Dear Colleagues,

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News". Please send us notification of publications, position changes or
other scholarly activities so we can let you the IAHC community know what
you are doing! We welcome all contributions, reflections, creative writings
or letters you would like to share. To those of you who have not renewed
your membership with us in a while, we send you our newsletter as an
invitation to renew your membership again. Your participation as a renewing
member enables us to continue our journal and excellent programming at the
annual conferences. You can renew your membership on line or use the form
printed at the bottom of the newsletter.

Carol Picard, Editor

Board of Directors 2000-2001

International Association for Human Caring
Officers of the Board of Directors

Zane Robinson Wolf
President
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141
wolf@lasalle.edu

Carol Picard
President-Elect
Boston, Massachusetts
cpicard@net1plus.com

Sandie Soldwisch
Treasurer/Corresponding Secretary
Addison, Illinois
ssoldwisch@northpark.edu

Sylvia McSkimming
Recording Secretary
Portland, Oregon
sylvia.mcskimming@phsor.org

Kathleen Valentine
Managing Editor
International Journal for Human Caring
N 7675 540th Street
Menomonie, WI 54751
valentik@proavtivehealth.com

President's Message from Zane Wolf

IAHC's 22nd Caring Research Conference at Boca Raton, Florida represented a
time of departure from my usual days and one of refuge. Old and new
colleagues were greeted, embraced, and cherished. The papers, posters,
informal discussions, and keynote speeches stimulated me about the
possibilities of caring scholarship and aesthetics. The hospitality offered
by Ellis Youngkin, Lynne Dunphy, Joyce Zerwekh, Anne Boykin and others from
Florida Atlantic University set the stage for all attendees and helped all
of us to feel at home. The Board meeting and Business Meeting challenged me
to see the opportunities for IAHC's future. For example, IAHC must garner
sustained foundation support for the organization's yearly research meetings
and the International Journal for Human Caring. We must make our web page
more useful, link it to other organizations, and publicize our program
brochure for our annual research meeting and its call for abstracts more
expediently.

This year I have participated in the editorial process with Kathleen
Valentine and editorial board members as we joined with authors to continue
to prepare IJHC for members and other supporters. I have connected with
Betty Farmer who will host the 2001 Conference in Stirling, Scotland and
requested that others host future conferences. Carol Picard for Boston
(2002), Nancey France for Nashville (2003), and Chantal Cara for Montreal
(2004) will most likely be our next program chairs for IAHC's annual
conferences.

Christopher Johns and Dawn Freshwater are joining others in the United
Kingdom to establish an IAHC Chapter. Affiliate groups are also a
possibility for the future; such groups may be composed of several members
who wish to network and who later gather others to create a chapter in their
country or region. We continue to explore alliances and partnerships for
joint meetings with the American Holistic Nurses Association and other
potential partners, for example, the Reflective Practice Group. We will
explore alliances.

Blue Chip Management, Inc. has been working with us for 18 months. Debbie
Engell and Al Smith have established a web site, assisted with merchandise
sales and conference registrations, located a new publisher and copy editor
for IJHC, facilitated conference calls, disseminated minutes, and kept track
of membership renewals and lists. The Board members and general membership
have charged Blue Chip Management, Inc. and me with more frequent and
expanded web page revisions and other areas of service. Here, the balance
between cost containment and service is critical.
Thanks to Sandie Soldwisch, our Treasurer, IAHC has prepared and filed a
tax-exempt report for 1998-1999. While IAHC is presently financially stable,
that stability is tenuous. Our chief sources of income are membership,
conference registration, and merchandise sales. Please contact IAHC to
purchase our greeting cards and membership pins. Posters are also available
for 3 for $10. I am thankful to Marilyn Parker, Chantal Cara, and Charlotte
Barry who presented a ballot that represented a diverse candidate slate.
Sylvia McSkimming is Recording Secretary; Marilyn Parker, Elizabeth
Predeger, and A. Lynne Wagner are Board Members; and Katie Eriksson joins
the Nominating Committee.

