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Placeholder Image symfunctional strain symfunctional strain < Back 3 symfunctional strain Symfunctional strain is the ongoing emotional stress from needs not fully resolved, limiting your ability to focus elsewhere and often mistaken as lack of intelligence. Need experience Each need you experience not fully resolved continues to compete for your attention. Compared to your more pressing concerns, most of these partially eased needs sit on the backburner of your conscious awareness. They remain in a queue, until evoked into full focal awareness. Meanwhile, your cognitive bandwidth shrinks . You find you cannot focus as fully and clearly on some things. Your persisting needs pull you for relief. They prioritize your thinking. They bias you. They compel you to do something for their relief, sometimes negatively impacting others outside of your awareness. “You’re being stupid!” they insist. Because it’s easy to conflate this cognitive contraction with lack of intellect, or lack of rational thinking, or with poor choices. They likely suffer this symfunctional strain too. When continually enduring unmet needs as a norm, it’s next to impossible to respect the needs of others. Symfunctional strain can slip into dysfunction, into projecting pain onto others, and other defunctions . Defunctionalizing Refunctionalizing Examples Relational knowing Sign up or sign in to view the full entry Complementary refunctions Conciliatory resolution 6/16/23 Previous Next

It is against the grain of law to fully resolve needs. < Back G04 Law Principle List of all principles It is against the grain of law to fully resolve needs. Image: Pixabay – JonnyBelvedere (click on meme to see source image) Summary Laws remain rather vague to apply widely, often focusing on harm reduction. The more dependent on laws to reduce harm or a perceived threat of harm, the more you become a legalist instead of responsive. You then become less attentive to fully resolving needs. Only by properly resolving each other’s needs can we remove threats of harm. The more you acclimate to laws, public policies and social norms to deliver familiar forms of comfort, the more you resist the more responsive who endure the natural discomforts of fully resolving needs. The more the responsive go beyond minimal standards of law to fully resolve needs, the more legalists push back to protect their familiar pain-avoidant norms. Description Which do you think is more likely? Hold accountable anyone defying social norms. OR Better understand why some violations of norms are better than kneejerk compliance. Anankelogy The “law” does not exist to apply to every specific need you have. No law requires you to breathe, or dictates you must first show appreciation for others before you expect their appreciation of you, or obliges you to sleep laying down instead of standing up. Laws apply only to general situations. Covering too many details risks making a law inapplicable or unenforceable. No law requires you to put your keys somewhere you can remember. No law requires you to submit an itinerary to local authorities stating what you specifically expect you’ll be doing every minute of next Tuesday. No law requires you to know exactly when you’ll be using the restroom in the course of the next several days. No law requires you to be healthier a year from now. Anankelogy recognizes how laws must remain vague, impersonal, and adversarial. Laws are kept vague to apply to almost any situation. Which risks being too general to apply to you and your specific needs. Laws are kept impersonal to avoid partiality. Which risks alienating you and your specific needs. Laws are kept adversarial in their enforcement to punish offenders. Which risks premature hostility toward you and your specific needs. Anankelogy’s answer to these built-in limits of law is need-response . Need-response Need-response prioritizes our inflexible needs over our flexible laws. The needs came first. And laws can never keep up with our every need. Nor should they. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed out: “I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is also less than worthy of [humanity]. A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching anything higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities.” In other words, legalism impedes human flourishing. The opposite extreme of lawlessness is legalistic tyranny, which ironically hinders your capacity to faithfully oblige every rule. Reactive Problem Anankelogy identifies this excessive role of rules as toxic legalism . You either respond effectively to needs or settle for legalistic norms… to avoid dealing with people’s specific needs with comforting generalities, to ease discomfort of vulnerably relating to messy needs, and then expect established norms to provide an easier path to easing the pain of our unmet needs. Motivated reasoning biases legalists to preserve the familiar yet stifling status quo. To maintain this easier path, legalists tend to resist… any belief-disturbing nuance, discomforting engagement, and then prematurely oppose others outside of their norms of legally privileged pain avoidance. In short, norm-compliant legalists frequently resist those with the wisdom and answer to remove causes of pain . They’re often trapped in a zone of mounting pain , and dare not rock the boat lest they risk more pain. Such legalists easily slide into the creeping normalcy of managing their gradually increasing load of emotional pain. By not recognizing the reported needs behind these uncomfortable emotions, they ironically suffer more emotional pain as those unmet needs painfully insist on some attention. But the more they overlook the needs that their pain exists to report, the more they’re prone to fall back into their managed levels of pain . Legalists tend to resist full