Jean Watson

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  • Watson Caring Science Institute

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  • Modern Sutras from Nurses; Finding Peace

    Lotus Library

    Sutras are brief, aphoristic compositions of ancient teachings — the way of
    spiritual elders; highly laden energetic words or phrases that point to spiritual
    truths. Sutras in nursing and healthcare can serve as ancient universal truths to
    live and evolve by, uniting with consciousness for caring and healing.
    “Who better to help our collective healing and recovery? These nurses and
    caregiver’s narratives are an offering to humanity; providing a platform in which to
    reflect on…

    Sutras are brief, aphoristic compositions of ancient teachings — the way of
    spiritual elders; highly laden energetic words or phrases that point to spiritual
    truths. Sutras in nursing and healthcare can serve as ancient universal truths to
    live and evolve by, uniting with consciousness for caring and healing.
    “Who better to help our collective healing and recovery? These nurses and
    caregiver’s narratives are an offering to humanity; providing a platform in which to
    reflect on our own beliefs and values." ~ Jean Watson

    In recent years, Dr. Watson has coined her own aphorisms as ‘Seven Sacred Sutras’ which includes
    words such as silence and surrender. Inspired by Watson’s Sutras, this book was lovingly dreamed up
    by a group of postdocs, senior scholars, and students from Watson’s Caring Science as Sacred Science
    course. They include nurses and care professionals from across the nation:
    Karen White-Trevino, Jennifer Drake, Debby Flickinger, Danielle Leone-Sheehan,
    Gloria Littlemouse, Julie Piazza, Priscilla Javed, Patricia Crispi, Natalya Yim, and
    Rita Romito-DiGiacomo.

    The authentic sharing of personal truths will inspire, delight, and comfort the reader of all ages and
    professions. They offer breadths of quietude for the busy mind. They can be read as useful tools in
    which to refer whenever life is overwhelming; a gift of service from Watson Caring Science
    colleagues to the world.

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  • Caring Science as Sacred Science, New Revised Edition

    Lotus Library

    “In this continuing work, I have allowed myself to incorporate personal material… for my own caring-healing processes … So, in some ways, writing about Caring and Sacred Science may not be tolerated in academic circles and scholarly work, but if there was ever a time to converge personal and professional authentic, ethical efforts for living/being/doing/becoming scholarly, spirit-filled, and scientific, it is NOW.”
    Jean Watson

    Following on from Watson's classic Nursing: the Philosophy…

    “In this continuing work, I have allowed myself to incorporate personal material… for my own caring-healing processes … So, in some ways, writing about Caring and Sacred Science may not be tolerated in academic circles and scholarly work, but if there was ever a time to converge personal and professional authentic, ethical efforts for living/being/doing/becoming scholarly, spirit-filled, and scientific, it is NOW.”
    Jean Watson

    Following on from Watson's classic Nursing: the Philosophy and Science of Caring, this book is for scholars who wish to understand the integration of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ Philosophy and ‘Ethics of Belonging’ as a basis for a Caring Science worldview. Watson makes a case for Caring Science as Sacred Science in that nursing is dealing with life force, the soul of another. This work invites Cosmic love as that to which we all belong before and after life/death; the sacred circle of life as part of sacred mystery. Personal vignettes of Jean’s journey into the loss of her eye and husband are integrated into the text. Includes the Seven Sacred Sutras.

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  • Birds Hold Our Secrets

    Lotus Library

    Drawing on her many years as a nurse, mother and wife, Biley tenderly takes us on an auto-ethnographic journey of conscious dying as she supports her beloved nurse academic husband, Fran. Diagnosed with cancer, Fran’s wish was to die mindfully – whatever the circumstances. Anna travels alongside whilst trying to balance normality in family life. Painfully tender, Anna offers an insight in what it’s like to consciously care for a loved one the way they wish to die – honoring the sacred covenant…

    Drawing on her many years as a nurse, mother and wife, Biley tenderly takes us on an auto-ethnographic journey of conscious dying as she supports her beloved nurse academic husband, Fran. Diagnosed with cancer, Fran’s wish was to die mindfully – whatever the circumstances. Anna travels alongside whilst trying to balance normality in family life. Painfully tender, Anna offers an insight in what it’s like to consciously care for a loved one the way they wish to die – honoring the sacred covenant until the end. Biley skillfully guides the reader on a Caritas pilgrimage as she lives out Caring Science principles, digging deep to remember her life’s purpose, which resonates for us all.

