Recognizing and Responding to Your Needs — Complete Collection

Recognize needs that deserve attention, explore possible responses and try a small, workable step.

This six-guide collection brings together Recognizing Your Needs and its five companions. Use it to explore your own experience in daily life, relationships and work, with clear explanations, examples, guided questions and space for reflection.

THE SIX GUIDES

• Recognizing Your Needs — 21 pages. An introduction to five categories of needs, with reflection pages beginning with Connection and Belonging.

• Caring for Your Body — 23 pages. Nourishment, hydration, sleep, rest, movement and bodily care.

• Connection and Belonging — 23 pages. Companionship, closeness, affection, inclusion, mutual care and support.

• Autonomy and Self-Direction — 21 pages. Choice, voice, willing participation and authenticity.

• Competence and Capability — 21 pages. Effectiveness, using your abilities, learning and manageable challenge.

• Respect and Dignity — 21 pages. Consideration, being heard, fair treatment and recognition.

FROM RECOGNIZING A NEED TO TRYING A FIRST STEP

Each companion guide helps you take stock of the category, choose one need to explore, clarify what better would look like, and notice what helps or gets in the way. Bring your observations together, consider possible responses and choose a small step to try. A final reflection helps you notice what happened and what you are learning.

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

Six separate English-language PDFs, totalling 130 pages. Page counts include covers, introductions, activities, reflection pages and author pages. No physical products are included.

Complete collection: C$36, a saving of C$24 compared with purchasing the six C$10 guides individually.

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

Guides for Exploration