Gemma Speck
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6,373 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
Gemma Speck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know.
I never learned that when I was, I never learned anything about that when I was studying this originally.
And I feel like it is such a, it's quite sad that that's not included because I think it
I think almost their theory is a little bit better than Maslow's.
It kind of makes more sense to me.
So I'll go into this a little bit further about how this kind of came to be buried in the history books.
So Maslow originally arrived in Siksika to explore a different theory, and that was his theory of social dominance and how order is maintained in society through different means like violence, punishment, shame.
But instead, as his diaries and records, which were produced by the University of Montana show,
He kind of just, he discovered something he didn't think he was going to see.
He discovered astounding levels of cooperation, minimal inequality, restorative justice, full bellies, high levels of life satisfaction, as they say.
He estimated that 80 to 90% of the Blackfoot tribe had a quality of self-esteem that was only found in 5 to 10% of his population.
And that's when he came up with this idea.
Like, look at what these people have and look at what they can achieve.
These people are self-actualizing because all of these needs are being taken care of with and through the community.
He also witnessed a giveaway ceremony while he was there that is said to have inspired his idea of self-transcendence.
So during the giveaway, this is like a big ceremony in Siksika.
members of the tribe arranged their teepees in a circle and they publicly piled up all that they had collected over the past year.
And those with the most possessions told stories of how they found them, how they amassed them, how they made them.
And then they gave every last thing away to people who needed it more.
And to Maslow, that was self-transcendence.
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