What Does Wholistic Mean
| 
| 
What Does Wholistic Mean?
The Institute uses the words Wholistic and Holistic inter-changeably. Holistic comes from the Greek word Holos, which means to heal. Essentially Holistic refers to an inner holiness or inner healing or a place of wholeness, which when connected to, can say reverse disease.
This spelling and this application is most commonly used by medical and nursing professions (such as the American Holistic Medical Association) who see the human body as one whole rather than a sum of parts. Holistic assumes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Gary Alan Spanovich, Executive Director of the Institute has developed a Wholistic Approach for applying this concept to strategic planning and decision-making over the last 15 years and has taught and developed curriculum in it at Marylhurst University.
He has completed a manuscript on how to apply it to governmental, corporate and world peace issues which the Dalai Lama has written a two page foreword for, praising the importance of this innovative approach. In order to apply the approach to decision-making issues and in a context of professional endeavors, the word Wholistic is more relevant. For the approach seeks to create a greater sense of wholeness by employing all the methods by which a human being operates, i.e., mental (new ways of thinking about situations); emotional (new ways to bring healing and compassion into conflicts between people); spiritual and intuitive (how to tap the inherent power of our creativity to think of new solutions and to try them); and physical (how create new systems that are practical and that work).
Who Is Involved In The Institute?
Nobel Peace Laureates, congressional leaders, university presidents, faith leaders from the United States and from abroad, major religious organizations, ordinary citizens, students and teachers at all levels, government officials, NGO's who participate in the conferences, benefactors.
