ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a full description of the key elements that make up the framework of the Holistic Development Model, using many of the words of sociologists research participants so people can see how it was built up from real life experience. The elements of the model were confirmed as capturing the content and process of meaningful work. There are three main aspects to the model. The first is the four pathways to meaningful work. These are: developing the inner self, unity with others, service to others, and expressing full potential. Second, these four pathways are held in tension by apparently opposing desires, the drive to meet the needs of the self and the need to meet the needs of others; and the need for being as well as the need for doing. Third, all these elements are played out in the overall context of inspiration and the reality of our self and our circumstances.
