I, Jeff Liautaud, have been building sense of community as a professional for over 50 years. This has taught me that I can’t make a living being a community builder. Delivering extreme value is my goal as President of my non-profit charity Loquate. Loquate seeks to be the home of, by, and for the best community builders in America.

July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…The First Amendment to the Constitution states that Congress shall make no law that abridges freedom of speech.

The pursuit of Happiness is a self-evident truth.  Scientific research today shows that everyone has innate needs. First cited by Academic Research articles in 1981, since 2017 over half a million Academic Research articles cite Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan who state: 

“The findings have led to the postulate of three innate psychological needs–competence, autonomy, and relatedness-which when satisfied yield enhanced self-motivation and mental health and when thwarted lead to diminished motivation and well-being.”

Did You Know?
According to Google AI it took over 40 years for the British Navy to implement the known cure for scurvy after the discovery was made. 

To build community you must communicate. You get happiness in community. The instrumental means are primary values that satisfy innate needs. Perhaps the greatest discovery in Natural Law ever is that primary values converge as the Smart® habits that satisfy innate needs. Let the explosion in well being begun at Loquate.Tv, not be thwarted by the world’s largest search engine. 

Remarkable Convergence

On 10/17/19, Richard M. Ryan in a note to Jeff Liautaud, Founder of Loquate said this:

Hi again Jeff. Happy to say this: “Reading the text you sent, I see that we share some very basic values and missions Jeff, and I loved the autonomy, competence, and relatedness themes you expressed. I see remarkable convergence with our work within self-determination theory (SDT). I especially appreciate your interest in promoting the importance of community and what I would call having the widest integrative span of care one can shoulder, and I hope SDT can be a resource in that effort. I truly hope your mission to promote communities in which one most values the common good really takes off.” 

All the best

Richard

Sense of Community

Loquate has been building sense of community for environments since 1970. The Research cited also shows that the more people focus on goal content with selfish aims, like money, image, power etc., which do not directly satisfy innate needs and often crowd them out, the less happy they are—even when they attain them. The more they place value on community, the greater their well being and happiness.  

In 1977 Loquate discovered primary values that build sense of community.

The innate need of Relatedness is satisfied by the primary value of – Doing that which is truly in the best interests of others.

The innate need of Competence is satisfied by the primary value of – Attaining goals or other ends, not necessarily preconceived as goals, but which become goals once experienced.

The innate need of Autonomy is satisfied by the primary value of – Operating in an area of meaningful expansion for yourself, that is your interiorly preferred work.

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