Volunteer leadership can be divided into two parts. Many practitioners are a bit embarrassed or even resentful when such topics turn up on a workshop agenda or in a college course.
Values seem difficult, impractical, a little corny.
They threaten return to our old softie, do-gooder image. Yet I believe we need to get in better touch with our values for some very practical reasons. I believe volunteerism has the potential to integrate with the best and most powerful values in our society today. We can draw more fully on that power if only we will understand, appreciate and publicize values. This means raising our own consciousness first, launching dialogue and debate, reaching some decision on what the main values are, then announcing them.