Personal Development Self-Awareness

Values and Beliefs Exploration: Understanding What Shapes Your Choices

A practical course with Professor David Grant on identifying, examining, and applying the beliefs that guide personal and professional decisions

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Quick Course Facts
16
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
16
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.2
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Values and Beliefs Exploration: Understanding What Shapes Your Choices Course

This Personal Development course helps you understand the values, beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes that shape your choices in everyday life. Through Values and Beliefs Exploration, you will gain practical insight into how your thinking influences relationships, decisions, and behaviour, both personally and professionally.

Explore Values And Beliefs To Shape Better Decisions

  • Learn A Practical Course With Professor David Grant On Identifying, Examining, And Applying The Beliefs That Guide Personal And Professional Decisions
  • Discover Where Beliefs Come From And How Family, Culture, And Social Influence Affect Your Perspective
  • Recognise Hidden Assumptions And Test Beliefs For Accuracy, Usefulness, And Alignment With Your Goals
  • Build A Clear Personal Values Statement That Supports Confident Choices And Stronger Communication

Values and Beliefs Exploration gives you a structured way to understand what drives your actions and priorities.

In this Personal Development course, you will examine the foundations of values and beliefs and learn how they shape the way you think, decide, and interact with others. Professor David Grant guides you through a practical process of self-discovery, helping you identify your core values, notice the assumptions beneath your decisions, and understand why some beliefs support your growth while others hold you back.

You will also explore the origins of beliefs and the shaping forces behind them, including family, culture, and wider social influences. This deeper awareness makes it easier to evaluate ideas objectively, navigate beliefs in conflict, and respect different perspectives without losing your own sense of identity. The course connects these insights to everyday life, showing how values influence communication, relationships, ethics, priorities, and professional behaviour.

As you progress, you will practise aligning actions with principles, building a personal values statement, and handling disagreement with more confidence and clarity. By the end of Values and Beliefs Exploration, you will have a stronger understanding of yourself, greater decision-making confidence, and a more intentional approach to living and working in a way that reflects what matters most to you.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

1 lesson

In this opening lesson, Professor David Grant introduces the course and establishes what values are: the principles and priorities that shape the choices we make at work and in life. You will learn ho…

Core Concepts

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Beliefs, Values, Assumptions, and Attitudes

20 min
This lesson introduces four core concepts that often get mixed together: beliefs , values , assumptions , and attitudes . You will learn how they differ, how they influence everyday decisions, and why…

Origins

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Where Beliefs Come From

19 min
This lesson explains where beliefs come from and why they can feel so natural that we rarely question them. Professor David Grant walks learners through the main sources of belief formation: family, c…

Shaping Forces

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Family, Culture, and Social Influence

20 min
Family, culture, and social influence shape how people learn what is normal, acceptable, and important. In this lesson, Professor David Grant shows how these forces influence beliefs without fully det…

Self-Discovery

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Identifying Your Core Values

22 min
This lesson helps learners identify the values that matter most to them and distinguish core values from preferences, habits, and borrowed beliefs. Professor David Grant introduces a practical process…

Awareness

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Recognising Hidden Assumptions

18 min
This lesson helps learners spot the hidden assumptions that quietly shape decisions at work and in life. Professor David Grant explains how assumptions differ from values and beliefs, why they often g…

Decision-Making

1 lesson

Lesson 7: How Values Shape Everyday Decisions

20 min
This lesson explains how values quietly influence routine decisions, from small daily choices to bigger judgment calls at work and in life. Learners will see how values act as filters, why conflicts b…

Complexity

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Beliefs in Conflict: When Values Compete

19 min
Sometimes the hardest decisions are not between right and wrong, but between two values that both matter. In this lesson, Professor David Grant explains why beliefs can conflict, how those conflicts s…

Evaluation

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Testing Beliefs for Accuracy and Usefulness

21 min
This lesson shows how to test a belief before you let it shape a decision. You will learn a practical evaluation process: clarify the belief, check where it came from, compare it with evidence, notice…

Adaptation

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Changing a Belief Without Losing Identity

20 min
Changing a belief does not require abandoning who you are. In this lesson, Professor David Grant shows how to update a belief while preserving the values, experiences, and commitments that matter most…

Interpersonal Application

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Values in Relationships and Communication

18 min
This lesson shows how values shape the way we speak, listen, and respond in relationships at work and in personal life. You will learn how to identify the values behind common communication patterns, …

Professional Application

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Values at Work: Ethics, Priorities, and Behaviour

22 min
This lesson shows how values become visible in the workplace through daily decisions, priorities, and habits. Professor David Grant helps learners distinguish between stated company values and actual …

Perspective-Taking

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Handling Disagreement and Respecting Difference

19 min
Disagreement is a normal part of working and living with other people. In this lesson, Professor David Grant shows how to respond without turning difference into conflict. You will learn how to pause …

Integration

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Building a Personal Values Statement

18 min
This lesson helps learners turn reflection into action by writing a clear, practical personal values statement. Rather than listing abstract ideals, students identify the values that most influence th…

Practice

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Aligning Actions with Principles

21 min
This practice lesson helps you turn values and beliefs into visible behavior. You will learn how to check whether your actions match your stated principles, spot common gaps between intention and beha…

Conclusion

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Reflection, Review, and Next Steps

17 min
This concluding lesson helps learners turn insight into action by reviewing the most important takeaways from the course, checking for patterns across their values and beliefs, and deciding what to do…
About Your Instructor
Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.