Human Development

Human Development is the process of growth and change that leads, ideally, to the full actuation of Human Potential. It encompasses physical, psychological, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth, all of which contribute to individual and society's ability to flourish with fully realized [[Human Potential].

Key Figures

A. L. Kitselman, Abraham Maslow, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond, Johan Galtung

Human Development Terms

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Components

Human Development > Alignment, Connection, Empowerment, Healing, Integration, Perfection, Transformation

Full human development requires a healthy body (Healing), Aligned, connected, and integrated psyche, and an empowerment that facilitates personal and collective transformation.

Related LP Terms

Human Development > Five Key Areas of Human Development, Healing Space, Healthy Socialization, Human Development Framework, Institution, Internally Directed Arms, Lightning Path Curriculum, Lightning Path School of Human Development, Maladaptive Adaptation, Physical Unit, Psycho-Social-Spiritual Education, Psychological Framework, Stages of Human Development, Toxic Socialization

Non-LP Related Terms

Human Development > Active Need Fulfillment, Ahimsa, Assault, Boundary Violation, Essential Needs, Health, Needs, Neurodecolonization, Polyvagal Theory, School of Human Development, Socialization

Notes

Human Development is not automatic—it is shaped by education, environment, social structures, and personal effort. A fully realized process of Human Development requires Healing from Toxic Socialization, realignment with authentic selfhood, and access to the resources needed to meet one’s Seven Essential Needs.

The Pathfinder Educational Model (PEM) is explicitly designed to support and accelerate Human Development by providing structured, healing-centered, and empowerment-driven learning experiences that remove barriers to growth and facilitate individual and collective transformation.

Quotes

"All the evidence that we have (mostly clinical evidence, but already some other kinds of research evidence) indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being. and certainly in almost every newborn baby. that there is an active will toward health, an impulse toward growth, or toward the actualization of human potentialities. But at once we are confronted with the very saddening realization that so few people make it. Only a small proportion of the human population gets to the point of identity, or of selfhood, full humanness, self-actualization, etc., even in a society like ours which is relatively one of the most fortunate on the face of the earth. This is our great paradox. We have the impulse toward full development of humanness. Then why is it that it doesn't happen more often? What blocks it?"

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