Through a Window: Finding Meaning in Unitary Appreciative Knowing.

Abstract

The experience of a critical illness provided a pause in the life of one of the authors. Seeking to further understand this experience from a Rogerian perspective, the authors engaged in a mutual process of unitary appreciative nursing praxis. The process included 4 in-depth conversations with an ongoing back-and-forth conversation to both illuminate the critical illness experience as well as grounding it in the Science of Unitary Human Beings. A unitary appreciative rendering was the primary outcome with a letter, song, video, conference presentation, and scholarly manuscript. Other selected Rogerian perspectives that can be used to understand the illness experience are presented and briefly discussed.