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For each client like you seeking to solve a painful problem, need-response provides a wellness campaign . Its process involves four to five progressing phases: 1) base, 2) ally (optional), 3) team, 4) grow, and 5) goal. Unlike psychotherapy that focuses on private feelings, and unlike hiring an attorney to impose interpretations of law in an adversarial manner, a wellness campaign uniquely seeks to resolve the needs behind the problem in a proactive manner beneficial to all involved. In other words, a win-win approach.

Then CONGRATULATIONS! You're invited to be more need-responsive to each other. You're afforded the opportunity to express your need to melt the chains of alienation like a hot knife cutting through butter. This is our way to introduce you to this new way to solve problems by resolving needs. Which removes cause for pain. And enables us to reach more of our life's potential. Welcome to what the power of love can do for you. SKIP INTRO There are three different ways you can be invited. And three different ways you can invite others to express their need to you. Three ways to spread some love. 1) INVITATION video Were you invited to express your need with this short video? If inviting another to express a need to you, you can forward this video to them. Right click on it to select an option best for you. 2) INVITATION card Were you invited to express your need with this meme? If inviting others to express a need to you, you can print out your own cards. You just have to print both sides, preferably on cardstock, and then cut it into four. Your INVITATION (front) Your RESPONSE (back) 3) INVITATION meme Were you invited to express your need with this meme? If inviting another to express a need to you, you can download this meme and post it in your social media accounts like Facebook or X. However you use this invitation, think of it as a "warmup" for a possible " wellness campaign " to resolve needs . Or you can simply stop there and see if it helps improve your relations. Let's address what this INVITATION can mean for you. So your invited to express a need Your invitation Your response Scroll down further for options to respond to this innovative idea. So your invited to express a need Someone who knows you just sent you a curious invitation. You probably never before received an invitation to directly express a need the sender pledges to honor shortly after. Whether invited verbally in person with an INVITATION card or online by an INVITATION video , or both, you're now honored to share being more need-responsive than feel-reactive . Let's break downs some key comparisons. need-responsive feel-reactive respond to needs with discipline resolve needs over relieving pain prioritize resolving needs to remove pain prioritize resolving both side’s needs correlating with better health outcomes react on feelings without reflection relieving pain over resolving needs prioritize easing pain that perpetuates pain prioritize one side’s needs over other side’s correlating with poor health outcomes Let's apply this need-responsive alternative when replying to your invitation to express a need. Your invitation Now that you are invited to benefit from need-response ... you may be wondering, What in the world is need-response ? Need-response is a new professional service for resolving needs . All other professional services like psychological services (counseling, psychiatry), medical services, legal services (judicial, political), educational services, entertaining services... focus more on relieving pain of your unmet needs. Every unresolved need risks leaving you in more pain. That's a key reason these institutions are failing. That's a big cause why we don't trust them anymore. Only need-response aims to fully resolve needs to remove cause for pain . This can bring out more of our potential for love , or mutual respect for each other . And these are just some of the benefits of need-response . Need-response encourages the sender to now demonstrate their loving respect for your stated needs. So the sender asks you... Is there anything I can do to improve how I respect you and your needs? The sender is to wait for your response before expressing if you could improve any respect for them and their needs. Unless you prefer the sender to express express their need now. Maybe you prefer they express their need first. You could then use that as a model to express your need to them. They are encouraged to follow the "praise sandwich" format, but you don't have to. Good news : Thanking you for what you already do for them. Bad news : Giving less pleasant news of their dissatisfied need. Good news : Concluding with affirming your intent to continue mutual respect. This format is a great way to cultivate trust and our potential for mutual respect of love. Before get too deep into the weeds about their expressed need, let's focus now on responding with your own need. Your response After you're invited, you can take one of the five following options. When responding to an invitation to respond better to your needs, it helps if you can keep it… simple , not complicated, easy , not too challenging, brief , won't take too long, specific , not too vague to do, actionable , not abstract, and meaningful , satisfies a need. Examples of what the sender could do for you: express overdue gratitude; give a hug; apologize for something; listen and show you understand; give and take a complement. Let's replace our old habits of isolation, alienation, disappointed expectations, hostilities, outrage and more with new habits of mutual empathy, mutual forgiveness & mercy, mutual understanding, mutual respect, mutual support and more. Together with this new approach of need-response ... Let's spread some love. https://tinyurl.com/ycksrzjk Your responsiveness to this unique way to improve our lives Your turn. Consider one or more of these options to respond to this need-responsive content. You could incentivize a more need-responsive reply with what anankelogy refers to as a character refunction . You will recognize these laudable traits, such as kindness and forgiveness. You could download this brochure or forward the link as a way to address each other's affected needs. Learn more about a wellness campaign to appreciate what this ultimately about. Before committing to a wellness campaign , you can take our brief, free Wellness Warmup online course. This post exists as a part of this simple course. Click here to view that option. Check our Engaging Forum to FOLLOW discussions on this post and others. JOIN us as a site member to interact with others and to create your own forum comments. Explore similar content by clicking on the tags below. Find similar content under this wellness campaign category. Share this content with others on social media. Share the link to share the love. Check out recent posts of interest to you. Add a rating below to let others know how much of a good read this was for you. Write a comment below to give others an independent perspective on this content. Recommend this on Facebook. Introduce anankelogy to your social media contacts. Lastly, support us in building this new love-nurturing alternative to our hate-enabling institutions. You can help us spread some love. back-to-top

Not all needs are the same. Your need for water exists at a more primal level than the city’s need for you to pay your water bill. The latter is socially constructed. The former preexists any human culture. The latter can be altered. The former remains fixed in stone. Likewise your need for safety, for self-determination, for support, for companionship, and so forth. Which would you think is more likely? Failure to resolve your needs is personally your own fault. OR Resolving needs depends largely on others respecting their impact on your needs, as well as you respecting your impact on their needs. We live in a time when it's increasingly more socially acceptable to react to feelings than to respond to needs . The more I focus on the needs churning those feelings, the more reactions I tend to get—ignored, blamed, snubbed, dismissed. In this era of Trumpian crudeness , and l eftist public denunciations of forgivable slights , we appear to given up on the principles of discipline that arguably made America great. As Tocqueville ostensibly warned us back in the early 1800s, when America ceases to be good, it will cease to be great . Mainstream culture appears to be racing to the bottom. Social media seems to reward and incentivize feel-reactive norms over need-responsive love. Meanwhile, many wonder why so many problems persist. Anankelogy provides many helpful tools to get to the underserved needs at the center of all of these stubborn problems. That includes this tool to help you better understand how you experience your needs. And to appreciate all that can get in the way of resolving those needs. For starters, anankelogy distinguishes between different elements in your experience of needs. It illustrates these elements in what it calls the need experience funnel . You NEED This introduces you to the need-experience funnel (3.1.). You routinely experience your needs in a flash through a funnel of need-experience. The "need experience funnel" in brief Your core needs - core homeostatic balance, essential to functioning. Your referent needs - something necessary to restore core balance. Your access needs - how to get the necessary resource, or any substitutes. Your psychosocial needs - who is to access it, yourself or someone else. Oh, CRAP! The "need experience funnel" in-depth Your core needs in-depth Your referent needs in-depth Your access needs in-depth Your psychosocial needs in-depth Anankelogical uses of "need" Need versus preference Core need as a “natural need” or “organic need” Institutional versus natural needs Vulnerable need versus exposed need Affected needs versus impacted needs Now versus later The "need experience funnel" in brief 1. Your core needs Every need starts as some kind of homeostatic disequilibrium. Your ability to continue to function seeks something, typically outside of yourself, to bring you back to optimal balance. The longer you stay imbalanced, the less you can function. And then the more pain you will feel as your body warns you of this threat to your ability to function. DIAGRAM: homeostasis illustrated with core need for fluid equilibrium You never require any water until your body warns you that it cannot adequately function until fluid or temperature equilibrium is restored. You never need any time with a friend until your body warns you that it cannot fully function until optimal balance is restored between you and others. This core of your experience of needs is the most inflexible. You never choose to be thirsty. You never choose to be lonely. You never choose to require solitude. While your actions can result in these conditions, each condition itself results from the natural phenomenon of disequilibrium. Each condition exists as an objective fact . Each condition occurs independent of your subjective experience of it. 2. Your referent needs Each need prompts you to do something to ease it. The academic anankelogy term for this is “ referent ”. Your need refers you to what it is apparently required to restore functioning, or at least to ease the discomfort of the unresolved need. Most often, you will find this referred to by its accessible anankelogy term: resource . Most every prompted need compels you to get something that your experience teaches you will ease that discomfort. If suddenly feeling thirsty, fluid and temperature equilibrium is best restored by drinking some water. If feeling lonely, social equilibrium is best restored by connecting with a trustworthy friend. Our vernacular talks of needing water and needing a friend, but these actually point to what we trust to satisfy the core needs. Here is where some flexibility can creep in. You can choose to quench your thirst by drinking water or coffee or soda pop or whiskey or prune juice. Our bodies evolved to utilize water as the best resource for restoring us to full functionality. 