The Return Inwards Model
Understand Yourself
The Model, in order
- Core SelfYour Core Self is who you are underneath: the needs and nature you were born with, and the values you choose.
- Core NeedsSafety, Connection, Autonomy, Capability, Expression and Limits
- ConditionsFive ways an environment can leave a need unmet
- How adaptation worksAdaptation is what you learned to do to be okay: when a Core Need isn't reliably met, you find a strategy, and repetition makes it automatic.
- Chase, Hide, Fight and FoldThe four ways people adapt. Framework concepts, not diagnoses or types.
- Emotional TemplatesThe 24 patterns in the Template Grid
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