wellness. The pain required easily triggers discomfort they feel they must avoid. To them, good is defined generally as avoiding pain. Painful wellness efforts seem bad . They often react to painful norm-transgressing efforts to fully resolve needs. Responsive Solution While no one sits above the law, no law sits above the needs for which they exist to serve . You cannot easily change your inflexible needs to fit flexible laws. The more can directly resolve needs, the less dependent on norms or authority . Need-response holds us to a higher standard than mere legal compliance: resolving needs to improve measurable wellness outcomes. Such as reducing anxiety and depression. And enabling more our potential to be reached. Need-response can inspire us to stretch our comfort zone , to equip us to resolve more needs. So we can courageously endure the discomfort of stepping outside of comforting norms. Instead of selfishly trying to avoid the mounting pain of our unresolved needs, need-response incentivizes us to honor each other’s needs as our own. The more we step outside of ourselves to meaningfully help others to resolve their needs, the more empowered they are to honor our needs. You can call this love . Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How can we tell the difference between selfish norm-violating and responsive norm-violating? What do you say about those who get punished by legalists for trying to resolve more needs? How can we measure legalist efforts and responsive wellness efforts? How can you resist the government authorities who enforcing stiflingly anti-wellness norms? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. 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Pain is not the problem as much as the threats your pain tries to report. < Back D04 Pain Principle List of all principles Pain is not the problem as much as the threats your pain tries to report. Image: Pixabay – jplenio (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you react to your pain instead of addressing the needs behind that pain, the less you can address the source of that pain. The less addressed, the more it festers and can grow into a terrible problem of its own. The more you promptly respond to the warnings your pain seeks to report, the quicker you can resolve the underlying needs and remove its cause for pain. Description Which do you think is more likely? If you can get rid of your pain then your life will be much better. OR Improving your life by resolving more needs gets rid of your pain. Anankelogy Anankelogy isolates for types of pain. 1. Organic pain . Or “natural pain” or “natural discomfort”, this is the immediate displeasure reported by your body to warn you to remove some apparent threat. It’s usually sharp and instantaneous. 2. Residual pain . This type emerges after your natural pain fails to result in removing the threat. It continues to alert you to the threat. If partially removing the threat, you feel this as a dull pain. 3. Biostructural pain . This type emerges after your body seeks a different route to report the threat. You feel a headache or stomachache. If residual pain cannot get to remove the threat, maybe this will. 4. Metapain . This type emerges to warn you of the threat of too much pain. Your body complains it cannot adequately function when there are too many alarms going off. It warns of the threat of unheeded threats. Each type of pain serves as a messenger. Shooting the messenger leaves the threat or threats in place. Ignoring, suppressing, repressing, or trying to shift it onto others almost guarantees the threat to persist. The more your senses register a persisting threat, the more your pain comes back again and again. Only by addressing the needs behind those threats can your pain be fully removed. The more your needs resolve, the less cause to report threats in the form of pain. The more resolved your needs, the better you can function to remain responsive to new threats. Need-response Your level of functioning exists as an objective fact. Any subjective experience of your needs arises after the objective fact of something impacting your ability to function. That includes your pain. Feeling depressed, for example, may be a subjective experience. But it results from the objective fact of your inability to fully function as before. The pain of depression is less of a problem than these objective limitations crashing into your ability to fully function. Instead of offering you relief from depression, or from any other painful emotion, need-response helps you get to the sources of your pain. Instead of reacting to pain, it equips you to respond more effectively to the needs prompting such pain. Resolving those needs naturally clears up the pain. Need-response emphasizes a shared response to our needs, to get to the root of our pain. Reactive Problem Modernity promises to provide a life full of comforts. Pop philosophies suggest a pain-free life is our innate right. Ideologies imply that we should be able to reason our way out of suffering pain. Or take some medication to make the pain go away. These passive approaches to pain easily lead down the rabbit hole of addictions. You can only do so much to ease the pain of threats, of trauma, of agonizing problems, and a host of other sources of pain. A huge reason we get trapped in passive pain-relief stems from feeling powerless to do much if anything about the threats. If the threat comes from a neighbor whose actions remain privileged by law, you understandably feel pressured to cave. If the threat comes from a giant corporation backed by better paid lawyers and the elected officials they help elect with their campaign donations, then you understandably feel you must resign to your fate. If the threat comes from established norms cooked into the DNA of our daily lives, you may not even notice the source of such pain. Since you