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The 10 Caritas Processes®
by Dr. Jean Watson
An experiential, aesthetic, personal, ethical, and intellectual journey designed to prepare clinicians, educators, caregivers, and leaders with knowledge, experience, and informed practices of Caring Science and the Theory of Human Caring.
1. Practicing loving-kindness and equanimity within context of caring consciousness
2. Being authentically present and enabling, and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective life world of self and one being cared for
3. Cultivating one’s own spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self
4. Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship
5. Being present to, and supportive of the expression of positive and negative feelings
6. Creatively using self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; engaging in artistry of caring-healing practices
7. Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to wholeness and meaning, attempting to stay within others frame of reference
8. Creating healing environment at all levels, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated
9. Assisting with basic needs with an intentional caring consciousness, administering “human care essentials,” which potentiate alignment of mind–body–spirit, wholeness in all aspects of care
10. Opening and attending to mysterious dimension of one’s self– death; soul care for self and one being cared for; “allowing to be open to miracles”
(Watson Caring Institute)