Recognizing Basic Human Needs

Uneasy feelings like distraction, agitation, and anxiety can be signs that one of your basic human needs isn’t being met. There are physiological needs like hunger that can inhibit your ability to focus, security and social needs like safety and belonging. There are also higher-level needs that you might not even recognize as basic human needs, like accomplishment, creativity, independence, and freedom. This course will enable you to recognize when your human needs appear and how to fulfill them.

Course Quick Facts:

Learning Objectives:

  1.  Being aware of your basic human needs allows you to fulfill them and reduce related anxiety;
  2.  Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs includes self-actualizing, esteem, social, security, and physiological;
  3.  Investigate your own basic human needs and discuss with a friend to discover how they differ;