Ⓜ️ 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.

What - Definition:

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

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.

-----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 -

-----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

The Paradoxes

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.
  • they might say I feel overwhelmed by the stress, anxiety, or other feelings
  • then ask, what are those feelings you are overwhelmed about...
  • Let's say they answer: I'm overwhelmed about my future
  • Oh what do you really want to do in your future?
  • Oh I want to be a life coach who helps people with exercise, but it doesn't make enough money
  • Oh is that really true?
  • Well maybe not 100% true
  • 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: how could you change your state when you feel overwhelmed in the morning instead of smoking.
  • A: 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?"

YOU CAN MEET ANY OR ALL OF THESE NEEDS BY CHANGING EITHER YOUR

1. Perception

• What you notice, appreciate, or believe

2. 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/

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

Family MattersRonit Baras

Ideas

I discovered that when I coupled the findings of the 6HNs 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

https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-Tony-Robbins%E2%80%99-idea-of-6-human-needs