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The Need-Response podc ast Spotify Amazon Castbox iHeart PlayerFM YouTube NR Clips RSS feed The Need-Response podcast introduces you to the budding professional service of ‘need-response ’. Steph and Gustavo address your underserved needs with this new service, beyond the limits of our current institutions of law and psychotherapy . Follow along to speak truth to power, incentivizing them with the power of love to listen to those they impact. Episodes drop each Wednesday morning, starting 30 April 2025. August 6, 2025 2x09 Prove your innocence without lawyers Instead of filling out and sending paper forms that take forever, consider this better alternative. 2x09 Prove your innocence without lawyers 00:00 / 26:10 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) July 9, 2025 1x08 Responding to the unexonerated innocent How can we trust the adversarial legal system to fix what it keeps breaking? 1x08 Responding to the unexonerated innocent 00:00 / 36:27 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) June 25, 2025 1x07 Does innocence even matter? Steph opens up about the wrongful conviction still hampering their full potential. 1x07 Does innocence even matter? 00:00 / 37:30 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) June 4, 2025 1x06 What is wrong with us? If you can start for free, why not try it? Especially if you can shift the costs to the powerful. 1x06 What is wrong with us? 00:00 / 40:43 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) May 28, 2025 1x05 How well is your wellbeing? We define wellness as your ability to fully function. Not by relieving pain but removing cause for pain. 1x05 How well is your wellbeing? 00:00 / 42:38 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) May 21, 2025 1x04 What seems to be your problem? What kinds of problems does need-response address? How is different from other options? 1x04 What seems to be your problem? 00:00 / 38:19 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) May 14, 2025 1x03 Where does it hurt? Do you settle for options that merely ease your pain? Why not let us help remove its cause? 1x03 Where does it hurt? 00:00 / 42:03 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) May 7, 2025 1x02 What do you need? Do we really need another type of professional service? 1x02 What do you need? 00:00 / 39:53 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) April 30, 2025 1x01 What is 'need-response'? What can this new service do we can’t get anywhere else? 1x01 What is 'need-response'? 00:00 / 42:43 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) April 16, 2025 1x00 Introducing need-response Steph and Gustavo opens the door to invite you into this amazing world of need-response. 1x00 Introducing need-response 00:00 / 05:14 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) January 30, 2025 Trailer Need-Response trailer Quick introduction to the new podcast by the Anankelogy Foundation Trailer Need-Response trailer 00:00 / 00:58 Episode features (exclusive to podcast subscribers) Subscribe now to get all podcast features (free) 1 1 ... 1 ... 1

Anankelogy Principles A-Foundational - B-Basic - C-General - D-Pain - E-Conflict - F-Power - G-Structural - H-Love You will find these principles organized into eight distinct types. Foundational Principles lay the basis for anankelogy as a unique science. These create the foundation for the discipline study of need . As objective phenomena, many aspects of our needs can be examined by the scientific method . Basic Principles ground aspects of your experience with needs in the science of anankelogy. These establish anankelogy as a unique social science . General Principles add wisdom to experiencing needs anchored in the science of anankelogy. These provide insight into what this new profession of need-response can do that other professional fields cannot . Pain Principles start applying anankelogy to be more "need-responsive" in our lives. These apply primarily at the personal human problem level. Conflict Principles offer some insight for negotiating disputes you have with others. These apply primarily at the interpersonal human problem level. Authority Principles apply anankelogy to the legitimacy of those in positions of influential power. These apply primarily at the power human problem level. Law Principles apply anankelogy to the point of having laws and unwritten norms. These apply primarily at the structural human problem level. Love Principles cap these need-focused concepts with mutual respect for each other's needs. These give context to all the other types as we function best when we support others to function their best. One word for such positive regard is love. Get these inspiring principles in your inbox once a week! First name* Email* Join I want to subscribe to your mailing list. * A01 Foundational Principle A natural need is an objective fact. The more you drill down to the beginning of an experienced need, the more you find what exists prior to any human intervention. You don’t merely believe you must have water or that you need a friend, you experience these needs as essential to your capacity to function. Your ability to function after quenching a thirst or leaning on a friend exist independent of subjective feelings, as objective facts. The less your natural needs resolve, the less you can objectively function. Read More A02 Foundational Principle A naturally prioritized need is an objective fact. The more something you require to fully function persists unsatisfied, the more your attention will be drawn toward its satisfaction. It matters less whether you believe you must prioritize it. The objective basis of your functioning subconsciously demands you focus on it over less pressing matters. Any subjective beliefs or feelings arrive after the objective fact of your life prioritizing it. The less you attend to your inflexibly prioritized needs, the less you can objectively function. Read More B01 Basic Principle Resolving needs improves wellness. Wellness is another word for function. All needs exist to serve function. The more you resolve your needs, the better you can function. The more you eat well, the better you can function. You eat, breathe, connect with friends and enjoy moments of solitude all for the sake of being able to function through life. The less your needs resolve, or the less you attend to your prioritized needs, the less you can function. Or the less well you will be. Where there is no function to serve, there is no need. Read More B02 Basic Principle Emotions personally convey needs. The less you can function because of some lack or some threat, the more your body will emote you do something to replenish that lack or remove that threat. Such responses are automatic. Your body conveys your needs to maintain function. You don’t even have to feel it, though you often do on some level. Where there is no need to convey, there is no emotion. Read More B03 Basic Principle Your emotions prioritize your existence. The more you sense some threat, even a mild risk to your safety, your emotions will automatically prioritize your continued existence. Without your assured continuance, little else matters to your life. Or you may no longer be around, or at least at your current capacity, for anything else to matter. Once triggered, it’s next to impossible to prioritize anything else. Read More B04 Basic Principle Your feelings alert you to the status of your needs. The more your functioning becomes limited from some unresolved need, the more your feelings call attention to it. Initially, such feelings remain vague. Then often out of the blue, they turn alarmingly urgent. Usually with something you could do right away to ease the pressure. You could react on this feeling. Or you could dig deeper into what your feelings can only suggest is really happening. Properly responding dissolves its intensity. Read More B05 Basic Principle Beliefs exist to serve needs. The more your interpreted perceptions help you to function in life, the more they crystallize into useful beliefs. The less relevant a fact is to your functioning, the less you cling to it. It matters little if you agree or disagree whether the sun will someday go nova. You can hardly be persuaded against holding as true what helps you survive today, or helps you get by, or helps you get ahead in life. Read More B06 Basic Principle You believe what you need to believe. The more a belief proves vital to your existence, the more it rises in your hierarchy of accepted truths. The more your life seems or actually depends on something being so, the more you must naturally defend it. The less relevant to your required means to function, the less you defend it. The less your needs resolve, the more tightly you cling to any belief you perceive helping you get by. Read More B07 Basic Principle Your biases prioritize your needs. The less resolve a need, the more your attention naturally turns to seek its relief. You find you must prioritize whatever you find available to ease the emotional pressure. Sometimes, you hit on exactly what your life requires. Your prioritized thinking leads you in a positive direction. Other times, you prioritize generalizations that offer hope for relief. Such biases easily lead you astray, and in pain. Read More B08 Basic Principle All beliefs include error. The more you generalize, the less likely the accuracy of those beliefs. If irrelevant to your life, then the result errors can pass unnoticed. As a factory worker, it matters little if I believe Abraham Lincoln was born in Illinois or Kentucky. If my livelihood depends on it, I better know he was born in Kentucky. There will always be facts beyond the reach of your conclusions. Humility helps you stay informed. Read More B09 Basic Principle All your behaviors serve your needs. The less some action contributes to your wellbeing, the more open you are to change them. The more an action enables you to function, the more likely to repeat that action. Even the most trivial of behaviors must align with what you need to function, or you will likely change it. If you keep giving cash to that homeless guy and then run out of cash, you inevitably change your behavior. Read More B10 Basic Principle Needs resolve and evolve. The more you satisfy a recurring need, like drinking water to quench a thirst, the more your repeated action predictably leaves you satisfied. The more you pacify your recurring needs with some alternative, like indulging in junk food for each meal, the less your hunger subsides. The more you habitually rely on alternatives, the more your life contracts to accommodate such limits. Read More View this list organized into these topics 1 2 3 4 5 1 ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 6 A-Foundational B-Basic C-General D-Pain E-Conflict F-Authority G-Law H-Love

Defunctions List 1 discomfort avoidance Read More Discomfort avoidance is the habitual evasion of pain, often from failing to differentiate between positive organic pain and less positive types of pain. 2 mass avoidance Read More Mass avoidance is the widespread norm of not personally engaging with others or in something that seems uncomfortable or threatening. 3 symfunctional strain Read More Symfunctional strain is the ongoing emotional stress from needs not fully resolved, limiting your ability to focus elsewhere and often mistaken as lack of intelligence. 4 vulnerability avoidance Read More Vulnerability avoidance is the persistent evasion of dropping your guard with others close to you, typically out of fear or rejection and often a consequence of normative alienation , nomoscentricity , pistiscentricity and other defunctions .

