Not what you'd like to. Sort a hundred values down to five, in eight minutes.
Find your values, freeDeciding for myself
Being deeply known
Having control over others
Having direction and meaning
When you're forced to decide which values you'll give up, you find out which ones you most need to keep.
Everyone says they value honesty, family and growth. Nothing was at stake in saying so. Here you can't keep all hundred, and you can't keep thirty either.
Winnow also includes the values you'd rather not admit to. Most tools quietly cut power, wealth, fame and ambition, because a deck of admirable options gives a flattering result. Nobody is embarrassed to rank kindness highly. Those cards are often the ones that change the outcome.
You might be surprised by what you notice about yourself.
A hundred cards into three piles. First instinct is usually the honest one.
Your "very important" pile will be much bigger than ten. This step does the work.
Rank them, then read the pattern underneath, drawn from how you sorted the other ninety-five.
Most exercises hand you a list and ask you to agree. This one makes you choose, then shows you the tension between the two things you ranked highest.
Clients arrive with a ranked five already done, so the hour goes on the conversation instead of cutting up cards. Free, with unlimited clients.
Everyone sorts privately first, then you bring the results together. The kit gives you the script, the slides and an aggregate template.
The sort is free and always will be.
No account, no email.
Unlimited clients.
Delivered within 48 hours.
The Personal Values Card Sort by Miller, C'de Baca, Matthews and Wilbourne, University of New Mexico, 2001. Used in motivational interviewing and counselling for twenty-five years, and released into the public domain by its authors.
Winnow keeps all 83 original values, shortens the definitions to read on a phone, and adds seventeen more.
Ones genuinely missing from a 25-year-old instrument, drawn from the standard sources in values research. Curiosity, Courage, Gratitude, Kindness, Perseverance, Wisdom and Leadership come from the VIA Character Strengths. Ambition from Schwartz's Theory of Basic Values. Balance, Belonging, Connection, Integrity, Patience, Respect, Empathy, Resilience and Trust from current coaching and clinical practice.
Because leaving them out is what makes most values exercises useless. If every card is admirable, the result is a list of things you were already comfortable claiming. The information is in whether you'd rank wealth above compassion with one slot left.
They stay on your device. Your sort lives in your browser's local storage, and a share link carries the results inside the link itself, in the part after the # that browsers never send to a server. There's no account, no database of sorts, and no way for us to look yours up.
The one exception is if you ask us to email your results to you. That sends us your email address and your five, because otherwise we'd have nothing to send. There's no cookie banner here because the site sets no cookies. The privacy policy has the full detail.
It's a self-reflection tool, not an assessment or a substitute for therapy.
We named it after the second one.