Values and meaningful action / VAL-A04-2
Inherited and Chosen Directions — Practice worksheet
Separate messages received from family or culture from qualities you currently choose, allowing overlap and uncertainty.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Avery values family connection but questions an expectation of constant availability.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. A person can respect influences while examining which directions they freely endorse.
1. Choose a workable example
Use the fictional example below or an ordinary situation of your choosing. Keep identifying details out of shared copies.
2. Try the practice
Separate messages received from family or culture from qualities you currently choose, allowing overlap and uncertainty.
3. Compare possibilities
Generate at least two interpretations or options. Mark what you know, what you are guessing, and what remains outside your control.
4. Decide together
What do you want to carry forward, adapt, or decline? Choose one small action, a support request, or no action. Review the fit with your clinician when relevant.
Prompts for this resource
- My chosen or fictional situation, and what I know about it:
- My response to the practice task above:
- What do you want to carry forward, adapt, or decline?
- An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:
Conceptual background
Valuing as a Choice — Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.