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The Anankelogy Foundation exists to introduce this new social science for the disciplined understanding of our needs: 
 anankelogy

All the social sciences (psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science) exist to find answers for our many needs. Now we have a social science to study and better understand the needs themselves.

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Our mission

AF's purpose

The Anankelogy Foundation mission is to introduce and establish the new social science of anankelogy, the disciplined study of need, and its application in the new professional field of need-response.

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Anankelogy exists to complement all other social sciences seeking to find answers to our many needs, by scientifically understanding the needs themselves. It presents the potential to provide the elusive answers many painstakingly strive to find.

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Need-response exists to solve problems underserved by legalistic or rationalistic or other options, by recognizing, relating, and resolving each other’s specific needs in ways that removes pain and raises functioning. It presents the potential to enable us to reprioritize love in our lives.

AF's vision & implementation

The Anankelogy Foundation, with support from loving folks like you, will soon spark an organic

need-responsive,

love-spreading movement

that will result in

resolving more needs,

removing more pain, and

restoring more wellness.

 

AF can accomplish this by first cultivating a community of 'need-responders' who get skilled to respond more effectively to needs, replacing popular norms of 'feel-reactors' who more often ease pain of unmet needs, who then perpetuate the pain of unmet needs, and who fail to reach their full functioning potential.

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Our overarching goals

  1. The Anankelogy Foundation aims to enable you to resolve more of your needs.

  2. The Anankelogy Foundation aims to enable you to remove more of your pain.

  3. The Anankelogy Foundation aims to enable you to reach more of your potential.

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Our guiding strategy

  1. Introduce the world to anankelogy's revolutionary potential.

  2. Grow a community of credentialed need-responders. 

  3. Together, build this new profession of need-response. 

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Our get-us-there tactics

How we aim to grow a community of need-responders with our development programs.

   Step 1: Stretch each other’s capacity to endure discomforts of more fully resolving needs.

   Step 2: Replace failed standard of mutual hostilities during conflict with mutual respect.

   Step 3: Incentivize those in power to use our proactive conciliatory approach to conflicts.

   Step 4: Transform social systems to enable us all to resolve more of one another’s needs.

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Our easy onboarding

  1. VISIT US here and follow our forum discussions. Find a topic of interest to you.

  2. JOIN US to engage these provocative discussions. Find a group of interest to you.

  3. CHALLENGE US to respect your needs. Try our first development program, it’s free!

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Our vision

Which would you prefer?

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Continue life as a "feel-reactor" who habitually reacts to your feelings from painfully unmet needs?

 

OR

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Become a "need-responder" who fully resolves needs, removes pain, and reaches more of your potential.

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We are all feel-reactors at least some of the time. We sometimes fall into the trap of reacting to what we feel instead of carefully responding to what we or others need in the moment. We risk planting seeds of outrage or contagious hate.

 

We are all need-responders at times. You smile at a discouraged stranger. You give a listening ear. You offer a helping hand. Now we’re going to develop your potential to do more of this need-responding all the time. Then we can grow and spread more love. 

Anankelogy on three levels

Ananke is the classical Greek word for need. Adding 'logos' for the study of, anankelogy is simply the study of need. Scroll down below to the next section for Anglicized pronunciation.

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Anankelogy exists for you on three levels: academic anankelogy, applied anankelogy, and accessible anankelogy. Each with its specific focus for a specific area of need.​

1. Academic anankelogy 

Academic anankelogy emphasizes thinking most critically about our human needs. As a basic science, it focuses on research using tools and methods already employed in the other social sciences.

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Check out nine ways anankelogy can create something of value for you.

  1. Anankelogy serves as a distinctive social science.

  2. Anankelogy shows how a natural need is an objective fact.

  3. Anankelogy starts with a nature-based paradigm.

  4. Anankelogy defines "need" for serious study.

  5. Anankelogy starts with familiar scientific methodology tools.

  6. Anankelogy appreciates your range of biases.

  7. Anankelogy sheds light on our cyclic experiences.

  8. Anankelogy democratizes science.

  9. Anankelogy replaces "disorder" with "defunction" and "refunction".

And more.​

2. Applied anankelogy 

Applied anankelogy is an applied science that recognizes the objective fact of natural needs. It informs the new professional field called need-response, or NR for short. Explore some of its advantages.

