*** Trigger Warning - Sexual Abuse

Well Sh*t. It really is that simple - Episode 169 - "Understanding the shapes in the context of movies" is now LIVE!

Full Show notes: https://bit.ly/WellShitEpisodeGuide

After an unexpected rabbit hole last week, we are going to take two. Join us as we go on a cinematic adventure into needs that leads to places not even we expected to go. In this week's episode we're going to put a Needs Lens on some popular movies, discuss the power of perception in movies, highlight the unsupportive roots of some of our favorite feel good classics and discover some of the unexpected places where the Empowerment Ecosystem lives in cinema.

In this episode we cover:

• Why we suggest using movies to better understand the shapes
• The issue we found when trying to select movies
• The role of the Drama Triangle in "feel good" movies
• Fight Club - 17:14-25:26
• Back To The Future - 25:27-32:20
• What is punch down comedy, why it's harmful and the role you may be playing
• How Hannah Gadsby bucked the trend with Nannette - 47:48-51:58
• Promising Young Woman (Trigger sexual assault and spoiler) - 52:00-1:03:32
• Our viral culture
• The Matrix- 1:09:54-1:13:09
• Lion King - 1:13:10-1:23:49
• What's the harm in Hakuna Matata?
• Shawshank Redemption (spoilers)- 1:23:51-1:37:25

Episode References:

• The Selfirst episode - Episode 20 - Selfirst Series: What is Selfirst? Let's get specific…
• Episode 149 - The ONLY thing you owe other people
• The Victim Approach episode - Episode 159 - How to know if the way you're meeting your needs is disempowering (Shapes 1) - The Victim Approach
• The Persecutor Approach episode - 160 - How to know if the way you're meeting your needs is disempowering (Shapes 2) - The Persecutor Approach
• The Rescuer Approach episode - 161 - How to know if the way you're meeting your needs is disempowering (Shapes 3) - The Rescuer Approach
• The Rescuer Approach harm episode - Episode 162 - How to know if the way you're meeting your needs is disempowering (Shapes 4) - Why the Rescuer Approach is so harmful
• The Creator Approach episode - Episode 163 - How to meet your needs in empowering ways (Shapes 5) - The Creator Approach
• The Supporter Approach episode - Episode 164 - How to meet your needs in empowering ways (Shapes 6) - The Supporter Approach
• The Contributor Approach episode - Episode 165 - How to meet your needs in empowering ways (Shapes 7) - The Contributor Approach
• Moving from disempowering to empowering - Episode 166 - How to meet your needs in empowering ways (Shapes 8) - How to move from a disempowering approach to meeting your needs to an empowering one
• The Harm Dynamic episode - Episode 167 - The Harm Dynamic (AKA the abuse dynamic) - focusing on actual harm and the impact of it (Shapes 9)
• Episode 168 - How do the Interaction Dynamics apply to children and power dynamics? (Shapes 10 - (the movies are next!))

Resources:

• Click here to download the companion PDF to this episode (and the rest of the Interaction Dynamics series): https://theuniversalneeds.com/The-Interaction-Dynamics

Video clips of scenes we mention (where we've been able to find them) - are in the full show notes, available here: ⁠https://bit.ly/WellShitEpisodeGuide⁠

Podcast Episode guide and full show notes: https://bit.ly/WellShitEpisodeGuide

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