KNOWING WHO YOU ARE BEGINS WITH KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE
THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE POSTER COLLECTION
Note: While the video references the old title (Triple Epiphany Poster Pack) rest assured there is only one set, now renamed: The Human Experience Poster Collection. Sorry for any confusion. An updated video is forthcoming.
Available in a collection of 12x18 prints or a .pdf format, this set includes all four of Dr. Kurt Hoffman's beautiful and intellectually inspiring posters: The Human Elements, The Unity of Human Diversity, The Moral Universals, and The Human Experience Framework. Scroll down to watch videos on each one.
THE HUMAN ELEMENTS
Author and designer, Kurt Hoffman, developed this beautiful poster to help the world see people as they are—equally dignified and uniquely diverse whole persons. That is, we have a mind but we are not only that. We have emotions but that is not all we are. We are creative but that is just the beginning.
And this is beyond critical for this clear yet ignored truth—because the highest potential of any thing is defined by its nature. A horse is a horse and no matter how bad we want it to swim like a fish it never will.
THE UNITY OF HUMAN DIVERSITY
There is no greater source of division and conflict among humans than how we think and apply our views of human nature. Some advocate for human sameness but fail to see how greatly our differences matter. Others fight for human diversity and fail to see how that very concept assumes we are in some ways the same, and equal. Others still, believe we are not merely diverse but actually different in nature, value, and worth, and thus seek to oppress marginalize, or annihilate the lesser. The solution for not falling for these false options is to see how we are both. Equal. And diverse. We are clearly and definitively equally human while also intentionally and wonderfully diverse. And that is precisely what this poster articulates: What we are are equal human beings, and who we are are unique human persons.
THE MORAL UNIVERSALS
Finding ourselves as living persons in a living world, we are pressed to understand our life, our story, and this world. To help in this process, therefore, this poster is a condensed
summary of ten domains where human nature inescapably manifests itself and nearly every moral decision is rooted. The place where we seek meaning, pursue happiness, develop our worldview, derive our story, and experience our environment.
While diversely manifested across cultures, each are universally experienced, interpreted, and expressed – domains so deeply grounded into the fabric of our human nature they require a response, and so basic to the very essence of the human experience, every human experiences them.
THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE FRAMEWORK (SNAPSHOT)
The success of any human endeavor is clearly determined by the quality of ideas from which they come. And the quality of an idea is determined by the accuracy and clarity of the worldview from which it comes. For better or worse, then, from our worldview we define what is true, what is good, and what is possible in the creative process.
More, where clarity lacks regarding the true nature of the human person assumptions about human nature and the whole of society necessarily fill the void. Left unearthed these assumptions accumulate to breed confusion, disunity, organizational inefficiency and ineffectiveness, and cultural decay.
Tying it all together, these are the reasons why Kurt Hoffman designed The Human Experience Framework to uniquely integrate the holistic multi-dimensional perspective of social work with a systematic, philosophically-grounded perspective as well. That is, The Human Experience Framework accounts for all of the more basic elements of human nature and human experience and then systematically orders them. In doing, an immense clarity is provided letting us see precisely where and how the more complex social systems come from our basic human nature. This might sound peculiar, however, only through such an understanding of society's complexity can its complex problems ever be solved. More, having such comprehensive understanding of what a person is allows us to provide accurate, appropriate, thoughtful, and holistically root-targeted solutions that meet the person right where they are.
In sum, The Human Experience Framework is a comprehensive, holistic, integrative, and humanities-rich starting point designed to help us tackle today's biggest questions and challenges, identify root-causes, find true answers, and then design holistic ideas and solutions that vastly improve our communities and the world.