System for communicating holistic practice

Communication is the beating heart of holistic practice through dialogue with persons and colleagues reflected in written notes to ensure consistent and congruent practice. Communication is reflexive, informing practitioners what is currently happening, evaluating what has gone before, and planning to move forward towards meeting the person's needs. To ensure communication is effective practitioners require communicative competence from both an oral and written perspective. The key to reflexive communication is dialogue. Isaacs suggests that communicating through dialogue is a culture shift from existing patterns of communication. Dialogue is the core of communicative competence that can only really be learnt through practice and reflection. The primary form of communicating practice is the reflexive narrative. Implementing narrative is a shift from previous ways of communicating. Burford practitioners had used the nursing process.