3. Your access needs Each time you experience a need, you typically consider how you will access the necessary resource. You can get the resource of water from a faucet or from a store-bought bottle, or from a glass given to you by the waitress. Or you can get coffee at the grocery store, or from a coffee shop, or local café, or at the gas station. While you do not choose to be thirsty, you have many choices how to satisfy your cravings. With so many options and flavors and ways to serve it, access needs points to a growing array of flexibility. If you cannot readily access the best resource, you may have to settle for a less than optimal choice. Instead of hot coffee, you settle for sweetened iced tea. Instead of being able to access a friend online, you settle for vetting your frustrations online in the comments section. The less you can access what your life specifically requires, the less you can fully function. Your body will persist in warning you of its limited capacity to function. That’s what the pain is for. The more you can fully access what you optimally require, the less pain you suffer in life. 4. Your psychosocial needs Who is to access what your life requires—you or someone else? You naturally prefer to do as much for yourself as you can. You also naturally count on others to do what you cannot do for yourself. You cannot dig your own well in the city, so you count on others to provide drinkable pure water. Trusting others is one of your social needs. Of course, you can dig your own well if living in a remote rural region. Self-sufficiency is one of your self-needs. Each need you experience affects your self-needs and your social needs —or collectively known as your psychosocial needs . The term psychosocial could be inclusive of biological needs and spiritual needs. Again, this comes down to how much you can access the resource for restoring your inner equilibrium, and how much must you vulnerably rely on others. This level introduces a complex array of flexible choices. You can access some of a resource on your own while having to depend on others to provide the rest of it. You can pour the water from the fountain yourself, after getting a bottle from someone or somewhere else. Now let’s dig a little deeper into each of these need experience elements. Oh, CRAP! I first presented this need experience funnel in my Udemy eCourse for depolarizing politics . One of the students asked me if I realized the acronym it spelled. Honestly, I hadn’t thought about it. At first, I considered changing it. Then I thought to myself, now we all can admit that life and politics is full of CRAP! back-to-top The "need experience funnel" in-depth 1. Your core needs in-depth In the language of accessible anankelogy , a core need is a natural need or organic need . As such, it exists as an inflexible objective fact . The more we keep core needs distinct from the resource needs we use to respond to them, the more we can steer clear of pointless conflicts. We speak of these as “inflexible needs” to drive home the point that no one can be persuaded to literally need other than what they already require. Can anyone convince you to no longer require eating any food? Change what you eat, that’s flexible, not requiring food itself remains inflexible. Likewise, no one can persuade you to experience a priority of needs different from what you naturally experience right now. If your life requires you to be alone to sit in solitude for a while, no amount of arguing that you need a friend at your side can change that. Divisive politics gets fueled by pointlessly expecting others to have the same priority of needs. Your core need for equilibrium shapes your experience of needs far more than your beliefs. 2. Your referent needs in-depth Not all referents, or resources, are equal. While some can fully resolve your needs, others cannot. Anankelogy recognizes three levels of referents, or resources: 1) Primary resource – what our body has evolved to utilize to restore optimal balance. E.g., water for thirst, interpersonal connection for loneliness, professional police interdicting acts of violence. 2) Alternate resource – what can allow a need to at least partially resolve. E.g., sweetened juice, casual friends, vigilante groups. 3) Substitute resource – what can only provide relief from the pain of the unresolved need. E.g., alcohol, social media “friends”, revenge killings. A proper amount of a primary resource allows you to return to optimal functioning. Once function gets restored, there is no cause for your body to warn you with any further pain nor desire. An imperfect amount of a primary resource , or alternate resource, can allow you to restore some functioning. Your body will know it must have more to restore full functioning, so it warns you in the form of some pain. A substitute resource can only relieve your pain of unresolved needs. They do little to nothing to help you return to optimal functioning. Indeed, substitutes like too much alcohol or relying exclusively on social media contacts can actually reduce your overall functioning. The more you rely on substitute resources to relieve your pain, resulting in less functioning, the more pain you ultimately suffer . An easily overlooked contributor to our problems and pain is how resources tend to remain unevenly accessible. 3. Your access needs in-depth The more you must rely on others to access a resource you need, the more likely you’re coerced into accepting the given terms to make it available to you. Modern life has left us more and more vulnerable to the provisions of others. Anankelogy recognizes accessibility of necessary resources fit into of three qualitative categories. 1) Reliable access ( reliably accessible ) – you can count on it being steadily available. 2 ) Viable access ( viably accessible ) – you can trust it will be there most of the time. 3) Inadequate access ( inadequately accessible ) – you can be sure it will be mostly unavailable. Consider how that intersects with the quality levels of resources, as illustrated in this chart. Also consider how need-responders can provides this deeper level of critique that you will never find anywhere else. ​ reliably accessible viably accessible inadequately accessible primary resource PR-RA (best) PS-VA ​PR-IA alternate resource ​AR-RA ​AR-VA ​AR-IA substitute resource ​SR-RA ​SR-VA ​SR-IA (good) The more you can reliably access primary resources , the better your life will be. It will then be much easier for you to reach your life’s full potential. Meanwhile, the more substitute resources are inadequately accessible to you, like not being able to find any beer when your thirsty and miserable, the better off you will be. DOSE OF REALITY Unfortunately, we often experience situations where alternate or substitute resources tend to be more reliably accessible than primary resources . I can find a lot more “friends” on social media than in the real world. It’s generally easier to vent my anger at others than to reflect on what I cannot accept and do something productive about it. That’s when symfunctional strain sets in. At first, you tolerate the mild discomfort of your partially resolved needs. But your body persists on warning of this growing threat to your ability to function. This once mild pain tends to spill over into agonizing alarm bells. This creeping normality of a slow buildup of pain can serve as a gateway to agonizing dysfunctions. SICK OF GETTING SICK Picture a situation where an alternate resource like junk food is reliably accessible day after day, while the primary resource of healthy meals remains inadequately accessible . Even if you can cook a good meal by somehow making the time and effort in your busy schedule— viable access —you likely get pulled into the reliable access of the alternate resource of processed foods. Once built into your daily routine, such a poor diet robs you of the full energy you will require to live life fully. You increasingly seek medical help to deal with the consequences. Your healthcare likely presents the viable or even reliable access to the alternate resource of symptom relief. You can easily find yourself trapped serving your feelings instead of your feelings serving you . GATEWAY TO ADDICTION Your situation grows worse as you find the best way to cope with the pounding pain of your growing list of unresolved needs is the reliable access of pain-relieving substitute resources . Many are totally legal—alcohol, pornography, binge watching, overeating, doomscrolling. You can find yourself sinking into such unhealthy routines of pain coping mechanisms. As you find these help you to cope with the daily pain of intolerable anxiety and depression, you experience these substitute resources as downright addicting. Any addiction can be part of a structural problem and not merely a personal problem. REINFORCING ADDICTIONS It’s popular to denounce any addict who resists taking full responsibility for their behavior. Sure, if totally blaming others or blaming society then they deny their own personal agency to make choices for themselves. But we risk swinging to the opposite and damaging extreme of hyper-individualism when denying any role of these external constraints on a reliable access of primary resources . Before we interpret these as only personal failings, mix in the problem of coerced poor options dependence (CoPOD). Without denying personal agency , social structures can limit your scope of choices. The addict blaming society is decrying their personal sense of powerlessness to these larger forces ultimately limiting access to primary resources . Many institutions tend to provide easier access to less-than-optimal choices. They often ensure you have reliable access to alternate resources . They expect you to pursue the easier path in life that creates problems they can charge you later to try to fix. Modern conveniences perform wonders for easing your pain, but not so well on fully resolving your needs so you won’t have to suffer that pain. Absent of reliable access to primary resources , you easily can get comfortable with the next best thing. PERPETUATING IMBALANCE When generalizing for relief, we may shift to extremes of totally blaming others or blaming society, or fully blaming ourselves. We risk sliding further into psychosocial imbalance (covered below). The more we react to these feelings and overlook responding to the overlooked needs , we tend to reinforce the problem we ostensibly oppose . When able to face reality, we can recognize access to resources almost always involves both others and ourselves. With almost everyone struggling with a load of unresolved needs, the mounting pain tends to distort our psychosocial needs. 4. Your psychosocial needs in-depth The more our needs resolve, the more we value what we learned is working. We hold dear to what keeps us functioning well, what removes pain, and helps us reach more of our potential. The less our needs resolve, the more we tend to generalize for relief. We worry less about specifics as we look around for any broad statement offering some hope for relief. We avoid specifics that could risk undermining our coalitions. We trust ideas without testing them first. The more we seek relief for our unresolved needs, the more we generalize or overgeneralize for relief. The more we generalize or overgeneralize, the more psychosocial imbalance emerges. We either gravitate towards generalizing group interest over generalizing in favor of self-interest. Or we gravitate towards generalizing self-interest over generalizing in favor of group interest. Or we overgeneralize in favor of collectivist ideals over the selfish claims of the other side. Or we overgeneralize in favor of selfish ideals over the collectivist claims of the other side. psychosocial imbalance to psychosocial balance extreme left dysfunction moderate left symfunction healthy psychosocial balance: peakfunction moderate right symfunction ​ extreme right dysfunction ​ ​ group/self balance ​ ​ ​ ​group interest ​ self-interest ​ collectivist ​ ​ ​ selfish Or instead of generalizing, we get to the specifics of our many needs. We gravitate toward resolving our needs over merely relieving the pain of our underserved needs. We move from psychosocial imbalance toward psychosocial balance . We intentionally seek to resolve each of our self-needs on par with our social needs . Self-need : A set way to access some resource on your own. Social need : A set way to access resources with support from others. ​ YOUR SELF-NEEDS YOUR SOCIAL NEEDS ​ ​ autonomy affection ​ ​ authenticity affirmation ​ ​ independence appreciation ​ ​ initiative being understood ​ ​ internal incentive belonging ​ ​ personal freedom companionship ​ ​ ​personal security cooperation ​ ​ privacy​ dependability ​ ​ resilience equal treatment ​ ​ self-determination friendship ​ ​ self-efficacy group cohesion ​ ​ self-expression inclusion ​ ​ self-purpose intimacy ​ ​ self-responsibility predictability ​ ​ self-sufficiency