  1. NR prioritizes the resolving of needs over the mere pain-relief.

  2. NR enables you to work through your pain to remove its causes.

  3. NR expands your potential to reach more of your functional capacity.

  4. NR offers a loving alternative to the divisiveness ripping us apart.

  5. NR holds authority accountable to its purpose to serve our needs.

  6. NR provides a disciplined conciliatory process to resolve all affected needs.

  7. NR restores our potential to be more loving toward each other.

And much more.

3. Accessible anankelogy 

You don't have to be trained in the social sciences to gain something from this. Anankelogy anticipates the need to keep this new social science accessible to all.

 

This new understanding comes packaged to you in these 9 easy-to-use ways.

  1. Accessible anankelogy invites armchair social scientists.

  2. Accessible anankelogy improves your awareness with “relational knowing”.

  3. Accessible anankelogy democratizes science.

  4. Accessible anankelogy lowers your risk of personal bias.

  5. Accessible anankelogy uses simpler-to-understand language.

  6. Accessible anankelogy debunks divisive experts.

  7. Accessible anankelogy holds us all accountable to mutual respect.

  8. Accessible anankelogy makes it easier to respect everyone’s needs.

  9. Accessible anankelogy equips you to cultivate more love.

And more.

The Anankelogy Foundation seeks to make all three an everyday reality.

Chere here for a glossary of anankelogy's vocabulary of new terms.

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Pronunciation

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Pronunciation guide

anankelogy [n.] (ä'-nä-kĕ'-lŏ-jē): the study of need as a social science, and specifically the human experience of need.

anankelogical [adj.] (ä'-nä-kĕ-lŏ'-jĭ'-kâl): of, relating to, or characteristic of anankelogy; referring to the role of need in anything.

anankelogist [n.] (ä'-nä-kĕ'-lŏ-jĭst): one who studies the phenomena of need using tools and methods of social science.

anakelogic [adj.] (ä'-nä-kĕ-lŏ'-jĭk): same as anankelogical.

anankelogically [adv.] (ä'-nä-kĕ-lŏ'-jĭ-kâ-lē'): referring to the role of need on some action. E.g., Political views tend to be less rationally deduced and more anankelogically produced. 

AF community

Looking for some answers? Learn how anankelogy can...

 

  • show how to decrease political polarization by distinguishing between each other's inflexible priority of inflexible needs;

  • redirect media bias to attract and sustain an audience across the ideological spectrum;

  • help reduce depression by identifying and resolving neglected personal needs;

  • serve the wrongly convicted innocent passed over by innocence projects.

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Follow our discussions in the forum. Better yet, become a site member to contribute to the discussion. We can learn together to be more responsive to each other's needs.

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Together, let's grow a community of need-responders. Together let's demonstrate the love of prioritizing the resolution of each other's needs. Together, let's replace hopeless managed pain by removing pain to reach more of our lives' potential. You can start now by simply becoming a member of this website.

 

Become a member today to start benefiting from this revolution toward love,

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Our needs

Until AF finds viable board members and can grow a supporting staff, its inspiring potential to  help solve the pressing problems of today will remain in limbo. Meanwhile, this website remains under development. AF is a long way, at this point, from hiring a staff to keep this a going concern. 

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If inspired by this vision to solve problems by resolving needs, consider how you can contribute to its mission. Join us! 

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Consider becoming a part of our visionary movement to spread more love.

Consider applying your expertise to our volunteer needs. - website - accounting - other Click on the button above to express your interest. Thank you.

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Welcome aboard!

My name is Steph Turner, author of You NEED This

I am the founder of anankelogy. Or more accurately, I am the conduit through which this otherworldly wisdom flows.

 

I seek no fame nor fortune from delivering such wisdom.

I prefer to spark a revolution of more love for each other.

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The more we respect the needs of others as we would have others respect our own needs, the more problems we solve.

 

There is no greater revolution than to revolve back to love.

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