RESOURCES
Heartlines produces various printed and digital resources to start conversations on values in a variety of settings. These resources can be used in families, workplaces, churches, schools, campuses, faith-based groups, prisons and municipalities.
What’s your Story Resources
What’s Your Story Church Toolkit
A toolkit to promote understanding , trust and reconciliation through personal storytelling for church & small groups. Includes a DVD with powerful storytelling examples.
What’s Your Story High School DVD
A resource for high schools teachers with four lessons on promoting understanding and trust through personal storytelling.
What’s Your Story Church Youth Groups DVD
A resource for Church Youth leaders on promoting understanding and trust through personal storytelling.
What’s your Story Campus
A pocket-sized resource to help you navigate your world and represent yourself better through personal storytelling. Equips you with tools in personal storytelling on and beyond campus.
What’s your Story Workplace
We offer various resources for the workplace, customised to your team or environment. These resources include a workplace storytelling process, as well as teambuilding sessions based on the film, Beyond the River.
Values & Money Resources
Values & Money Bible Study
Based on the film, Nothing for Mahala, and including a DVD with clips, this 6-week Bible study course addresses the underlying values driving our behaviours and attitudes when it comes to money.
Ideal for Christian small groups & families.
Values & Money Course for Workplaces & Small Groups
Based on the film, Nothing for Mahala, with clips from the film, this is a leaders’ guide for a six-week course addressing the underlying values driving our behaviours and attitudes when it comes to money.
Ideal for workplaces, faith-based groups, stokvels, small groups & families.
Values & Money Youth Challenge
Based on the film, Nothing for Mahala, with clips from the film, this is a leaders’ guide for a six-week course for youth addressing the underlying values driving our behaviours.
My Money, My Values For Life
Based on the film, Nothing for Mahala, with a DVD containing clips from the film, this book offers three lessons to Grade 9 and 11 Life Orientation teachers on money values.
Show Me The Money for Youth Groups
A values-based guide for young South Africans. The guide, aimed at Christian Youth Groups, consists of four lessons, where the first lesson includes a viewing of the movie Nothing for Mahala. The three lessons thereafter focus on the values of honesty, diligence and the careful and responsible use of resources (thrift). Each lesson includes video clips from Nothing for Mahala, as well as scripture, which help to generate a discussion around each of the key values.
Stories That Talk Money
A collection of nine stories on money values aimed at children in primary school.
Stories That Talk Money Teachers’ Guide
Based on the film, Nothing for Mahala, with a DVD containing clips from the film, this book offers three lessons to Grade 9 and 11 Life Orientation teachers on money values.
Values In Action Resources
Values in Action Bible Study
A Christian leaders’ guide for small groups encouraging them to take action on an issue in their community. Based on the book of Nehemiah, and includes a small-group “how-to” guide as well as the film Hopeville.
Values in Action for Kids
This resource offers the Sunday School teacher Bible-based lessons and a step-by-step guideline on getting a group to undertake a values-based project.
Heartlines for Youth
An interactive booklet giving young people values-based step-by-step guidelines on how to choose and implement a change project in their community or school.
Take Action for Good
A step-by-step guide for individuals or families wanting to take values-based action in their lives or communities
Available both as a Christian and a generic resource.
8 Films. 8 Values Resources
DVD Box set of 8 Heartlines short films, 2006
One feature film, and 7 one-hour films, each on a different value. Film titles include: Heartlines, The Good Provider, The Other Woman, The Bet, The Miners, The Piano and Crossroads.
Living Godly Values
Based on the first 8 Heartlines films, with a DVD in the back containing 20-minute versions of these films, this resource will enable Christian leaders to preach and lead conversations on the 8 values.
Available in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sesotho
Living Positive Values
Based on the first 8 Heartlines films, with a DVD in the back containing 20-minute versions of these films, this resource will enable leaders in any faith-based group to lead conversations around the 8 values.
Values For Life
Based on the first 8 Heartlines films, with a DVD containing 20-min versions of these, this is a curriculum-based classroom workbook for Life Orientation teachers of Grades 10 and 11.
Stories that Talk
A read-aloud collection of stories for 3-8 year-olds on eight different values. Originally available in 11 languages, now some languages only available electronically.
Stories that Talk – Short Plays
Five stories from Stories that Talk adapted as plays for primary schools. In English, Afrikaans, Sesotho and IsiZulu.
Available electronically.
Stories that Talk Assembly Readings
A collection of short readings for use in Primary School Assemblies.