cannot change others but only your reactions to them, you typically feel pressured to adjust to these untouchable sources of your pain. You can mount protest, complain online, and write to your local officials. But as these tactics fail, you become increasingly accustomed to a growing level of residual pain, emerging biostructural pain, and intensifying metapain. Responsive Solution Need-response fills the gap missing in our legal systems by addressing the needs on each side of a conflict. The legal systems of the judiciary and politics only offers pain relief to the winner of a court or election battle. They fail at ensuring all sides can improve their levels of functioning. Indeed, a purely legal approach easily results in more suffered pain. Need-response first reacquaints us the point of pain, to alert us to remove threats. The first development program walks you through an exercise that can restore your ability to endure discomfort long enough to address its underlying needs. Instead of habitually avoiding your pain, you can be equipped to remove the causes of your pain. And enjoy more peace. Need-response then provides tools to help you turn from provoking more pain to creating an environment that reduces or removes pain. The second development program helps you replace harmful norms of reactively opposing others to engaging their inflexible needs . Instead of habitually opposing apparent sources of pain in each other, you can be equipped to mutually address each other’s needs to remove the sources of pain. Then enjoy more peace between each other. Need-response then equips you to speak truth to power. In a way that incentivizes the powerful to listen to you. The third development program invites those in positions of power to realize their leadership brand relies on how responsive they are to your exposed needs. Instead of remaining aloof under shield of impersonal law, you engage them to help them improve their impact by first positively impacting you. More of your pain, and their pain, will then automatically slide away into oblivion. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: I am outraged by the things I see on social media or online. I feel powerless to do anything about the problems around us. I want to contribute more to lowering the temperature of public discourse but unsure how. I wish I could process more of my pain to get to the source, but I don’t see how that’s possible. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . See other principles in this category - Foundational - Basic - General - Pain - Conflict - Authority - Law - Love - Previous Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Next

The Unexonerated: innocence profile < Back Steph Turner MI Steph Turner Estimated innocence score: 89 % Likely innocent when compared to cases already exonerated asexual trans person sentenced to lifetime sex offender registration Highlights of this wrongful conviction - no criminal history - always maintained innocence - transphobic & homophobic prosecution - no corroborating evidence - climate of sex abuse hysteria - no crime occurred - sensationalized coverage in local media - despite several degrees, no one will hire Key contributing factors to this wrongful conviction not a factor - minor factor - major factor - central factor 1. Witness misidentification? 2. False confession? 3. Official misconduct? 4. Junk science? 5. Jail informant? 6. Inadequate defense? not a factor not a factor central factor not a factor not a factor minor factor Other contributing factors How many other of 58 factors? 11 EIF version: D Click here to view more information at a separate website Click here for documentation to verify this innocence claim Wrongly convicted in MI of: Aiding & abetting sexual misconduct 1st degree, 2nd degree Wrongly convicted on December 13, 1993 Sentence: 30 years prison; lifetime sex offender registry Custody status: sex offender registry Dive deeper into Steph's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Steph's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Steph's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Steph's compelling innocence Prior to accepting herself as transgender, Janet (principal & codefendant) often ran afoul of the law. She appears to have suffered Asperger’s (high functioning autism), so was slow at responding to social cues. Overcoming shame of being gender different helped her escape cycles of self-defeating behaviors. She overcame dyslexia and other challenges to lead a healthy life, until this happened. Nobody's perfect Synopsis Asexual person comes out as transgender in early 90s, gets falsely accused as being a “sexual predator” homophobic stereotype. Convicted without evidence. Must register as sex offender for life. Forced into poverty and homelessness. On July 7th, 1993, Steph Turner awoke to hear voices from the other room. Steph could hear her sister Janet talking to someone. That person left, but later returned with her irate mother to accuse Janet of an incredulous crime. You see, Janet was born male and now openly transgender, long before that was socially acceptable. And Janet had yet to fully transition. At the height of the sex abuse hysteria in the early-90s, Steph came out as gender-nonconforming transgender. But living in a religiously conservative community, Steph kept it private. Steph soon came out to Janet, years after Janet had. They shared an apartment to rekindle their newfound bond. Both now freely embracing their feminine sides. Both describe themselves as asexual, as unable to feel erotic attraction unless being fully loved for their full selves. Both felt more drawn to their indigenous spirituality, of transcending the gender divide for deeper connection. A neighborhood child drew curious, peeping into Janet’s window to gawk at what she called the "man with lipstick." She later came out as gay, but