Professional Documents
Culture Documents
‘It’s okay to
have needs.’
18 months to The Right to Have To receive support Receiving Humility.
3 years Support for vulnerability – acceptance for Honesty and
(Autonomy) without demand or vulnerability. realness,
expectation. Learning to reach authenticity
To receive out for – and to (instead of
protection in times accept – support. seduction and
of fear. manipulation).
To be allowed to Learning to accept Loving and
learn and grow limitation, and respecting
without pressure – embrace failure. vulnerability,
at one’s own rate, Learning to enjoy in self and
on one’s own terms. instead of trying to others.
To be shown impress. Freedom from
boundaries without toxic shame or
shaming or pride.
manipulation. Trusting
To be heard. essence rather
than investing
in ‘image’.
‘It’s okay to be
vulnerable.’
3–5 years The Right to To explore the To expand outward Healthy self-
Freedom world. in creative self- containment
(Spirit/Creativity) To freely express expression. (instead of
emotion. To voice feelings. suppression).
Healthy
To express To assert
boundaries:
negativity. boundaries.
knowing when
To say ‘no!’ To repel shame and to say ‘no’.
To say ‘I don’t want.’ guilt.
Strong self-
To say ‘go away!’ To separate what is assertion
others’ experience without
To assert one’s
from what is our violence.
boundaries.
own (healthy
To have space. Strong self-
differentiation).
expression.
To be shown
interpersonal Spirit,
boundaries without creativity: a
shaming or balance
punishment. between the
practical and
To be protected
the aesthetic.
without smothering.
True empathy
To play.
instead of
To be enjoyed. enmeshment
or obligation.
‘I am free to be
me. I am free
to play and
create.’
5–7 years The Right to Love To express passion To give and receive Sexuality as an
(Passion) and sensuality. tenderness. expression of
To give and receive To accept the softer love.
affection physically, feelings. Open-
without invasion, To honour the body. heartedness.
judgement or Open-
To honour the right
exploitation. mindedness.
to privacy. To
To explore and respect and set
discover the
pleasure of the limits against Flexibility of
body. unwanted intimacy. mind.
To be free from To give flight to the Freedom from
moralisation or imagination. conformism.
shaming. To trust feelings, Embracing
rather than rigid or paradox,
abstract rules. nuance and
relativity.
‘Pleasure is
healthy.’
‘Sex is not
separate from
love.’