Recognizing Your Needs

Begin to recognize the needs that deserve attention in your everyday life.

Recognizing Your Needs introduces five categories of human needs: Caring for Your Body, Connection and Belonging, Autonomy and Self-Direction, Competence and Capability, and Respect and Dignity.

INSIDE THIS GUIDE

• Clear explanations of human needs and the distinction between a need and a way of meeting it.

• Examples to help you recognize needs that are met, not fully met or still uncertain.

• An introduction to the five categories, followed by reflection pages exploring six needs within Connection and Belonging: companionship, closeness, affection, inclusion, mutual care and support.

• Space to describe your own experience and notice what deserves further attention.

Five companion guides are available separately for a fuller exploration of each category. This introductory guide and all five companions are also included in the six-guide Complete Collection.

Developed from The Imperative of Being: Elevating Personal Agency and Meaning, an educational curriculum connecting self-understanding and practical learning with your life, relationships and work.

Core concepts: Human Needs.

Learning activities: Observation, Guided Reflection and Journaling.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

One 21-page English-language PDF, including the cover, introductions, activities, reflection pages and author page. This is a digital download; no physical product is included.

PRINTING AND USE

Designed for US Letter paper (8.5 × 11 inches). For A4, select Fit to page. Print the pages you need or read on screen and write in a notebook. These PDFs have no fillable form fields.

For personal use. You may print additional pages for your own use. Please do not redistribute, share or resell the PDF. For workshops, organizational training or other group use, contact Joanne through https://www.joanneshank.ca/ before using the guide with others.

Joanne Shank, M.Ed.

Educator • Speaker • Facilitator

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