Ⓜ️ Model - 6 Human Needs

Why - Purpose:

To understand the driving force behind why people do what they do: everything people do, they do in an attempt to fulfill their 6 Human Needs.

If you understand a person's needs, and the vehicles they use to meet them, you will have a better understanding of why their life is how it is, and how to facilitate change.

Individuals seek to meet these needs in various ways, such as through routines, control, faith, violence, achievement, or connection with others.

What - Definition:

These 6 Human Needs are the basis of Human Needs Psychology.
How people fulfill these needs determines the quality of their lives.

The quality of our lives depends on what needs we value most.

Human needs are like driving forces - like gravity it drives the marble.

What are the 6 Human Needs?

1. Certainty
2. Significance
3. Uncertainty / Variety
4. Love / Connection
5. Growth
6. Contribution

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What does Tony Say?

- https://www.tonyrobbins.com/blog/do-you-need-to-feel-significant

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The first four are essential to human survival.
The last two are essential to human fulfillment.

Needs of Survival

• 1. 🏔️ Certainty: assurance you can avoid pain and gain pleasure
• 2. 🏅Significance: feeling unique, important, special or needed
• 3. 🆕 Uncertainty/Variety: the need for the unknown, change, new stimuli
• 4. 💞 Connection/Love: a strong feeling of closeness or union with someone or something -

Needs of Fulfillment

• The last two are essential to human fulfillment.
• 5. 🌱 Growth: an expansion of capacity, capability or understanding
• 6. 🌳 Contribution: a sense of service and focus on helping, giving to and supporting others

Yin/Yang Pairs

Each of the needs complement and counteract a corresponding pair.

• Certainty <<– Paradox-->> Uncertainty
• Connection/Love <<– Paradox-->> Significance
• Contribution <<– Paradox-->> Growth

The Six Human Needs

How to Use This Model in Coaching

• Identify which of the 6 needs is driving your client’s behavior.
  • Ask guiding questions to uncover which need they value most.
  • Tailor your coaching strategies based on which need is most important to your client.
• For example: your client smokes, ask them why they smoke.
  • Coach: "what state are you avoiding/seeking when smoking?"
  • Client: "I feel overwhelmed by the stress and anxiety..."
  • Coach "what are you stressed about specifically"
  • Client: "I'm overwhelmed about my future"
  • Coach: "Oh what do you really want to do in your future?"
  • Client: "Oh I want to be a life coach who helps people with exercise, but it doesn't make enough money"
  • Coach: "Oh is that really true?"
  • Client: "Well maybe not 100% true
  • Coach: "Oh so it sounds like you are overwhelmed because you haven't explored your dream job and what that would mean to you?"
• Or another question
  • Coach: "how could you change your state when you feel overwhelmed in the morning instead of smoking."
  • Client: "oh I could exercise and workout, that makes me feel good."

Example Questions for Each Need

• Certainty: "What makes you feel most secure in your life?"
• Variety: "When was the last time you tried something new and exciting?"
• Significance: "What achievements make you feel the most proud?"
• Love/Connection: "Who do you feel closest to in your life?"
• Growth: "What areas of your life do you feel are growing or need growth?"
• Contribution: "How do you like to give back or help others?"

• Perception = What you notice, appreciate, or believe
• Procedure = Vehicles or approach

• https://www.tonyrobbins.com/blog/do-you-need-to-feel-significant
• https://www.tonyrobbins.com/podcasts/why-we-do-what-we-do
• https://www.ronitbaras.com/emotional-intelligence/personal-development/six-human-needs-certainty/

RMT Modules:

• Core 100 Module 4 - Breaking Through - Tahnee
• Core 100 Module 7 - 3 Levels of Relationship
• Core 100 Module 8 - Paul & Jenn (Six Human Needs)
• Core 200 Module 6 - Overcoming Abuse
• Core 100 Module 2 - Dana & Greg

Six Human Needs: Certainty | Family Matters

There are six human needs you must satisfy. Here’s why & how to fulfill the emotional needs in your life, starting with the basic need for certainty

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Ideas

I discovered that when I coupled the findings of the 6 Human Needs with the Big Five Temperaments, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and other aptitude, gifts/talents, and Values quiz results, that we could build a refined Goal Achievement Framework that the client felt was both revolutionary, yet simple. They finally knew how/why they did/do what they do. And now they knew where they were at and could craft a better vision of what they wanted or would rather have in their lives.
- Curtis Mitchell Rasmussen