LOVING WITHOUT NEEDING:
SEVEN PRE-EXISTING NEEDS AND HOW TO TRANSCEND THEM

James Park, 871-7275
e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Date, time, & place to be arranged.
This class will be organized when 10 people
have registered their interest.
Invite your friends to join you in this class.

    Does love necessarily arise from pre-existing needs?
Or can we love beyond the wishes, expectations, & yearnings
we had before any real relationships began?
This discussion will explore seven powerful pre-existing needs:
(1) security, (2) approval, (3) romance, (4) sex, (5) affection & intimacy,
(6) communication & companionship, & (7) relationship structure.
As we become more whole and mature persons (more Authentic),
we fulfill these prior needs within ourselves or we transcend them.
Then we can love on the basis of emergent, unexpected
values we discover in new relationships
rather than trying to satisfy needs we bring to relationships.

James Park is an existential philosopher.
This discussion is based on Ch. 4 of his most popular book:
New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships :
 http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/NWL49.html


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