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Values

32 techniques · 13 approaches
ACT
Bull's Eye
Bull's Eye
A visual values clarification tool. The client marks how close current behavior is to values in major life domains. The target makes the gap…
ACT
Choice Point
Choice Point
A model by Russ Harris. At any moment there is a choice point: move toward values or move away from discomfort. The technique helps the clie…
ACT
Epitaph
Epitaph
A deep values exercise. The client imagines how they would want to be remembered at the end of life. The aim is not morbidity, but contact w…
BA
Values and Life Areas Assessment
Values and Life Areas Assessment
A Behavioral Activation technique focused on values and life areas assessment. It helps the therapist and client move from depressive withdr…
DBT
FAST (Fair, Apologies, Stick to values, Truthful)
FAST (Fair, Apologies, Stick to values, Truthful)
A four-step skill for keeping self-respect in interpersonal situations. The focus is on the self: when self-respect matters more than the re…
Deurzen
Emotional Compass Mapping
Emotional Compass Mapping
Van Deurzen developed four "compasses" — one for each dimension of existence. Emotions are seen as pointers to values: what is loved, what i…
Deurzen
Values and Meaning Clarification
Values and Meaning Clarification
Van Deurzen places central importance on work with values as the foundation of life's meaning. Meaning is not given in advance — it is const…
Deurzen
Überwelt Exploration / Spiritual Dimension Work
Überwelt Exploration / Spiritual Dimension Work
Überwelt (the over-world / spiritual dimension) is the "quietest" and often least explored dimension in van Deurzen. It includes religious a…
ERT
Contrasting
Contrasting
Holding the current distressing state and a desired value-based state simultaneously so that the tension between them becomes motivation for…
ERT
Experiential Exposure (ERT)
Experiential Exposure (ERT)
Experiencing avoided emotions in session while using ERT skills: motivational awareness, decentering, sensory awareness, regulatory flexibil…
ERT
Values Clarification (ERT)
Values Clarification (ERT)
Clarifying what matters to the client so that emotions become signals for values-based engagement, not merely symptoms to reduce.
Frankl
Logo-Analysis / Value Analysis
Logo-Analysis / Value Analysis
A systematic inquiry into the client's value system: what they consider important, what they actually realize in life, where there is a gap …
Frankl
Mountain Range Exercise
Mountain Range Exercise
The client is shown a schematic drawing of a mountain range and places on its peaks people who matter in their life — real and historical, c…
Frankl
Value Clarification — Three Pathways to Meaning
Value Clarification — Three Pathways to Meaning
A structured inquiry into Frankl's three sources of meaning: creative values (what I create), experiential values (what I receive from the w…
Gottman
Creating Shared Meaning
Creating Shared Meaning
Exploring and strengthening the top floor of the House of Relationship: shared rituals, values, roles, and goals of the couple.
Gottman
Dreams Within Conflict
Dreams Within Conflict
Exploring the unspoken dreams and values that stand behind each partner's position in a gridlocked conflict.
Längle
Meaning-Finding Method
Meaning-Finding Method
A practical method of finding meaning, published by Längle in 1988. Built on four successive steps: perception of value in the situation, it…
Längle
Value Perception / Working with Emotions as Value Signals
Value Perception / Working with Emotions as Value Signals
In existential analysis, feelings are understood as "pointers" to values. Längle distinguishes the primary emotion (a spontaneous reaction t…
Längle
Working with Inner Consent
Working with Inner Consent
The central aim of existential analysis — to help the client come to "inner consent" with what they do and how they live. This is a felt "ye…
MBCT
Mood and Activity Connection / Nourishing vs Depleting Activities
Mood and Activity Connection / Nourishing vs Depleting Activities
The client explores the link between their activity and mood through a week of observation and analysis, then builds a personal list of "nou…
MI
Developing Discrepancy
Developing Discrepancy
One of the four original principles of MI. The essence: help the client see the gap between their current behavior and what matters to them …
MI
Exploring Values and Goals
Exploring Values and Goals
A technique of directly exploring what matters to the client. Values are the compass of change in MI: when behavior diverges from values, in…
Morita
Constructive Living
Constructive Living
Integration of Morita principles into everyday life: focus on actions, acceptance of feelings, gratitude toward the world. Adaptation by Dav…
Morita
Purposeful Action
Purposeful Action
Action grounded in necessity and values rather than in mood. "Do what is needed — regardless of what you feel".
UP
Functional Analysis of Avoidance
Functional Analysis of Avoidance
Analyzing emotional avoidance in terms of triggers, short-term relief, long-term consequences, and the values or goals it blocks.
Yalom
Authenticity Work (Heidegger / Bugental)
Authenticity Work (Heidegger / Bugental)
Distinguishing one's own voice from the voices absorbed from others (parents, culture, expectations). Heidegger describes inauthentic existe…
Yalom
Discovering Meaning
Discovering Meaning
An exploration of Frankl's three sources of meaning: creativity (creating something — work, ideas, art), experience (love, beauty, encounter…
Yalom
Four Dimensions of Existence (van Deurzen)
Four Dimensions of Existence (van Deurzen)
A structure for exploring the client's life through four dimensions: physical (Umwelt — body, health, nature), social (Mitwelt — people, rel…
Yalom
Logoanalysis (Frankl / Fabry)
Logoanalysis (Frankl / Fabry)
A systematic inquiry into values and meanings through structured questions, writing, and drawing. Logoanalysis helps move from abstract awar…
Yalom
Paradoxes and Polarities (van Deurzen)
Paradoxes and Polarities (van Deurzen)
Life is arranged through unresolvable paradoxes: life–death, freedom–limits, loneliness–closeness, meaning–meaninglessness. Van Deurzen show…
Yalom
Socratic Dialogue
Socratic Dialogue
A chain of open, deepening questions that helps the client reach their own values, meanings, and choices. Unlike in CBT, the aim is not the …
Yalom
Working with Guilt (Yalom / Frankl)
Working with Guilt (Yalom / Frankl)
Distinguishing neurotic guilt (irrational, not tied to a real violation of values — the constant feeling that "I am not good enough") from e…
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