Abstract

Chronic diseases like cancer are related to one’s lifestyle, so more appeal is needed for people to pay more attention to their own lifestyle.
Purposes: Purposes were (1) to develop a support program to help cancer survivors and their families recognize their own lifestyle pattern and make a transformation on their life pattern, (2) to work with them within the program, and to delineate the essence of this kind of support program from the result. Theoretical framework of the program was Margaret Newman’s health as expanding consciousness within a unitary paradigm. Newman emphasizes that “dialogue” in a person-environment partnership is helpful for pattern recognition, which means to speak and listen from the center of one’s own truth.
Method: Method was to use the design of praxis as research that Newman recommends. The method of “dialogue” was utilized within a group to facilitate pattern recognition on one’s own lifestyle pattern. The participants were 25 totally in three fields. Each participant spoke her/his own lifestyle and listened to others’ in each group and reflected oneself.
Result: Result was obvious that the participants had recognized their own lifestyle pattern in dialogue and made a transformation into their lives. The essence in the program was extracted, aiming at a widespread use of this program.