Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Meaning

The continuous interpretation and understanding of life experience, which is lived through the three inseparable processes of Imaging, Valuing, and Languaging (Structuring).

Rhythmicity)

The simultaneous coming-to-be of the human-universe as expressed in the patterns of mutual human-universe interchange, lived through Cocreating, Revealing-Concealing, and Enabling-Limiting.

Transcendence

The moving beyond the moment, the powering of human-universe becoming, lived through Powering, Originating, and Transforming (Contrascending).

Structuring

The way people see the world, the image of their reality, and how they create this reality with others. It is expressed through language, movement, or silence.

Imaging

The shaping of personal knowledge (explicit-tacit). People seek answers and interpret meaning, possibility, and consequence.

Valuing

The continuous choices about thinking, acting, and feeling, which involves confirming or not confirming cherished beliefs in light of the worldview. Values reflect what is important in life to a person/family.

Languaging

Freedom and opportunities surface with restrictions and obstacles. Choices are made amid ambiguity, and the person lives with the consequences.

Connecting/Separating

People create patterns of connecting and separating with others/objects, which explains the closeness yet separateness between individuals.

Cocreating

The rhythmic interchange of human and universe in the process of relating, where the individual chooses ways of living the meaning of things.

Revealing

The way persons disclose and conceal their beliefs, values, feelings, and knowledge through speaking and silent ways, which occurs as a simultaneous pattern of manifesting-not manifesting.

Enabling

The simultaneous rhythm of unity and diversity in relationships. It is the ability to give and receive from others while maintaining individual freedom.

Contrascending

Unique ways of originating in transformation. Persons engage with infinite possibilities, choosing ways of moving and changing.

Powering

The pushing-resisting process of affirming or not affirming being in light of nonbeing (loss, death, rejection). Powering is the force to act with purpose amid loss and threat, and resistance arises as others are also powering toward possibilities.

Originating

Human uniqueness, where each person defines and lives in light of their worldview and values. It includes paradoxes like conforming-not conforming and certainty-uncertainty.

Transforming

Integrating the unfamiliar with the familiar in daily life. It is an ongoing mutual change, ingenuity, and adaptation.

Human Universe Health Process

The concepts of human, universe, and health as inseparable and irreducible. Health is viewed as a personal commitment, an individual incarnating his or her own value priorities, and a personal creation and responsibility.

A unique service to humankind and a learned discipline where theories guide practice and research. It is a science and performing art practiced in relationships with persons in their processes of becoming

Parse: Nursing

Humanuniverse, Health.

Reframed as Humanuniverse, Health. Persons change and are changed with the universe, influence and are influenced by others, and become known as they coexist with the universe through their patterns of relating.