The Map to Compassion
A Systems-Based Model of Human Needs
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https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i2.6569Keywords:
human needs map, conflict, adaptive, embodiment, self-awareness, trauma, needs-matrixAbstract
This article introduces the Human Needs Map—a model to help orient our minds around human needs that drive and trigger us, disrupting relationships and creating conflict. Initially inspired from fieldwork of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Human Needs Map has developed through trial and error into a systems model that reveals the interior landscape of our protective body-mind system with needs and emotions in dynamic flux. The model provides a language to speak about the interconnectivity of needs through their synergies and tensions by introducing the idea of tribal and individual needs. Naming the inter- dependency between needs and emotions offers a way to understand emotions as reasonable because it provides insight into how needs, emotions and beliefs are intertwined, which perpetuate conflict. The implication lies not only at the individual level but also at the level of systems change to support the design of social and cultural structures more capable of taking needs and emotions into account. The present article traces the iterative process conceptualizing the model and discovering its internal patterns, followed by a discussion about the Needs system’s adaptive qualities and its role in creating and perpetuating conflict, concluding with insights for Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding.
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