need-response

Refunctions

Restore wellness with these proactive responses to affected needs

Steph Turner
need-response
Published in
2 min readMay 13, 2024

--

A ‘refunction’ is something in our lives that restores our capacity to more fully function

As I introduce a refunction, the article will appear below the proper subheader.

Personal refunctions
* For foundational relating:
* For renewing relationships:
* For life’s challenges:
* For reaching excellence:
Interpersonal refunctions
Power refunctions
Structural refunctions

Need-response applies these to restore your ability to function. These apply on a personal level and on up to a social structural level. Some of them counter a specific defunction. Many remain a work in progress, just like those defunctions.

Personal refunctions

You can do these proactive responses to resolve needs on your own. Unlike the ones below that requires some degree of cooperation with others, you’re in complete control with these. The responsivism tools provide you the opportunity to apply each of these 20 Character Refunctions.

For foundational relating:

| gratitude | humility | honesty | kindness | gentleness |

For renewing relationships:

| grace | forgiveness | atonement | mercy | justice |

For life’s challenges:

| endurance | perseverance | discipline | equanimity | resilience |

For reaching excellence:

| patience | trustworthiness | generosity | empathy | love |

Interpersonal refunctions

These restore functioning with your peers.

Power refunctions

These restore functioning with those with some authority over you.

Structural refunctions

These restore functioning by transforming social structures that hinder us all.

--

--

Steph Turner
need-response

Founder of anankelogy, the study of need. World’s first ‘need-responder’. Transspirit (spiritually compelled to transcend divisive categories to resolve needs)