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Responsive Wellness
Responsivism answers the shortcomings of activism.
Responsivism is the belief and practice that responding to the unchosen needs of others can produce more favorable results than defensive-provoking adversarial alternatives.
Responsivism answers the shortcomings of legalism.
Preparing the way
Responsivism serves as a precursor to a potential wellness campaign. Such a campaign demands collective effort. Before you can attract interest, you may need to start small, with a personal wellness initiative. The more responsive to the needs of others, the more responsive they'll likely be to you.
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Any individual can start a wellness initiative with any of these responsive tools. You download the tool yourself. You fill in the fields and see the relevant results. You engage others without having to first wait on others. You take charge to address your overlooked needs.
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Needs over laws​
Your every need exists as an objective fact. This truism inspires a different approach to conflicts, to problems, and toward those in positions of power.
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For starters, expecting others to change their minds as a trusted way to address your needs repeatedly fails. Now we can understand why. Now we have a fresh approach, to more effectively identify and address our needs.
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Responsivism answers the many limitations inherent in adversarial activism.
Responsivism begins with you, on a personal level. Start asking what you can do for others. No quid pro quo. Just to stretch your potential to be more giving.
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Responsivism answers the many baked-in limits of legalistic activism. Here are just a few.
Toxic legalism
fails to solve your problems.
tends to perpetuate pain and problems
relies more on generalizations to evade uncomfortable nuance
intent toward relieving own pain at other's expense
typically provokes mutual defensiveness, provoking pain
aims to ease needs, manage pain & cope with poor wellness
Responsivism
can solve more problems.
potential to resolve problems and remove cause for pain
faithfully engages nuance to address all relevant needs
intent toward resolving all needs to remove cause for pain
cultivates mutual understanding of each other's needs
aims to resolve needs, remove pain, & restore wellness
Responsive Wellness Tools
Responsivism 'wellness initiative' tools
Personally Responsive
Properly Responsive
Solve more problems with love
Before you try to improve your relations with others, be sure you have adequately improved yourself. Use these tools to improve your 'easement orientation' and your 'conflict orientation'. Stretch your comfort zone to resolve more needs. And turn conflicts into opportunities of mutual support.
Professionally Responsive
Improve responsiveness of powerholders
Professional relations can quickly turn transactional. "Toxic legalism" takes over. You easily concede respect for your needs to those in positions of power. Use this "exaction invoice" to incentivize improving their responsiveness to you.
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