Innocence Organizations The innocence movement includes innocence projects and law clinics that function independent of the criminal judicial system. By contrast, conviction integrity units function within the criminal judicial system. This list focuses on independent innocence entities. The information and links were up to date at the time this list was created. With your input , you can help us keep it up to date and ensure the links keep working. Thank you . Click here to quickly go to the bottom of this page AL 1 Cumberland Innocence Clinic Address : Samford University, Law School Clinics, 800 Lakeshore Drive , Birmingham, AL 35229 Phone : 205-726-2011 Email : rachel.martin@samford.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Alabama) AK 2 Alaska Innocence Project Address : PO Box 201656, Anchorage, AK 99520-1656 Phone: 907-279-0454 Email: info@alaskainnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Alaska) AZ 3 AZ Justice Project Address : 4001 N. 3rd Street, Ste 401, Phoenix, AZ 85012 Phone : 480-727-0009 Email : info@azjusticeproject.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Arizona), works with ASU Post-Conviction Clinic 4 Arizona Innocence Project Address : James E. Rogers College of Law, 1145 N. Mountain Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719 Phone: 520-626-5232 Email: law-clinics@arizona.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Arizona) AR 5 Midwest Innocence Project Address : 300 E 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone : 816-221-2166 Email : office@themip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa) CA 6 After Innocence Address: 5230 Boyd Ave., Oakland, CA 94618 Phone: (415) 307-3386 Email: info@after-innocence.org Services: Post-exoneree legal and social support for both DNA and non-DNA cases 7 California Innocence Advocates Address: 5318 E 2nd St. #999 Long Beach, CA 90803 Phone: 213-332-2850 Email: info@pcalaw.org Jurisdiction: Regional (California) 8 California Western Innocence and Justice Clinic Address: 225 Cedar St., San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: (619) 239-0391 Email: info@cwsl.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (California) 9 The Innocence Center Address: 6549 Mission Gorge Road, #379, San Diego, CA 92120 Phone: 619-928-2856 Email: info@theinnocencecenter.org Jurisdiction: Mixed (California, Hawai’i, & international) 10 Innocence OC Address: 301 Forest Ave, Laguna Beach CA 92651 Phone : 949-376-5730 Email : online form Jurisdiction : Regional (California: Kill Zone Theory) 11 Los Angeles Innocence Project Address: California Forensic Science Institute, 1800 Paseo Rancho Castilla, Los Angeles, CA 90032 Phone: 323-343-4640 Email: admin@innocencela.org Jurisdiction: City (Los Angelas County, California) 12 Loyola’s Project for the Innocent Address: Loyola Law School, 919 Albany Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 Phone: 213.736.8141 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: City (Los Angelas County, California) 13 Northern California Innocence Project Address: 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 Phone: 408-554-4790 Email: ncip@scu.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (California) CO 14 Korey Wise Innocence Project Address: University of Colorado Law School, Wolf Law Building, 401 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: none provided Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Colorado) CT 15 Connecticut Innocence Project/PCU Address: 55 Farmington Ave, 8th Floor, Hartford, CT 06105 Phone: 860-258-4940 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut) 16 New England Innocence Project Address: 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 28A, Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone: 617-945-0762 Email: general @newenglandinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) DE 17 Innocence Project Delaware Address: 4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803 Phone: 973-908-5906 Email: director@innocencede.org ; Contact us Jurisdiction: Regional (Delaware) DC 18 Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Address: 1413 K Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-888-1766 Email: info@exonerate.org Jurisdiction: Regional (DC, Maryland, Virginia) FL 19 Innocence Project of Florida Address: 124 Marriott Drive, Suite 104, Tallahassee, FL 32301 Phone: 850-561-6767 Email: acarr@floridainnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Florida) 20 University of Miami Law Innocence Clinic Address: 1311 Miller Drive, Ste B400, Coral Gables, FL 33146 Phone: 305-284-8115 Email: miamiinnocence@law.miami.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Florida) GA 21 Georgia Innocence Project Address: 50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 350, Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 404-373-4433 Email: gip@georgiainnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Georgia) HI 22 Hawai'i Innocence Project Address: William S. Richardson School of Law, 2515 Dole Street, Suite 255, Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: 808-956-6547 Email: contacthip@hawaiiinnocenceproject.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Hawaii) ID 23 Idaho Innocence Project Address: suspended operations for lack of funding Phone: TBD Email: TBD Jurisdiction: Regional (Idaho) IL 24 Illinois Innocence Project Address: Center for State Policy and Leadership, University of Illinois Springfield, One University Plaza, MS PAC 409, Springfield, IL 62703-5407 Phone: 217-206-6569 Email: iip@uis.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Illinois) 25 Exoneration Justice Clinic Address: 806 Howard Street, Suite 111, South Bend, IN 46617 Phone: 574-631-0677 Email: ndejc@nd.edu Jurisdiction: Mixed (primarily Indiana, some national and international cases) 26 Indiana Innocence Project Address: Mauer School of Law, 806 Howard Street, Suite 111, South Bend, IN 46617 Phone: 317-203-9608 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Indiana) 27 Wrongful Conviction Clinic Address: 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: 317-274-8523 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Indiana) IA 5 Midwest Innocence Project Address : 300 E 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone : 816-221-2166 Email : office@themip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa) IA 28 Wrongful Convictions Clinic Address: 6200 Park Ave, Suite 100, Des Moines, IA 50321 Phone: 515-412-0514 Email: exonerate@spd.state.ia.us (Director Erica Nichols Cook) Jurisdiction: Regional (Iowa) KS 5 Midwest Innocence Project Address : 300 E 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone : 816-221-2166 Email : office@themip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa) KY 29 Kentucky Innocence Project Address: Department of Public Advocacy, 5 Mill Creek Park, Frankfort, KY 40601 Phone: 502-564-8006 Email: info@kentuckyinnocenceproject.com Jurisdiction: Regional (Kentucky) LA 30 Innocence Project New Orleans Address: PO Box 792808, New Orleans, LA 70179-2808 Phone: 504-943-1905 (Fax) Email: info@ip-no.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Louisiana) ME 16 New England Innocence Project Address: 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 28A, Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone: 617-945-0762 Email: general @newenglandinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) MD 18 Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Address: 1413 K Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-888-1766 Email: info@exonerate.org Jurisdiction: Regional (DC, Maryland, Virginia) MD 31 U of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic Address: 1420 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: 410-837-5706 Email: esuter@ubalt.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Maryland) MA 16 New England Innocence Project Address: 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 28A, Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone: 617-945-0762 Email: general @newenglandinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) MA 32 Boston College Innocence Program Address: 885 Centre St., Newton, MA 02459 Phone: 617-552-0639 Email: sharon.beckman@bc.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Massachusetts) 33 CPCS Innocence Program Address: 75 Federal Street, 6th Floor Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-209-5666 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Massachusetts) MI 34 Cooley Law School Innocence Project Address: 300 S. Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Michigan 48933 Phone: 517-371-5140 Email: innocence@cooley.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Michigan) 35 Michigan Innocence Clinic Address: University of Michigan Law School, 701 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215 Phone: none provided Email: innocence@law.msu.edu Jurisdiction: Regional, non-DNA cases (Michigan) MN 36 Great North Innocence Project Copy Address: 229 19th Avenue South, Suite 285, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-624-4779 Email: info@gn-ip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota) MS 37 George C. Cochran Innocence Project Address: PO Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848 Phone: 662-915-5207 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Mississippi) MO 5 Midwest Innocence Project Address : 300 E 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone : 816-221-2166 Email : office@themip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa) MT 38 Montana Innocence Project Address: PO Box 7607, Missoula, MT 59807 Phone: 406-243-6698 Email: info@mtinnocenceproject.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Montana) NE 5 Midwest Innocence Project Address : 300 E 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone : 816-221-2166 Email : office@themip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa) NV 39 Innocence Center of Nevada Address: none provided Phone: none provided Email: toni@innocencenv.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Nevada) 40 Rocky Mountain Innocence Project Address: Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, 358 South 700 East, Suite B235, Salt Lake City, UT 84102 Phone: 801-355-1888 Email: contact@rminnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Nevada, Utah, Wyoming) NH 16 New England Innocence Project Address: 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 28A, Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone: 617-945-0762 Email: general @newenglandinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) NJ 41 Centurion Ministries Address: 1000 Herrontown Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 609-921-0334 Email: info@centurion.org Jurisdiction: National (life or death row prisoners) 42 New Jersey Innocence Project Address: Rutgers Law School, 217 N. 5th Street, Camden, NJ 08102 Phone: none provided Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (New Jersey) 43 Last Resort Exoneration Project Address: Seton Hall University School of Law, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102 Phone: 973-642-8087 or 973-761-9000 ext. 8087 Email: lesley.risinger@shu.