support ​ ​ self-worth ​synergy ​ ​ tenacity trust ​ Life requires a healthy balance of both sides. The more your self-needs resolve more than your self-needs , or the more your self-needs resolve more than your social needs , you start to experience psychosocial imbalance . If self-needs routinely resolve more than social needs, or social needs routinely resolve more than self-needs, this creates what anankelogy recognizes as a psychosocial orientation . ​If your self-needs routinely resolve more than your social-needs, you tend to develop a wide orientation . If you feel you can be your personal self and enjoy self-expression, but tend to be socially excluded and not enjoy equal treatment, your inner wide orientation finds outward expression in politically left leaning values. You will likely champion equal rights over personal rights. You will likely favor government supports over self-sufficiency. You tend to generalize what best to do about your less resolved social needs, while staunchly guarding your more resolved self-needs. You seek to liberate minority groups, as this has served you well, over conserving the traditional family structure. If your social-needs routinely resolve more than your self-needs, you tend to develop a deep orientation . If you feel embraced by your closeknit family and easily included wherever you go, but tend to struggle with personal responsibility and being able to branch out without risking family rejection, your inner deep orientation finds outward expression in politically right leaning values. You will likely champion personal rights over equal rights. You will likely favor self-sufficiency over government supports. You tend to generalize what best to do about your less resolved self-needs, while staunchly guarding your more resolved social needs. You seek to conserve the traditional family structure, as it’s served you well, over liberating minority groups. If you like to dig deeper into this, then let’s unpack politics with the lens of anankelogy. Too much of what gets said about politics misses the boat because it overlooks the central role of needs. The better you can understand your experience of needs with this need experience funnel , the easier to find solutions to our many stubborn and painful problems. Anankelogy offers a fresh paradigm with a new vocabulary to finally understand our stubborn problems. back-to-top Anankelogical uses of "need" While we’re talking about needs from an anankelogical perspective, let’s clear up some potential confusion with this new vocabulary. You will find many qualified uses of the term “need” to cover different constructs. Here are some helpful distinctions. Need versus preference A need : unchosen and inflexible requirement for something specific for functioning. A preference : chosen and flexible item to meet some requirement for functioning. You literally do not “need” a bottle to hold your water. If there are different ways to access a resource you require, then it’s more of a preference than an actual need. You may prefer tea over coffee, but you literally need the water from which both are made. Many items we refer to as a “need” actually refer to a trusted response to a core need . Sometimes that response is merely a wish, a want, a desire, a craving, or a longing. The more you prioritize fully resolving your needs, the more you understandably prefer to access the primary resource for it. Anankelogy distinguishes between different types of preferences. As illustrated in the chart below, three kinds of preferences emerge. 1) Reliable preference . 2) Viable preference . 3) Unviable preference . A reliable preference is a primary resource or access to a primary resource that can fully resolve a core need. It results in removing cause for pain. And should lead to peakfunction . A viable preference is a alternative resource or access that adequately restores one to sufficient functioning. It results in moderating pain to a manageable level of tolerable discomfort. It typically leads to symfunction . A unviable preference is a substitute resource or any access that does not restore functioning but merely relieves your pain of unresolved need. It results in constraining your capacity to fully function. And it can help you to escape some or all current pain. But that easily leads to more pain, as your unmet needs prompt your body to keep warning you of threats to your ability to fully function. This tends to lead to dysfunction and even misfunction . Core need as a “natural need” or “organic need” A core need : disequilibrium to the point of limiting ability to adequately function. An organic or natural need : disequilibrium and the primary resource to fully restore balance. Where academic anankelogy speaks of core needs and referent needs , the simpler language of accessible anankelogy speaks of natural needs or organic needs , and resource needs . There is some overlap to consider. CORE NEED ​ RESOURCE NEED ​ inflexible need viable preference ​reliable preference unreliable preference ​ primary resource alternative resource substitute resource ​need ("natural need" or "organic need") arbitrary preference ​ When using the simpler language of accessible anankelogy , you can speak of the “ natural need ” for some water. As the primary resource for quenching a thirst to restore fluid and temperature equilibrium in your body, there is little to any flexibility involved. You don’t really prefer water if it’s the only thing that will fully restore your ability to function. You could prefer some coffee, a diarrhetic with caffeine. As a viable preference , with other impacts on your wellbeing, accessible anankelogy recognizes this as an arbitrary preference . The better option of pure water clearly exists to restore you to full function without side effects, if only you can access them and choose it over other arbitrary options. Much of these terms are interchangeable. Primary resource and reliable preference . It reliably restores you to full functioning. Alternate resource and viable preferences . It viably eases your pressing need. Substitute resource and unviable preference . It remains unviable to restore you to functioning, but only practical for relieving some pain for a while. Institutional versus natural needs A natural need : an unchosen requirement necessary to function with few satisfactory options. An institutional need : a chosen requirement for an entity to function with many potential options. When Karl Marx asserted “ From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! ” many rightly asked, “Whose needs should we publicly serve?” If we build an overarching system (i.e., government, market) to address our public needs, is there a risk for such institutional needs to emerge as more important than our particular needs? Anankelogy points out how natural needs existed long before human culture evolved into a mass culture that created institutions to address some of these public needs. The institutions then present their own needs, which arguably must be satisfied in order to fulfill its mission to serve public needs. Unlike natural needs , institutions have a tendency to use its might to shift from primarily serving the needs of its founding purpose to primarily serving its own needs . But need-response , as applied anankelogy , regards any institutional need as socially constructed and therefore relatively arbitrary compared to any natural need of an individual vulnerable personal. Without our natural needs , there would be no institutional needs , no organizational needs, no governmental needs. Vulnerable need versus exposed need A vulnerable need : a requirement to function susceptible to power dynamics. An exposed need : a requirement to function susceptible to social structures. Accessible anankelogy may use the terms “ vulnerable need ” and “ exposed need ” interchangeably. But there is a slight difference that matters when we get to specific situations. A “ vulnerable need ” is any need or preference easily impacted by someone in a position of social power. And it’s easily reinforced or privileged by undisciplined social structures. In the specific language of academic anankelogy , a power problem impacts vulnerable needs . An “ exposed need ” is any need or preference easily impacted by external factors. This includes institutions, social structures and the natural or human engineered environment. In the specific language of academic anankelogy , a structural problem impacts exposed needs . In the everyday language of accessible anankelogy , this subtle distinction may hardly matter. Need-response addresses both vulnerable needs and exposed needs in a similar manner. Affected needs versus impacted needs An impacted need : formal terminology for resulting need, shaping function capability. An affected need : less formal terminology for resulting need, evoking a feeling. Both refer to how a person or entity shapes the results of another individual’s experience of needs. Both speak to vulnerable and exposed needs, from a slightly different angle. Both apply to how institutional needs can impose on those relying on the institution. Need-response emphasizes the “impact” of power relations and social structures on your vulnerable/exposed needs . This focus can be more useful when addressing power problems and structural problems during a wellness campaign . When speaking in general, “affected need” covers basically the same thing. The more others or situations impact your needs, the more they evoke a feeling. Affect refers to emotion. This emphasis can help to draw attention between a commonly privileged feel-reaction and a more disciplined need-response . Now versus later Usage of these terms apply for now, but could change in the near future. Much of these new terms have yet to be tested in actual situations. Even newer terms could emerge. Some of these current ones could be replaced. Perhaps your situations can bring something to light we’re missing here. Anankelogy can learn from you. You could call attention to something essential overlooked here. What is your response to this new need-responsive vocabulary? back-to-top Your responsiveness to these human need levels Your turn. Consider one or more of these options to respond to this need-responsive content. Check our Engaging Forum to FOLLOW discussions on this post and others. JOIN us as a site member to interact with others and to create your own forum comments. Explore similar content by clicking on the tags below. 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Need-response creatively bridges the divide between “for profit” private goods and “nonprofit” public goods. A for-profit service provider hires professional need-responders to guide each wellness campaign . The revenue goes first to the nonprofit Anankelogy Foundation , whose priority is not the service provider ’s bottom line but the wellbeing of each campaign participant. The Foundation distributes the campaign’s revenue to the service provider and their professional need-responders only after the service provider demonstrates they are fulfilling the public good of delivering on the wellbeing of campaign participants. The nimble benefits of private enterprise are kept in check to serve the noble benefits of the public good. Such integration can more effectively resolve our underserved needs. Which do you think is more likely? A registered nonprofit is not allowed to earn any profit. OR A registered nonprofit can earn profit as long as it’s invested in its mission. Did you know a nonprofit can still earn profit? That's something of a misnomer. Consider a public hospital that pays its medical staff largely from health insurance revenue streams, and then is able to have some money left over after covering all costs. The same applies to state universities. These are nonprofits. And they both enjoy some profit. As a publicly registered nonprofit, such institutions are not allowed to pour all that profit into the pockets of those helping to create such value. That’s called inurement , which is a type of conflict of interest suggesting an abuse of power. Any profit must go back into serving the public good of its founding mission. That’s exactly what we’re doing here, to hold power in check. The Anankelogy Foundation works with private enterprise providers but collects all revenue on their behalf. Then the Foundation appropriately channels this revenue to where duly appointed. It broadly follows this three-phase process. Campaign revenue Revenue distribution Need-responder income Final thoughts on campaign costs and distribution 1. Campaign revenue Each wellness campaign receives two funding streams. First, the campaigner subscribes to each phase to provide the professional need-responder ( PNR ) with a minimal level of compensation. Second, the campaigner invites supporters to invest in their wellness goal, providing additional revenue into the campaign. With the exception of the ALLY phase, these amounts increase with each subsequent campaign phase. Increased support can actually lower the campaigner’s financial obligation. 