Values Types

Explorer

Explorers tend to take a broad view of the world and seek paths toward growth.

Visionary Pioneer
RECA
Looks for a better direction and tries to expand life’s possibilities.
Independent Navigator
REXA
Respects each person’s life and way of living while preserving the ease of a healthy distance.
Cool Strategist
PECA
Examines real-world conditions calmly and makes decisions without being swept up in emotion.
Free Experimenter
PEXA
Learns through small experiments and finds a path that fits them, even without certainty.

Humanitarian

Humanitarians tend to value connection and a sense of shared life.

Guardian

Guardians tend to value familiar order and stability in close relationships.

Reformer

Reformers tend to look for better ways to address the problems in front of them.

Axes & Traits

Structure

Preservative

The preservative orientation tends to feel that long-standing rules, roles, and structures of authority carry reasons and responsibilities that should not be easily dismissed. Rather than remaking everything, it seeks to respect proven order and responsible authority and carry them forward with stability.

Reconstructive

The reconstructive orientation tends to feel that existing rules, roles, and structures of authority should be adjusted when they no longer fit present circumstances. Rather than assuming familiar practices or established authorities are always right, it seeks to redesign structures around members’ actual needs and changed conditions.

Focus

Expansive

The expansive orientation tends to feel that broader possibilities and future changes should be considered alongside present conditions. Rather than remaining focused only on the problem at hand, it seeks to judge within a long-term direction and a larger flow of change.

Immediate

The immediate orientation tends to feel that problems directly at hand and people nearby should receive attention before distant possibilities. Rather than speaking mainly about the bigger direction, it seeks to judge by looking at responsibilities that need immediate attention and their practical effects.

Judgment

Consistent

The consistent orientation tends to feel that the same standards should be applied whenever possible, even when the people or circumstances differ. Rather than changing its judgment from one situation to the next, it seeks to take a position according to the principles and standards it considers important.

Contextual

The contextual orientation tends to see the same issue as something that may call for different judgments depending on the people and circumstances involved. Rather than applying one standard uniformly, it seeks to take a position after considering the parties’ circumstances and relationships as well as intentions and outcomes.

Society

Organic

The organic orientation tends to see individuals as living through mutual influence within relationships and communities. Rather than separating individual choices from their context, it considers the connections and roles among members and their effects on the community as a whole.

Atomistic

The atomistic orientation tends to view society as a collection of independent individuals. While taking the needs of the community into account, it holds that society remains healthy when each person’s rights, choices, and responsibilities are respected.