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (New Jersey) NM 44 New Mexico Innocence and Justice Project Address: PO Box 36719, Albuquerque, NM 87176 Phone: none provided Email: info@nmijp.org Jurisdiction: Regional (New Mexico) NY 45 Exoneration Initiative Address: 233 Broadway, Suite 2370, New York, NY 10279 Phone: 212.965.9335 Email: info@exi.org Jurisdiction: Regional (New York statewide) 47 LAS Wrongful Conviction Unit Address: 199 Water Street, New York, NY 10038 Phone: 212-577-3300 Email: wcu@legal-aid.org Jurisdiction: Regional (New York City) 48 OAD Reinvestigation Project Address: 11 Park Place, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10007 Phone: 212-402-4100 Email: info@oadnyc.org Jurisdiction: Regional (New York City) 49 NYLS Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic Address: 185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013 Phone: 212-431-2100 Email: communications@nyls.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (New York statewide) 51 Pace University Law School Post-Conviction Project Address: 78 North Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603 Phone: 914-422-4333 Email: ddorfman@law.pace.edu or apribysh@law.pace.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (New York City and Westchester County) NC 52 Duke Law School Innocence Project Address: Duke Law School, 210 Science Drive, Box 90360, Durham, NC 27708 Phone: none provided Email: dukelawinnocenceproject@gmail.com Jurisdiction: Regional (North Carolina) 53 Duke Law School Wrongful Convictions Clinic Address: Duke Law School, 210 Science Drive, Box 90360, Durham, NC 27708 Phone: 919-613-7057 Email: jcoleman@law.duke.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (North Carolina) 54 NC Center on Actual Innocence Address: PO Box 52446, Shannon Plaza Station, Durham, NC 27717-2446 Phone: 919-489-3268 Email: admin@nccai.org Jurisdiction: Regional (North Carolina and South Carolina) 55 WFU LS Innocence and Justice Clinic Address: Wake Forest University, 1965 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Phone: 336-758-5430 Email: smrabil@wfu.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (North Carolina) ND 36 Great North Innocence Project Address: 229 19th Avenue South, Suite 285, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-624-4779 Email: info@gn-ip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota) OH 56 Ohio Innocence Project Address: University of Cincinnati College of Law, 2925 Campus Green Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45221 Phone: 513-556-6805 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Ohio) OK 58 The Oklahoma Innocence Project Address: 800 N. Harvey Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73102 Phone: 405-208-6161 Email: innocence@okcu.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Oklahoma) OR 59 Oregon Innocence Project Address: PO Box 5248, Portland, OR 97208 Phone: 503-944-2270, Fax: 971-279-4748 Email: info@oregoninnocence.info Jurisdiction: Regional (Oregon) PE 60 Pennsylvania Innocence Project Address: 1515 Market Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 215-204-4255 Email: info@PAinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Pennsylvania) 61 Wrongful Conviction Project Address: 3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215-898-7483 Email: jesslip@penncareylaw.upenn.edu or aravenas@penncareylaw.upenn.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Pennsylvania) RI 16 New England Innocence Project Address: 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 28A, Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone: 617-945-0762 Email: general @newenglandinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) PR 62 Puerto Rico Innocence Project Address: Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, PO Box 70351, San Juan, PR 00936-9352 Phone: 787-751-1912, Ext. 2021 Email: PRoyectoinocencia@juris.inter.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Puerto Rico) SC 54 NC Center on Actual Innocence Copy Address: PO Box 52446, Shannon Plaza Station, Durham, NC 27717-2446 Phone: 919-489-3268 Email: admin@nccai.org Jurisdiction: Regional (North Carolina and South Carolina) 63 Palmetto Innocence Project Address: PO Box 11623, Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Phone: none provided Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (South Carolina) 64 Wofford’s South Carolina Innocence Initiative Address: 429 North Church Street, Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663 Phone: 864-597-4000 Email: Contact form Jurisdiction: Regional (South Carolina) SD 36 Great North Innocence Project Address: 229 19th Avenue South, Suite 285, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-624-4779 Email: info@gn-ip.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota) TN 65 Tennessee Innocence Project Address: 700 Craighead Street, Suite 300, Nashville, TN 37204 Phone: 615-581-7230 Email: info@tninnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Tennessee) TX 66 Actual Innocence Clinic Address: The University of Texas School of Law, 727 E. Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX 78705 Phone: 512-471-5151 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Texas) 67 Budd Innocence Center Address: 727 East Dean Keeton St. Austin, TX 78705 Phone: 512-471-1317 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Texas) 68 Innocence Project of Texas Address: 300 Burnett Street, Suite 160, Fort Worth, TX 76102 Phone: none provided Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Texas) 69 Joyce Ann Brown Innocence Clinic Address: 106 S Harwood St, Dallas, TX 75201 Phone: none provided Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Texas) 70 The Texas Innocence Network Address: Criminal Justice Institute, University of Houston Law Center, 4170 Martin Luther King Blvd, Houston, TX 77204-6060 Phone: 713-743-7552 Email: CJI@uh.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Texas) 71 TMSL Innocence Project Address: 3100 Cleburne Street, STE 100 Houston, Texas 77004 Phone: 713-313-1139 Email: none provided Jurisdiction: Regional (Texas) UT 40 Rocky Mountain Innocence Project Address: Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, 358 South 700 East, Suite B235, Salt Lake City, UT 84102 Phone: 801-355-1888 Email: contact@rminnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Nevada, Utah, Wyoming) VT 16 New England Innocence Project Address: 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 28A, Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone: 617-945-0762 Email: general @newenglandinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) VA 72 Innocence Project at UVA School of Law Address: 580 Massie Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 434-924-7354 Email: comm@law.virginia.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Virginia) VA 18 Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Address: 1413 K Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-888-1766 Email: info@exonerate.org Jurisdiction: Regional (DC, Maryland, Virginia) WA 73 Washington Innocence Project Address: PO Box 85869, Seattle, WA 98145 Phone: 206-636-9479 Email: online form Jurisdiction: Regional (Washington) WV 74 West Virginia Innocence Project Address: West Virginia University College of Law, PO Box 6130, Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7249 Email: wvulaw@mail.wvu.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (West Virginia) WI 75 Wisconsin Innocence Project Address: Frank J. Remington Center, University of Wisconsin Law School, 975 Bascom Mall, 4318e Law Building, Madison, WI 53706-1399 Phone: 608-262-2240 Email: rburg2@wisc.edu or christopher.lau@wisc.edu Jurisdiction: Regional (Wisconsin) WY 40 Rocky Mountain Innocence Project Address: Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, 358 South 700 East, Suite B235, Salt Lake City, UT 84102 Phone: 801-355-1888 Email: contact@rminnocence.org Jurisdiction: Regional (Nevada, Utah, Wyoming) US national 76 The Innocence Project Address: 40 Worth St., Suite 701, New York, NY 10013 Phone: 212-364-5340 Email: info@innocenceproject.org Jurisdiction: Broad (US nationwide) 77 Center on Wrongful Convictions Address: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611-3069 Phone: 312-503-2391 Email: cwc@law.northwestern.edu Jurisdiction: Broad (US nationwide) Transition 78 After Innocence Address: 5230 Boyd Ave., Oakland, CA 94618 Phone: 415-307-3386 Email: info@after-innocence.org Services: Post-exoneree legal and social support for both DNA and non-DNA cases 79 Exonerated Nation Address: PO Box 20241, American Canyon, CA 94503 Phone: 707-656-5994 Email: info@exoneratednation.org or obie@exoneratednation.org Jurisdiction : Regional (California) 80 Exoneration Project Chicago : 311 N. Aberdeen St., Floor 3, Suite E, Chicago, IL 60607 New York : 310 Lenox Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY 10027 Ohio : 6515 Longshore Loop, Suite 100, Dublin, OH 43017 Washington, D.C. : 126 C St. NW, Floor 2, Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 312-789-4955 Email: info@exonerationproject.org Jurisdiction: Broad (US nationwide) Services: Post-release financial and social support for both DNA and Non-DNA Cases 81 Healing Justice Project Address: 11312 US 15-501 N, Suite 107 – #181, Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Phone: none provided Email : connect@healingjusticeproject.org Service: Works to prevent and alleviate the harms caused to all by wrongful convictions through advocacy, education, and direct support. 82 Witness to Innocence Address: 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 267-519-4584 Email: info@witnesstoinnocence.org Jurisdiction: Broad (US nationwide) Publicizing Making an Exoneree Address: 509 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004 Phone: 202-934-0121 Email: prisonsandjustice@georgetown.edu Service: Georgetown University course leading students to create short documentaries and social media campaigns that spotlight a few compelling cases of the innocent in prison. 