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Responsivism

Responsivism counters adversarial activism, to resolve needs

BASE: Lay your foundation

Cultivating Responsiveness
Resiliently Responsive
Mutually Responsive

TEAM: Improve your relations

Relationally Responsive
Personally Responsive
Professionally Responsive
Powerfully Responsive

GROW: Speak truth to power

Responsive Supervision
Responsive Journalism
Responsive Innocence
Responsive Depolarization

GOAL: Share your experience

Responsive adventures
Write on!

Need-response offers free interactive tools for improving each other’s responsiveness to each other’s needs.

For now, need-response offers each as an interactive Excel spreadsheet. Each allows us to test its proof of concept.

Most of these tools give you opportunity to solve problems with whom you send the message. Each provides space for you, the individual user, to affirm the needs of the recipient. Then report your affected needs to the recipient.

You start out small. As you progress through the tools, toward speaking truth to power, you do a little more to engage the other. You see if directly addressing each other’s needs works far better than current approaches of reasoning or applying laws.

Not all of them are ready to start using. If there is no link, then it’s not quite ready. We invite you to start using the ones that are. And offer your feedback and any suggestions to improve them for you.

Cultivating Responsiveness

This orients you to need-response’s alternative to adversarial activism. Discover the advantages of responsivism, of responding to each other’s needs more directly.

Resiliently Responsive

Discover how much more you can do in life after stretching your comfort zone. The more you expand your ability to endure the natural discomforts of resolving needs, the more empowered to speak truth to power.

Mutually Responsive

Replace disappointing approaches to conflicts that typically perpetuates pain. Shift from adversarial norms to mutual engagement. Learn to engage others with mutual regard, and social love.

Relationally Responsive

Recognize the cyclic patterns of nature guiding your life and relations. Be sure you do not split from your partner until after being certain this is not merely a passing phase. Discover what personal season you are in right now.

Personally Responsive

Melt alienation with kind acts. This one starts the interactive problem-solving with the least challenging process. Improve your relations with those closest to you. Build a foundation for responding better to others underserved needs.

Professionally Responsive

Start to speak truth to power. This builds on the personally responsive tool, adding another feature for solving problems on a more impersonal level.

Powerfully Responsive

Earn legitimacy with interactive impact data. This one applies the professionally responsive tool on a whole different level. You incentivize the powerful to listen to you, because they ultimately need you as much as you vulnerably depend on them.

Responsive Supervision

Improve your worker-manager relationships and boost productivity. Most who quit their job report they specifically quit because of their boss. Turn this around and bring out more of the worker’s productive potential when they can honestly convey what encourages them to do their best, without fear of retribution or emotional pressure.

Responsive Journalism

Improve reporting of the facts of objective needs, kept distinct from responses to them. If you’re the news consumer, use this to contact media officials. Let them know you are monitoring their coverage from a more informed need-responsive perspective. See if this incentivizes them to also be more need-responsive.

Responsive Innocence

Incentivize others to respond to a case of viable claims of actual innocence by demonstrating better responsiveness to need than the impersonal legal system. This tool specifically assists innocence claimants repeatedly failed by the adversarial legal system. NOTE: This is also identified as responsive exoneration.

Responsive Depolarization

Depolarize politics with empathy. Affirm the inflexible needs on all sides to an issue. Then address the questionable ways they respond to them. Convey your intent to continue supporting each other to resolve their affected needs.

Wellness campaigns

Where responsivism tools offer options to the individual, the wellness campaign involves a support team. Sometimes you as an individual need to build support to solve a stubborn problem.

Actually, need-response originally envisioned the wellness campaign as central. Then wisdom pointed to a need for options the lone seeker could first try. Responsivism tools work best when they can segue you into a full wellness campaign. Click here to learn more about wellness campaigns.

Responsive adventures

Find stories about how responsivism helps to solve stubborn problems. See if how they helped others could help you make an informed decision to try it yourself.

Write on!

After experimenting with this new way to solve problems, share your experiences here. Submit to need-response. [Instructions to follow after I receive interest in this publishing opportunity.]

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