    This is a beautiful, auto-ethnographic book that weaves Watson's Caring Science within grief, conscious dying, nursing, motherhood and relationships.

    "Biley’s exposé of grief, love, and remembering purpose transcends science and self and unites the reader into the unitary field of human existence/non-existence, in harmony and one with nature, life cycles, environment and the cosmos." -Jean Watson

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  • Caring: a Passage to Heart

    Lotus Library

    A rich and diverse selection of narratives that exhibit the 10 Caritas Processes® inspiring growth and hope in what is happening every day in the field of Watson's Caring Science, strengthening our humanistic values.

    This keepsake book contains a collection of lived out stories written by caregivers as they go about their day-to-day work, revealing a personal or professional truth/value system which become exemplars of the Watson 10 Caritas Processes® – the core of the Theory of Human…

    A rich and diverse selection of narratives that exhibit the 10 Caritas Processes® inspiring growth and hope in what is happening every day in the field of Watson's Caring Science, strengthening our humanistic values.

    This keepsake book contains a collection of lived out stories written by caregivers as they go about their day-to-day work, revealing a personal or professional truth/value system which become exemplars of the Watson 10 Caritas Processes® – the core of the Theory of Human Caring. The collection in this book originated from participants taking a free online course entitled ‘Caring Science Mindful Practice’ facilitated by Kathleen Sitzman.

    Foreword by: Jean Watson & Marie Clayton

    Contributing Authors: Brooke Herrud, Jaylynn Garinger, Elaine Wright, Kelly Gidwani, Marie Hart Clayton, Dionel Venigas, Megan Schachinger, Zahra Almosawi, James Dixon III, Ciera Wall, Marian Turkel, Sara Horton-Deutsch, Judith Tipton, Melissa McElfish, Sharyl Eve Toscano, Angela O. Preddy, Karen White-Trevino, Elin Høyvik, Holly Clanton, Joycelyn Cudjoe, Macy Powers, Kelli Stangel, Carole Bergin, Mary Tolliver, Cindy Andrejasich, Raymond Leone, Zachary Wotherspoon, Irene Flores, Margaret Stewart, Pat McClendon, Donna Thomas, Natalie Hardee, Joy Shepard, Nina Reyes, Anna Biley, Irenious P. Suglo, Suzanna Joy Bell, Maureen Holt, Carole Bergin, Janet Thomas, Melody Blomquist, Candy Stern Hamacher, June Souaya, Susan McClanahan, A. Lynne Wagner, Cindy Cannizzaro, Kelli Stangel, Joy Shepard, Emily Barr, Lorre Laws, Mary Pepin.

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  • Miracles and Mysteries; Witnessed by Nurses

    Lotus Library

    A compilation of everyday miracles witnessed by nurses.

    Facing life/death human experiences every day, nurses confront unexplained phenomena which do not conform to common explanatory scientific models. This collected work includes short vignettes written by nurses who answered the call-out by Jean Watson to share their profound nursing miracles and mysteries. It acts as a forum where miracles and mysteries can be shared and ‘unknowns’ honored and highlighted, allowing for the reality of…

    A compilation of everyday miracles witnessed by nurses.

    Facing life/death human experiences every day, nurses confront unexplained phenomena which do not conform to common explanatory scientific models. This collected work includes short vignettes written by nurses who answered the call-out by Jean Watson to share their profound nursing miracles and mysteries. It acts as a forum where miracles and mysteries can be shared and ‘unknowns’ honored and highlighted, allowing for the reality of miracles to come back into our life and world.

    Contributing Authors: Stephanie Ahmed, JoAnne Auger, Emily Barr, Nicole Brodrick, Gayle Casterline, Roberta Christopher, Theresa Davis, Katy Fisher-Cunningham, Debby Flickinger, Mónica García, Jeremy Geffen (deceased), Shandra Kight,Val Lincoln, Gloria Littlemouse, Beverley Lugo, Rudolf C.K.P. Martinez, Nancy Rayos, Robert Reynoso, Nancy Rollins Gantz, Rita Romito-DiGiacomo,Mary Ann Friesen, Grissel Hernandez, Rosemary Hoffmann, Cynthia Holle, Robin Jackson, Liliana Suchicital, Diane Swengros, Dianna Trush, Matthew Wilkie.

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