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Mutual respect resolves more needs than mutual defensiveness. < Back E11 Conflict Principle List of all principles Mutual respect resolves more needs than mutual defensiveness. Image: Pixabay – 12019 (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you are hostile towards others you oppose, the more hostile and defensive they are inclined to be toward you. Mutual hostilities result in fewer resolved needs than mutual respect. The more you engage others in mutual respect, the more opportunity to resolve each other’s needs. Mutual respect draws out more of potential to support each other, and to love one another. Description Which do you think is more likely? You’ve got to fight for what you know is right or others will disrespect you. OR You’ve got to cultivate mutual respect if you want to solve more problems. Anankelogy Anankelogy recognizes how modern societies tend to slide deeper into mutual alienation. Few us truly know one another. Or what we specifically need in the moment. We reveal less and less of ourselves even to our closest companions. Loneliness has become a global health crisis , as a global epidemic . The more we sink back into our hyper-individualized silos, the less we engage one another. We replace interpersonal responsiveness with impersonal laws. We get legalistic. We repeatedly set ourselves up for disappointment when crediting laws more than mutual respect for our safety . When was the last time you won an argument and then was able to completely solve a problem? Has any of your arguments provoked more problems than it actually solved? Did they win you any friends who can now help you in a moment of crisis? Or did it leave your needs unresolved? The less our needs resolve, the more painful they feel. The more painful our unresolved needs, the more urgent they feel. The more we urgently react for their relief, the less our needs resolve. The less our needs resolve, we’re back to feeling their painful urgency. And on and on. The less we personally relate with each other’s changing needs, the more such estrangement can set up the conditions for violence. As JFK put it, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Anankelogy unpacks our shift from civilly respecting each to indulging in more forms of disrespect. We now privilege once prohibited traits like selfishness, self-righteousness, rudeness, haughtiness, spitefulness, and so forth. All in the name of public debate! Need-response Need-response can help you shift from privileged selfish regard , which traps you in misery, with mutual regard , which can remove cause for pain by resolving more needs. Selfish regard rudely boasts to others: “My needs matter more than yours!” or “My needs matter and your needs don’t matter at all.” Its groupish cousin sounds quite the same: “Our needs matter more than theirs!” or “Our needs matter and their needs by comparison don’t matter at all.” Anyone indulging in such selfish regard and stubbornly refusing to engage others in mutual regard can now be assessed as complicit in contemporary problems. This includes those prioritizing relief over resolving the needs causing the pain. And this includes complicity in furthering any form of violence. Reactive Problem If terrorism is such a horrific problem, why do we reinforce it with our poor reactions to it? Do we dehumanize militants (who understandably dehumanize others) by totally disregarding any unmet needs driving their desperation? Opposing violence with violence predictably provokes more violence . Responding to the unmet needs behind the violence predictably mellows the violence. Claiming that only rewards violence ignores how punishing violence with violence rewards the violence. Group violence typically reacts as a form of resistance to ongoing violence of a greater force. Wherever there are resistance fighters up against a stronger military force, there will be asymmetrical battles using guerilla tactics. Guerillas fighters win when they hold out long enough not to lose. The stronger military force loses when they fail to decisively win against guerillas. Consider the example of Vietnamese resistance against the U.S. military fifty years ago. Guerilla tactics ideally remains contained between armed combatants. But sometimes spills over into noncombatant populations. Resistance fighters may rationalize targeting noncombatants in response to the stronger force targeting their own noncombatants. The standard applied sets the standard replied . Wherever there are these guerilla tactics frustrating the stronger force, the stronger force tries to smear these resistance fighters as “terrorists”. To be sure, that’s a loaded term . It means whatever the speaker wants it to mean, which spurs more conflict. If the first casualty of war is the truth, then perhaps the first victory is effective use of propaganda with such loaded language . It can effectively manipulate us into accepting grotesque acts of violence for our group’s ostensibly noble cause. Once employed, propaganda of the stronger force paints such resistance fighters as subhuman, ignores their legitimate concerns like violated rights, and self-righteously boasts of their “right” to squash any resistance. The weaker force typically joins in such mutual defensiveness. Once employed by the both sides, while denying targeting of innocent lives, they start to lose the discipline necessary to resolve conflicts. This becomes evident when failing to resolve internal conflicts within their own populations. The violent self-righteous typically spark more problems than they resolve. Responsive Solution Need-response instills the discipline to engage all the needs provoking a conflict. Need-response insists we all relate to each other’s needs, regardless how they are conveyed. Need-response challenges the usual excuse that such mutual regard rewards violence. No more excuses! If confronted, engage . Identify all the needs in a conflict. We’ll keep challenging those who selfishly champion only their own side. Who underpin defensiveness with their lack of empathy. If provoked, engage . Refuse the temptation to indulge in mutual defensivenes s. Maintain your open and responsive orientation amidst the conflict. We’ll keep trying to incentivize them with your mutual regard . If accosted, engage . Never strike back at the level they strike you. You’re internally stronger than that. Together, we’ll document the exchange. You keep standing tall and we’ll keep the receipts. Those you engage who stubbornly persist in their defensiveness, with no clear reason, can be written off. They risk losing their responsive reputation . We’re going to enforce the social love we hold as the higher standard. Together, we’re keeping score. Anankelogy demonstrates how there is no greater human authority than resolving needs in love . Need-response is set to enforce this highest moral authority, when enough qualified need-responders can effectively establish its greater legitimacy by resolving more needs, solving more problems, removing more pain, and reaching more potential than other available options. You can become a qualified need-responder , starting today. Simply join our free program to get started. The next program walks you through the steps to develop your conflict orientation . If you by habit remain closed and guarded during conflicts, like most of us do, then you will learn what it takes to remain open and responsive to needs. In that first program, you learn to stretch your tolerance so you can readily replace mutual defensiveness with mutual regard even as it hurts. You learn to replace easing the pain of your needs to fully resolving your needs, so you can remove cause for pain and reach your full potential. If your potential includes becoming a qualified need-responder with us, we’d like to hear from you. Sign up to Anankelogy Foundation and post any question you may have in our forum . Help us all to replace mutual defensiveness with mutual respect. Welcome aboard! Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: Applying this to terrorists seems implausible, not to mention risky. It takes more than mutual respect to resolve needs; it takes mutual efforts. Many are too traumatized to remain open in a conflict. Defensiveness can’t be all bad, as it protects me from suffering further harm. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. 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Problems persist without solution where needs resist full resolution. < Back C08 General Principle List of all principles Problems persist without solution where needs resist full resolution. Image: Pixabay – Pexels (click on meme to see source image) Summary The less needs resolve, the more functioning suffers. The more functioning suffers, the more a problem persists. Beneath each problem are a set of unmet needs. The more those needs resolve, the further the problem clears up. The more other needs stand in the way, or conflict with a given solution, the less a problem can be resolved. The more needs get resolved, the more a problem gets solved. Description Which do you think is more likely? Resolving every need is some kind of unattainable ideal. OR A society putting pain relief over resolving needs, and expect all to be okay, is some kind of unattainable ideal. Anankelogy What we call a problem simply occurs after a need or needs will not resolve. The less resolved the needs, the less the ability to adequately or fully function. That’s a problem. You’ve got a problem with dehydration? Your need for sufficient water is not being resolved. You’ve got a problem suffering loneliness? Your need for social connect is not being resolved. You’ve got a problem being trusted to do things for yourself? Your need for independence is not being resolved. This could be presented as a simple formula: Need – Resolution = Problem Solving a problem simply means resolving the needs creating that problem. There are no problems apart from unresolved needs. Just as there is no pain apart from unresolved needs . As your ability to function goes down, your level of emotional pain goes up. Physical and emotional pain only exists to warn you of threats to your ability to fully function. Minor limits cause marginal and often imperceptible pain. You feel mildly irritated when something doesn’t quite go as planned, for example. But since you can mostly function anyways, you do not feel that much emotional pain. If you feel the floor fall out beneath during a major earthquake, you’re immediately feel overwhelmedby a major limitation on your ability to function—indeed, to survive. We naturally gage problems by the severity of their restrictions on our functionality. Resolve all needs fully, and you restore the ability to fully function. Any pain clears up without threats to report. In that moment, your problems go away. At lease in a more perfect world. Need-response Increasing isolation and alienation pulls us into leaning more on impersonal institutions to ease the pain of our mounting problems. We seek better policies, to try to fix the external dimension of our problems. We seek therapy to try to fix ourselves. We rarely try to address both the internal and external dimensions at the same time, until now. Need-response exists to simultaneously address the inward and outward aspects of problems crashing into your life. Need-response recognizes how you cannot solve your problems if only trying to address its outward components with impersonal rules. And need-response recognizes you will never completely solve your problems if only looking within Because need-response recognizes your wellness as psychosocial . Reactive Problem Most institutional options do not aim to resolve your affected needs fully. Psychotherapy largely seeks to ease your pain from problems, without fully addressing the external components to that problem. Legal options in the judiciary and politics offer relief to the winning side in a legal contest, with little if any follow up to ensure fully functionality. These institutions tend to anticipate your continued inability to fully function. They’re often incentivized to keep you at some level of incapacity to continue relying on them to cope. The more you become dependent on these limited options, the more you normalize them as the only options you can trust. If assaulted by someone you know, for example, the legal system steps in to mediate the conflict. It may condition psychotherapy to let you avoid jail time, typically without addressing the broader problems behind the assault. This official “schizophrenic” psychosocially imbalanced approach does little to address any of the problems causing the many conflicts we repeatedly face. The more these institutional options have you focus externally one moment and then internally at another, ignoring any intersectionality or dismissing any holistic view, the more you can get pulled into psychosocial