The Shared Values Exploration and Engagement worksheet is a resource from our Building Regular Interfaith Dialogue through Generous Engagement (BRIDGE) series focused on training campus professionals on interfaith cooperation. This worksheet assists students, faculty, and staff, in both curricular and co-curricular spaces, in discussing and finding shared values amongst the diverse religious, spiritual, and secular ideologies and their practices. Tailoring a common team building icebreaker, BINGO, this worksheet asks community members to reflect on their worldview, “a guiding life philosophy, which may be based on a particular religious tradition, spiritual orientation, nonreligious perspective, or some combination of these” (Rockenbach and Mayhew, 2014*) and find shared values amongst the participants in the session.
Building relationships across lines of religious difference can be difficult, for a variety of reasons including the lack of content expertise and the practice of outwardly articulating this as
