Value Yourself

For World Kindness Day, sharing a tool developed for professionals involved in User Research and CoDesign workshops.

Take time to value yourself so you can understand the value you can give away to others.

Be kind to yourself.

A Little Book Of Me

You are valuable

You can create value

Share your value

Download https://t.co/mLdpxSq4Wy

Doublesided print

Make a booklet

Instructions on cutting and folding

Folding sequence

Foldy, foldy, fold

A little book

Read and write in the booklet

Value yourself

Value your skills

Value your power

Give away your power

Lose power to gain more

Read the booklet backwards and forwards

From you to community, from community to you

Validate yourself, value your power, give your power away and make something valuable, together

You are valuable

Share your value

Epilogue

This tool was developed in terms of CoDesign as a method of sharing skills and power into communities with deficits in both. Even the most junior member of an organisation (government or private) has skills and power that they may not self-recognise. Normally they can only sense the power they lack within the structure they are within.

So many people work without valuing themselves as the system does not validate them. It’s easy to forget self-worth and so forget the possibilities of what can be given away to others: in knowledge and power.

Kindness in a society starts with kindness to self.

I hope this helps you or people you work with.