understandably could not risk rejection at home because of her young age. When caught not being home on time, the child leveled bizarre claims of sex abuse unbecoming from a child. Perhaps she was exposed to porn. The child then dragged Steph into her transphobic-indoctrinated accusations. The child claimed that Janet and Steph had her pose in a photo, with her stabbing Steph in the chest with a jelly-stained butter knife. She claimed this was to scare her from talking to police, that Janet and Steph would use the Polaroid photo to claim this young girl was the aggressor. Of course, no such photo ever existed. Unbelievable? Not if you already believe trans people are subhuman. Child testimonies back then were often coached. Trans people were easily vilified. Since no corroborating evidence was necessary back then to convict for sexual misconduct, both transwomen were wrongly convicted. And both sentenced to long terms in men’s prisons. Janet did not survive. In 2001, she succumbed to cancer. Repeated efforts to overcome their wrongful convictions have failed. After serving a full 12-year sentence, Steph was discharged and finished undergraduate and graduate degrees. But now Steph must register as a sex offender for life, despite being asexual. This continues to destroy Steph's economic and other opportunities. Your support can help turn this around. Summary Accuser's needs The young complainant later came out as gay. She couldn't risk her parents' rejection. She appeared curious to Janet's courage to be openly gender nonconforming. When confronted by her mother why she was in the apartment with that "man with lipstick", she understandably fabricated a story that she was not there on her own volition but dragged there and assualted. Her parent's homophic slurs agains us reinforced this young girl's defensiveness to hide from the truth. The Grand Rapids community must be kept safe from sexual violence and the threat of sexual violence. The GRPD must respond to calls about alleged sexual violence. The local DA and prosecutors must ensure the community is kept safe from actual sexual predators. The local press needs to provide newsworthy content to its local audience, which may include sensationalizing distortions that the average viewer needs to filter out on their own. The local transgender community needed to make sense of what happened. Steph's employer had to find someone to replace the shipping & receiving role Steph had performed. Steph's family needed to find an alternate source of income. Steph's three daughters and newborn son had to adjust to a life without their father. Alisha had to find how to become a single mother during this painful adjustment. Other's needs See Steph's full Estimated Innocence Report Post-Conviction Journey Appeal results Appellate counsel filed a 60-page brief with 11 issues. Appellate panel threw out one conviction while wrongly affirming the other. The more serious charge of aiding and abetting CSC1 was reversed, but then replaced with a lesser CSC2 charge. In order to arrive to this conclusion, contrary to its norm, the appellate panel asserted the role as "trier of fact" when declaring the jury could have found Steph guilty of CSC2. Remanded back to trial court for resentencing. Reduced the sentence but failed to address the whole wrongful conviction. Steph applied for legal help from innocence projects five different times. Each time, Steph was declined for technical reasons from these under-resourced agencies. Early in Steph's sentence: To prioritize serving death row. Half way in their sentence: To priortize serving those with life sentences. Just before finishing their sentence: To prioritize serving those with long prison sentences. And after Steph was finally discharged, To serve those still incarcerated. A decade after discharge from prison but still wrongly on lifetime sex offender registry: Could not see how testing the untested DNA could lead to a reversal in court. Trying once more with the Michigan Innocence Clinic that does not rely on DNA evidence. This time, in conjunction with the Public Exoneration alternative to adversarial and alienating legalism. Innocence Movement Results Add your name to the petition to support exonerating Steph Innocence support petition What do you think about this claim of innocence? First, select the innocence claimant "With what I know of the case, I think the claimant is...* First name* Last name* Email* Submit Your first name Your last name Email Based on what I know, I think the claimant is... Submit Thank you for your support. If we get enough supporters, we may launch our own Public Exoneration campaign. Learn more below. tally count Latest tally of feedback to this innocence claim. Clearly guilty 0 Likely guilty 0 Likely innocent 2 Clearly innocent 5 Appellate Process Presents mission creep of prioritizing its institutional needs over the needs of the public. Innocence Project Replicates this mission creep when working exclusively within the adversarial legal process. Public Exoneration Corrects this mission creep by prioritizing needs over institutionalized adversarial legalism. After the adversarial options repeatedly fail, the new professional service of need-response counters with a mutual process that responsibly addresses each other's needs. When hate keeps failing to produce desired outcomes, it's time to try the power of love . Learn more "I am exploring the option to build up a campaign that takes my pursuit for overdue exoneration to the court of public opinion." of Steph Turner Follow my Public Exoneration campaign. Free. Consider becoming an active supporter for as little as $4.99 per week. Invest in restoring Steph’s freedom. Invest in yourself. Proxy for innocence claimant: Alisha Turner Public Exoneration progress: 10 How you can help us free Steph The Public Exoneration campaign unfolds in five phases. We love for you to