The Human Constitution

How can I use The Human Constitution in a real situation?

The Human Constitution offers seven principles across three connected dimensions: ME, our body, emotions and thoughts; WE, how we use power and communicate with one another; and US, our shared societies and relationship with life. It begins from equal human worth and explores how we mature into responsibilities. In a real situation, we can ask whose rights and dignity are involved, where power lies and what each person or institution can reasonably carry. Returning to the experience afterwards helps us recognise what we are learning and how that understanding should shape our next response.

These principles can help us find questions, but a person is never fully described by a framework. Sometimes the first response is to listen to what living through the situation feels like.

A question to sit with (optional): What can I see within myself, between people and in the wider world—and what becomes clearer when I look back?