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Values Based Decision Making: Self-Paced

Clarify your values and vision, and learn how to make holistic decisions that can turn your future desires into reality.
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"If you don't design your life, it will be designed for you."

What's involved:

  • A Series of Videos that guide you through each part of the process
  • Spreadsheets & Tools for Categorising, Organising & Refining Your Life
  • A Holistic Process for Making Complex Decisions
  • Monthly Support Calls for a full year

VALUES & VISION

You'll be guided towards understanding the quality of life that is uniquely important to you, what you need to do to realise it, and how you can stay true to that ideal quality of life.

TAKE STOCK

A comprehensive cataloguing process will help you take stock of the various capitals at your disposal, assess strengths and weaknesses, and chart the path forward.

DECISION MAKING

Learn how to make decisions in a holistic manner that avoids unintended consequences, makes best use of resources, and guides you towards the future you desire.

Values Based Decision Making is a skill for those that chart their own course in life, love, business and projects... and need an organic, articulating tool to guide their journey.

If you're reading this, chances are you feel:

OVERWHELMED

by the quantity of ideas and options in your life, and the lack of clarity on how to filter them all according to quality.

DISSATISFIED

by a tendency to take on other peoples' suggestions and then regret them.

DESIRE

to live in a way that honours who you are, allowing an empowered sense of calm.

READY

to examine your existing patterns, assess which ones serve you and which ones serve others, and do the work to create a mindset that makes your life better year after year.
I side stepped $500,000 in debt, saving time, frustration and financial pain. My current farm businesses and quality of life have never been better.
Thanks a million, or should I say, half a million!
Takota Coen
Farmer and Land Designer

Why do people seek out Values Based Decision Making?

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Who is the course a good fit for?

This course will be of value to you if...
  • You're searching for a sense of calm in a world that seems to be in a perpetual state of upheaval.
  • You have some sense of what your vision for an ideal life might be, but lack the tools and techniques to manifest it.
  • You find it difficult to say 'no' to people, ideas and options that don't serve you, and would like to learn how to do so joyfully.
  • You want to save money and use resources more efficiently by employing a holistic, values-based technique for making decisions.
  • You're involved in a partnership, farm, business or community and want to learn how to filter complex decisions with ease.
  • You have wanted to explore values based decision making before, but can't afford a one-on-one course.
  • You are sufficiently self-motivated to follow the process through on your own.

Who is this course NOT a good fit for?

  • You have no time, you're enrolled in 50 online courses this year and this will be but another one that you don't attend.
  • You're not fully convinced that it's time to take action in your life - you won't take the steps necessary to make the change. 
  • You are so tied up in your current way of being that there is no space to learn and try something new.
  • You don't believe that you're the main actor/director in your life, and feel that life will always be something that happens TO you.
  • You are seeking a way to work through significant psychological distress.

Who's not a good fit for Values Based Decision Making?

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Ready to feel the sense of calm that comes from knowing your values, and how to make decisions from them?

It felt so good to have a compass and destination. I feel like things are easier to let go of and the things that have the most potent return are re-energizing! It was a lot of work but I don’t feel torn anymore… I feel like I actually know how to make a decision for the first time in my life!
Where was this when I was 20?!?!
Nikki Martens
Senior product manager

Nuts and Bolts

WHEN 

Any time that works for you! Digest the course content at your own pace, knowing that you have lifetime access to the material. All the resources that I use in my one-on-one consultations are available for you to make the fullest possible use of.

WHAT

A series of video presentations, worksheets, assignments, decision-testing sheets and other resources to equip you to design your life towards a pattern of regeneration. 

WHERE

Online and accessible from anywhere in the world via Zoom Video Conference Software.

Community

A community of peers who are on this same journey as you, to interact with and learn from.

Pricing

REGULAR PRICE - $xxx USD

Why Values Based Decision Making is an ideal tool for Land Management

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Patrick Jones - Course author
Meet the instructor

Javan K. Bernakevitch

Javan is a life and land designer helping clients globally to create abundant, diverse and profitable lives and landscapes that get better year after year. Since 2009 he's been pioneering new methods to assist clients with clarifying their values and filtering decisions through those values, allowing them to develop thriving businesses, landscapes and lives. An educator and designer for clients, community events, non-profit groups, university students and businesses, Javan inspires and empowers audiences with a passion for change.

Integrating Keyline Design, Holistic Management, Permaculture, the Soil Food Web, Myco-Integration, Project Management and Business implementation, he understands and emphasizes the importance of balancing biological systems - soil, water-harvesting, landscape rehydration, composting, growing food and biological waste-water treatment - with financial viability.

A career focus on regenerative retrofits of broad acre and small scale landscapes to re-establish working watersheds, ecosystems, productive landscapes and enterprises has taken him across North and Central America, Europe and Africa.
He operates Permaculture BC, an education and community hub for permaculture in British Columbia, and All Points Land Design, focusing on land design and installation. In 2020 he created Regenerative Living as an online educational platform dedicated to teaching practical skills to live on the planet as if we intend to stay.

He has worked with the University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Vancouver Island University and Simon Fraser University. Recent partnerships include working with the Cowichan Green Community, Seven Ravens Permaculture Academy, Galliano Conversation Association and Healthy Homes.

He calls British Columbia, Canada home and stewards 400 acres with his family and Turkish Akbash bear dog Noa.
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Testimonials

What past participants have to say... 

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" One of the best things I've ever done."
Raleigh Latham
 Living Soil Consultant and Cinematographer
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"Changed the course of our lives."
Kimberly Grey and Jason Bell 
Communications Professional and Engineer

Our students love this work 

Holy moly, this has been worth every second. I feel like I actually know how to make a decision for the first time in my life! Where was this when I was 20 ?!?!
NIKKI MARTENS
We were at a cross roads with our farm and family. You listened in a very non-judgmental way to very judgmental stuff! We’ve been looking at context work for years and we get it now. We can’t get bogged down with our stuff. Thank you.
JONATHAN & CHRISTINA DAVIS
This was one of the hardest but most fulfilling exercises I have ever done. This work will help you to have laser focus on fulfilling your life’s passion, purpose and finding your bliss.
MIKE HAIGWOOD
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Frequently asked questions

Do I need any previous experience to take the course?

Absolutely not! No previous experience is necessary!

Can I message you with questions?

We have a community section in our course where you can ask questions, lesson by lesson or on a topic. 

Will I have lifetime access to the course material?

YES! You'll have lifetime access to the course. 

Can my partner or family member take the course with me?

Yes! This process can be embarked upon by an individual, a couple, a group or an organisation.
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