Living Values

Living Values: An Education Program [LVEP] started as an outreach programme for the Brahma Kumaris religious organization, called 'Sharing Our Values for a Better World' in 1995. Created primarily by Diane Tillman, a Licensed Educational Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist in Seal Beach, California, with co-authors Diana Hsu, Pilar Quera Colomina and others, Living Values was born out of an earlier Brahma Kumaris international project called, "Global Cooperation for a Better World" in 1988. It was formalized at the Brahma Kumaris' United Nations office, New York in 1996. In 1999, a USA nonprofit corporation, Living Values: An Educational Program, Inc. (LVEP, Inc.)was established to further develop and disseminate the program worldwide. LVEP, Inc. provided initial support to the formation of an international coordinating organization (ALIVE) in 2004. As of March, 2011, LVEP was estimated to be in use in over 60 countries at thousands of sites.