The Inner Values Incubator (IVI©) Model is an assessment that helps you uncover the values that guide your reflections, behaviors and actions. Understand your unique values profile and receive personalized insights and recommendations to help you achieve your goals and contribute positively to your community and the world.
The IVI© model is a dynamic self-assessment tool that combines personal values, inner development, and societal engagement. By providing you with profound insights into what truly matters to you it encourages you to take meaningful action.
What makes the IVI© model unique is:
Whether you are an individual or a group, IVI© is designed to help you better understand your own value system, or that of the group to which you belong, and to identify the types of projects that will reflect it.
Companies: Understand the collective values of your team to foster a cohesive, motivated and values-driven work environment. The IVI© Model helps companies identify the core values that drive their employees and align them with the organization’s mission and goals.
Higher Education Organizations: Align educational programs and initiatives with the core values of students and faculty. The IVI© model assists higher education institutions in creating value-driven environments that support learning and development.
NGOs and Other Organizational Entities: Identify and implement projects that resonate with the core values of your members and drive meaningful impact. The IVI© Model aids NGOs and other organizations in understanding the values that unite their members and leveraging them to achieve their mission.
Personal Growth: Are you searching for meaning, seeking to understand your core values and ready to engage in projects that reflect your personal aspirations? The IVI© Model helps you uncover what truly matters to you and guides you toward fulfilling and meaningful endeavors.
Professional Development: Are you a professional seeking to elevate your career or ready to explore new paths that reflect your true priorities and passions? The IVI© model offers deep insights to inspire your career choices, helping you align your professional path with your authentic self.
In teams consisting of individuals, collective values should be obtained as an aggregate result of the individual members’ IVI© assessments. A discussion and negotiation among members of the team is always necessary before reaching an aggregate that is genuine and representative. This requires that the facilitation of the process is entrusted to a certified IVI© Consultant.
The IVI© Model is a structured and insightful process designed to help you explore your personal values and understand how they connect to your inner development and societal engagement. The assessment takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete and follows three intuitive steps:
Your IVI Profile: A dual typology based on your selected values—Core (stable and intrinsic) and Aspirational (growth-oriented). This combination clusters you into a profile (Individual, Clan, or Society; and Relational, Cooperation, or Vision).
– Outer World Challenges: Sustainability & Regeneration, Democracy, or Education
– Outer World Facilitators: Science & Technology or Art
Your Inner Development Goals (IDG) Self-Assessment: An overview of your development across all 23 IDG skills, including individual progress ratings for each skill and a personalised percentage-based thermometer for each of the five dimensions: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting.
Your report will be sent to your email and available for download. You’ll also be invited to follow the IVI LinkedIn page, connect with the World Human Forum, and optionally schedule a session with an IVI© Consultant for personalized guidance based on your results.
The IVI © Model assessment typically takes about 15-30 minutes to complete.
You will receive a detailed report outlining your core and aspirational values, a profile of your value priorities, personalized recommendations for actions and projects that align with your values, and insights into your inner development goals.
By identifying your core values and aspirations, the IVI © Model can guide you toward career paths and decisions that are more fulfilling and aligned with your true self, enhancing job satisfaction and personal growth.
IVI © stands for Inner Values Incubator. The IVI © Model seeks to help individuals and groups choose their direction of action and commit to challenging projects that align with their value system. It’s designed to not only help you understand where you stand but also to identify the paths that will lead you to realize your full potential.
There are several ways of using the IVI © Model. First of all, it’s important to distinguish between use for an individual and a group. An individual can use the questionnaire “in abstracto” to become aware of their priority values and their respective Core and Aspirational pillars. Taking it from there, they may or may not request a more in-depth consultation with an IVI © consultant.
The questionnaire can also be used for specific educational, professional or personal development purposes. In this case, it may be interesting not only to have an exchange with an IVI © consultant, but also to receive proposals for initiatives, projects or types of responsibility that correspond to them and in which they could become involved.
When it comes to using the model for a group, the first thing to consider is the purpose of the process:
Once the framework has been established and the group members have been fully briefed on the objectives, they can answer the questionnaire. The IVI © Model will then automatically generate an aggregate of the group’s priority values and its respective Core and Aspirational pillars.
