Hexaflexercise: Someone You Admire

This brief contemplative exercise, derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), is designed to evoke values identification through perspective-taking. The viewer will be invited to reflect upon a few questions regarding someone they admire as a means of uncovering one's own values, which can orient us towards the life we long to live.

Transcript

Who is someone you deeply admire? This person could be alive or dead, Someone you've known personally or have never met. Who comes to mind? And what is it about this person that you admire? In other words, What do they stand for? What qualities have they brought into their life? How have they impacted others and the world around them? Your responses to these questions might point you to your own values. In other words, The qualities that you admire in others might be the values that you want to embody yourself.