participate in this alternative approach to exonerating them. Overview PDI step 1 PDI step 2 PDI step 3 PDI step 1 Demonstrate your innocence Sets a foundation to display your innocence Introduction Preview the 12 questions Solve personal problems Download & complete worksheet Learn More... PDI step 2 Declare your innocence Publicly establishes your innocence Overview Verify addresses Upload finished worksheet We distribute it to key recipients Learn More... PDI step 3 Follow up Expand awareness of your innocence Engaging responsive authorities Incentivizing authorities' responses More responsive or reactive Your final answers to the 12 questions Learn More... Overview Is this for you? Prove your innocence without lawyers Demonstrate your innocence Declare your innocence Follow up Learn More... Quickly show how you are a wrongly convicted innocent person by how you’re among the few who took your case to trial. Despite being found guilty, show how you consistently maintained innocence. In the face of certain parole denial, you faithfully stood your ground. This service works primarily for those who have already done their time. But now cannot get a meaningful job or find stable housing. All because of an undeserved felony record. For only a $49.48 one-time fee, establish your innocence with your own record of proven integrity. Let us inform the DA of your demonstrable innocence. We presort your claim of viable innocence for them. No lawyers involved. We incentivize the DA and others to recognize your demonstrated innocence. If they dare refuse, we are ready to appeal to the higher court of public opinion. Failure is not an option. Share this profile on social media to help spread the word. Thank you. Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Copy link How you can help us free Steph The Public Exoneration campaign unfolds in five phases. We love for you to participate in this alternative approach to exonerating them. FIT BASE phase TEAM phase GROW phase GOAL phase BASE phase Set a firm foundation Sets a foundation to display your innocence Leverage your innocence Gain need-responsive skills Solve personal problems Invite peer supporters Learn More... Review your Estimated Innocence Report with your need-responder. Develop strategies to optimize its strengths and address any weaknesses. Together, you craft your dynamic “exoneration plan”. Learn to proactively endure discomforts, to resolve conflicts with authorities, to relate more integrally with reality, and more. Sharpen these skills to later incentivize unresponsive authorities. Get any personal problems out of the way. Improve yourself where you can. Remove any doubt that you are innocent of the conviction. Set the tone for your immanent exoneration. Invite friends and family who believe in your innocence. Learn to show them how they can back your efforts. And how they can attract more backers to support your case of compelling innocence. TEAM phase Build your support team Publicly establishes your innocence Onboard peer supporters to your team Practice your new skills Solve interpersonal problems Invite professional sponsors Learn More... Incentivize your followers to upgrade as supporters and contributors. Show them how they can personally benefit by becoming more centrally involved. Or at least by participating. Guide your contributors to develop the same need-responsive skills you recently sharpened. Invite your supporters to watch, to encourage them to develop these skills on their own. With these new skills, work on any interpersonal problems. Practice solving problems. Demonstrate your capacity to endure discomforts. Publicly validate your innocence. Introduce innocence lawyers and other innocence activists to this alternative to adversarial legalism. Invite then to sponsor your campaign to boost their legitimacy. Incentivize their involvement. GROW phase Engage innocence lawyers Expand awareness of your innocence Leverage your growing support Onboard professional sponsors Learn to solve power problems Practice speaking truth to power Learn More... Let your growing support network publicize your innocence, your testament to human endurance, your readiness to face conflict with respect for each other’s affected needs, and more. Demonstrate these skills to supportive professionals. Incentivize them to improve their responsiveness to neglected needs with such skills. Vouch for their improved responsiveness. Assess the responsiveness of professionals to your compelling case of innocence. Demonstrate how mutual regard for each other’s needs create s better results than legalistic adversarialism. Invite the most supportive professionals to practice these skills with you. Learn to speak the truth of your innocence in ways that authorities will openly listen. GOAL phase Engage the prosecutor Incentivize authorities to exonerate you Hold court of informed public opinion Replace cold adversarialism with love Effectively address structural problems Declare your avowed liberty Learn More... Give the courts every reason to process your innocence claim. Let them compete with the court of public opinion, as your team connects with media outlets to publicize your case. Upend the norms of the adversarial judicial process by demonstrating this more loving approach to solving conflicts. Let your loving character boldly exemplify your innocence. Unpack the imposing social norms that hinder just outcomes. Invite prosecutors, judges and policymakers to shift incentives. Publicly reward just outcomes over conviction rates. Declare your widely supported innocence before a candid world. Let your support network contest the legitimacy of any official resistance to exonerate you. Reward all who do the right thing. FIT Check if it’s a good fit This is a preliminary phase to prepare the way Self -assessment Invite supporters Get prepared Meet your service provider Learn More... Start by checking if this unique service is a good fit for you. Can the innocence claimant lead this effort themselves? Or should they delegate the leading role to another? Spread the costs early by inviting friends and family to back your wellness campaign. For free for them to merely follow. Or $4.99 per week for them to participate. Or $14.99 each week to get hem centrally involved. Get oriented to how this service operates. Connect with others exploring this alternative. Learn how this process takes a pioneering approach toward exoneration. Meet the professional need-responder. First through texting. Then in person online. No financial commitment for the first thirty days. I want to support Share this profile on social media to help spread the word. Thank you. Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Copy link Exonerating Steph If the public exoneration campaign has already begun, check here at your level of support. Please note that until you join their campaign, none of these will be accessible. Followers, Supporters & Contributors Follow developments of their exoneration campaign. Progress Updates Supporters & Contributors Join the forum actively supporting their exoneration campaign. Exoneration Forum Contributors only Oversee activities contributing to their ultimate exoneration. Executive Committee sample testimonials Tanya Simpson , Claimant's cousin I was skeptical at first. I mean, how can something outside the official process help my cousin? Then I was pleasantly surprised by the amazing results. Jonathan Glenn , Claimant's coworker I always knew that Claimant was fully innocent of all charges. Now I'm glad to be a part of process that can finally help liberate my friend. 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3 < Back to list A. Character refunction 3 A honesty Honesty , as used here, is sharing with others what you admittedly know to be true. Specifically, expressing to others about yourself only what you know to be true. And qualifying how well you know something to be true or untrue of yourself. 3 .1 A Need experience The flipside, of course, is dishonesty. Deception prevents one or both sides in an interaction to accurately identify and address the relevant needs. Worse, it can spur one to create trouble of avoidable needs . In an attempt to avoid pain of vulnerability , for example, it creates more pain later. Lying often avoids pain of facing what is true. Honesty serves as a social glue for holding social capital together. You interact with each as you authentically are. You make it possible or others to encounter your actual self, your reality, where you are honestly at. You can enhance your honest by avoiding language with multiple or dubious meaning. You discipline your expression to convey exactly what you intend, and check with the recipient’s feedback. How honest you are depends on the situation. Your level of self-exposure depends on how trustworthy the recipient shows to be with the information. You are not explicitly dishonest when withholding information from someone who could abuse with that self-revelation. As a social glue, honesty is earned. 3 .2 A Defunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction relationally lowers your ability to fully function. It is typically framed with more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 3 .3 A Refunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction could be turned around to raise your ability to function. It also uses more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 3 .4 A Example(s) This subsection offers some examples of this defunction you may observe affecting your life. Usually more than one example is provided. If reading this, there are no examples yet to this defunction. 3 .5 A Associated defunctions This subsection points to similar or applicable defunctions. If reading this, there are no defunctions specifically associated with this defunction. 3 .6 A Relevant refunctions This subsection points to relevant or complementary refunctions. If reading this, there are no relevant defunctions to correlate with this defunction. 3 .7 A Applicable principles This subsection points to those anankelogical principles that aptly apply to this defunction. If reading this, there are no anankelogical principles related specifically to this defunction. 3 .8 A Referenced blog posts This subsection points to those blog entries that relate to, or cite, this particular defunction. If reading this, there are no blog entries yet related specifically to this defunction. Date created: 8/26/23 Type: Date revised: A. Character refunction The more others hear and trust you to speak truthfully, the more your needs resolve. Say what you need to say without guile. Avoid manipulating others with words you know aren't true. Avoid putting yourself in a situation you feel you must deceive others. Nurture a reputation of being reliable in what you express. Be authentic. Hold others to a higher standard of being forthright with you. See how honesty resolves more needs in your life. Previous Next Discuss at our Engagement forum