imbalance . That itself prompts pain as your emotions warn you of your limited functionality. You can get to the point of feeling you must avoid facing any further pain. That includes avoiding the natural discomfort often required to fully resolve a need. Instead of processing your anger, you suppress it. Reacting to your pain can leave you in more pain . You then fail to recognize your anger reporting your unacceptance of disappointment. Instead of examining your expectations and realigning your anticipations, your discomfort avoidance leaves you trapped in the problem of such recurring pain of unresolved needs. You describe yourself feeling angry, with little awareness of the full scope of the problem you face. Now that itself is a huge problem. Responsive Solution Need-response exists to simultaneously address both the internal and external contributors to problems. A wellness campaign begins with an internal focus. It has you address your internal capacities to set a foundation to reliably address external matters. The campaign then builds social supports, to enable you and support you to speak truth to power (STTP ). But in ways that incentivize the powerful to listen to those impacted (LTTI ). As you address the needs to solve your own problem, you support others to address the needs behind their problems. Perhaps you’re not ready to commit to the demands of a full wellness campaign. Responsivism offers tools to start out on your own. These can equip you to simultaneously address the internal and external components of problems you endure. By integrating internal and external contributors to problems, need-response gears you toward psychosocial balance . The more you can resolve your problem-affected self-needs on par with your problem-affected social needs , the much more you can function. In sharp contrast to current institutional “avoidant adversarial ” options, you mutually engage (i.e., engaging mutuality ) what others also need. The more you support others to solve their problems by addressing their underserved needs, the more they can capably support you to solve your problems. Along the way, you can help resolve each other’s deeper needs for meaningfulness, for purpose, for social connection, for pain removal, and for reaching more of their life’s full potential. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: This all sounds sweeter in theory than visible in practice. What if the other side cannot admit we have a problem? What’s the point of addressing a problem if we cannot identify all the affected needs? The more I get to the bottom of a problem, the more problems I find. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. 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A naturally prioritized need is an objective fact. < Back A02 Foundational Principle List of all principles A naturally prioritized need is an objective fact. Image: Pixabay – Valiphotos (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more something you require to fully function persists unsatisfied, the more your attention will be drawn toward its satisfaction. It matters less whether you believe you must prioritize it. The objective basis of your functioning subconsciously demands you focus on it over less pressing matters. Any subjective beliefs or feelings arrive after the objective fact of your life prioritizing it. The less you attend to your inflexibly prioritized needs, the less you can objectively function. Description Which do you think is more likely? All political and adjudicated conflicts are best resolved by whoever provides the best argument. OR All political and adjudicated conflicts are best resolved by resolving each side’s priority of needs. Anankelogy Not only do your natural needs for water and for companionship exist as objective needs, you objectively need some things more than other things in order to fully function. You prioritize those things necessary for you to objectively function. Independent of your subjective experience, you require water one moment and to relieve yourself in another moment. You objectively cannot function if you try to choose not to drink water when thirsty. You objectively cannot function when ignoring your need to relieve yourself. Independent of your subjective experience, you require companionship in one moment and to be left alone in another moment. You objectively cannot function if you fail to deeply connect with someone who deeply cares about you. You objectively cannot function if you ignore doing more things for yourself for when no one is around. Your need to draw in water and expel waste water is cyclic. Your need to draw closer to others and then pull away sometimes is also cyclic. You can easily relate how your objective priorities can change with the seasons. You experience other priorities of needs that rarely change with the seasons. Your situation can prioritize one set of needs over another. You may find it difficult to relate to others with a sharply different priority of needs. Especially if falsely assuming they choose to need differently. When living in less densely populated areas, you objectively prioritize providing more for yourself without relying too much on public institutions. You gravitate toward conservative values. Conservatism gives outward expression for your inward priority of self-sufficiency that you did not choose. You objectively require less government intrusion to fully function. When residing in more densely populated areas, you objectively prioritize utilizing public institutions more and more. You gravitate toward liberal or even progressive values. Liberalism or progressivism gives you outward expression of your inward priority for social support that you did not choose. You objectively require more government involvement to fully function. Anankelogy instills the discipline that objective priorities shape our political and judicial preferences more than strong arguments. We’re naturally attracted to political or judicial arguments that most align with our objective priorities. We don’t choose our needs; our needs choose us . We best choose to respect each other’s objective priorities of needs. Need-response Need-response challenges the popular yet failing assumption that our political and judicial conflicts are best settle by might. The prevailing argument favoring one side easily ignores the objective priority of needs of the other side. And that sets up the context for the next politicized or adjudicated confrontation. Reactive Problem Current standards assume we resolve conflicts with the best argument. This conveniently ignores how the side with the most resources tends to sound more persuasive, often getting their way. Moreover, the squashed needs of the losing side easily comes back to haunt the coerced settlement . Denouncing violence without addressing the unmet needs fueling that violence tends to fuel more violence. Outwardly, it may appear a politicized or adjudicated issue was settled. Then we wonder why the losing side cannot remain content with the results of our democratic process. Objective needs and objective priorities do not submit to majority vote. Expecting our institutions to change the inflexible reality of each other’s priorities now collapses public trust in those institutions. They can never deliver what many expect if clinging to this notion that the priorities of others can be changed to fit our own priorities. That’s simple a recipe for more violence, visible or invisible. Responsive Solution Need-response raises the bar by first identifying the inflexible needs and inflexible priorities on each side of a conflict. While combative politics and the adversarial judicial process takes the easier win-lose path, need-response can create better outcomes with its win-win approach. Instead of coercing the public to accept one priority of impersonal laws over another to ease pain, need-response helps each side to remove cause for pain by resolving needs each priority of needs more fully. Instead of coercing the plaintiff and defendant to accept one side’s priority over the other, need-response guides each side to melt the conflict and heal any damage with the higher power of love . Need-response brings all sides together to illuminate their inflexible priority of needs. Then incentivizes all sides to find the best way to resolve the inflexible needs by adjusting their flexible side of how they address each other’s needs. Distinguishing between inflexible needs or inflexible priorities and any flexible response to them can be critical to resolving politicized and adjudicated conflicts. The fact our political and judicial institutions overlook this critical distinguish is a key reason why they are failing. The further these institutions pull us away from loving one another, the less reason to trust them to produce good outcomes. Instead of privileging animosity and hate, let’s get back to loving one another. Instead of spurring antagonism and even hate by trying to manipulate others to serve your own priority at the expense of their inflexible priority, need-response dares you to honor their inflexible priority as you would have them honor your inflexible priority. Such love sets our higher moral standard and we must not back down, lest our objective levels of functioning is allowed to decay further. Need-response brings the discipline to honestly engage each other. To identify the inflexible needs on all sides. To stop provoking either side’s animosity toward the other, but instead nurture greater respect for each other’s less visible affected needs and priorities. That’s how targeted institutions can earn the empirically based legitimacy to impact our lives. Any person or institution resisting this higher standard of love risks being marked as pariah. Once marked, they can be held personally and professionally responsible for our rising rates of anxiety, depression, addictions, and suicides. Not to cast them aside but to enforce the tough love that we mean business when avowing to fully resolve needs. Love permits us to do no less. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How can need-response effectively transform politics and the courts? People are too self-centered for this high-minded approach. How is this love different from romantic love and other kinds of love? How can I distinguish between what’s inflexible and what’s flexible in my own priorities? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. 