Wellbeing Snapshot
How are your nine needs being met?
Take this short, private check-in based on the nine fundamental human needs. It's simply to help you understand where things stand.
Question 1 of 9
Subsistence
I have what I need to meet my basic physical needs (food, shelter, health).
Your Snapshot
Here's the shape of it
What stood out
Where to go from here
Use the Sufficiency Savings Tool: where there's room to reduce or redirect what you're consuming, it can help you find that room and put it toward what matters more.
Try joining a GoZero Team: where connecting with others could help, whether that's through shared resources or the relationships that come from being part of something. Teams can help you contribute effectively to building community sufficiency and resilience.
How needs get met
Max-Neef's framework separates needs — a small, fixed, universal set — from satisfiers: the specific things people actually do to meet them, which vary hugely by person, culture, and circumstance. The same need can be met in very different ways, and not all ways are equal.
Some satisfiers are synergic — they meet one need while also helping meet others. A few examples:
- Growing or sharing food with neighbours can meet Subsistence, Participation, and Affection all at once.
- Joining a skill-share or study group meets Understanding directly, while building Affection (the relationships formed) and Participation (a genuine role in something shared) at the same time.
- Community emergency planning meets Protection through Participation, rather than Protection being purely an individual concern.
Others are singular (meeting just one need, without much effect elsewhere), inhibiting (over-meeting one need at real cost to another), or even pseudo-satisfiers (giving the feeling of meeting a need without really doing so) or violators (damaging other needs while claiming to meet one). Noticing which kind you're relying on for a stretched need can be as useful as noticing the need itself.
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This check-in is for reflection only and isn't a substitute for professional advice or support.