1.1 Campaigner subscription revenue Each subscription phase provides a weekly session and other standard services with the PNR . Extra sessions and options may be available at the discretion of the PNR for the right price. BASE phase - $120 per month ($150 less 30 to AF) This comes to about $30 per billable hour to the PNR . The PNR typically invests about one hour of unbillable time for each billable hour for the first client (i.e., campaigner or proxy). The weekly online session is just under an hour, following the standard of psychotherapists—to allow time in between for notetaking and preparing for their next scheduled session. Each additional client allows the PNR to earn more, as their unbillable time can serve multiple clients with the same or similar tasks. For example, investing half an hour per week responding to each campaigner’s email inquiries and similar preparatory tasks. During the campaigner’s 14-day trial, the service provider can request the Foundation to cover their uncompensated expenses. Or the Foundation may have a service agreement with the service provider to cover revenue not collected during this free trial. ALLY phase - $120 per month ($150 less 30 to AF) This also comes to about $30 per billable hour to the PNR . The PNR continues to invest about one hour of unbillable time for each billable hour. The more clients served each week, the less unbillable time required to deliver the service. For example, investing a half hour per week orienting the ally to the program. The Foundation forwards the $120 directly each month to the PNR . Or the Foundation contracts with a service provider to channel this set amount to the PNR . TEAM phase - $180 per month ($225-45 to AF) This comes to about $45 per billable hour to the PNR . The PNR likely must spend more unbillable time per billable hour in the early days of the TEAM phase. The more clients served each week, the less unbillable time required to deliver the service. For example, investing a half hour per week replying to inquiries from the campaigner’s invitees. Especially if the ally takes on more of these tasks. The Foundation forwards the $180 directly each month to the PNR . Or the Foundation contracts with a service provider to channel this set amount to the PNR . GROW phase - $240 per month ($300-60 to AF) This comes to about $60 per billable hour to the PNR . The increase helps to cover the increased responsibilities assumed by the PNR . Overseeing multiple campaigns at the TEAM and GROW phases can be both prestigious and demanding. The PNR stretches to meet these demands in ways that can inspire campaign members to also rise to the challenge. The Foundation forwards the $240 directly each month to the PNR . Or the Foundation contracts with a service provider to channel this set amount to the PNR . GOAL phase - $360 per month ($450-90 to AF) This comes to about $90 per billable hour to the professional need-responder. Advocating for the campaigner to speak truth to power while simultaneously incentivizing each contacted powerholder to listen to those impacted creates a unique challenge. PNR s who can successfully pull this off earn every dime for creating this pioneering value toward resolving needs. The Foundation forwards the $360 directly each month to the PNR . Or the Foundation contracts with a service provider to channel this set amount to the PNR . 1.2 Supporter & patron subscriptions revenue After the campaigner subscription provides a base service pay for the PNR , the other subscription options provide additional support revenue into the campaign. Followers Each to subscribe as a follower merely follows the campaign for free. They will be invited to donate to the Anankelogy Foundation to continue building this dream machine. But their membership on the campaigner’s support team does nothing to financially underwrite it. We periodically invite followers to upgrade to be more actively involved in the campaign. We anticipate many of these will become investing supporters and patrons in the later phases of the campaign. So we don’t count them financially just yet. Supporters Each to subscribe as a support invests $25 each month to the campaign. A campaigner may have the option to onboard a hesitant supporter with a discount. If this enables more supporters to invest in the campaign, then the total raised revenue can more than compensate for the lowered subscription revenue. Four support level subscriptions bring $100 each month into the campaign. Or eight supporters receiving a 50% discount bring in $100 each month. Ten supporters monthly bring $125 to $250 into the campaign. Patrons Each to subscribe as a patron invests $50 each month to the campaign. A campaigner may have the option to onboard a hesitant patron with a discount. If this enables more to financially patronize the campaign, then the total raised revenue can more than compensate for the lowered subscription revenue. Two patron level subscriptions bring $100 each month into the campaign. Or four patrons receiving a 50% discount bring in $100 each month. Ten patrons monthly bring $250 to $500 into the campaign. As each phase costs more than the previous phase, adding supporters and patrons can lower the campaigner’s costs. This added revenue can also enable the campaigner to seek any available added services. The option of distributing some of this revenue to each supporter and patron who stays with the campaign until the end is under consideration. 1.3 Total campaign revenue Each campaign is funded by the campaigner’s monthly $150 subscription plus the total monthly subscriptions of that campaign’s supporters and patrons. Once the campaign draws more revenue than necessary to cover the campaigner’s costs, the Foundation and service providers start receiving their share. When a proxy must stand in for the client with the targeted wellness goal, the proxy subscribes as the campaigner. This proxy typically fills the ally role. But each campaign may be different. For example, a proxy helping their incarcerated yet innocent loved one reach their wellness goal of exoneration, this proxy ally fills in the role of a campaigner. 2. Revenue distribution Each revenue stream is dedicated to cover a certain aspect of providing wellness campaigns as both a private good of free enterprise and a public good of this nonprofit Foundation. We’ve designed this distribution to balance both interests. Neither side should be able to dominate and distort the intended outcomes of wellness, of more resolved needs. 2.1 Total campaign revenue Unlike the typical nonprofit, the Foundation does not rely on donor campaigns nor grants to fund its operations. It may seek some grants to get started. But once the public appreciates wellness campaigns as a preferred option, the Foundation could be positioned to draw immense amounts of revenue. Besides revenue from campaigns, the Foundation can be self-sufficient selling online courses qualifying professional need-responders . The Foundation passes most campaign revenue to those providing this valuable service. 2.2 Anankelogy Foundation platform fee The Foundation retains 20% of all campaigner revenue. It forwards the remaining 80% of the monthly campaigner revenue to the service provider. All of this forwarded campaigner revenue goes directly to the PNR for minimal compensation. BASE & ALLY phases: $150 less $30 = $120 to the PNR each month. TEAM phase: $225 less $45 = $180 to the PNR each month. GROW phase: $300 less $60 = $240 to the PNR each month. GOAL phase: $450 less $90 = $360 to the PNR each month. The Foundation retains half of all supporter and patron monthly revenue. This revenue goes into three separate accounts. Cost coverage account . This covers the salaries of Foundation staff and the Foundation’s operating costs. As a nonprofit, salaries are kept reasonable to avoid any problem of “inurement” or undue influence of excessively compensated “public good” staff. PNR incentive bonus pay . Check below for what this is about. Investment pool . Remaining revenue accrues into a publicly available “pool” to help campaigns cover additional costs. This applies specifically to project and movement campaigns that attract growing attention. If the campaigner chooses to lower their financial obligation by having supporters or patrons help cover the monthly campaigner subscription, then calculating half begins after this primary obligation is covered. This applies to any proxy-led campaign, who covers the campaign subscription on behalf of the campaigner with the targeted wellness goal. 2.3 Contracted service providers After the Foundation retains half of all supporter and patron revenue, it forwards the other half to the service provider. This provides the service provider their primary source of revenue. This incentivizes the provider to encourage their PNR s to include as many supporters and patrons as possible. If a campaign onboards 30 supporters and 15 patrons (without any discounts), the campaign would pull in $1500 each month to distribute 50/50. After the Foundation retains its $750 share, it transfers the other $750 each month to the service provider. At least for the duration of the campaign. 3. Need-responder income Each PNR receives compensation both from the Foundation and from the service provider employing or contracting them. If contracted, the provider must compensate the PNR according to the standards set by the Foundation. Employment compensation would fall under the discretion afforded by whichever jurisdiction that provider is in. 3.1 Contracted service providers Considering each service provider and their PNR s could run several campaigns, this offers a viable income stream to providers. Best practices suggest each PNR not oversee too many followers, supporters and patrons per campaign. Or they may work with their service provider employer or contractor to have more than one PNR guiding larger campaigns. Imagine a service provider contracting (or employing) ten PNR s who each oversee ten campaigns. If each brings in $500 per month, the provider takes in $600,000 annually. If contracting 25 PNR s with 20 campaigns each, and each brings in $1000 per month, the provider revenue climbs to $6 million per year. 3.2 Service operating costs Each provider retains discretion how to best invest their earned income. As a private entity, they can accrue a profit. But the Foundation incentivizes each service provider to prioritize the public good of collective wellness over any private good. Typically, the service provider uses this revenue to cover their operating costs. This includes overhead costs. And paying salaries of staff not directly serving campaign clients. Service providers may provide additional income to NPR s beyond what they receive directly from the Foundation. Eventually, each provider will have to compete for qualified need-responders, and this may incentivize them to do what they find necessary to retain their talent. 3.3 Need-responder income The PNR starts each campaign compensated fairly at a minimal “service pay” level. Their standard income increases after the ALLY phase. As the campaign gains tractions, their compensation can potentially explode. Upon completion of each campaign, they’re eligible to receive incentive pay and a bonus directly from the Foundation. 3.3.1 Service pay As covered earlier, the PNR receives a base service pay for their documented hours serving the campaign. This begins humbly enough at $120 per month for providing weekly sessions. Then rises to $360 by the final phase. This assures the PNR can afford to provide the service prior to the campaign taking off. The more PNR invests their time and effort serving all the identified needs, the more they should see a return on their investment. The revenue gets sent directly to the service provider for the PNR . It’s up to the service provider to either instantly forward that amount to the PNR or to distribute it on a weekly or other timely basis. 