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%VALUE PATTERNS 780713
Our personal values lead us toward our decisions and
actions, our behavior. Our values are embodied in the
patterns which lead to our behavior. The patterns are of
many forms; ethical and moral examples and injunctions;
religious teachings and rituals, family and community
traditions, role models, foci for rebellion, formal laws,
informal laws, taboos, collusions, professional traditions
and standards, personal habits, formal and informal
contracts and commitments, expectations, etc. Many of the
patterns which occasion our behavior are not traditionally
considered to be values---yet they are more important in
occasioning our behavior than are many of the patterns
which are usually identified as values. Much of our
puzzlement about human behavior originates in our failure
to recognize the wide range in the nature of the patterns
which act as the values which direct our decisions and
action, our behavior.
Value-conflicts occur when our various patterns call
for conflicting decisions and actions. Value conflicts
may exist within a single person, or in the relationships
between people. Conflict resolution involves the
recognition of the patterns which are occasioning the
conflicting decisions and actions---taking note of the
different natures of the patterns, and of how they
occasion the conflicting behavior.
Conflict resolution cannot be accomplished by
dominantly verbal methods, because most patterns which
occasion our behavior are not verbal patterns. Our
primary values are often not expressible in verbal
statements. Verbal analysis is inadequate to the task of
understanding value conflicts, because few of our primary
values are embodied in verbal representations. Conflict
resolution must involve non-verbal modes of understanding
based upon non-verbal modes of perception and awareness.
Conflict resolution will flow from an increased awareness
of the variety of values which pattern our lives---and of
the situations in which our various value patterns
occasion conflicts.
We need to become aware of the range of propriety of
each of our value patterns; the situations in which each
value pattern is likely to guide us wisely, and the
situations in which each value pattern is unlikely to
guide us wisely. All values have a range of propriety.
Most values have limited ranges of propriety---and
occasion conflict when they are affirmed outside their
limited range of propriety.
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