What are your true needs?No child should leave school without having an understanding of their own and others’ fundamental human needs. Yet, in conventional education, this topic is ignored at best, and suppressed at worst. Did you learn what your fundamental human needs were in school? Can you provide a list of your fundamental needs now? I certainly couldn’t back then. It is taken me years of study to find that there has been much research done about fundamental human needs. And this is incredibly important, because understanding fundamental human needs will help to interact successfully and receive what we want from others. Manfred Max-Neef has the best list of needs that I have found so far. Although it is easy to come up with a list of 50 needs in any group, he has digested them down to only nine different categories. Max-Neef classifies the fundamental human needs as:
Reducing your basic needs down to a list of nine makes it much easier to consider which needs are being met and are not being met and to take action to get them met. It takes interaction with others to meet many of these needs. Here at Peaceful Living, we believe that by playing together, we can more effectively meet our own and each others’ needs. Sign up for our newsletter now to learn more about our events to help you meet your needs.  |