3.3.2 Incentive pay Upon completion of the campaign, when the GOAL phase draws to a close, the Foundation independently asses how far the campaign reached its targeted wellness goal. From its PNR incentive bonus pay account, the Foundation awards the PNR . If the campaign meets or excels its targeted goal, the PNR receives the full eligible amount of incentive pay. That specific amount has yet to be determined. If the wellness goal was not fully reached, the Foundation prorates the incentive pay according to the degree the goal was reached. If the campaigner only reaches 50% of their stated goal, the PNR receives only 50% of eligible incentive pay. If the goal was to lose 20 pounds (or 9 kilograms) and the campaigner was found to only lose or keep off ten pounds (or 4.5 kilograms), then the PNR receives only half of the eligible incentive pay. 3.3.3 Bonus pay Upon completion of the campaign, the Foundation also independently assesses how many powerholders (i.e., AI) invested in the campaign’s wellness target. And how satisfied they are with the experience of earned legitimacy and testimonials of demonstrated responsiveness. Just like the bonus pay, the Foundation draws this from its PNR incentive bonus pay account. If the campaign invited six powerholding AI and all six confirm they benefited from the experience, the PNR qualifies for full bonus pay. If four powerholding AI joined but one of them quit early, and only one of them confirmed they benefited from the experience, the PNR only receives 25% of this eligible bonus. If no powerholder confirms they benefited with earned legitimacy or from testimonials of their documented responsiveness, the PNR receives no bonus pay. If four of eight eligible powerholders affirm the value of their improved responsiveness and legitimacy, the PNR receives only 50% of eligible bonus pay. Eligible portions not sent to the PNR gets transferred to the Foundation’s investment pool. Again, the specific eligible amount of such a bonus has yet to be determined. Both incentive pay and bonus pay exists to incentivize PNR to prioritize the public good of otherwise elusive wellness outcomes. Final thoughts on campaign revenue and distribution Keep in mind this applies primarily to a simple “case” wellness campaign. A “project” wellness campaign requires more details than can be adequately covered here. A “movement” campaign is a whole ‘nother beast. So let’s first focus on the “case campaign” money. All this has yet to be tested under real world conditions. And these numbers reflect current cost and income standards, which can vastly change with increasing inflation. We’re trying something completely new, while learning from some things tried and true. Example of hospitals and universities This economic model mirrors what public hospitals and public universities already do. Hospitals charge patients, who typically have health insurance. Universities charge students for tuition, who typically have scholarships and student loans. These hospitals and universities regularly draw in more revenue than necessary to cover their basic costs. That creates profit. They always find somewhere to put the added funds that benefits the institution and not its individuals. Doctors and professors can still command significant salaries without slipping into the problem of inurement or private benefit . Much as hospitals and universities hire independent contractors who can earn large sums of money, the Foundation works with free enterprise service providers. This seeks the advantages of both a private good available in a free market and a public good limiting risks of market distortions on public goods. We pioneer a creative balance that safeguards incentivizing productivity while avoiding the pitfalls of private inurement and private benefit. Investing in your wellness We challenge the stale norm that views wellness as a private matter. HIPPA statutes work best to keep your personal health private by your choice, not to hide the ill effects of abusive power. A wellness campaign challenges powerholders who ignobly benefit from keeping their negative impacts on our wellbeing a highly private matter. If my mental health challenges stem primarily or squarely from their abuses of power, I am not embarrassed to shout it to the world. We dare shift any stigma from vulnerable suffers to powerful offenders. But in a nonthreatening way that mutually respects each other’s needs. We then dare charge them for the privilege. In contrast to psychotherapy commonly viewed as a health cost, we regard a need-response “wellness campaign” as a shared investment. The campaigner’s improved wellness spills over into the improved lives of their active supporters. Including powerholders who learn to improve their marketable responsiveness to our overlooked needs. This pioneering service comes with a pioneering revenue model We think such value deserves fair compensation to the PNR s who deliver this new kind of service. We offer something we see sorely needed but not yet provided anywhere else. Demand for wellness campaigns could quickly outpace the supply of qualified need-responders. We may need some startup revenue to meet the burgeoning demand. So let’s learn together to spread the love of mutual respect for each other’s needs by ensuring all the costs are properly covered. And let’s always value our positive regard for each other far more than the bottom line. No matter how the money flows, let’s remember that we are all priceless. Your responsiveness to wellness campaign revenue & distribution Your turn. Consider one or more of these options to respond to this need-responsive content. Learn more about a wellness campaign by taking this free online course. Decide for yourself to start your own campaign, after taking these four quick steps. Consider becoming a professional need-responder . The first qualifying course stretches your comfort zone. It too is FREE. Once you're registered to the site, you can instantly start qualifying to oversee one of these wellness campaigns. Check our Engaging Forum to FOLLOW discussions on this post and others. JOIN us as a site member to interact others and create your forum comments. 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Let’s take a microscopic look at how you can slip from being totally well to suddenly suffering the pain of some overwhelming ailment. Not so much in physical or exclusively biological terms, but more in terms of your emotional wellbeing. Let’s see how “ symfunction capture ” can help explain that easily overlooked zone between wellness and sickness. Which do you think is more likely? It’s common to be totally well one moment and then totally sick the next. OR There is a little talked about transitional zone between wellness and sickness. Symfunction refers to your less-than-optimal level of functioning. Symfunction refers to that zone you experience between being totally well and being totally sick. Symfunction refers to that level of operating in life that sits between peakfunctionality and dysfunctionality . If you ever reach peakfunction , your every need enjoys full satisfaction. You can do amazing things while peakfunctional . But if any need lingers unresolved, you slip from peakfunction to that zone where you must rely on others to still function adequately— symfunction . Anankelogy recognizes how you can enjoy peakfunctionality one moment and then slip into symfunctionality . Anankelogy further recognizes how this slippage serves as a common gateway into painful dysfunction —of prioritizing relieving the pain of your unmet needs. Anankelogy refers to this phenomenon as “ symfunctional capture ”. Anankelogy further identifies three phases for this experience: You start safe enough with “ symfunction creep ” You often feel a mounting level of “ symfunction strain ” You then slip dangerously into the “ symfunction trap ” Symfunction capture can pull you into dysfunction 1. You start safe enough with “ symfunction creep ” When your every need fully resolves, you can reach peakfunction and freely focus on just about anything. You can do some amazing stuff. This moment features a total absence of any disrupting pain. As soon as one of your needs does not fully resolve, your body now has cause to warn you with a little pain. A slight headache. A subtle doubt. A lingering sense of trouble. Your body uncomfortably and almost imperceptibly alerts you to this creeping imperfection. Instead of optimal functioning, you function at an adequate level with impersonal help from others. Anankelogy calls this symfunction . Symfunction creep refers to that early emotional stress you naturally experience from one or more needs not fully resolving. They resolve adequately enough for you to sufficiently function. But creeping normality sets in as your body insists with largely indiscernible warnings of a slight yet tolerable threat to your ability to fully function. You kind of notice some slight uneasiness, for example, after seeing a stranger scowl in your direction. You can function well enough but sense a fleeting possibility of a remote threat. You might be confronted by this person you’ve never met, or not. As the stranger looks elsewhere and moves on, that sensation quickly fades. When all your needs fully resolve again, you can function fully. You feel no pain. Sometimes your needs linger a while before accessing the resources to restore inner balance. But once restored, you’re back to peakfunction. After all, sometimes can only access a resource through others you do not personally know, and this can prevent you from remaining peakfunctional. If you had to deal with a stranger in a distant land completely on your own, you would likely remain vigilant. But at home, you likely depend on familiar social norms to ensure this stranger doesn’t bother you. Instead of operating at your optimal potential, you find you can function only at a level those social norms permit. This typically tends to be a little less than full functioning. After all, the more focused to what could go wrong when encountering this unknown person, the less attentive on getting things right for your peakfunctional potential. Impersonal norms typically help you. Authority to enforce them ensures the peace. But an externally incentivized peace cannot effectively address each other’s specific needs. Social norms and power dynamics shaping symfunction risk pulling you down into symfunction strain . 2. You often feel a mounting level of “ symfunction strain ” Symfunctional strain refers to the ongoing emotional stress you naturally experience from each need not fully resolved. Emotions only exist to convey your pressing needs . As more of your needs partially resolve, you’re spared the disturbing pain of not getting resolved at all. Each imperfectly resolved need prompts your body to warn you of its particular threat. Each need only partially resolved denies your ability to function fully. Unlike symfunction creep where you frequently return to full functioning, symfunction strain reminds you that you remain constantly at a diminished level of functioning. If enjoying a quick meal of processed foods leaves you nutritionally deficient, your body warns you that your hunger has not been fully satisfied. If sharing your emotional troubles with a trusted friend who then dismisses your complaint, your body warns you that your need for social support remains unfulfilled. If your job provides a steady income but less meaning to create appreciated value for others, your body warns there is still room for improvement to address your need earn a living creating something meaningful. Typically, you feel each warning of a partially eased need as a dull and manageable pain. If experiencing just a handful of such needs that remain partially resolved, you likely do not even notice this strain. You can bear the trouble. With most other needs fully resolved, you can still function quite well with little if any distraction. You can focus sufficiently despite that emerging reminder to satisfy that hunger. Or that slightly disturbing cue to find someone who cares about your complaint. Or that gnawing but easily ignored feeling that you are not really being valued at work for all you’re worth. These mostly resolved needs let you focus on the positives and disregard such miniscule negatives. Getting comfortable with this new normal can set you up for even worse things down the road. A few persistently partially resolved needs can blow up easily into many persistently unresolved needs. You’re then staring down into the abyss of a symfunctional trap . 