So welcome to week two of our course together. I'm so delighted to be back together with you. Today, I'm going to introduce you to the core foundational exercise of giving voice to values. This exercise is called, "A Tale of Two Stories". This is probably the exercise that's used most widely around the world and in educational settings, in corporate settings and in other organizational settings. This exercise is important for a couple of reasons. One thing is that it's going to help the user, the learner, you, to get a chance to reflect upon and get some insights into your own strengths, your personal style when it comes to acting on your values. You're going to learn some things about yourself. The second reason that this exercise is particularly useful in organizations and in corporate settings for example, is that it's going to give you a chance to identify some of the conditions, the cultural factors that make it easier for people to act effectively, in ethical ways on their values and also the things that make it more difficult. So what we're going to do is to ask you to reflect upon some times when you have acted upon or failed to act upon your own values. We're going to ask you to think about what made it easier for you to act in those situations, what made it more difficult and then we're going to have a chance to debrief and learn from that experience. But let me first just take a moment to explain the exercise to you and then you'll get a chance to do it yourself. So the first thing is that I'm going to ask you to take a moment to think about a time in your work experience, in your professional lives or in your life in general when you have been pressured to act in a way that conflicted with your own values. It might have been a direct set of instructions from a boss or it may for example, have been some more implicit pressure from your friends, from your colleagues, from your customers. Whatever it was, you felt pressured to act in a way that conflicted with your own values. And then once you've done that we're going to ask you to answer four questions. First, we're going to ask you to think about what did you do and what happened, what impact did it have. We're going to ask you to jot that down. The second question we're going to ask you is what motivated you, why did you do this. The third thing we're going to ask you is how satisfied are you with the actions you took and the results. Is there something that you would like to have done differently? And finally, we're going to ask you to think about what enabled you to act on your values in these ways, what made it easier and also what disabled you, what made it more difficult. I'm going to ask you to jot down those enablers and disablers. So that's the first part of the exercise. It's called, "The Tale of Two Stories" though. So the second thing we're going to ask you to do is to reflect a time when you also felt pressure to act in a way that conflicted with your own values and you failed to act on your values effectively. And we're going to ask you to basically do the same thing, to jot down what happened and what impact did it have. To think about what motivated you to act in the way you did or you didn't. To ask you again how satisfied are you with the outcomes. Is there something that you wish you had done differently, something else you wish you had said? And then finally, again to identify what were the enablers, the things that made it easier for you to act on your values and what were the disablers, the things that made it more difficult. All right. So once you have done this, we'll come back and we'll do some interesting debrief of it and talk about what we can learn from it. But right now what I'd like to ask you to do is to go to your required course materials for week two and define the tale of two stories and to take a few minutes to respond to this exercise. Take your time. It's actually more challenging and more thought-provoking than it may seem on the surface. But the more time you take with it, the more you're going to get out of it. Looking forward to it.