Publications
Unadvocacy
By Mark Stolow, Founding Director
The patient “revolution” may be unknowingly binding the problem. What we don’t notice in patient advocacy is that by employing the same bag of tricks to solve the problem, we are reinforcing the logic of separation, conflict, and control that invited the problem in the first place. We become stuck in a vicious cycle, unable to see what else is possible, because we are still interfacing with reality using the same frames that have bound health care for hundreds of years.
Patient-ing
Living In-Between Worlds
By Mark Stolow, Founding Director
Excerpt: When we define our worlds too narrowly what we don’t see is a complex world that surrounds and moves through the experience of being a patient. I will call this fuller expression the experience of patient-ing. Patient-ing holds a much larger field of possibility for us to explore. Patient-ing is much closer to a verb than a noun; a dynamic, process more than a fixed, defined object.
Human Care
How Universal Principles and Patterns Will Shape Our New Health Care Experience
By Mark Stolow, Founding Director
Excerpt: Human Care aims to create systems that can support human thriving, drawing on universal principles and patterns, with health as a fixture of our moment-to-moment experience. It is equal parts knowing – what works in easing pain – and being – what are the present moment conditions that nurture well-being and balance.