title: Becoming a living-learning organization.
abstract: The journey of becoming a living-learning organization brings forth many challenges while relating with community. Parse's nursing theory of human becoming provides a framework for understanding meaning, rhythmicity, and cotranscendence while relating with others. In this column the authors discuss how the theory of human becoming and the key components of a learning organization informed the cocreation of a shared vision for Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System. Parse's community change concepts, moving-initiating, anchoring-shifting, pondering-shaping, are intertwined within story as discovery, intention, innovation, and fostering human potential in this organizational change process is explored.
authors.affiliation: Center for Learning & Innovation, Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
authors.forename: Diana L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Vander Woude
authors.forename: Deborah C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Letcher
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013023:South Dakota; D014481:United States