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The Unexonerated: innocence profile < Back Brenda Wilson IL Brenda Wilson Estimated innocence score: 86 % Likely innocent when compared to cases already exonerated verbal contract for startup loan spun as embezzlement Highlights of this wrongful conviction - false testimony by accuser - accuser withheld exculpatory documents - refused plea deal - accuser falsified banking transactions Key contributing factors to this wrongful conviction not a factor - minor factor - major factor - central factor 1. Witness misidentification? 2. False confession? 3. Official misconduct? 4. Junk science? 5. Jail informant? 6. Inadequate defense? not a factor not a factor not a factor not a factor not a factor Other contributing factors How many other of 58 factors? 23 EIF version: E1.1 Click here to view more information at a separate website Click here for documentation to verify this innocence claim Wrongly convicted in IL of: embezzelment Wrongly convicted on June 2, 1995 Sentence: 7 years Custody status: probation Dive deeper into Brenda's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Brenda's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Brenda's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Brenda's compelling innocence Here is where the claimant admits the weak spots in their case. This is the "flip side" to their narrative. They put it out there to show they have nothing to hide. They proactively cultivate trust by being transparent. Nobody's perfect Synopsis This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will have a couple of sentences here that summarizes this compelling case of innocence. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. Summary Accuser's needs Other's needs See claimant's full Estimated Innocence Report Post-Conviction Journey Appeal results Every exonerated person had their case first reviewed by the judicial appeals process. Every time, the panel of judges overlooked the injustice of that miscarriage justice. The appellate process focuses on procedural standards. Is it possible to faithfully follow every procedural norm and still find an innocent person guilty? Yet, this happens much more frequently than many would like to admit. Most innocence projects remain under-resourced. Only a handful of lawyers, and often only law students or paralegals, invest hours going through case documents. They don't always find something that can be reversed in court. They tend to seek something they can trust will have a greater chance of being granted a hearing in court. And has a greater chance for success of a conviction reversal. They could risk their funding streams if championing cases with a harder, or little, chance to prevail in court. So they tend to serve those "low hanging fruit" cases of greater promise for overturning a wrongful conviction. Where does this leave the countless souls who are innocent in prison and beyond, who cannot get an innocence litigator to go to bat for them? That's what this Public Exoneration option is for. Innocence Movement Results Add your name to the petition to support exonerating Brenda Innocence support petition What do you think about this claim of innocence? First, select the innocence claimant "With what I know of the case, I think the claimant is...* First name* Last name* Email* Submit Your first name Your last name Email Based on what I know, I think the claimant is... Submit Thank you for your support. If we get enough supporters, we may launch our own Public Exoneration campaign. Learn more below. tally count Latest tally of feedback to this innocence claim. Clearly guilty 0 Likely guilty 0 Likely innocent 0 Clearly innocent 0 Appellate Process Presents mission creep of prioritizing its institutional needs over the needs of the public. Innocence Project Replicates this mission creep when working exclusively within the adversarial legal process. Public Exoneration Corrects this mission creep by prioritizing needs over institutionalized adversarial legalism. After the adversarial options repeatedly fail, the new professional service of need-response counters with a mutual process that responsibly addresses each other's needs. When hate keeps failing to produce desired outcomes, it's time to try the power of love . Learn more "I am exploring the option to build up a campaign that takes my pursuit for overdue exoneration to the court of public opinion." of Brenda Wilson I am considering a Public Exoneration campaign. Perhaps my proxy and I will follow another campaign and see how it works out for them. Proxy for innocence claimant: Will Tanner Public Exoneration progress: 0 How you can help us free Brenda The Public Exoneration campaign unfolds in five phases. We love for you to participate in this alternative approach to exonerating her. Overview PDI step 1 PDI step 2 PDI step 3 PDI step 1 Demonstrate your innocence Sets a foundation to display your innocence Introduction Preview the 12 questions Solve personal problems Download & complete worksheet Learn More... PDI step 2 Declare your innocence Publicly establishes your innocence Overview Verify addresses Upload finished worksheet We distribute it to key recipients Learn More... PDI step 3 Follow up Expand awareness of your innocence Engaging responsive authorities Incentivizing authorities' responses More responsive or reactive Your final answers to the 12 questions Learn More... Overview Is this for you? Prove your innocence without lawyers Demonstrate your innocence Declare your innocence Follow up Learn More... Quickly show how you are a wrongly convicted innocent person by how you’re among the few who took your case to trial. Despite being found guilty, show how you consistently maintained innocence. In the face of certain parole denial, you faithfully stood your ground. This service works primarily for those who have already done their time. But now cannot get a meaningful job or find stable housing. All because of an undeserved felony record. For only a $49.48 one-time fee, establish your innocence with your own record of proven integrity. Let us inform the DA of your demonstrable innocence. We presort your claim of viable innocence for them. No lawyers involved. We incentivize the DA and others to recognize your demonstrated innocence. If they dare refuse, we are ready to appeal to the higher court of public opinion. Failure is not an option. Share this profile on social media to help spread the word. Thank you. Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Copy link How you can help us free Brenda The Public Exoneration campaign unfolds in five phases. We love for you to participate in this alternative approach to exonerating her. FIT BASE phase TEAM phase GROW phase GOAL phase BASE phase Set a firm foundation Sets a foundation to display your innocence Leverage your innocence Gain need-responsive skills Solve personal problems Invite peer supporters Learn More... Review your Estimated Innocence Report with your need-responder. Develop strategies to optimize its strengths and address any weaknesses. Together, you craft your dynamic “exoneration plan”. Learn to proactively endure discomforts, to resolve conflicts with authorities, to relate more integrally with reality, and more. Sharpen these skills to later incentivize unresponsive authorities. Get any personal problems out of the way. Improve yourself where you can. Remove any doubt that you are innocent of the conviction. Set the tone for your immanent exoneration. Invite friends and family who believe in your innocence. Learn to show them how they can back your efforts. And how they can attract more backers to support your case of compelling innocence. TEAM phase Build your support team Publicly establishes your innocence Onboard peer supporters to your team Practice your new skills Solve interpersonal problems Invite professional sponsors Learn More... Incentivize your followers to upgrade as supporters and contributors. Show them how they can personally benefit by becoming more centrally involved. Or at least by participating. Guide your contributors to develop the same need-responsive skills you recently sharpened. Invite your supporters to watch, to encourage them to develop these skills on their own. With these new skills, work on any interpersonal problems. Practice solving problems. Demonstrate your capacity to endure discomforts. Publicly validate your innocence. Introduce innocence lawyers and other innocence activists to this alternative to adversarial legalism. Invite then to sponsor your campaign to boost their legitimacy. Incentivize their involvement. GROW phase Engage innocence lawyers Expand awareness of your innocence Leverage your growing support Onboard professional sponsors Learn to solve power problems Practice speaking truth to power Learn More... Let your growing support network publicize your innocence, your testament to human endurance, your readiness to face conflict with respect for each other’s affected needs, and more. Demonstrate these skills to supportive professionals. Incentivize them to improve their responsiveness to neglected needs with such skills. Vouch for their improved responsiveness. Assess the responsiveness of professionals to your compelling case of innocence. Demonstrate how mutual regard for each other’s needs create s better results than legalistic adversarialism. Invite the most supportive professionals to practice these skills with you. Learn to speak the truth of your innocence in ways that authorities will openly listen. GOAL phase Engage the prosecutor Incentivize authorities to exonerate you Hold court of informed public opinion Replace cold adversarialism with love Effectively address structural problems Declare your avowed liberty Learn More... Give the courts every reason to process your innocence claim. Let them compete with the court of public opinion, as your team connects with media outlets to publicize your case. Upend the norms of the adversarial judicial process by demonstrating this more loving approach to solving conflicts. Let your loving character boldly exemplify your innocence. Unpack the imposing social norms that hinder just outcomes. Invite prosecutors, judges and policymakers to shift incentives. Publicly reward just outcomes over conviction rates. Declare your widely supported innocence before a candid world. Let your support network contest the legitimacy of any official resistance to exonerate you. Reward all who do the right thing. FIT Check if it’s a good fit This is a preliminary phase to prepare the way Self -assessment Invite supporters Get prepared Meet your service provider Learn More... Start by checking if this unique service is a good fit for you. Can the innocence claimant lead this effort themselves? Or should they delegate the leading role to another? Spread the costs early by inviting friends and family to back your wellness campaign. For free for them to merely follow. Or $4.99 per week for them to participate. Or $14.99 each week to get hem centrally involved. Get oriented to how this service operates. Connect with others exploring this alternative. Learn how this process takes a pioneering approach toward exoneration. Meet the professional need-responder. First through texting. Then in person online. No financial commitment for the first thirty days. I want to support Share this profile on social media to help spread the word. Thank you. Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Copy link Exonerating Brenda If the public exoneration campaign has already begun, check here at your level of support. Please note that until you join their campaign, none of these will be accessible. Followers, Supporters & Contributors Follow developments of their exoneration campaign. Progress Updates Supporters & Contributors Join the forum actively supporting their exoneration campaign. Exoneration Forum Contributors only Oversee activities contributing to their ultimate exoneration. Executive Committee sample testimonials Tanya Simpson , Claimant's cousin I was skeptical at first. I mean, how can something outside the official process help my cousin? Then I was pleasantly surprised by the amazing results. Jonathan Glenn , Claimant's coworker I always knew that Claimant was fully innocent of all charges. Now I'm glad to be a part of process that can finally help liberate my friend. Daniel Walker , Claimant's father These have been some painful years waiting for the legal process to correct this mess. Thankfully, this alternative is finally helping to bring my child home. < Back Next >