Wholeness

Wholeness is a felt sense of undividedness. We’ve all experienced harmony; perhaps in nature, meditation and prayer, or with a loved one. As practitioners of care, we bring not only our skills but also our complex emotions, needs, and motivations. It's critical to recognize that we are more than just professionals who work only to promote the welfare of their clients. A whole person culture of care means creating a safe and trusting community that recognizes, appreciates, and assists care practitioners with their challenges, responsibilities, priorities, and passions so they can thrive personally and professionally.

Presence

Presence is the space before or around someone or something. Our perception of care is always taking place through our personal interactions within the context and constructs of our environments. A present culture of care means holding space in which we understand care practitioners’ worlds in ways they feel and know. Our intention is to be “with” and “for” practitioners in service of their own sense of safety, belonging, and groundedness. We aim to cultivate ideas, experiences, and tools that can be used to enhance reflexivity and create the felt sense of safety and awareness that is so necessary in relationships of care.

Reparation

Reparation means to make ready again. Reparation is a collaborative process to restore what has inevitably been ruptured in one’s self-experience, our boundaries. Through reparation, we gain insight into our own sense of justice - our felt sense of order that constructs our reality. A culture of reparation helps us to gain insight within and across our “thinking”, “being”, and “doing” in our care for and connection to others.