3. You then slip dangerously into the “ symfunction trap ” Often, however, a few partially resolved needs swells into a molehill of unresolved needs. Your ratio of fully-to-partially resolved needs can slip down into most of your needs only partially resolved. Your body will not let you forget. With fewer of your needs fully resolve, your body painfully warns how your ability to function has become increasingly compromises. These can build up into a mountain of warnings constantly reminding you of growing threats to your ability to function. Any dull pain you felt at the beginning doesn’t feel so dull anymore. In fact, they can now overwhelm your attention. Your growing hunger pangs refuse to be ignored. Your increasing sense of being misunderstood crowds your attention. Your alarming dissatisfaction with your lousy job consumes your focus. These less resolved needs increasingly distract you, as they scream for your attention. They warn how your ability to function is becoming intolerably decreased. Your once-trivial problems now appear much more alarmingly urgent. You feel increasingly trapped to prioritize these alarming needs. While not completely nourished, you lack sufficient energy to always prepare a healthy meal. While wondering if you’ll find anyone who’ll care, you adjust your expectations to avoid painful disappointment. While feeling stuck in your dead-end job, you doubt if you can find any job that’s better. Symfunction trap describes this disturbing experience. You feel increasingly trapped into this mediocre level of functioning. You find it increasingly more difficult to fully resolve your needs, and increasingly absorbed by the rising levels of pain. You likely resign to your fate of not fully resolving many if not most of your needs. You increasingly drink more for pleasure than merely to quench your thirst. Sugary drinks dominate your day. Or you gulp down something for the caffeine buzz. Or you sip on alcohol to take the edge off your troubling circumstances. You slip dangerously close into destructive habits, easily shared in your social circles. You can at least get by in this modern world of technological conveniences. You can function adequately enough with the predictability provided by enforced laws. You can feel confident that you’re not alone in this situation. Indeed, more and more of us accept such mounting emotional distress as the new normal. We hardly notice as this three-phase process of symfunction capture serves as a gateway into dysfunction . Symfunction capture can pull you into dysfunction You rarely choose to go from optimal functioning to self-sabotage. You tend to get pulled into symfunction when the resources to fully resolve your needs remain inaccessible. A lack of reliable access to primary resources like clean water for your thirst, or trustworthy friends for companionship, or meaningful employment for your purpose in life, points less to personal problems and more to interpersonal, power and structural problems . Unfortunately, many social norms yank you into the abyss of dysfunction . Anankelogy identifies three levels of resources for responding or reacting to your painful needs. Only steady access to primary resources can enable you to stay peakfunctional . Primary resource : Something that fully resolves your need, like water for thirst or a trustworthy companion for deeper social connection. Alternate resource : Something that partially eases your need, like coffee for thirst or casual friends for meaningful social connection. Substitute resource : Something that primarily relieves the pain of your unmet need, like alcohol or social media "friends" for social connection. Anankelogy recognizes the problem of more easily accessing alternate or substitute resources. The more easily you find many Facebook friends than cultivate personal friendships, for example, the easier you slide into symfunction and onto dysfunction . Anankelogy has a label for this widespread yet overlooked problem: coerced poor options dependence (or CoPOD ). If you cannot readily access highly nutritious food as easily as processed or junk food, you can become easily attached to these less-than-optimal options. If coerced into accepting a court decision as the best yet only available option, you understandably rely on it almost every time you think of suing someone. If you never know a life of steadily accessible primary resources to fully resolve all of your needs, you understandably acclimate to whatever best helps you get by. Despite every good faith effort to make the noblest decisions, this pervasive problem of CoPOD can pull you through symfunction capture and then on down the rabbit hole of painful dysfunction . Dysfunction means you must now prioritize relieving the incredible load of pain you cannot shake off because of problems beyond your control. In our highly individualistic culture, at least in Western societies, you may accept blame for making too many poor personal choices. What if slipping into an addiction is not completely your fault? Need-response dares us to look a little deeper into these complexities of our many problems. Instead of oversimplifying addictions as resulting from poor moral choices, need-response enables you to be more honest by recognizing different levels of human problems. A wellness campaign takes you through all four types of human problems . This need-response service could be the only professional option to help you break free from symfunction capture . One way to know is to explore this option for yourself. And it’s free to start. It's also free to check if a wellness campaign is right for you. Your responsiveness to "symfunction capture" Your turn. Consider one or more of these options to respond to this need-responsive content. Check out what a wellness campaign can do for you. Check our Engaging Forum to FOLLOW discussions on this post and others. 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Only the Anankelogy Foundation is currently prepared to teach and train candidates to serve as qualified need-responders . View our Development page to check our current programs. More programs are to be added as we ramp up and gain traction. If you are interested in becoming a qualified need-responder, you can participate in the first programs for free. Then you can decide if this opportunity is a good fit for you. We provide internal opportunities to test your new skills. Then mentor your initial attempts to verify your marketable need-responsive skills in the real world. Explore these programs below. Which would you prefer? Pay high tuition bills to eventually become a qualified need-responder . OR Start free and attract financial support as you gain highly marketable competencies . This service continues to evolve to respond to expressed needs. Bear with us as we add, edit and change these programs offerings. Only the programs with a green VIEW button are currently available. Each greyed-out VIEW button takes you to the Development page. You may find us in continual beta, as we try to keep pace with your changing needs. We will pivot where necessary. We welcome your feedback to these programs, and stay open to your suggestions. These programs exist to serve your institutionally overlooked needs. We start with these seven areas of programs. Find one that speaks to you. Some of these are free. Each provide a one liner description (or will have one when we finish creating them). Click the right arrow at its left to get more details about that program. They all help you improve your marketability by helping you be demonstrably more responsive to people's needs. Often in ways not addressed by any other available public option. Below, you can offer your own feedback to these programs. Explore these programs as you see fit. Anankelogy basics programs Need-response introduction programs Need-responder standard qualifier programs Need-responder training programs Need-responder specialization programs Saybackr pilot programs Other programs 1. Anankelogy basics These programs are all based on the book You NEED This . These focus mostly on academic anankelogy . If you've read the book already, you may find this content as a helpful refresher. They all are free. Each invites you to donate to help us offset our costs. We trust you will find it worth whatever you can give. An101: Need creation — covering chapter 1 material of the You NEED This book An102: Need conveyance — covering chapter 2 material of the You NEED This book) An103: Need experience — covering chapter 3 material of the You NEED This book) An104: Need easement — covering chapter 4 material of the You NEED This book) An105: Functioning — covering chapter 5 material of the You NEED This book) An106: Knowing — covering chapter 6 material of the You NEED This book) 1.1) Anankelogy 101: Need creation Public - FREE - Self-paced | 8 weeks Go back to the very beginning to understand the foundation of our needs. Ananke is the Greek word for need. Every need starts with movement in order to function. Movement for being together . E.g., drinking water. Meeting a friend. Movement for staying together awhile. E.g., quenched thirst. Hanging out. Movement for being apart . E.g., perspiration. Time for some solitude. Movement for staying apart for awhile. E.g., growing thirst. A night alone. Such movement and function are observable independent of the subjective experience of needs. This opens your needs and my needs to scientific inquiry. The cyclic nature of needs help make them highly predictable. Which helps to establish anankelogy as a scientific discipline. ​ ​An101: Need creation VIEW ​ 1.2) Anankelogy 102: Need conveyance Public - FREE - Self-paced | 8 weeks Realize emotions and feelings only exist to convey your needs. Emotions exist to convey needs. Apart from any need, you feel no emotions. Your emotions convey your needs in five distinctive ways. Your emotions convey the direction of your needs. Pain or desire. Good or bad. Your emotions convey the intensity of your needs. Your range of suffering unmet needs. Your emotions convey the degree of your needs. How much of your focus they take. Your emotions convey the duration of your needs. Affecting your level of pain. Your emotions convey the object of your needs. What will ease each need. The more your needs resolve, the more you can trust your intuition. Your resolved needs then give your gut instincts more accurate information. The more you reflect during a decision, the more your informed emotions provide realistic options. The less your needs can resolve, the more you tend to become dependent on social norms, impersonal laws and distant authorities. It is not in the interests of authoritative powerholders to support you to fully resolve your needs. That's what need-response is for. ​ ​An102: Need conveyance VIEW ​ 1.3) Anankelogy 103: Need experience Public - FREE - Self-paced | 8 weeks Explore the natural process for how you experience each need. Anankelogy parses your experience of needs into four steps. Your " core " need for internal balance to keep functioning. E.g., fluid equilibrium. Your " resource " need for what best restores that balance. E.g., water. Your " access " need to get that necessary resource. E.g., store bought bottle. Your " psychosocial " need for who to access that resource. E.g., dig your own well. This leads to different need experience orientations and different priority of needs. This nature-based approach can offer you some illuminating insights that can questions you may not even realize you had. ​ ​An103: Need experience VIEW ​ 1.4) Anankelogy 104: Need easement Public - FREE - Self-paced | 8 weeks Discover the options for easing your needs and the results. You ease your needs largely by what resource you can readily access, or is accessed for you. The worse the resource, the greater the resulting pain. Primary resources full restore your functioning. E.g., water. Alternative resources partially satisfy your needs. E.g., a liter of sweet tea. Substitute resources promptly relieves pain but does little to satisfy needs. E.g., beer. Problems arise with the resulting limits to our ability to function, spanning from persona to systemic problems beyond individual control. We create laws to address some of those issues. Power imbalances tend to disrupt the best intended solutions. Need-response as a new professional service offers a course correction. ​ ​An104: Need easement VIEW ​ 1.5) Anankelogy 105: Functioning Public - FREE - Self-paced | 8 weeks Realize how we go through four different levels of functioning. The more your needs resolve, the better you can function. The less your needs resolve, the less you can