The AVI: Making our unconscious values conscious

(Figure courtesy of Jackie le Fevre from the Management AVI Pilot)  

The Minessence Group are world leaders in developing technologies to support values-based personal, relational, team, organisational and societal development.

Our flagship product is the AVI (A Values Inventory). The AVI is specifically designed to discover unconscious priority values:

Some people believe they can just select value names from a list in order to identify their priority values. This process does work in a fashion, however, the values identified are only one's conscious values.

Our unconscious values are our primary motivators. These are the values the AVI is specifically designed to make conscious. The AVI requires you to undertake a forced choice process as this is the only effective way to elicit unconscious values.

Values lie behind all the choices we make--what values lie behind your choices?

Latest Online AVI

A verson of the full AVI is now available online. As soon a person completes the AVI questionnaire, a 70+ page report/workbook can be instantly generated, as a PDF document, from their responses. The contents of the report currently include:

1. Introduction
1.1 What are Values?
1.2 What You Know
1.3 A Map is not the Territory
2. World-Views
2.1 Different Points of View
2.2 Transformational Dialogue
2.3 Transformational Dialogue—Worldviews
2.4 Eight Value Clusters—Seven World-Views
2.5 Changing World-Views
2.6 Internal Transformative Dialogue
2.7 Transformative Dialogue—Goal & Means Values
2.8 My World-View
2.9 World-Views Map
2.10 Your Foundation, Focus, & Vision Values
3. Personal Mastery
3.1 Optimal Performance Model
3.2 Attaining Personal Mastery & Optimal Performance
3.3 More on the Capability Dimension: Skills & Support Systems
4. Concretizing Your Values
4.2 Instructions
4.2 My Focus Values
4.3 My Vision Values
4.4 My Foundation Values
5. Set Direction
5.1 My Top 10 Values
5.2 My Vision and Mission
5.3 My Meaningful Objectives
6. Motivation
6.1 Unlocking Energy from Foundation Values
6.2 Energy Management
6.3 Values Alignment
7. Skills
7.1 Skills & Complexity
8. Action Research Project
Value Descriptor List
Glossary
Endnotes
References

New PDF Format for Online AVI Reports

All online AVI Reports are now created on-the-fly as PDF documents. This gives tighter control over the display and print format.

Also, all online AVI Reports, of a particular type, can be produced in a single PDF document for all people in a group.

These PDF AVI Reports can then be saved, printed or easily emailed using your browser's "email page" functionality.

Language in the AVI

At the request of people using the in the USA I am changing, in the USA's AVI Reports, the word "Enabler" to "Facilitator". As Gunther Weil says: "..as you know, common vernacular use drives meaning and the word 'enabler' here (US) has become associated with co-dependency and substance abuse."

AVI Reports in Australia will remain the same, for, as Karynne Courts points out: "I floated it [changing from 'Enabler' to 'Facilitator' past one of my clients this morning... they prefer enabler.. they said facilitator implies lack of 'ownership'... i.e. they’re facilitating the process but not directly involved!"

Online Reports

Current development effort with the AVI is directed towards creating custom, individually branded, online reports. Each report is available via MissionControl only to the Accredited AVI Consultant who requested the particular report format.