Values in Action is a hands-on, thought-provoking and practical workbook designed to equip people with tools to explore, question, and strengthen the ethical and practical foundations of their and others' decision-making.
The purpose of the workbook is to enable you and others make well-grounded claims that whatever you are doing is the right thing to do. That claim to ‘rightness’ is, individually and collectively, yours and will almost certainly be challenged. Critical Systems Heuristics helps you to engage constructively and ethically with those challenges. It will help you identify and determine whether the key decisions made by every intervention, strategy, plan, evaluation or policy were, are or will be the right thing to do.
Grounded in Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH), the workbook helps you to identify whose values shape an intervention, who or what benefits from them, who or what doesn't benefit, what knowledge is prioritised, and what legitimises and sustains that intervention. Whether used on your own or as part of a team, the CSH framework is useful for anyone working in complex environments who wants to better navigate ambiguity, power, and competing perspectives.
Bob Williams' 113-page workbook is useful for any intervention, including strategy, evaluation, planning and policy. It is available from http://gum.co/valuesinaction and is free to download, with a voluntary payment option.
Bob has also produced a 30-min introductory video to CSH, which provides a handy accompaniment to the workbook - click on the video link above to access it on YouTube.