The International Journal for Human Caring is on track. The membership and
Board are interested in publishing the journal 4 times each year. Financial
realities limit this possibility in the near future, however, we will move
toward this goal. Kathleen Valentine successfully obtained sponsorship from
Hewlett Packard for an issue of IJHC. You are invited to submit an idea for
a special focused issue to Kathleen Valentine who will provide guidelines.
Esther Condon prepared a brochure highlighting IJHC that was mailed to
universities and colleges. Additionally, Carol Picard invites items for
IAHC's newsletter. She is exploring formats for web and hard copy versions.
This year Donna Taliaferro, Marian Turkel, and I will launch the first web
based IAHC continuing education program. We will start out slowly and
welcome the contribution of Charlotte Barry who is preparing course content
ready for the web. Charlotte will donate this material to the IAHC. I am
very grateful to Leslie Millson-Taylor from Georgian College in Canada for
her Caring Practitioner Module Series. We are starting to explore a
Certificate in Human Caring Research, Education, and Practice. Another
project that we are engaging in is developing a standard of care for caring.
The first round of this study has been distributed and some interesting and
thought-provoking results are evidenced.
Please review and comment on the following strategic goals. Contact me at
wolf@lasalle.edu to help us achieve these goals. Membership is most
important and continues Kathleen Valentine's dream.

IAHC Strategic Goals 1999-2002
1. Locate sponsorship for journal/organization.
2. Expand membership base to 2000.
3. Strengthen fiscal base through sponsorship of annual meetings and journal
advertisements.
4. Establish chapters in countries with established membership.
5. Conduct regional workshops each fall.
6. Expand diversity of board membership, e.g., by country, student, race,
culture, and nursing position.
7. Publish the journal issues four times each year.
8. Invite individuals who ask experts and theorists for consultation to IAHC
membership.
9. Obtain sustained sponsorship for annual research meeting.

Thanks goes to Christopher Johns, Sister Simone Roach, Gwen Sherwood, Cheryl
Learn, and Marilyn Parker for their loving service to IAHC. Their service to
IAHC has been extraordinary.

SAVE THESE DATES IAHC
2001 Conference
June 5-7,2001
Creating Communities of Caring - Global Initiatives
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
The IAHC annual international conference provides an opportunity to
explore the phenomenon of caring, approaches to the study of caring across
disciplines, and the effects of caring on people's lives. The three day
conference has a number of themes around which keynote, concurrent session
papers, workshops, and posters will be presented for audience reflection and
dialogue. Related topics will be considered: Caring: an evolutionary necessity; toward synergy among disciplinary perspectives; know how and knowing that; holism and the complexities of consciousness; moral development through narrative and the liberal arts.

2001 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jean Watson, Distinguished Professor of Nursing, University of Colorado,
USA
Dr. Sarah Eagger, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine,
Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine
Dr. Carol Picard, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Advanced Practice Nursing, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
Dr. Betty Farmer, Senior Lecturer, University of Stirling, Department of Nursing &
Midwifery, Highland Campus, Inverness
Dr. Dawn Freshwater, Senior Research
Fellow, De Montfort University and Dr. Christopher Johns, Reader,
University of Luton.

Stirling is an ancient Scottish royal capital, the scene of epic victories
and home to the University of Stirling, Europe's most picturesque university
campus. Set among 360 acres of parkland estate, the rolling hills, wide
loch, and abundance of flora and fauna all combine to make Stirling a truly
unique campus location, home of the world famous Wallace Monument, a
towering tribute to Braveheart, Sir William Wallace, less than 45 minutes
away from Glasglow and Edinburgh. The University of Stirling offers an
abundance of leisure opportunities on campus. Immerse yourself in our 25
metre swimming pool, get in the swing on our 9-hole golf course or let off
team in the sauna. The University of Stirling offers a superb range of
accommodations from the top of the range hotel accommodation of the Stirling
Management Centre right through to basic study bedrooms.

Member Reflections on Cadences of Caring Conference
Boca Raton, 2000

by Lynne Wagner, Massachusetts

In her opening keynote address, Anne Boykin, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor of
the College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the
Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring, philosophically and provocatively set
the spirit of the 22nd International Association for Human Caring Research
Conference theme, Rhythms of Caring: A Cadence for a New Century. Dr.
Boykin's scholarly work, leadership, teaching, service as past president of
IAHC and past co-editor of the International Journal of Human Caring, many
publications, and world-wide consulting work are all centered in caring as
foundational to nursing. She challenged each of us in her presentation,
Rhythms of Living: A Call for Inclusiveness, to "make compassion the core
reason for our work" as nurses in the quest for justice-making and
community-building.

