Human needs caching focuses on 6 universal human needs that function as an explanatory and intervention model for human behaviour. This presentation was recently given to parent coach and family support workers to help them understand their own and their clients' needs and behaviours. With this understanding the parent coach may find it useful to help their clients parenting challenges.

1. Understanding Self/Coaching Others
An Introduction to Human Needs Coaching
Every coach needs to know how to meet their needs in ways that is
workable for them, others, and for the larger community
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2. Anthony Robbins
• Human Needs Psychology - for over 30 years Robbins’
unique experience of working with millions of people led
him to develop a series of principles and tools called HNP
• Robbins’ one-on-one intervention work with individuals
from all walks of life formed the template for modern oneon-one coaching practices.
• Robbins-Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention since 2002, Robbins & renown family therapist, Cloe
Madanes collaborated to develop strategic interventions
to the toughest of personal/relational problems.
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3. Cloe Madanes
• Madanes was named one of the top 20
therapists of the 20th Century
• Co-founder of Strategic Family Therapy provides swift, effective, and lasting solutions
to the whole range of human challenges
• The Council for the Human Rights of Children applying the insights of Strategic Intervention
for the protection/healthy upbringing of at-risk
children.
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4. Presentation Outline
• The 6 Human Needs
• Human Needs Assessment
• Human Needs Intervention and Strategies
– Meaning Triad
–Physiological state change
–Metaphors
–Reframing
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5. The 6 Human Needs
Personality Needs
• Certainty
• Uncertainty
• Significance
• Love/Connection
Meaning/Fulfillment
• Growth
Needs
• Contribution
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6. CERTAINTY
• Certainty - think of it as the
ability to avoid pain and/or to
obtain pleasure
• It is a survival instinct
hardwired into us
• Trust / confidence / security /
expectation / routine
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7. The more you allow
The more you try
The quality of your life is in direct
proportion to the amount of uncertainty
you can comfortably allow
The more you learn
The more you grow
The more you will feel alive
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8. UNCERTAINTY
• Variety is the "spice of life"
• Uncertainty reflects our
need for adventure /
surprise / novelty
• We long to expand
ourselves
emotionally/relationally
and challenge ourselves
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9. People who are certainty driven
end up with very different lives than
people driven by uncertainty
Certainty
How reliable / accessible
/ deliverable is it?
High chasing...
Uncertainty/Variety
Variety is a change of state
Addictions are powerful ways
to change one's state
ADDICTION
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10. SIGNIFICANCE
• The universal greatest fear
in human experience...
• Significance is measured by
uniqueness/distinctions
• Men and women regarding
significance
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11. I don’t feel
secure
I don’t feel
loved
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12. I don’t feel
secure
I don’t feel
loved
I don’t feel
appreciated
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13. LOVE/CONNECTION
• Another one of our greatest
fears is not being loved
• Many people settle for simply
being connected yet they
really want love
• Love/Connection is measured
by what people share with
each other
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14. I don’t feel
secure
We love you
child
I feel
uncertain
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15. GROWTH
• “If we do not grow we die.
Life is never static.”
• Parents grow as they move
through the family lifecycle
• Our commitment to grow is
reinforced by meeting the
first four needs
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16. I feel
disrespected
I feel
secure
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17. CONTRIBUTION
• Some people contribute to
others to avoid not being
good enough
• Contribution is the pinnacle
experience of meaning &
purpose
• Contribution can meet all of a
person’s six needs and is thus
the goal of Human Needs
Coaching
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18. I feel
certain
I see
growth
I feel
connected
I feel
confident
We feel
empowered
I feel
loved
I feel
significant
All because
I contribute…
I feel
secure
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19. THE MEANING TRIAD
Physiology
(The body experience)
Language
Focus
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20. PHYSIOLOGY
GROUP EXERCISE
• The link between motion and
emotion
• Introduce yourself to three
other people as if they are
taking up your time
• …as if your are deathly afraid
of how they are going to
react to you
• …as if they are a long lost
friend come back into your
life
• The way we have been
taught/conditioned
• Passive thinking versus active
engagement
• Energy is contagious!
Physiology
(The body
experience)
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21. FOCUS
Focus
• Meaning determined by our
feelings which in turn is determined
by our focus
• Focus determines our feeling state
• What we focus on is determined by
what we value the most
• What we value the most is
determined by our needs
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22. Your needs structure
What you value
What you focus on
What you feel
What meaning you make
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23. LANGUAGE PATTERNS
• How people describe label their
experience affects their physiology
and the meanings they make
Language
• Language is like a time capsule
• Language can be used to make
powerful decisions
• Thinking is the process of asking
and answering questions to
oneself.
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24. LANGUAGE PATTERNS
• People use metaphors to
describe their experience
• Change the use of the metaphor
by extending the client’s story
• Reframing - shifting the focus of
the client by cast their
experience in another context
• Reframing gives the client
permission to have a different
experience of the same event
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