Major Assumptions

NINE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN BEINGS AND HUMAN BECOMING

1. The human is coexisting while coconstituting rhythmical patterns with the universe. – Individuals take an active party in creating their own patterns and reality.

2. The human is open, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions. – Human beings make choices on how to act and react. They are responsible for the outcome of these choices.

3. The human is unitary, continuously coconstituting patterns of relating. – People are more than a sum of their parts. One can be distighished from another by patterns of appearance, mannerisms, voice and other characteristics.

4. The human is transcending multidimensionally with the possibles – The human is capable of changing and growing beyond their limitations.

5. Becoming is an open process, experienced by the human. – Becoming is continous growth towards more diversity & complexity. Growing includes choosing who one will be in a given situation.

6. Becoming is a rhythmically coconstituting human-universe process – Health & becoming are intertwined. The elements of our environment in which we connect and separate from, change us. With these elements we coconsitute.

7. Becoming is the human’s patterns of relating value priorities. – Health is living the ideals chosen by the individual.

8. Becoming is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles – Health is reaching beyond the actual to the possible through subject to subject interchange. This interchange can occur through two persons or with another element of the environment.

9. Becoming is human unfolding – We are continuously changing, never to return to our previous state

NINE MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS SUMMARIZED

• Human becoming is freely choosing personal meaning in situation in the intersubjective process of living value priorities

• Human becoming is cocreating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe

• Human becoming is cotranscending multidimensionally with emerging possibles