Saint Mary’s College Leadership Center
and Values Technology
Spring 2015 Values Accreditation Program
for Individual Interpretation (Level One)
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, March 21 – 22 and Saturday and Sunday, April 25 – 26, 2015
Times: 9 am – 5 pm each day
Cost: $1,450/person and $1,050/person for SMC alumni and SMC community members. The prices include all materials, Hall-Tonna surveys and lunches for the four days.
Saint Mary’s College and Values Technology are teaming up to offer an accreditation for the Hall-Tonna Values Instrument. Successful completion of this program provides you with in-depth and practical knowledge in the Hall-Tonna Values Development System that qualifies you to administer and interpret the Hall-Tonna Values Assessments for individuals. The program will pay close attention to understanding and using the values assessment tool. Learning to be a coach is a whole different activity, and we recommend that people interested in becoming coaches also pursue that specific training as well. Saint Mary’s is planning to offer more courses in coaching in the coming years.
Design: As you know, the values instrument is an extraordinary and complex instrument. This program is designed for those who have already been engaged with the Hall-Tonna Values system, either independently or through coursework at Saint Mary’s College MA in Leadership program.
Prerequisites: Due to the fact that the course is accelerated and people taking this Level One Accreditation will be able to purchase and interpret values surveys for others, there are prerequisites for participating in this program. In order to join this Level One Accreditation program, participants will have: completed at least one values survey and coaching sessionin the recent past, good familiarity with the text Values Shift: A Guide to Personal and Organizational Transformation (Hall, 2006) and ongoing familiarity with applying values to our leadership actions in the world.
Two-Step Application Process:
- Email of Intent: Please first submit an email of intent to Doug at , which includes a brief statement about what you wish to accomplish with completion of this Level One Values Accreditation, and how you meet and satisfy the given prerequisites.
- Securing Your Place: Once you have been accepted into the program, you will be sent a link to RSVP/Payment and secure your spot in the program. Applications will be answered on a first-come, first-served basis. Please act soon, as we expect the program to fill to capacity.
Core Faculty for the Spring 2015 Accreditation:
Elva Castañeda de Hall is the CEO of Values Technology, and has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA and a BA in Psychology and Sociology with a Bilingual Teaching Certificate from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. She has over 22 years of global research and application of the Hall-Tonna values technology in organizational development and strategic business development in corporate organizations, universities, not-for-profits, NGOs and religious organizations. Her roles vary from life coaching and executive group facilitation for values-based consensus to teaching at Saint Mary’s College and designing/facilitating accreditation programs for the community of the Hall-Tonna model practitioners.
Doug Paxton is a learner, educator, writer, and artist who is passionate about what humanity has to learn from reconnecting to our values and the natural world. Doug attended Yale University’s School of Organization and Management for his MBA, and completed his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently, Doug is faculty and Co-Director for the Leadership Center at Saint Mary’s College of California and focuses his teaching in the area of Values, Leadership and Sustainable Organizational Change. Doug brings to his teaching and facilitation over 25 years of leadership experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is an accredited values executive coach who has worked with hundreds of professionals across many fields.