Table of Contents Principals and Practices
Six Universal Needs
Principal:
This process of music making is about helping students to meet their needs, particularly attending to the hierarchy of needs. Part of the process of meeting their needs is empowering students to more effectively advocate for themselves to meet their own needs. Overall an organizing principal in this group drumming practice is attending to the six universal needs. If the course arc and session arc attend to meeting these needs, the course will work. If the group doesn’t seem to be working, often one or more of these needs are not being met.
I'd like to acknowledge human potential coach, Tony Robbins for articulating this list of needs.
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Certainty/ Safety:
Assurance you can avoid pain and gain pleasure. The situation is predictable and manageable.
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Uncertainty/Variety/Novelty:
The need for surprise, the unknown, change, new stimuli.
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Significance:
Feeling valuable, unique, important, special or needed.
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Connection/Love:
A strong feeling of closeness or union with someone or something.
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Growth:
An expansion of capacity, capability or understanding.
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Contribution:
A sense of service and focus on helping, giving to and supporting others, creating something larger than ourselves.
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Six Dimensions Of Emotional Intelligence