ABSTRACT
The MindBody Healthcare programme at AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, offers a revolutionary approach to health practice. The MindBody approach involves a scrutiny of the healthcare philosophies and assumptions that are largely implicit in modern practice, and goes on to challenge and greatly expand them. MindBody concepts demand a science that supports complexity, interconnectedness, and life that is emergent and relational rather than static and isolated. Adopting the MindBody approach, with its challenge to knowledge, clinical practice and personal identity, can stretch a student’s capacity to manage interpersonal anxiety. The variety is a valuable aspect of developing and teaching on this programme, as we discover ways to bring the MindBody approach into clinical practice across the spectrum. Traditionally, health practitioners are often taught to focus solely on the patient as the source of clinical information and then to move to theory for understanding.