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Refunctions List A refunction is anything in your life that raises your capacity to fully function. forgiveness The more you let go of your anger toward those who wronged you, the more your needs resolve. Read More Let go of your anger when wronged. Release yourself from your own self-chastisement. View any infringement of your rights as a mistake they can freely admit. Give others the space to honestly admit their imperfections. Rebuild trust by acknowledging your errors toward others. See how forgiveness resolves more needs. gentleness The softer you approach others in need of care, the more your needs resolve. Read More Be ready to give a softer touch where appropriate. Stay sensitive to those who appear alarmed by any harshness. They may be going through intense pain, or suffering some kind of trauma. Discern when a scalpel is better than a sledgehammer. Know where it's best to be humble yet firm. Tread softly through a field of wounded soldiers. Avoid reopening old wounds. Let your gentleness help them to more fully heal and grow strong. grace The more you humbly admit your current imperfections, the more your needs resolve. Read More Admit where you are honestly at in life, and not quite where you or others expect you to be. Release yourself from unrealistic expectations, and appreciate getting to your goals one step at a time. Allow room for unavoidable setbacks. Meet others where they are at, instead of where you may expect them to be. With more grace, observe more needs resolving. gratitude The more you show your thankfulness, the more your needs resolve. Read More Orient yourself to make the most of what you receive in life and avoid taking it for granted. Position yourself with your attitude to receive more of what your life requires. Affirm other's generosity toward you. Insist others not take your offerings for granted. Spur their gratitude by refusing their exploitation of your generosity. With more gratitude, observe more needs resolving. honesty The more others hear and trust you to speak truthfully, the more your needs resolve. Read More Say what you need to say without guile. Avoid manipulating others with words you know aren't true. Avoid putting yourself in a situation you feel you must deceive others. Nurture a reputation of being reliable in what you express. Be authentic. Hold others to a higher standard of being forthright with you. See how honesty resolves more needs in your life. humility The less arrogant you are toward others, the more your needs resolve. Read More Drop any pretense that you know best for others. Don’t cling too tightly to what you think must be good for yourself. Make room for others to face you honestly and interact with you as authentically as possible. Let your pride balance with your capacity to be critiqued. Nurture the humility in others by not provoking their defensiveness, but instead treating them with kindness. With more humility, see more needs resolve. justice The more you pursue what is fair for all, the more your needs resolve. Read More There is more to justice than grieving a loss due to violence. Step beyond mere relief to address your needs with others on par with them addressing their needs with you. Hold others accountable who try to ease their needs or wants at your unwelcome expense. While life isn't fair, interactions in relationships are either fair with balanced results or that relationship does not work. Instead of reacting with revenge, embarrass them by responding to their needs better than they respond to yours. Hold both sides to the same standard of conduct for any relation. See how substantive justice resolves more needs. kindness The more you pleasantly smile and encourage others, the more your needs resolve. Read More Refrain from harsh words. Give encouragement to those in need. Smile more towards others, even if they do not smile back. Let your smile sustain your positive attitude, especially in those moments when you don't feel like smiling. Yet be sure your positive regard stays sincere. Be an example of the level of kindness we all need for more civil interactions, leading to more meaningful lives. mercy The more you let go of your rightful reaction to being wronged, the more your needs resolve. Read More Be ready to let go not only of your anger, but let go also of your right to exact vengeance for a suffered wrong. Give more room to restore a damaged relationship by offering to forgo just compensation. Inspire their gratitude toward you with your readiness, willingness, and ability to clear their debts toward you. Engender mercy from others with your humility and remorse. Let your mercy demonstrate your love for others. See mercy resolve more needs. reconciliation The more you rebuild your trustworthiness after admitting a wrong, the more your needs resolve. Read More After letting go of your anger with forgiveness, continue nurturing the relationship by offering to restore any losses. Rebuild trust by compensating others for any damage for actions caused. Respect where others cannot go on without restoring what they’ve lost. Connect with others where they hurt, with empathetic generosity. Respond to other's gestures toward you who seek to rebuild any damaged trust. See how atonement resolves needs. 1 1 ... 1 ... 1

Beliefs exist to serve needs. < Back B05 Basic Principle List of all principles Beliefs exist to serve needs. Image: Pixabay – danfador (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more your interpreted perceptions help you to function in life, the more they crystallize into useful beliefs. The less relevant a fact is to your functioning, the less you cling to it. It matters little if you agree or disagree whether the sun will someday go nova. You can hardly be persuaded against holding as true what helps you survive today, or helps you get by, or helps you get ahead in life. Description Which do you think is more likely? You hold all of your beliefs as equally important. OR The more vital a belief to your life, the more you cling to it. Anankelogy If something has no relevance to anything you require to function, you will hardly consider it important enough to form defensible opinions about it. But if something proves highly significant to your ability to function, you will inevitably form defensible views around it. For example, if a winter pond appears covered in ice, it matters little to you if that ice is thick enough to walk across. But if you must traverse across it, your belief in how thick it must be now becomes very important to you. Likewise, if you’re relying on government assistance to help you pay this month’s rent, your beliefs about the necessity of government supports will be much more hardened than the remotely rural farmer able to provide everything the family needs. That farmer can easily dismiss government assistance as a waste of tax dollars, but not you. As your emotions personally convey your needs , your beliefs convey how to interpret and respond to such evoked needs. The more intensely felt the need, the typically more hardened the beliefs. You hold true what you rely upon to help ease your needs. If you cannot rely on something or others to fully resolve a need, you likely find something to rely upon to ease that need. Or some belief to depend upon to relieve the pain of that unmeet need. The more you count on a belief to help cope with mounting pain, the more difficult to adjust that belief—even if grossly inaccurate. False beliefs abound when struggling with pain. Need-response Need-response aims to improve each other’s responsiveness to each other’s needs. Instead of trying to shape how we think about such needs (as in psychotherapy) or how to impersonally monitor behaviors (as with the law), need-response realizes that your thoughts and behavior easily take care of themselves the better we can all function from resolving more of our needs. Needs come first. Beliefs then follow to serve those needs. Such beliefs then serve as a filter for interpreting the recurrence of that such needs. The less accurate belief, the more likely you will suffer the pain of unresolved needs. Need-response gets to the source of the problem by addressing the needs themselves. Reactive Problem Too much focus on faulty beliefs or errant thinking, or even problematic behavior, risks overlooking how we all affect each other’s needs. As modern society increases alienation from each other, we privilege being less responsive to each other’s sensitive needs. Increasingly, we form beliefs that normalize such alienation. We expect others to reason their way to respect what we expect of them. Instead of personally asking what we need of each other, or asking what we can do for others, we vainly hope the impersonal law will cover all the bases. But our laws do not resolve needs; people do . Responsive Solution Need-response inspires us to improve our beliefs not through better thinking or law-conforming behavior but by responding better to each other’s needs. Letting our needs resolve more fully naturally enables us to think better and behave more respectfully toward others. Need-response extends beyond problem-focused psychiatric disorders or criminal behaviors. It gets to the root of such problems by addressing the underlying yet overlooked needs erupting as disorders and illicit behaviors. Anankelogy advantages the need-responder ’s toolbox with a unique set of tools currently lacking in psychotherapy and law enforcement. These tools identify overlooked factors that lower your ability to function, and then adds what can restore your ability to function. These are called defunctions and refunctions respectively. A debilitating defunction lowers your ability to function. You feel pain as your body warns you that you can no longer function as before. A liberating refunction raises or restores your ability to function. Once restored to wellness, you feel the pleasure of being able to do more. Instead of “believing” in something, you’re invited to relate. To engage the information. To vulnerably apply what fits your life, and help create the objective results of resolved needs. Here are some examples of debilitating defunctions corrected by liberating refunctions to sharpen beliefs to better serve needs. Discomfort avoidance by discomfort embrace . Believing you should evade any level of pain, which attracts more pain , can be replaced by learning to relate to pain as a natural warning system to remove threats. Normative alienation by dynamic engaging . Believing we should remain painfully isolated from each other, such as in the name of privacy, can be replaced by getting to know what we specifically require from each other. Psychosocial imbalance by psychosocial balance . Believing we must champion one priority of needs over another, fueling political polarization, can be replaced by addressing all needs in due season . Grudges by forgiveness . Holding onto the comforting belief of vindictiveness, which fuels more than solves a problem, can be replaced by letting go of the anger to rebuild any broken trust. Perfectionism by grace . The belief one is never quite good enough can be replaced by appreciating where one is developmentally at and affirming the good faith to improve from there. Arrogance by humility . Believing one is rightly better advantaged than others can be replaced by making it easier for everyone to admit their shortcomings. Dismissiveness by empathy . Believing it’s okay to disregard others can be replaced by trying to see their experience through their perspective, to realize the merit in their words. Each of these pairings nurture your beliefs to better serve your needs while respecting the needs of others. No need to get bogged down in psychology or legalism. Instead, you realize as you’re able to resolve more needs that you can remove more cause for pain. You can then free up your thinking. And can more freely honor the needs of others. And they can then do likewise toward you and your needs. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How can I trust that these are not just another set of questionable beliefs? This seems dismissive of believing in psychology and law, which are very helpful. How does the concept of a “defunction” improve upon psychiatric disorders? Forgiveness and grace should remain in the domain of religion and not a social science. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . See other principles in this category - Foundational - Basic - General - Pain - Conflict - Authority - Law - Love - Previous Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Next