But we can’t stop there. A process of dialogue/negotiation leading to the best possible alignment of group members’ values must be carried out with the IVI © consultant. Once agreement has been reached on the group’s priority values, work can begin with the consultant on an action plan in line with these values.
The aim here is to respond to the issue of the social impact enterprise. In other words, a company that wants to make a commitment and take action to contribute to a new, more virtuous world.
We mustn’t forget that a committed company aims to be accountable for its relationship with the world, without being content with the idea that its financial results say everything about its actions. A committed player considers that the consequences of their actions must be taken into account beyond their functional role.
While companies often have a charter and a nice brochure describing their CSR policy, concrete opportunities for action are often lacking. Yet there is a plethora of innovative initiatives that are compatible with the culture and values that the company wishes to promote, enabling cooperation to be established on the ground between employees and the employer.
IVI’s ongoing worldwide monitoring enables us to present you with CSR initiatives that you can join or, at the very least, be inspired to take action. They are related to NGOs, projects, impact funds, etc. linked to one or more of the 6 faces of the Delphic Cube. Of course, the human element is always at the heart of any initiative.
Yes, the framework is of paramount importance. If we think of values as bundles of energy, then the most important values are those that carry the greatest energy load.
Among thousands of possible human values, we will tend to focus our energy on a relatively small number of them, at any given moment or in any given situation. The values to which we give the highest priority are the ones that will feed our thoughts and actions with the most energy, the ones that will shine through in our words and behavior. These values are like the cardinal points of a compass, and we’ll use them to keep us on course.
It is therefore possible that, in a given context (for example, when the question of a CSR commitment arises), we may be obliged to change the natural order of priority of our values, and even, in some cases, to temporarily abandon one of our priority values to allow a new one to emerge that is directly relevant to the framework of our reflection.
It should also be noted that the order of priority of our values can vary perfectly within the same day. It’s not at all unusual for certain values to come to the fore and others to take a back seat, as daily events and challenges unfold.
The Delphic Cube includes the SDG’S, but goes even further. The SDG’S describe the objectives to be achieved in a neutral way, but say nothing about people. And yet, it is mankind, thanks in particular to internal development, the appreciation of beauty (Art), and an attitude aimed at re-enchanting the World, who will have to take the plunge and succeed in this planetary transformation.
Here are the SDG’S seen from the angle of the 4 dimensions of the Delphic Cube:
Regeneration
Democracy
Education
Science and Technology
There are two more, Personal Development and Art, but the SDG’s do not explicitly address these dimensions.
In answering this question, we can illustrate one of the ways in which a psychologist or coach can apply their knowledge to the IVI © Model.
In a model that has become a classic of positive psychology, psychologists Christopher Peterson and Martin E. P. Seligman identified 24 “character strengths”, widely recognized and valued “consistently across history and cultures”. Character strengths, also known as “values in action”, are abilities to behave, think or feel in ways that promote optimal functioning and performance, and help to lead happy, flourishing lives.They are different from other types of strengths such as skills, talents, interests or resources.
One characteristic of these strengths is that they can be cultivated and practiced.Studies have shown that the most universally present strengths are kindness, fairness, integrity, gratitude and open-mindedness. While all strengths contribute to fulfillment, some are more strongly associated with life satisfaction: these are love, hope, vitality, gratitude and curiosity. These strengths are particularly worthy of cultivation, say the researchers.
Now, if we start from the definition that a value is a human quality to which we attribute importance, we understand perfectly that the character strengths and virtues worth cultivating are values.
The positive psychology model groups them into 6 categories:
Creativity
Curiosity
Open-mindedness
Love of learning
Perspective
Bravery
Perseverance
Integrity
Vitality
Love
Kindness
Social intelligence
Civility
Fairness
Leadership
Forgiveness
Humility
Prudence
Self-regulation
Appreciation of beauty
Gratitude
Hope
Humor
Spirituality
The IVI © Model questionnaire covers all these values. It is, therefore, possible for the IVI © consultant, at the request of the psychologist or coach, to establish a histogram of the presence or absence of these categories in the questionnaire response, and in what proportions. This tool could prove very useful in the dialogue between the psychologist or coach and the person or group they are working with.