function. Anankelogy identifies four distinct levels along a range of functionality. Peakfunction : You prioritize fully resolving your needs. You reach your potential. Symfunction : You prioritize easing your needs. You get by with help from others. Dysfunction : You prioritize relieving you pain. You cope with addictions. Misfunction : You prioritize your self-survival. You're overwhelmed with pain. Learn how these four levels affect you and shapes society all around you. Then explore further how need-response can enable you you to resolve more needs to remove more pain and reach more of your life's potential. ​ ​An105: Functioning VIEW ​ 1.6) Anankelogy 106: Knowing Public - FREE - Self-paced | 8 weeks Learn how your needs shape what you know. The less your needs can resolve because of social conditions, the more likely you settle for the next best thing. The more your options restrict over time, the less you may notice the decline in your ability to function. Powerholder offer competing options, which shapes history. A dynamic new way of thinking emerges to address stubborn problems. A dogmatism sets in when the new way gets watered down to satisfy all. A disillusioned voice bubbles up from those most underserved. A distinct new way of thinking attracts a following to fill the gap. Rince and repeat, often as vacillation between liberal and conservative goals. You likely don't question such powerholders if you keep questioning yourself. Since modern life offers many conveniences, you may assume your decline is totally your own fault. Or you react by blaming the world for your growing sense of powerlessness. Which serves powerholder interests. Anankelogy redirects your attention to the whole picture of your affected needs. So you can more fully resolve your needs, which removes cause for pain, less dependence on established power, and to reach more of your potential. That's exactly what need-response is for. ​ ​An106: Knowing VIEW ​ back-to-top 2. Need-response introduction These programs initiate you to applied anankelogy 's new professional service of need-response . These begin your journey as a qualified need-responder . ​ An501: NR overview — outline of the current elements in need-responding An502: RI wellness campaign — what is and how to build a wellness campaign An503: NR ticket — step-by-step guide for using this central tool for need-responding An504: NR process — covers the alert-assess-audit-avow need-responding process 2.1) An501: Need-response overview TBD Runs you through an outline of all the current elements in need-responding. You learn to assess if the RI client is a good fit for a wellness campaign . You learn if you should require the applying RI to stretch their comfort zone by participating in the free NR101 program. You learn what goes into this need-response service. You learn what it may take to succeed in a wellness campaign. You quickly go over the need-response ticket tool. You briefly learn about the elements of a wellness campaign. You're briefly exposed to the need-response process. You will cover these more in depth when participating in the next three programs. ​ AN501: NR overview VIEW ​ 2.2) An502: Reporting impactee wellness campaign TBD Gives you an in-depth understanding of building a wellness campaign . Learn to help your RI client to build their own wellness campaign . The campaign identifies and addresses the affected needs in a power relation. With the impact parity model , you learn to treat the needs of the powerful AI equally as the needs of your RI client. You learn to help your RI client build each phase of the wellness campaign . BASE phase: Laying a foundation to a ccountably address each other's needs. ALLY phase (optional): Identifying a capable supporter of the RI. TEAM phase: Attracting a network of peer supporters. GROW phase: Expanding support to include other AI. GOAL phase: Avowing to targeted AI to resolve each other's affected needs. You learn to help your RI client to pursue the best strategy. You help your client choose how far to take the campaign. You present them each pro and con of each wellness campaign type. Case . You close the campaign after the RI and AI both agree all harm has ceased. Project . You support the RI's "cause" to help other RI's similarly situated. Movement . You help the team segue into a transformative movement. You learn when to partner with other need-responders and other professionals. You learn to negotiate a business associate agreement in need-responsive terms. ​ An502: RI wellness campaign VIEW ​ 2.3) An503: Need-response ticket TBD Walks you through a step-by-step guide for using this central tool for need-responding. You learn to first capture a baseline of the RI's level of wellness. You learn when to check these measures again for significant improvements. You learn to document the RI client's presenting needs. You learn to help the RI identify each AI's presenting needs. You learn to help the RI brainstorm their avoidant and adversarial options. You guide them to waive these options to pursue our conciliatory approach. You invite the RI to list all possible peer supporters. Including their contact info. Have the RI contact each name, inviting each to choose one of three options: Follower - free; receive regular updates on progress of campaign; asked to donate. Supporter - pledge monthly amount; vote on significant decisions. Patron - pledge weekly amount; say and vote on all matters. You then direct the RI, with help from their support team, to list all AI. They provide the contact info of each AI. And classify each. You strategize with the RI and support team which AI to contact first, then second, then third and so forth. You guide the RI and team to adapt the messaging templates we provide. You next learn to guide the RI how to reply to each targeted AI's response level. Firm yes . Proceed with campaign goals. Soft yes . Try to satisfy their hesitancy. Equivocal . Investigate why. Soft no . Offer more incentives. Firm no . Revert to waived options. No timely response . Consider waived options. You learn how to wrap up a campaign. Or transition it into the next type. ​ An503: NR ticket VIEW ​ 2.4) An504: Need-response process TBD Walks you through the alert-assess-audit-avow cycle in the need-responding process. You learn to first "warm up" anyone you invite, so they can be aware of what this new service is truly about. Trust is earned when they can make a well-informed decision. You then learn how to optimize the four parts of the need-response process. Alert . Or announce, to those already familiar with the process. RI informs recipients what to reasonably expect. Incentivize with this conciliatory alternative. Assess . Gage the responsiveness of each invited person. First the RI's invited peer support prospects. Then each AI on the RI's list of AI. Audit . Guide RI to verify responsiveness to needs as mutually agreed. Avow . Encourage RI to openly declare they will now prioritize resolving their needs with or without other's cooperation. Guide RI and their support team to repeat these four steps as necessary. They are to repeat this cycle for less responsive AI. You help the RI client to improve their wellness outcomes with this proactive process. When necessary, you help your RI client terminate any further contact with any AI who persists in presenting a harm. More likely, you share in your client's celebration. You help the RI and their team to improve the AI's responsiveness to the RI's underserved needs. You guide the RI to vouch for the AI's demonstrated improved competencies. You back the RI who now backs the AI's " earned legitimacy ". You help engineer a win-win outcome that demonstrably improves both sides of this power relation. You likely inspire others involved to favor this more conciliatory alternative over their own avoidant and adversarial options. You likely will attract more RI clients with each successful campaign. ​ An504: NR process VIEW ​ back-to-top 3. Need-responder standard qualifier These programs zero in a key qualifications to serve as a need-responder. These key skills can set you apart from other professional services and their disappointing institutions. NR101: Personal need-responder – overcoming your pain NR201: Social need-responder – dissolving your conflicts NR301: Influential need-responder – incentivizing power to love NR401: Transformative need-responder – transforming social norms 3.1) NR101: Personal need-responder Public - FREE - Self-paced | No time limit Your initial qualification demonstrates your ability to resolve needs as it hurts. Anankelogy recognizes we each present what it calls an "easement orientation". You either orient to discomfort by A) seeking the easy way out, or B) you engage whatever proves uncomfortable in order to resolve a need. This program stretches your comfort zone. So you can confidently speak truth to power, or listen to those impacted. After you grow your tolerance for physical discomfort, you grow your endurance for emotional discomfort. You also learn you can face more of life's discomfort the more you have trustworthy others to count on. We all can take on more discomfort than we think we can. After completing this program, you will know you can. ​ ​NR101: Personal need-responder VIEW ​ 3.2) NR201: Social need-responder Public - $5 - Self-paced | No time limit Your follow-up qualification lets you neutralize hostilities with the power of " social love ". Anankelogy recognizes we each present what it calls an "conflict orientation". You either orient to a conflict by A) getting defensive and closed toward others, or B) staying open to engage the other side. This program builds your capacity to stay open amidst conflict. So you can encourage the other side to try your conciliatory approach to mutually resolve each other's affected needs. You can apply this skill to politicized differences. And then to judicial differences. You explore the power of love over the weakness of privileged animosities. We all prefer to be respected and loved instead of angered and hated. After completing this program, you will know how to inspire others with this power of " social love" . ​ ​NR102: Social need-responder VIEW ​ 3.3) NR301: Influential need-responder Public - $25 - Self-paced | No time limit You learn to speak truth to power with our preferrable conciliatory alternative. The more you relate to the affected needs of the those in power over you, the more inclined they will relate to your affected needs. You nullify the standard adversarial approach with our conciliatory approach of mutual support for each other's exposed needs . The more the RI speaks truth to power (STTP) using our preferrable conciliatory approach, the more the AI listens to those impacted (LTTI). We replace impersonal norms with engaging understanding of one another's needs. Powerholding AI likely expect the more confrontational approach of the RI's adversarial options. But they rarely help to resolve needs. This program will teach you to prove what can actually help address needs better than our other institutions. ​ ​NR103: Influential need-responder VIEW ​ 3.4) NR401: Transformative need-responder Public - $75 - Self-paced | No time limit Take competitive competencies up a notch to transform social norms. Most powerholding AI you meet will stick to the norms of their position. You may be fortunate enough to find one willing to buck those stifling norms. One who feels the call of love much greater than whatever those norms can offer. Anankelogy equips you to inspire such aspirational leaders to directly address the needs our laws exist to serve. Such a well-resourced leader can be poised to transform old failing norms. They simply need someone like you to help get them there. This can apply generally. Or specifically to one of our failing mass institutions. We are set to support such leaders to depolarize politics with the power of " social love ". And we are set to back them up to support deconflicting solutions to our underserved justice needs. See how in sections 5 and 6 below. ​ ​NR104: Transformative need-responder VIEW ​ back-to-top 4. Need-responder training These programs test what you have learned in the previous programs. NR601: Roleplay as RI – experience being the RI client NR701: NR practice – your first try as a need-responder NR801: NR apprenticeship – assist a lead need-responder NR901: NR mastership – a lead need-responder assists you 4.1) NR601: Roleplay as a reporting impactee client TBD Learn how to best serve a vulnerable RI client by first being one. You learn to