Major Assumptions

Parse’s (1981) original nine assumptions

1. Man is coexisting while co-constituting rhythmical patterns with the environment.

2. Man is an open being, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions.

3. Man is a living unity co-continuously constituting patterns of relating.

4. Man is transcending multidimensionality with the possibles.
5. Health is an open process of becoming, experienced by man.

6. Health is a rhythmically co-constituting process of the man- environment interrelationship.

7. Health is man’s pattern of relating value priorities.

8. Health is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles.

9. Health is unitary man’s negentropic unfolding.

Parse (1987) cites the following distinctives of her theory:

·         >The belief that humans are more and different than the sum of their parts.

·         >Human beings evolve mutually with the environment

·         >Human beings cocreate personal health by choosing meaning in situations

·         >Human beings convey meanings that are personal values, which reflect their dreams and hope.

In 1998, Parse made revisions to the nine fundamental assumptions. There are four about the human and five about becoming (Parse, 1998a).

About man

1. The human is coexisting while coconstituting rhythmical patterns with the universe.

2. The human is open, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions.

3. The human is unitary, continuously coconstituting patterns of relating.

4. The human is transcending multidimensionally with the possibles

About Becoming

1. Becoming is unitary human-living-health.

2.  Becoming is a rhythmically coconstituting human-universe process.

3. Becoming is the human’s patterns of relating value priorities.

4. Becoming is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles.

5. Becoming is unitary human’s emerging

Also, three assumptions about human becoming were synthesized from these nine assumptions 

Three Major Assumptions of Human Becoming

o   Meaning

§  Human Becoming is freely choosing personal meaning in situations in the intersubjective process of living value priorities.

§  Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences

§  Man and environment cocreate

§  Cocreating reality through languaging of valuing and imaging

o   Rhythmicity

§  Human Becoming is cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe.

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

o   Transcendence

§  Powering unique ways of originating in the process of transforming

§  Human Becoming is cotranscending multidimensionally with emerging possibles.

§  Refers to reaching out and beyond the limits that a person sets.

§  One constantly transforms

Contributors:

• Al-Shidar Alih 
• Esther Gilian Apigo 
• Gruu Amore Azul

References:

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/marianezedalimocon1/theory-of-human-becoming-by-rosemarie-rizzo-parse

http://nursing-theory.org/theories-and-models/parse-human-becoming-theory.php

http://www.slideshare.net/dennyjose007/parses-man-livinghealth-theory

http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Rosemary_Pars_Human_Becoming_Theory.html