Initially reminding conference participants that our daily lives are
embodied in balancing rhythms, such as life and war, sacrifice and giving,
indifference and caring, Dr. Boykin then asked us, as does Roth (ref????)
"to consider a society when rhythms are missing," when body, earth, and
relationships are in complete disharmony with no balancing positive relief.
We were challenged to "renew our relationship with self, world and universe"
and in our collective experiences to create a community of connection and
love.

Introducing the work of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Celtic mystic
and visionary, Dr. Boykin described three of Hildegard's symbolic
illuminations: The Egg of the Universe, Human as Microcosm and Macrocosm,
and Man in Sapphire Blue. Each of the images, made up of mandalas
representing relationships between God, the cosmos, the soul (embodied in
man), and cosmic energy and space, entreat us to "hear the stories of human
beings" and in so doing to understand the interdependence of our
relationships. Hildegard taught that such inner knowing engenders a return
to God and thus promotes a morally-based interdependence and community.
Compassion flows from such cosmic awareness and sense of community,
inspiring intention and commitment to care. Caring thus flows from
compassion.

Dr. Boykin raised the question, "Does complacency prevent us from getting
involved? Does it shield us from the truth or relationship?" She then
reminded us that "with the intention of relating and living consciously in
being related," our consciousness expands in the shared identity of love and
beauty of others. Each person has unique expressions of caring, but caring
driven by compassion and community must be the moral foundation for our
being, for our nursing.

This powerful and moving presentation was thought-provoking and connecting
as the participants moved into the two-day conference. It served as a
catalyst and a basis for the presentations and resulting explorations of
caring that followed.

by Janice Hoover, Wales

The magnificent avenue of royal palms leading to the Boca Resort and Club
provided a truly majestic welcome to the 22nd International Association for
Human Caring Conference in Boca Raton. Set in this most glorious and
relaxing location, the conference was destined to be a resounding success,
and it more than surpassed this expectation.

From the impromptu relocated welcome beach party featuring many of our own
very talented singing vocalists to the moving sunrise service by the ocean;
from the joyful musical opening ceremony to the wonderfully informative and
beautifully displayed poster presentations; from the varied and interesting
exhibits to the large array of illuminating and pleasurable experiential
workshops - there was a wealth of experiences to soak up and revel in.
Personally, in celebration of the rhythms of caring, I shall carry
especially fond memories of mirroring a new found friend and partner in
dance to the uplifting and enchanting tones of Maria Callas.
As for this year's podium sessions, I lost count of the number of people who
commented to me on their impressive range and standard. However, they were
more than matched in quality by the keynote speakers who each offered much
to savour and reflect upon. Anne Boykin's opening address focusing on the
works of the mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, was a powerful call for us to
embrace justice-making and compassion to realise community as everyday
caring reality for the new millennium. Through his captivating stories,
Lewis Mehl-Madrona reminded us to keep faith in miracles, as they create
essential hope and meaning for life. Finally, to close the conference in
this Olympic year 2000, Barbara Dossey fittingly passed Florence
Nightingale's torch of caring to us with a beautifully compelling account of
her life and work - a superb ending to such an outstanding conference.
Thank you to each and every participant for being there and contributing to
make the occasion so memorable.

Welcome Beach Party - Music, bandanas, and glow nechkaces helped create the spirit of openness to experience the fun of reunion and new friendships.
Presentation of Madeline Leininger Award for Research in Transcultural Research - Maude Soderlund and Marilyn Ray
An Experiential Workshop - Exploring the Rhythms of Self through Watercolors
Pediatric Unit Hospital Tour
The Poster Session and International Reception: Creating a quilt: Nursing students' expressions of caring.
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Carol Kintz, Marilyn Parker, Kathleen Valantine, Barbara Dossey
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: unknown, Rezzano Locsin
Boca Raton Conference - Joyce Washington
Boca Raton Conference - Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrano Keynote Speaker
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Donna Taliaferro, Maude Soderlund recipient of the Madeline Ray Leininger Research Award
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Joan Eifinger, Chris Len Sen
Boca Raton Conference - People arriving for the sunrise service
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Les Fitzgerald, Maude Soderlund
Sunrise in Boca Raton
Boca Raton Conference - President Zane Wolf
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Cheryl Learn, Esther Condon
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Eleanor Schuster, and coference attendee - Enjoying the sunrise service
Boca Raton Beach Club and Resort
Boca Raton Conference - Left to right: Anne O'Hare, Marion Conti-O'Hare, Joan Eifinger
Boca Raton Conference - Anne Boykin

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