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Becoming a Living-Learning Organization

Center for Learning & Innovation, Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Deborah C. Letcher, RN; MA

Center for Learning & Innovation, Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

The journey of becoming a living-learning organization brings forth many challenges while relating with community. Parse’s nursing theory of human becoming provides a framework for understanding meaning, rhythmicity, and cotranscendence while relating with others. In this column the authors discuss how the theory of human becoming and the key components of a learning organization informed the cocreation of a shared vision for Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System. Parse’s community change concepts, moving-initiating, anchoring-shifting, ponderingshaping, are intertwined within story as discovery, intention, innovation, and fostering human potential in this organizational change process is explored.

Key Words: community • human becoming • innovation • intention • living-learning • Parse

Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1, 24-30 (2005)


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