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Responsive Specialization
Responsivism answers the shortcomings of legalism.
Responsivism is the belief and practice that responding to the unchosen needs of others can produce more favorable results than defensive-provoking adversarial alternatives.
Your every need exists as an objective fact. This truism exhorts 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.
Toxic legalism
may threaten your wellness.
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
supports your wellness.
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 Specialization Tools
Consider these miscellaneous tools it you're in a troubled relationship or need to prepare for an upcoming job interview.
Responsive Relationships
Before you quit a relationship, recognize the natural cycles in your relationships. There is a season to come together and a season to be apart. Then revitalize yourself to revitalize the relationship.
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​This is the easiest responsive tool to use. After you download and click Enable Editing, you simply add your birthdate. Then it automatically calculates which relatonships cycle your'fe likely in right now.
Responsive Interviewing
Gain an edge over your competition with the power of stories. Attract the interviewer to your qualifications on a gut emotional level. Use your stories to relate to the employer's manifest needs.
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After providing over a thousand mock interviews, I see firsthand how the interviewee can sell themselves with this simpler CAR method: Challenge (setup) + Actions (be the hero) + Results (value created).
Consider these specialized tools for speak truth to the "power" of legal systems lacking the power to help you resolve your public facing needs.
Responsive Innocence
The number of wrongly convicted with a viable innocence claim far outnumber the lawyers reviewing such cases. Innocence Projects fall trap to the same problems of toxic legalism, overlooking justice needs.
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Instead of trusting the adversarial legal system to police itself, need-response holds the whole judicial system to the higher standard of mutually resolving needs for which they ostensibly exist to serve.
Responsive Depolarization
Anankelogy recognizes politics as the art of generalizing how to agreeably address needs in different situations. We can change how we respond to those differing needs, but not the needs themselves.
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Only anankelogy anchors our political and ideological differences in our diverse inflexible needs. It gives you "Harmony Politics" to affirm the needs first, then discuss how to publicly respond to them.
Similar tools may be added in the future. What would you like to see. Let us know in the SUGGESTIONS BOX (requires login).
Miscellaneously Responsive
Both of these interactive tools do not fit neatly into any category. They are offered to help you meet two distinct needs.
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Responsive Relationships tool addresses the need to stay in a relationship that seems to fall apart but may only be a personal growth phase. Nature compels you to temporarily find some personal space to reenergize yourself, so you can be more of your true self in your relationships.
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Responsive Interviewing serves the need to relate better with the interviewer's needs to fill the open position. You learn to use the power of story to emotionally connect with what the interviewer seeks.
The Responsive Relationships tool can be a great place to start because of its simplicity of use. Just add your birthdate and read the illuminating results.
GOAL: Speak truth to power
Our legal institutions of the judiciary and politics rely too heavily on adversarialism. It's one thing to oppose what others do that affects us. But the more these institutions coerce us to oppose each other's inflexible needs, the more their legitimacy is on the line. These tools counter the low standard of toxic legalism with the higher standard of mutual regard for each other's inflexible needs.
Responsive Innocence
Responding to cases of viable yet overlooked claims of actual innocence
Our adversarial judicial process routinely produces wrongful convictions. Many of these are of actual innocence. The current legal system, including some in the innocence movement, does more to perpetuate these miscarriages of justice than identify and clear them. Responsive innocence dares move beyond this failed adversarial approach.
Testimonials
After using one of the tools above, how helpful was it for you?