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Living Values Activities Books 
This series offers a variety of experiential activities for teachers and parents

Living Values Education is a comprehensive values education programme. This innovative and global programme offers teachers and facilitators a variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies to enable children and young adults to explore and develop 12 key values: Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Peace, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance and Unity. LVE also has special materials for use with parents and caregivers, children affected by war and children affected by earthquakes.

LVE's series of Living Values Activities books is published by Health Communications, Inc. In each newsletter we bring into focus one of the values explored by LVE, excerpting from this award-winning series selected ideas and activities on each value. In the last edition the focus was on honesty; this edition focuses on humility.

The word humility is not being defined in this unit as meekness, self-abasement, nor eating humble pie. The value of humility was chosen for inclusion in this Programme because ?living? this value allows one to be more stable in self-respect and hence freer from the entrapment of arrogance. An antonym for humility is arrogance. Arrogance, with its accompanying need for power, often results in insensitivity and frequent upheavals. Imagine being able to negotiate the challenges of the world, stable in self-respect?..

Reflection Points from Living Values Activities for Young Adults, Humility Unit.

• Humility is based on self-respect.

• With self-respect there is knowledge of one?s own strengths. With the balance of self-respect and humility there is an acceptance and appreciation of one?s qualities from the inside.

• Humility allows the self to grow with dignity and integrity ? not needing the proof of an external show.

• Humility makes arrogance disappear.

• Humility allows lightness in the face of challenges.

• Humility as a value ? at its highest ? allows selflessness and dignity in working for a better world.

• A person with humility listens to and accepts others.

• Humility is staying stable and maintaining power on the inside and not needing to control others on the outside.

• Humility eliminates the possessiveness that builds walls of arrogance.

• Humility allows one to be great in the hearts of others.

• Humility creates an open mind and recognition of the strengths of the self and others. Arrogance damages or destroys valuing the uniqueness of others, and hence is a subtle violation of their fundamental rights.

• The tendency to impress, dominate or limit the freedom of others in order to prove yourself diminishes the inner experience of worth, dignity and peace of mind.

You can read an excerpt on humility from Living Values: A Guidebook to stimulate thought; please click as indicated below for activities on Humility for Parents, Children and Young Adults. Young adults may wish to explore a few of the ideas with family or friends while parents may wish to take up some of the activities with their children. And do let us know how you get on or if you've got other experiences or activities you'd like to share!

"In a dark hour of our century, during the final convulsions of the bloodiest tragedy in the history of mankind, we saw a light shining over San Francisco. When we became Members of the United Nations, we all undertook, before our consciences, to feed that flame, to maintain it and to spread the ideals it inspires."

Mr. Amintore Fanfani,
President of the Twentieth Session of the UN General Assembly,
September, 1965