Source: "The Coaching Habit - say less ask more" - https://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/143768/13585828/1312860498787/8%2BFundamental%2BHuman%2BNeeds%2BTranscript%2BPDF.pdf?token=Okw3jhNuGAI1fsQKHyMg0svZrr0%3D&utm_source=chatgpt.com - Cited from "Non violence Communication" - Rosenberg's models. - Wants are surface requests - outcome like getting a report done, that answer to "what do you want" - Needs are universal self-explanatory (drawing from economist Manfred Max-Neef) **Affection, Creation, Recreation, Freedom, Identity, Understanding, Participation, Protection, Subsistence** Here are **Max-Neef’s nine fundamental human needs**, each with a brief description: - **Affection:** The need for love, caring, friendship, emotional bonds, and relationships. It is expressed through family, friendships, intimacy, and community, fostering belonging, support, and emotional safety. - **Creation:** The need to produce, invent, design, and express oneself creatively. It covers artistic expression, innovation, craftsmanship, and the process of making ideas and objects. - **Recreation (Idleness):** The need for rest, relaxation, play, and free time. This encompasses leisure activities, enjoying life, contemplation, and unstructured time necessary for renewal and mental wellbeing. - **Freedom:** The need for autonomy, choice, self-determination, and the ability to act according to one's own will. It relates to personal agency, absence of coercion, and opportunities for independent thought and action. - **Identity:** The need for a sense of self, uniqueness, recognition, and self-esteem. It involves knowing who one is, belonging to groups or cultures, and feeling valued both individually and collectively. - **Understanding:** The need to comprehend, learn, explore, and make sense of the world. It is met through education, curiosity, knowledge, and the pursuit of wisdom, fostering cognitive growth and insight. - **Participation:** The need to engage and take part in social, cultural, political, or economic activities that give a sense of involvement. It relates to being seen, heard, and having a role or voice in decisions and group life. - **Protection:** The need for safety, security, stability, and care. It encompasses physical and emotional safety, health, shelter, and mechanisms for defense against threats or harm. - **Subsistence:** The need for physical survival: food, water, shelter, and basic bodily health. It covers core biological necessities and resources essential for sustaining life. - [[202011011510 Wishes are expression of desired states. Ask the wish behind the wish.]] - - [[202009071534 Notes Reading Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton#Paradoxes of meaning]] --- Read this on [[06-10-2025]] - This is one way of looking and understanding human "fundamental/universal" needs, but one have to be careful because is this truly universal?