Rosemary Parse - Human Becoming Theory

• Human Becoming Theory includes Totality Paradigm
  • Man is a combination of biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual factors
• Simultaneity Paradigm
  • Man is a unitary being in continuous, mutual interaction with environment
• Originally Man-Living-Health Theory

Parse’s Three Principles

• Meaning

  • Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences
  • Man and environment cocreate

• Rhythmicity

  • Man and environment cocreate ( imaging, valuing, languaging) in rhythmical patterns

• Cotranscendence

  • Refers to reaching out and beyond the limits that a person sets
  • One constantly transforms

• Person

  • Open being who is more than and different from the sum of the parts

• Environment

  • Everything in the person and his experiences
  • Inseparable, complimentary to and evolving with

• Health

  • Open process of being and becoming. Involves synthesis of values

• Nursing

  • A human science and art that uses an abstract body of knowledge to serve people