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Let’s get real values and attitudes are intended to express the shared approach which applies across healthcare regardless of role, profession and organisation and to complement organisation-specific values.
Values informed practice means recognising people’s values and understanding how to work with them. Workers are more likely to effectively respond to and work in partnership with people accessing services.
Using a values informed approach at an organisational level promotes the service and team cultures needed to enhance our ways of working with people and whānau accessing services.
A feature of values is they are ‘action-guiding’, which means they underpin all decisions and are therefore highly relevant to decision-making in a health context.
Values informed practice He mahi whai tikanga is a resource about recognising people’s values and understanding how to work with them. This resource provides foundational information about working in a values informed way. The Values in action posters and cards (see below), along with the guidance for use, can be used with teams and people you are working with to take a values informed approach to your practice.
Value card - Manaaki | Value card - Hope | Value card - Partnership | Value card - Wellbeing | Value card - Whanaungatanga | Value card - Respect
These resources can be used and adapted in a variety of education settings.
Values in action planning for implementation template
Values in action workshop facilitator guide
Let's get real values in action resources
Values in action workshop PowerPoint
Values in action cards - guidance for use
Values in action team worksheets
Evaluation template - Let's get real Values in action workshop
He Whakapāpā, He Oranga – Engaging for Wellbeing provides an opportunity to learn and reflect on values, attitudes, knowledge and skills, and the role these have in building effective therapeutic relationships to achieve wellbeing.
Engagement Essentials provides a holistic approach that incorporates a process of engaging for wellbeing.
Real Language, Real Hope is a language resource adapted from "Recovery Language" by Otto Wahl. It highlights the impact the words we choose can have on our own attitudes as well as on those around us.
Language Matters poster is a language resource by Matua Raḵi that provides more person-centric language options to use when discussing addiction.
The Let’s get real team works with people in our sector to bring lived experience and practice perspectives to our work. The team has captured some of these insights in the following videos about values informed practice.
Values informed approaches 1 from Wise Group on Vimeo.
Values informed approaches 2 from Wise Group on Vimeo.
Values informed approaches 3 from Wise Group on Vimeo.
Values informed approaches 4 from Wise Group on Vimeo.
A helpful metaphor from Wise Group on Vimeo.
Values in Action from Wise Group on Vimeo.
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