Your foundation
Core values are the things you really care about, like honesty, freedom or fun. They steer your choices, often without you noticing. Does a job not feel right, or does an argument keep nagging? There's often a value underneath.
What matters to you?
Not what your friends or your feed find important, but you. In the Core Values theme you work that out. Then you use it in the choices of your own week.
Sound familiar?
- You say yes to a dinner when you actually need an evening to yourself.
- You are torn between two jobs and keep making lists of pros and cons.
- Your weekends are full, but it feels as if there is little of you in them.
- Something at work annoys you and you can't quite tell why it gets to you.
What you learn
Not the same as qualities
A quality says how you do something, like precisely or patiently. A value says why you do it. You can be great at planning and still care more about freedom.
What you do
These are the exercises in the app. Finish a step and the next one opens.
Choose your core values
Go through 49 values and choose what matters to you.
Top 10 core values
Choose up to 10 values that suit you best.
Your top 5
Choose the five values that mean the most to you right now.
Compass exercise
For each part of your life, see how important it is and how much time you give it.
One value this week
Pick a value from your top 5 and do something with it this week.
Exploration
Choose one core value and work out what you want to do with it. That becomes your plan.
What it is based on
Every exercise in the app comes from somewhere. In the app you find the research behind each exercise, with the source.
- Clarifying values (ACT)
- Naming your own values is one of the six core processes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. A meta-analysis of 39 randomised trials found that ACT as a whole outperformed no treatment and treatment as usual.
- Sorting values cards
- The exercise is the Personal Values Card Sort from the University of New Mexico, made by one of the founders of motivational interviewing. You only learn something about yourself when something has to go.
- Values compass
- The compass is based on the Valued Living Questionnaire from ACT. It asks, for each part of your life, how important it is to you. Then how closely you lived by it in the past week. Where the two are far apart, you live less by your values than you would like.
- Motivational interviewing
- No advice, just questions that let you say out loud what you would want to change, as Miller and Rollnick described it. Meta-analyses across more than a hundred studies find a small to moderate effect.
How MindMoment works
MindMoment is an app for young adults who want to grow mentally stronger. You start with a few short questions. Then the app puts the themes in an order that suits you.
Available 24/7
Use the app whenever it suits you, at your own pace.
Your privacy first
You decide what you share, and with whom. We handle your data with care.
Step by step
A path of short exercises, and a deeper dive per theme whenever you want.
Together with your therapist or coach
On a waiting list, or already seeing someone? Then they can follow along in the app, if you want them to.
Read how that worksReally not doing well?
MindMoment is not a treatment. Are you really struggling right now? Call your GP, or talk anonymously to 113 on 0800-0113. You can, day and night.
Frequently asked questions
You go through 49 values and choose for each one how important it is to you. Then you make your list smaller, down to a top 5. There is no right or wrong.
You pick one value and do something small with it this week, like saying what you really think when the group chat makes plans. The compass exercise also shows where your time goes now.
A therapist or coach only sees it if you enter their code and say yes. You can withdraw that at any time. We handle your data carefully and transparently.
During the testing phase, MindMoment is free to use for our testers.
Other themes
Emotions
Learn to recognise what you feel and what it wants from you. From just 'bad' to knowing what is really going on.
Calm
Less pressure, less worrying. Learn how to let tension settle.
Sleep
A steady rhythm and a calmer head. See in your check-in what changes.
Connection
See who is around you, and who you'd like closer. Sometimes one text is enough to start.
Happiness at work
More of what gives you energy. In your job, side job or studies.
Get started
Download MindMoment and start with the theme that fits you right now.