy, altruism, equality, equity, fairness, justice, sustainability, service, safety). Useful as a staff-facing values-alignment tool (e.g., for hiring, onboarding, or team culture conversations) distinct from the youth-facing value cards below.

Value Cards (Youth Era, youth-facing)

Source: Training Development Resources/Values — "Value Cards" instructions and printable set, Youth Era

Youth Era's own branded value-sort tool for direct use with a young person: print importance columns (Not Important → Most Important), shuffle a set of value cards (acceptance, autonomy, comfort, courtesy, faithfulness, authenticity, hope, non-conformity, popularity, inner peace, love, responsibility, discipline, generosity, honesty, and dozens more, each with a short definition), have the young person sort them into the columns, then narrow to their top 10. Facilitator guidance frames this explicitly as a strengths-based, goal-planning tool: "values play a huge role in understanding motivations... use this knowledge to be strengths-based in your work and to goal-plan with those you serve." Debrief by asking about their top 10, their least-important values, and any values that surprised them. Functionally the youth-facing sibling of the Miller card sort above, adapted into Youth Era's own visual style.

Personal Values Ranking Grid

Source: Training Development Resources/Values — "Personal Values.png"

A visual ranking grid (Least Important → Not Important → Neither → Important → Most Important) paired with a large word bank of values terms to sort — health, hope, authority, mastery, rationality, friendship, passion, tolerance, self-control, independence, knowledge, generosity, justice, creativity, service, purpose, self-acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, stability, humor, humility, simplicity, family, growth, and dozens more. Functionally another values card-sort variant, laid out as a single-page grid rather than individual cards — a lighter-weight alternative to the full Miller card sort above when time is short.

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