Note also that these values are those of the “human at heart”, the heart of the Delphic Cube, and also correspond to the Aristotelian virtues.
According to Socrates and Plato, taken up by Aristotle, virtue is the ability to live a certain number of principles and values in everyday life, the practice of which enables us to lead a moral life, i.e. to act in accordance with what we think. It is a practical knowledge composed of five qualities, oriented crosswise like the four cardinal points, around a center occupied by wisdom: courage, temperance or moderation, justice or probity, piety or devotion.
Aristotle presents virtue as a happy medium between two defects: a lack and an excess. For example, courage lies between cowardice and recklessness. An intemperate person does not follow reason but emotions. Moral virtue is a middle way between two vices, one excessive and the other deficient: “It’s quite a task to be virtuous. In all things, indeed, it is hard to find the way.It follows that Aristotelian ethics is strongly influenced by the notions of measure and wisdom).
Aristotle’s ethics, like his politics and economics, are focused on the pursuit of the Good.Aristotle distinguishes two kinds of virtue: intellectual virtues, which “depend to a large extent on the teaching received”, and moral virtues, which are “the product of habit”: “It is by practicing just moderate actions that we become moderate, and courageous actions that we become courageous”. In both cases, these virtues are in us only in a state of potency. All free men are born with the potential to become morally virtuous. Virtue cannot simply be a good intention; it must also be action and realization. It depends on the character (ethos) and habit of doing good that individuals must acquire. Prudence is practical wisdom par excellence.
Like Plato, he believes that inner harmony is necessary to live a good life. We lead a bad life when we allow ourselves to be dominated by irrational psychological forces that drive us towards goals outside ourselves.
It follows from all this that the Aristotelian virtues can be considered as values, since a value is a human quality to which we attribute importance and which we consider from three points of view: energy, choice, priority.
We can say that the IVI © questionnaire covers the Aristotelian virtues:
Also, the IVI © consultant can draw up a histogram of the presence or absence of these virtues (or similar values, i.e. belonging to the same “cluster” of values) in the questionnaire response, and in what proportions they appear.
In the same vein, the IVI © consultant can draw up a histogram grouping the values chosen by the respondent(s) according to the three following Aristotelian concepts: logos (reason), ethos (morality, ethics), pathos (emotion).
For it may be interesting to know the predominance of reason/intellect, ethics/morality or emotion/passion in the respondent’s priority values.
This is achieved by assigning one of the four elements to each value in the IVI © model:
– A predominance of “fire and water” gives the pathos profile,
– A predominance of “earth and water” gives the ethos profile,
– A predominance of “earth and air” gives the logos profile.
Developed by the World Human Forum, this sense-making tool uses the faces of the cube to represent 6 perspectives:
– Environment and Regeneration of the Planet,
– Education,
– Democracy,
– Science and technology,
– Art,
– Inner development.
The first three perspectives, Environment and Regeneration of the Planet, Education, Democracy, represent the main challenges today’s humanity is facing. Finding correct and sustainable solutions to those challenges will help us build a new, more virtuous human society, aligned with our natural ecosystem and “good” life. In short, it will make us progress towards a new virtuous paradigm.
The Science and Technology and Art perspectives can be seen as facilitators, mediators that will help us meet the challenges represented by the first three perspectives. Their role is crucial, of course.While the first five perspectives address the outer world, the sixth perspective, Inner Development should be dealt with in an utterly different way as it relates to the individual’s inner world. For this reason, the Inner Development perspective is dealt with separately through the Inner Development Goals Framework.
The IDG framework consists of 5 dimensions each one bearing a certain number of skills and qualities (for a total of 23).
INNER DEVELOPMENT GOALS
1) Being. Relationship to self
2) Thinking. Cognitive skills
3) Relating. Caring for Others and the World
4) Collaborating: Social skills
5) Acting. Enabling Change
IVI© (Inner Values Incubator) is a tool developed by Dr. Irene Papaligouras and Dr. Gerasimos Kouvaras. The World Human Forum holds the legal ownership of the platform and applies the following license:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Please note: Any use of IVI© for professional consultancy services is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the creators. Certification of third parties as IVI consultants is the exclusive right of the creators and cannot be carried out by any other party.
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