Values in Coaching: Understanding Our Core and Acquired Values

We are often told that the key to life satisfaction and well-being is to act out of our values. If this is the key to well-being, why do some people still not feel like they are at their best even when they are acting out of their values? Why is something still missing? Where is the life satisfaction, they have been striving for all their life?

Dr. Senka Holzer in her book Be You: The Science of Becoming the Self You Were Born to Be defines two types of values: Core values and Acquired values. These two types of values differ in their ability to produce life satisfaction.

We will discuss the two types of values, how and why they differ in their ability to produce life satisfaction and give you a few coaching questions you can use to help clients align with both types of values in a way that will produce lasting satisfaction and well-being.