Team Values, Taken Home
Most of the people in a company boardroom go home to a family that gets what's left over. This session runs Human Rites' Family Values Discovery process — the same structured method used in our family programs —…
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Description
Most of the people in a company boardroom go home to a family that gets what's left over. This session runs Human Rites' Family Values Discovery process — the same structured method used in our family programs — for a workplace team, then sends it home with them. This session not only helps teams operate better together it empowers staff to take this learning home and run a session with their own family that gives structure and meaning to the values they want to live by.
Attendees are first guided through an individual reflection using a 40-card values deck, each choosing the values that matter most to them personally. In small groups, they compare choices and narrow them down to a short list the whole team can stand behind. Everyone gets a say and we make sure that everyone is seen and heard throughout the process. The session closes with the team co-writing a one-page working agreement — a specific, practical statement of how they'll treat each other and operate day to day — which stays with the team after the session ends. We discuss how these values can be implemented into team meetings and projects so that these values become part of the operating rhythm of the team not just a list on the wall. Every participant also keeps their own values deck and a short take-home guide to run an age appropriate version of the same exercise with their own family. These values then become the foundation that underpins how the family acknowledges and adapts to challenging behaviours and ultimately works together to achieve the family goals and be a closer family unit.
Benefits
- Alignment — the team leaves with one written, agreed values statement instead of the unwritten assumptions everyone was previously guessing at
- Cohesion — a concrete working agreement the team can hold each other to once the session is over and friction shows up
- Relationship-building — small-group work has colleagues naming what they actually value, often for the first time
- Empathy & perspective — hearing what teammates prioritise, and why, surfaces views the team doesn't usually get in a normal meeting
- Engagement — staff experience the company visibly investing in how they work together, not only in output
- Confidence — a shared values framework gives people language to name and raise issues instead of avoiding them
- Reach beyond the office — each participant takes home a physical values deck and family guide, so the session's impact isn't confined to work hours
Hosted by Allister Logan
About the Host
I'm Allister the co-founder and lead facilitator of Human Rites with my wife Jenna Logan, we are based on the Central Coast (NSW, Australia) and specialise in delivering rites-of-passage and wellbeing programs for adolescents, adults, and families. My background spans corporate financial services (National Sales Manager at CommSec), Indigenous community partnership work (secondment with the Aboriginal Carbon Foundation, board co-chair), and coaching psychology (Postgraduate Certificate, Middlesex University UK). I've spent 8 years as a transpersonal coach and have facilitated emotional intelligence training for executive teams and pioneered gender equality programs in the Australian stockbroking industry. I run the masculine initiations for Human Rites after training and working with the Rites of Passage Institute.
Jenna spent many years as a professional netball player before injury ended a career and opened the door to other opportunities. Jenna has started and run a successful HR business which she sold when we had our first child. Jenna retrained as a doula and spent 10 years helping families navigate better birthing outcomes. During this time Jenna also started and sold a new mum food business called Meals 4 Mumma's. Jenna has trained with the Rites of Passage Institute and holds the feminine initiations for Human Rites.
At the end of 2024 we sold everything and took our family on a trip around Australia. We had no real plan and followed our intuition and learned so much about ourselves and this amazing country. We connected with beautiful aboriginal communities and found the space to find ourselves and strengthen the bond between all 5 of us. It was equal parts challenging and rewarding and something we hope every family can feel just a little bit more after doing some work with us.
Through Human Rites we run community gathering events for men and women built around trust, connection, and going a little deeper than surface conversation, and we designed our core program arc — Separation, Threshold, Liminal, Return — used across our family and youth programs. We bring that same rites-of-passage structure and group-facilitation craft to corporate and team settings: sessions built to create real trust and connection quickly, not just a nice hour.
Allister brings in depth knowledge and connection to our Australian Indigenous Culture through his own journey of reconnecting to our ancestors and relearning the old ways of custodianship for mother (our land).
Focus Areas
Creative/CultureWell-being/HealthDevelopment/Coaching
Location
Central Coast, Australia
Languages
English
Travel Locations
Worldwide where appropriate
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive & Passive
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
Microphone where the space warrants it.
Past Clients
Commonwealth Bank, CommSec
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