Your feelings alert you to the status of your needs. < Back B04 Basic Principle List of all principles Your feelings alert you to the status of your needs. Image: Pixabay – PublicDomainPictures (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more your functioning becomes limited from some unresolved need, the more your feelings call attention to it. Initially, such feelings remain vague. Then often out of the blue, they turn alarmingly urgent. Usually with something you could do right away to ease the pressure. You could react on this feeling. Or you could dig deeper into what your feelings can only suggest is really happening. Properly responding dissolves its intensity. Description Which do you think is more likely? You address your needs by rationally thinking through each one. OR You address routine needs with the autopilot of your healthy feelings. Anankelogy Every feeling you feel comes with its own level of intensity. The more your need-conveying emotions sense your ability to function is held back, the more intense the emotion. As your ability to function goes back to your functional norm, the feeling naturally subsides. Let’s use some common needs to illustrate the ups and downs of emotions. Self-determination . Consider your need to define your own path in life. If right now you can freely pursue your own purpose in life, you likely do not feel any urgency to do your own thing if already doing it. But the more your ability to function requires a level of self-determination you find elusive, the more intense the longing for self-determination. Fairness . Consider your need to be treated by the same standard as anyone else. If you don’t feel cheated right now, you likely do not feel life is unfair. But as soon as you feel you are being treated more negatively than others, your emotions warn you with growing intensity. Acceptance . Consider your need to be affirmed for who you authentically are. If you’re totally embraced for who you honestly are, you may not even feel the need for acceptance. But as soon as you feel a threat of rejection, your longing for acceptance can naturally intensify. Grieving . Consider your need to adjust to some painful loss. If you have not suffered any terrible loss recently, you likely feel no urgency to make any emotional adjustments. But if you recently lost something of great importance to you, you will intensely feel Intimacy . Consider your need for affectionate closeness. If already close to someone in a satisfying relationship, you don’t exactly long for intimacy at that moment. But if unable to find a compatible romantic partner, you may be craving for intimacy. Security . Consider your need to remain unhindered by dangers. If feeling totally safe at the moment, you likely don’t even think about your need for security. But as soon as dangers come rushing in, your need for security rushes front and center. Support . Consider your need to receive help where you cannot provide for yourself. If surrounded by friends pouring out bountiful care, you don’t feel the need for support that intensely. But if in trouble somewhere all by yourself, you yearn for all the help you can get. With each of these, the more your feelings warn you that you must resolve the need as soon as possible, it often includes something that could hold hope of prompt relief. Often, this serves as stopgap measure, at least until the real thing comes along. Unfortunately, we can become attached to such substitutes. Until a need fully resolves, your mind keeps you focused on it at some level. The less you can resolve a need on your own, and especially if vulnerable to forces beyond your personal control, you could find yourself trapped in emotional pain warning of persisting unmet needs. Need-response Need-response identifies four levels of human problems that can leave you feeling stuck in emotionalpain. Personal problem . You can solve a personal problem on your own. The painful feelings subside soon after you pursue your solution. Interpersonal problem . You solve an interpersonal problem with cooperation with a peer. The closer you agree on a solution, the sooner your painful feelings can fade away. Power problem . You must wait on someone of influence to solve the problem. If they respond to your need, your painful feelings can then stop bothering you. Structural problem . A social norm or structural pattern must change before you can solve such a problem. Until then, you could feel trapped in some intensifying emotional pain. Need-response exists to address each level of problem. The more your problem sits higher above this list, the more likely you endure some sharp disturbing feelings. Long-term endurance of such emotional pain correlates with coping mechanisms like addictions. Too many of us must find ways to accommodate increasingly loads of emotional pain from mounting loads of unresolved needs, due to these complex problems. Need-response prepares you to address all of these levels of problems so that all sides can benefit by resolving more needs. Reactive Problem Hyper-individualism presents a major hurdle to identifying the level of a problem prompting your intense emotions. The Western bias toward personal responsibility—which is laudable when properly applied—easily blinds us from these higher levels of human problems. We too easily blame ourselves for what we cannot personally change. Instead of entertaining the complexities of our problems, we cope with relief-generalizing that avoids dealing with the problem. Instead of engaging the intense feelings that follow, we gloss over the details that could solve the problem. Instead of solving problems, we feed the deeper nefarious problem of avoidant adversarialism . We avoid facing the uncomfortable reality of our complicated problems by becoming adversarial. Since it’s easier to change a powerless individual than change the more powerful person or institution, we habitually evade the intense feelings produced by such problems by rushing into conflicts. To avoid dealing squarely with complicated issues, we indulgently take sides in these contrived conflicts. In short, we try to take the easier path but that quickly becomes the harder path the bear. Your intense feelings are not the problem as much as the unresolved needs they exist to report . Responsive Solution Need-response has you embrace each challenging feeling. You develop the tenacity to embrace even your most painful emotions. You get to the need each of these intense feelings try to report. You then address each problem up the ladder. You resolve your personal problems the best you can. But offered understanding that even your personal problems may require some attention to these higher-level problems. Even those in positions of influential power have many of the same needs as you. So need-response cultivates mutual supports. That includes offering them many of the same qualities that you need . For example, you offer them grace that affirms where they are developmentally at to model the standard for how they are to graciously affirm you where you are at. You learn to let your painful feelings serve you, so you don’t feel trapped serving them . You learn to turn your most intense feelings into opportunities for growth. You learn to appreciate these intense feelings as they inform you the status of your many needs. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: When overwhelmed with intense pain, what do you have to help me to think straight? This seems easier said then done, so I’d like to see such pain endurance in action. Personal responsibility is the answer for most problems, or so I am personally convinced. What can be done about lingering pain that doesn’t seem connected to any current need? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. 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When violence seems the only answer, quickly rethink the question. < Back E06 Conflict Principle List of all principles When violence seems the only answer, quickly rethink the question. Image: Pixabay - ELG21 (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you feel threatened by a foe, the more tempted you may be to protect yourself with some violent act. This could include nonphysical violence, such as verbal slurs or ignoring your commitment to them. The longer your vital needs go painfully unmet, the more urgent you feel you must react. This is when you must pause and reflect to avoid creating more pain for others and for yourself. Description Which do you think is more likely? It’s better to strike preemptively than be struck down and not get back up. OR It’s better to not react violently as too often a violent reaction spins out of control. Anankelogy False urgency gets us into trouble. A skewed perception tempts us to see a threat where none actually exists. Or is not at menacing as assumed. A quick fix can break something long-term. Sometimes we act too soon. Anger provokes a premature reaction. We react to situations better suited for a thoughtful response. Regret soon pours in. Anankelogy steps outside of conflict to take a less partial view. Anankelogy prioritizes being descriptive over being normative . In other words, to carefully observe all sides (i.e., descriptive) to a conflict over favoring an immediate response (i.e., normative). Indulgent side-taking prioritizes being normative over being descriptive . Its lack of discipline creates conditions where fewer needs resolved. Painfully unresolved needs can prompt more violence. Violence too easily begets violence . Anankelogy identifies the pressing needs, and how they’re experienced, to better understand and then end the violence. Anankelogy instills the discipline (i.e., delaying gratification) to attend to these screaming needs even while others demand we go to war. The first casualty of war, so the saying goes, is the truth. The more desperate to relieve pain, the more eager to act upon errant beliefs. No time to reflect when you feel a gun pointed at your head. Even if no gun is really there. Need-response Need-response illuminates each other’s deprioritization blind spots . The more you prioritize one set of needs over another, the less aware of a different natural priority of needs . You may presume those serving a set of needs at odds with your own are clearly in the wrong. That presumption is wrong when applied to unchosen natural priority of needs. Before you react, it’s best to separate out the inflexible needs from flexible responses to them. Many fights, battles and wars could by duly avoided with this disciplined approach to conflict. Unfortunately, we tend to rush headlong into opposition without the slightest idea what we’re getting ourselves into. Reactive Problem Premature opposition , the rush to take a stance against others prior to relating to the underserved needs, creates the very condition you ostensibly oppose. What you reactively resist you reflexively reinforce . They cannot change their inflexible needs to suit your flexible responses. In any sustained violent conflict, both sides are ultimately wrong. Even in war. Because violence interferes with resolving needs. From an anankelogical perspective, there is no good nor bad except