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%VALUES CLARIFICATION DIALOGUE WAYS PATHS 790302
Values are often affirmed in ways that are not clear.
People who follow those ways are often unclear about the
values which their ways affirm. Because their ways are not
clear, they move in them as if in a fog---not seeing very
far ahead. They can rarely see where their ways are
leading them---and do not make wise choices about the ways
they follow and where they go.
The ways we follow are patterns of behavior,
traditions and paradigms. Our ways are patterns of:
perception, thought, analysis, feeling, expression,
repression, decision, indecision, action, waiting,
procrastination, association, friendship, and isolation.
In each way we affirm some concerns as having priority
over other concerns. Our ways lead us to spend our scarce
resources in one way, rather than in another way which may
be a complementary and/or an exclusive alternative. Our
ways are paths---which we follow in setting our priorities
and in spending our scarce resources---both personal and
communal. Our ways thus guide our political processes of
allocating scarce communal resources according to
communally chosen priorities.
Value clarification dialogue focuses on the values of
our ways and where our ways are likely to lead us. By
sharing openly our complementary perceptions, thoughts,
analyses, feelings, and desires we can communally clarify
where our: ways, paths, values, priorities, patterns,
paradigms, concerns, traditions, habits, languages,
symbols, and institutions---are leading us. We may work
together in cooperative efforts to lift the fog which
makes our ways unclear to us---and so causes us to stumble
and fall and hurt each other.
Value clarification is not the process of replacing
many paths through the woods with just one super-highway,
for all to follow. It is a process of mapping out the
diverse paths we are following. Value clarification is
not the process of regulating traffic on the ways of life,
but the process of making clear to pilgrims where the
paths of life lead. Only when pilgrims know the ways of
life and where they lead can---the pilgrims progress
towards their diverse chosen destinations and the diverse
destinations which have chosen them.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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