Hey All -
It’s been a while since I have written, so sorry - got caught up in a project and it pretty much takes up the "extra" time. Plus - there were some things I wanted to test out before I begun to write about them.
The idea of integral health care has been on the back of my mind for at least seven years now and keeps getting clearer and clearer. I knew when the time came and I had something to say, I would then say it. No use wasting anyone's time posting fuzzy obscurities of truth.
Here have been some of my thoughts on the topic.
Integral Health Care or Integral Medicine? Or do they both belong inside of something much larger.
I believe Integral Health or Wellness would be the over-all topic (of course it is a holon of something even larger – but for the purpose of defining a map, I had to block out a specific space in reality as top)
To do a quick AQAL overview of Integral Health or Wellness (can’t make up my mind on which it would be… any suggestion here would be great)
Health
UL - Mental – emotional – relational – the whole physchograph. Those aspects which are going on internally. Psychology and education I believe can interact heavily within however, only to a point. There seems to be some crossover between UL and UR. Either way – I think the internal “being” or “health” resides here. Spiral dynamics falls here.
UR – Here is where I think medicine fits. I view medicine as a tool/practice and truly not health in and of itself. It helps people to return to functioning, to a certain level of health, but it is not health itself. I think medicine pinpoints the individual as well and therefore falls in the upper right. Behavioral change/actions falls here (observable)
LL – cultural view of what health/wellness is, the conventional wisdoms. In order to begin to press into this I have seen that marketing, promotion, and the involvement of the systems at play need to be set up in order to affect this quadrant.
LR – the system itself, in this case, health care (which is really a misnomer, since the system does not care for health, but bring people back to a certain level of functional health) These are the systems and the artifacts, the drug companies, and the hospitals – though businesses, communities, and other organizations fall here. The collective of course.
What do you think?
This is what I have been playing with. Defining each and every topic that may come my way. My most clearest is the AQAl overview of an obstacle which I will soon publish as a white paper via wellnesstalks.org.
Sorry if this is too much after months of being quite absent. I have been following what I can of your (Monica) conversation on Zadz and I find it absolutely fantastic that such a discussion is taking place. Any thoughts on this?
Also – are any of you going to go to the I-I meeting in November on I-medicine?/healthcare? I am trying to figure out how to raise the funds to go… though it looks like it would be just SO good to attend… by then I think I will be able to make more sense out of my crazy notes and be able to contribute.
Hope things are well.
Todd
Todd