1. Human Values and Professional Ethics-
Value Education through Self Exploration
18th July,2013

2. Presenters Dorji Thinlay, Director, Department B Sherub Tharchen, ALO
Dendup Wangmo, AIPO
Sangay Bidha, AIPO
Dil Maya Chhetri, AIPO
Ugyen Dema, ACO
Sangay Lhamo, AIPO

3. Human values and professional ethics….
What are your goals?
Do you know what you really want?
In whatever you have done so far, did you decide these things for yourself, or were you merely acting under external influence???
Have you ever explore or asked these questions to yourself before attending this session?
The course is an attempt to integrate all the aspects of our life into a single whole and equip us with a capability to find answers to the above questions
In short….
It is the process of knowing or understanding oneself inorder to understand the outer world

4. Contents of the presentation…
Need for value education and the role of education in holistic development
Self exploration as a process for value education
Identification of basic human aspiration-continuous happiness and prosperity
Programs to fulfill these aspirations
Understanding the harmony at four levels: self, family, society and nature
Understanding Existence as Co-existence
Questions restricted
Whatever we present here is just a proposal
One has to verify on the basis of your own right

5. Why value education…?? The ultimate desire of human being
To be happy and prosperous at all times
State of society today..
Science enabled us to understand physical
reality around us
Technology continues to offer us conveniences
in increasingly newer way-made tremendous
advancement and innovations
Are we satisfied with the state of affairs today.. ?

6. We are still faced with serious problems at various levels…
Lack of clarity on life goals, contradiction and stress at
individual level
Lack of mutual understanding, mistrust, insecurity at the level of human relationship in family
Communal conflict, exploitation, corruption and violence in society
Environmental degradation, resource depletion at the level of nature

7. What exactly is amiss here? OR where then, lies the solution???
Understanding of Values- correct identification of what is really valuable to a human being???
Education :Holistic development

8. Role of education in holistic development….
What is the Role of Education...??
The role of education is to facilitate the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct
All units around us exhibit definite conduct... except human being
Trees, Plants... Conduct is based on their seed
Cow.... Conduct is based on their breed
Human Beings Conduct is based on their education-sanskar
Does the current education system promote these??
Increase in inhuman conduct with increase of education today
Why??
Just getting through and making a career, getting good job, power etc- the overall purpose of today’s education

9. Definite Human Conduct
Right understanding in self
Right relationship with other human beings
Right acquirement of physical facility
Are we able to ensure this Education?
If we want to provide such education, what would be the basic requirements?

10. How can we ensure a fulfilling life through the process of value education???

11. Process…Self Exploration
It is a dialogue between “what you are” and “what you want to be”
Content: how to start exploring the self...
Desire: what is my basic aspiration?
Program: what is the process to fulfil this aspiration?

12. Process…Self exploration
Whatever is said is a proposal
Do not accept it as it is, or assume it to be true
Verify it on your own right- verify the proposals on the basis of your natural acceptance
Natural Acceptance….???
Is present in each one of us. It is something which acceptable to us in natural manner
Is intact and invariant/universal

13. Process…Self Exploration
Proposal
Live according to the proposal (experiential validation)
Verify on the basis of your natural acceptance
Behavior with human
Realization and understanding
Work with nature
Mutual happiness
Mutual prosperity
How can we assure mutual happiness and prosperity in continuity…???