I’m happy to announce that Value Anatomy now has a new logo. It’s the beginning of establishing an overall look and identity of this project. The logo was a result of a week-long process involving a design competition among 22 designers from around the world, as far as the Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Ukraine, Canada and…
I received the one phone call I didn’t want to hear – Tony Achmat, my dear friend and co-creator of the Value Anatomy project died last night. He’s been in intensive care in the past few days after a heart-attack, so I’ve been thinking about this possibility and dreading it. But I’ve also thought about…
Today we completed the hierarchy containing over 700 values. Hours and hours of work! Stage one is done, now the real work begins. Thank you, Alasdair Bouch, for your patience and help with creating the gigantic Value Anatomy spreadsheet. Thank you Tony Achmat for the inspiration, illustrations and invaluable advice. Thank you Jim Freeman for…
This Easter Monday was another major milestone for me. Tony Achmat came back from Sri Lanka with an envelope full of wonderful Zentangle images for the Value Anatomy cards and books. They depict symbolic animals for each section – 7 major ones and 49 minor. And they are amazing! I unpacked them in front of…
The extreme structure of Value Anatomy lends itself to many outputs. Among the ones we already discussed were books and video courses, as well as children’s games or motivational cards. I like working with both motivational and oracle card decks, so this seemed as a natural choice. Tony Achmat sent me some sample images from…
For a woman interested in sacred geometry, I’m outrageously bad with numbers. I apparently have dyscalculia, the “number version” of dyslexia. 6 and 9 are kind of the same to me. Not good. But I do understand 7 just fine. Value Anatomy became a 7-fold fractal, a pattern that seemingly endlessly repeats with more or…
In my Value Anatomy spreadsheet, the Hummingbird is a symbol of Joy and Vitality, Enthusiasm and the kind of a Spark that we all hope for in our lives. Luckily, I have one such Hummingbird in my team – Alasdair Bouch. Aside from being a musician who gives joy to audiences, he’s also good with…
I rented a room in the Loreta Monastery at the Prague Castle in order to find the peace to write the Value Anatomy book. The cloister was founded in 1600 by a saint who came from Italy to Rudolph II’s court in Prague. It was the same court that hosted Prague’s famous alchemists. Blending cultures…
This entire project is about defining things, about giving our feelings and values names. Yet, until now, it was simply “The Value Project” the same way I have “The Michelangelo Project” and “The Creativity Project”… and and and. It took three creative minds and about two hours of a brainstorming meeting and we got it….
As I opened the dialog about values with people around me, I’m finding out that the themes indeed repeat, that there is an internal structure to this. I sense correlations between these subjects and sacred geometry, almost seeing it as an underlying network of all that we call humanity. It sounds posh, it sounds preposterous…