for needs . There is always a potential path to address unresolved needs without violence against one another. Failing to find that route usually ends in a path of destruction for both sides. One side can be less wrong than the other. The American revolutionaries were less wrong when fighting the British trying to force them to pay a tax without Parliamentary representation. The Allies were far less wrong than the Axis powers. But they committed some atrocities as well. Those who fail to identify the other side’s exposed needs that they affect, however remotely, become complicit in the other side’s reaction. They are not responsible for the other’s violent reaction, but they do play a role in limiting the other side’s options. This introduces a higher moral standard many are apt to reject out of hand. Reality could care less if you reject its standards. Those who fail to meet this standard of engaging affected needs tend to repeatedly provoke violence. They lower themselves further morally when trying to use violence to combat this violence. An eye for an eye has left them blind to their own moral quandary. What one wins in war or by violence seldom matches the value of all that gets lost. Responsive Solution Need-response instills the descriptive discipline to distinguish between inflexible needs and what we flexibly do about them. Those failing to stop and ask themselves what inflexible needs are affected during a conflict tend to be among the self-righteous and arrogant . Bring peace by relating to the inflexible needs on all sides to a conflict. No, this isn’t a false balance or bothsidesism. The problem of “bothsidesism ” (or false balance ) never applies to the unchosen natural needs themselves. Only to what we do about them. Likewise, the problem of “whataboutism ” cannot justify ignoring the underlying needs. Only to say “what about the inflexible needs we overlooked”. Mutual respect resolves more needs than mutual defensiveness . Many who denounce bothsidesism and whataboutism conflate flexible responses with the underlying inflexible needs. Premature accusations of bothsidesism and whataboutism tends to serve what anankelogy recognizes as oppo culture , avoidance culture , and the power delusion . Ignoring both side’s needs reinforces the conflict and then traps us in misery. Need-response unpacks this important distinction. Need-response prioritizes resolving needs over easing the pain of such unmet needs. Need-response encourages us to empathize with the needs on both sides without siding with their reactions. Indulgent side-taking and generalizing both side’s responses as equal avoids the discipline of relating to each other’s affected needs. The more you prioritize resolving needs on all sides of a conflict, the less confronted by violence in the long run. When violence seems the only option, now you can ask about the inflexible needs to restore peace. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: Sometimes, I’ve just got to fight and ask most of the questions later. What if using force is the only answer in a tricky situation. I wish our leaders distinguished between inflexible needs and flexible responses. Failing to appreciate this distinction seems to drag us into unnecessary wars. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. 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You don’t need anyone’s permission to breathe. < Back F01 Authority Principle List of all principles You don’t need anyone’s permission to breathe. Image: Pixabay - Tama66 (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more authority extends to every detail in our lives, the more it risks slipping into overreach. No human has any legitimate authority over your naturally existing needs. No authority can declare you must now float in midair at odds with gravity. No authority can change your need for water or your need for acceptance or for security. No one can change what you naturally require, not even yourself. Description Which do you think is more likely? Enjoying modern conveniences may require us to give up a few freedoms. OR The more we rely on authorities for what we once provided for ourselves, the more coercive authorities can get. Anankelogy The less we can provide for ourselves, the more vulnerable to the whims of those we must relyupon. I cannot dig my own well for water, for example, so I must take the word of those who tell me this city water is okay to drink. What if it isn’t ? Even if I could dig my own well, I do not have the time. Even if I could test my own faucet water, I am content deferring to local authorities who persuade me to trust its quality. Our lives run deep with countless instances of having to defer to authorities. What if local authorities advise me to boil my water ? Annoyingly inconvenient, but fine. What if local authorities drastically raise my water bill ? Deeply frustrating, but I’ve got to have water. What if local authorities shut of my city water supply due to nonpayment by my landlord? Now I’m utterly disgusted! Each encroachment on my access to water acclimates me to tolerate what I would have objected before. Each government intrusion into my personal affairs—like warrantless surveillance of my private conversations overseas—conditions me to put up with a few more invasions of my privacy. Each minor infringement upon my right to access quality healthcare coerces me to settle for whatever crumbs the authorities permit. Our vulnerable dependencies tend to incentivize authorities to gradually impose upon our unchosen needs . You can choose how to respond to authorities. But you cannot choose to no longer require self-efficacy . Or cease your necessity for equal treatment . Or stop your need for the dependability of others. Each time you cannot resolve such needs, you naturally suffer emotional pain. Authorities often coerce us into accepting their pain relief options as the only available option. Adversarial justice and polarizing politics induce us to settle for the winning side in a court or ballot battle. They rarely inspire us to identify and resolve all painful needs. This easily pulls us into relying upon them to ease the mounting pain they help to perpetuate. We increasingly submit to their influence. At least we don’t seek their permission to breathe, yet. Need-response Populism is in part a reaction to failing elite-led institutions. Their authority counts on the populous accepting their expertise. The less responsive to our inflexible needs , the less trust we have in their institutions. The more their impositions go against our needs, the more we understandably resist. But the more our lives depend upon their institutions, the more some of cast a blind eye to their shortcomings. We can explain away their imperfections. We could rationalize how no institution ever fully lived up to its founding purpose. We may even accept their narrative that any failings are mostly our personal fault. These authoritative powerholders rely on untested assumptions about how to impact our lives. But they do not know what they do not know. These elite influencers could use impact data that we ourselves provide to them, as condition to earning the legitimacy to impact on our lives. Reactive Problem Anankelogy distinguishes between “ascribed legitimacy” and “earned legitimacy” of authorities. Ascribed legitimacy : Arbitrary acceptance of authority prone to manipulation and coerced low responsiveness to the needs of those under that authority. Earned legitimacy : Cultivated acceptance of authority by incentivizing authority figures with impact data that evidentially demonstrates they have enabled the full resolution of subordinate needs. Contemporary norms rely heavily on ascribed legitimacy. But as the rule based international order breaks down , tolerance for mere ascribed legitimacy collapses. U.S. hypocrisy , especially in its relation with the Israeli far-right government , exposes the compounding incompetencies of authorities too removed from everyday lives to aptly empathize with those they negatively impact. Instead of actively respecting each other’s needs, uniformed authorities react to conflicts with an indulgent call to arms. On the world stage of geopolitics, this arguably bloats the military industrial complex . Weapons manufacturers benefit from forever wars , and not so much from peacetime. Uninformed authorities coerce us with fearmongering and self-serving pleas for tax revenue to “protect” national security , often without tested evidence . And always without addressing the underserved needs igniting the conflict. Big money incentives legacy media to play along. Too many of us fall in line. Metaphorically, we settle for asking their permission to breathe. In short, current authorities lack the kind of discipline that anankelogy can offer to improve their legitimacy. Responsive Solution For starters, asserting the objective fact of inflexibly unchosen needs can become a gamechanger. No longer can authorities blindly expect you to simply go along with their chosen policies. They must now recognize everyone’s impacted unchosen needs and unchosen priority . They will now be confronted with the indisputable reality that whatever they reactively resist they reflexively reinforce . Second, join us in raising the bar with mutual regard . Reject the false promises of avoidant adversarialism . Replace it with the higher standard of engaging mutuality . Join us in mutually nurturing our capacity to be more loving toward each other. Together, we cease conflating our unchosen needs with our chosen responses to them. Such moral conflation denies them earned legitimacy . To earn legitimacy, authorities must engage the unchosen needs and priorities on all sides of any conflict. This effectively brings them out of the debilitating traps of avoidant adversarialism . We level the playing field by encouraging powerful authorities to be recognized as mere fallible humans. We affirm their unchosen needs and priorities to model how they are to affirm ours. We raise the standard to social love . We affirm the legitimacy of their influence in our lives the more they demonstrably appreciate our vulnerable needs . When we say “you shall love ” we mean it. If we prove ourselves more affirming of each other’s needs, then we may assert greater legitimacy than them. Engage! Breathe freely. You don’t require anyone’s permission to breathe. Or to resolve any of your needs. And nobody needs your permission to resolve theirs. No one can bend the facts of anyone’s inflexible needs . Affirm the unchosen needs of others as you would have them affirm your unchosen needs . Hold the powerful accountable to this higher standard by lovingly refusing their coerciveness . Put love first. And if any authority refuses this higher standard, let them seek our permission for them to breathe. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How will authorities react to my insistence to first affirm my unchosen need? Have you shown this works without engineering a repressive backlash? You have no idea how much pressure I’m under by the local authorities where I live. By what authority do you say I don’t need any permission from anyone to breathe? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . See other principles in this category - Foundational - Basic - General - Pain - Conflict - Authority - Law - Love - Previous Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Next