Namaste principle

     "Integrative medicine ... is about recognizing that personal wholeness and physical limitation often coexist (( for patient & healer )) and moving the focus of care beyond the cure of the body to the healing of the whole person. It is about inviting our patients into our examining rooms as whole people and meeting them there as whole people. It is about recognizing that as whole people, we bring a far greater capacity to meet with the challenge of disease than we have been trained to recognize."
     Remen RN. Practicing a medicine of the whole person: an opportunity for healing. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 2008; 22(4): 767-73.

     The same principle applies when we find ourselves in leadership positions.

     "I have learned that I can engage people more completely when I treat (my crew) as complete people, with a bigger view than my immediate need for their work. ... in the end all leadership is about engagement."

     Stookey CW. Keep Your People in the Boat. Workforce Engagement Lessons from the Sea. Alia Press, Halifax, NS, 2011.

     Our way of being shifts when we recognize that part of us that is fundamentally good, unbroken and wise. Then we can see and respect the same quality in any person before us, even when outwardly they appear very different from us eg very ill or even dying. Meetings become one of profound mutual respect between equals.
     McGill's program for "Whole Person Care": http://www.mcgill.ca/wholepersoncare/

Levels of Effectiveness - Pam Weiss   http://www.appropriateresponse.com/