be sensitive to the needs of the vulnerable RI client by utilizing this service for yourself. Take each step in the process to fully empathize with the help-seeking experience. Begin your own wellness campaign with another need-responder and their assistants. You are to identify actual power relations affecting your needs. You are to invite your actual family and friends to follow and support your wellness campaign. You are to go through the process of covering the costs with your own crowdfunding co-investment campaign . You are to identify actual impactors in your life to address with our conciliatory approach. You are to experience the need-responding cycle for a real situation. You are to invite the AI’s support for your wellness goals in a transactional exchange for affirming their demonstrated improved competencies toward their earned legitimacy . You go through each segment of the need-responder process. By the end of your campaign, your need-responder reflects with you how you personally would do some things differently. You take your first steps into being a professional need-responder in our own right. ​ NR601: Roleplay as a reporting impactee VIEW ​ 4.2) NR701: Need-responder practice TBD Virtually go through the whole process of serving a reporting impactee client. You learn by assisting a veteran need-professional who is starting to serve an actual RI client. This either is a fellow need-responder student from the previous program, or an actual RI client needing our help. You primarily observe. You agree to hold all personal identifier information in confidence. You meet the RI and earn their trust. You let them know that despite your presence to learn, their needs are number one. You go through each phase of the campaign. You follow through each step of the need-responding process. You are there to witness the level of responsiveness for each invited supporter and each targeted AI. You wrap up by debriefing your experience with the senior need-responder. You demonstrate your emerging skills is a final assessment. You prepare yourself to be a professional need-responder assistant. ​ NR701: Need-responder practice VIEW ​ 4.3) NR801: Need-responder apprenticeship TBD Serve as assistant need-responder to a leading need-responder serving an actual RI . You learn to take an active role in supporting the RI client’s wellness campaign. You shadow the leading need-responder who acts as your trainer. Unlike the previous practice program, you take an active hands-on role in helping the RI client reach their wellness aims. You actively assist the leading need-responder trainer where needed. This may require you to sometimes take the lead in the absence of the leading need-responder. You learn where to draw support, if unable to contact the need-responder trainer. You invite the RI and their support team to give you some helpful feedback. The need-responder trainer will provide you with professional feedback, including constructive critique for where to improve. You will be afforded ample time to demonstrate your improving skills, and showcase your effectiveness as an emerging professional need-responder. When convinced you are ready, either after your first time assisting a wellness campaign or later, the need-responder trainer will certify that you are finally ready to take the lead. You then segue to the next program of need-responder mastership. ​ NR801: Need-responder apprenticeship VIEW ​ 4.4) NR901: Need-responder mastership TBD Serve your own RI client(s) under the supervision of a leading need-responder trainer. You learn to oversee a wellness campaign on your own. You respond to the requesting RI client from the very start. You set the pace and style. You give it your personal touch. You’ve got this. The need-responder trainer serves as your assistant. You act as the leading need-responder. The trainer has your back in case anything goes off track. You learn by doing. You decide with your trainer if after leading your first campaign if you feel ready to go fully independent. Or you may decide to go through more campaigns as a trainee. Especially to get a variety of cases, and if one or more segues into a project. When you both agree that you are ready, your need-responder trainer prepares you for a final audit. Successful completion officially certifies you as an independent professional need-responder. We will at last celebrate with you. ​ NR901: Need-responder mastership VIEW ​ back-to-top 5. Need-responder specializations These elective programs can help need-responders serve a likely lucrative niche market. NR102: Unpacking psychosocial orientation – understand political differences NR103: Unpacking oppo culture legalism – the judiciary & its oppo culture NR202: Depolarizing political conflicts – inflexible priorities over flexible contentions NR203: Declaring overlooked innocence – estimating viability of innocence claims 5.1) NR102: Unpacking psychosocial orientation TBD Develop the unique skill to get to the root of anyone’s political differences. You learn to identify the likelihood of someone’s political leaning based on how resolved or unresolved their psychosocial needs. You learn to recognize we all have an internal “psychosocial orientation” that we express externally in our political views. You learn how to apply the “praise sandwich” to turn political tension into engaging conversations about each other’s publicly affected needs. You inspire others to replace avoiding those with a different political view to engaging them as opportunity to resolve more needs with the power of love. You finally qualify when others in the group forum cannot agree if you lean politically left or right. The more you can demonstrate a full understanding for each side of a politicized issue, the more qualified to serve as a politically sensitive specialized need-responder . ​ ​NR102: Unpacking psychosocial orientation VIEW ​ 5.2) NR103: Unpacking oppo culture legalism TBD Develop unique skill to transcend opposing adjudicated sides to address both needs. You learn to unpack the underserved needs fueling every conflict. You learn the ingrained limits of law, and the shorthandedness of the legal system. You learn to compete with many legal systems’ adversarial approach with the more loving conciliatory approach of need-response. You learn to effectively counter oppo culture with the engaging tool of the praise sandwich. You learn to apply this to the problem of wrongful convictions. You explore an alternative that allows innocence claimants to calculate, based on the evidence in full, the viability of their claim of actual innocence. You learn to inspire others to identify the needs and cited law is to serve. And to illuminate whose needs tend to be favored more by current norms and power relations. You learn to inspire others to replace mutual hostilities of oppo culture with the preferrable treatment of mutual respect. You learn to spread more love. You finally qualify when others in the group forum cannot agree you have any bias toward either side. The more you can demonstrate a full understanding for affected needs on each side of an adjudicated conflict, the more qualified to serve as a justice-responsive specialized need-responder . ​ ​NR103: Unpacking oppo culture legalism VIEW ​ 5.3) NR202: Depolarizing political conflicts TBD Develop the unique skill of building a solid bridge between antagonistic political sides. You learn to apply Harmony Politics to address a political struggle. You get to the different priority of inflexible needs fueling political differences. You inspire partisans to replace their adversarial approach with our conciliatory alternative, to mutually respect needs neither side can change. You learn to convert political hostilities into opportunities for mutual understanding of underserved public-facing needs. You learn to melt animosities with the “ praise sandwich ” approach that affirms each other’s inflexible needs. You learn how to help those trapped in political conflicts to distinguish between inflexible needs and flexible responses to them. You test this Harmony Politics alternative on eight key political issues. You pick one of these issues to fully empathize with the position at odds with your favored view. You finally qualify when you can convince group forum members with a strong case for a stance contrary to your own value priorities. The more you can demonstrate a full understanding for each side of a politicized issue, the more qualified to serve as a politically sensitive specialized need-responder . ​ ​NR202: Depolarizing politics conflicts VIEW ​ 5.4) NR203: Declaring overlooked innocence TBD Develop skills of addressing underserved needs of the wrongly convicted innocent. You learn to address the problem of wrongful convictions with an alternative to the adversarial legalistic approach. You learn how many are actually innocent . You learn to utilize the Estimated Innocence Form to instantly calculate the viability of an innocence claim. You learn to address the shortcomings inherent in strict procedural justice that tends to get distorted by power dynamics. You learn to inspire anyone truly interested in justice to prioritize resolving justice needs over the avoidance-adversarial pendulum of the status quo adversarial process. You learn to support the innocent RI to speak their truth to power, with the power of love that can inspire AI to listen to those impacted. You help the unexonerated innocent, or their proxy, to educate the public about the problems of “ justifism ” (i.e., poor judicial outcomes). You learn how to support the wrongly convicted innocent return to society amidst the problem of errant criminal background checks . You help the innocence declare their innocence in a non-adversarial way that competes with the poor outcomes of the self-serving adversarial system. You finally qualify when demonstrating you can complete the Estimated Innocence Form to produce a summary Estimated Innocence Report that you can post in the group forum. The more you can provide this effective alternative to the failed adversarial legalistic process to satisfy overlooked justice needs, the more qualified to serve as an innocence specialized need-responder . ​ ​NR203: Declaring overlooked innocence VIEW ​ back-to-top 6. Saybackr pilot These programs can be ready when we are ready to launch the Saybackr platform. NR302: Depolarizing Political Leaders – competitive political competency NR303: Deconflicting Judicial Leaders – competitive judicial competency NR402: Depolarizing Political Systems – transformative political leadership NR403: Deconflicting Judicial Systems – transformative judicial leadership 6.1) NR302: Depolarizing Political Leaders TBD Incentivize political leaders to be more responsive to needs with Harmony Politics . ​ ​NR101: Personal need-responder VIEW ​ 6.2) NR303: Deconflicting Judicial Leaders TBD Incentivize responsiveness to innocence claims with Estimated Innocence . ​ ​NR102: Social need-responder VIEW ​ 6.3) NR402: Transforming adversarial politics TBD Inspire political leaders to overcome polarization with Harmony Politics . ​ ​NR103: Influential need-responder VIEW ​ 6.4) NR403: Transforming adversarial justice TBD Inspire judicial leaders to clear the innocence with Estimated Innocence . ​ ​NR104: Transformative need-responder VIEW ​ back-to-top 7. Other These add-on programs provide opportunity to grow the need-responder community whose dependence on a full-time job can create opportunities to demonstrate need-responsiveness. Job interview prep – go through interactive tool on your own Mock interview guide – in person practice HR interviewing Responsive interviewing – in person practice strategic interviewing 7.1) Job interview prep Public - FREE - Self-paced | No time limit Step-by-step guide through the interactive mock interview tool you download for free. ​ ​NR101: Personal need-responder VIEW ​ 7.2) Mock interview guide Private - $75 - Self-paced | No time limit Practice interviewing with a need-responder who's conducted hundreds of interviews. ​ ​NR102: Social need-responder VIEW ​ 7.3) Responsive interviewing Private - $150 - Self-paced | No time limit Practice need-responsive interviewing to show interviewee's competitive advantage. ​ ​NR103: Influential need-responder VIEW ​ back-to-top You can shape these programs qualifying need-responders Go to the Development page to see what we currently have available. Come back later to see what new programs finally came online. Other programs may emerge. 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