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HUMAN NEEDS
• Life and Contribution
o Power to serve life: to make life wonderful for others and self
o Ability to do what is necessary to live: to control one's own life, mastery, capability, and competence
o Physical need for safety, nurturance, and nourishment: air, balance, caring, comfort, exercise, food, harmony,
movement, physical affection, procreation, protection (including from viruses, bacteria, insects, and predatory
animals), shelter, rest, tenderness, touch, and water
• Autonomy and Choice
o Freedom to choose: ones own actions, dreams, feelings, goals, plans, thoughts, values, and visions and to
honor this freedom for others
o Self expression: authenticity, creativity, growth, healing, identity, individuality, integrity, teaming, meaning,
production, and solitude
o Mental need for knowing and understanding: awareness, clarity, comprehension, consciousness,
discrimination, honesty, information, making meaning, reflection, stimulation, thinking, and truth
• Connection and Interdependence
o Love and belonging: to love and to be loved, mutual caring and sharing
o Give and get relationship with others: affection, being heard and seen, bonding, closeness, companionship,
communication, community, consideration, empathy, fairness, friendship, inclusion, intimacy, interconnection,
justice, openness, support, and warmth
o Emotional need for compassion and being compassionate: acceptance, acknowledgment, appreciation,
emotional safety and healing, nurturance, reassurance, reliability, respect, sexual expression, tolerance, trust,
and understanding
• Joy and Celebration
o Fun and enjoyment of the aliveness in each of us: aesthetics, beauty, delight, grace, harmony, humor,
inspiration, laughter, mourning, order, play, pleasure, ritual, and vibrancy
o Celebration of one's integrity: of one's wholeness, of all the parts that make up oneself, and of being an
essential part of a larger whole
o Spiritual need for oneness with all beings: passion, peace, love, purpose beyond self, meaning for life, and
unity
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