ABSTRACT
The model of whole-person caring (WPC) provides a framework to help facilitate the emergence of the new vision. The model was developed to provide a common set of concepts that health care professionals from different disciplines could use to create a caring and healing environment. The model of WPC creates a framework that invites the integration of whole systems of medicine and healing practices into health care. The biomedical model that guides health care practices today is rooted in the mechanistic and reductionist thinking of the seventeenth century. Martha Rogers's definitions provide a foundation for an interprofessional model that recognizes the energetic essence of the whole person. The six key concepts of the WPC model are as follows: therapeutic partnering; self-compassion, self-care, and self-healing; optimal health and wellness; transformational health care leadership; caring as sacred practice; and infinite and sacred nature of being.
