THE WHOLISTIC APPROACH

BY GARY ALAN SPANOVICH

 

 

The Wholistic Approach is a new approach to making better plans and better decisions, especially when you are dealing with: changing phenomena that you may never have had to deal with before; competing priorities that make it hard to see a best course of action; or where there are acrimonious groups and conflict. Also where new visions or new approaches to old problems are needed. Thus it is a framework to incorporate complex phenomenon and situations with new organizational process that can speed the process of decision-making as well as reducing group conflict. Likewise it is a new way to approach conflict resolution and mediation.

 

Gary Alan Spanovich developed the Wholistic Approach™ and has been consulting on it since 1990 in his capacity as a University professor and as a consultant and mediator to corporations, state and local governments, and groups. He is an urban planner with over 40 years of experience in urban, transportation and land use planning in Oregon as well as international work in Asia and Europe. His decades of planning and public works experience prompted him to look for a better way to understand inter-dependencies and make decisions in the public sector due to the their many controversies and complexities. As a result through his University teaching and consulting career he has developed with Nobel Peace Laureates and applied the Wholistic Approach © to finding new and creative solutions to both complex physical world problems as well as community and organizational controversies; and to find solutions for new phenomenon for which there is very little research or background available; and been able to assist organizations with visioning and imaginative solutions.

  

What Others Have Said About Gary Alan Spanovich and the Wholistic Approach

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• “Gary Alan Spanovich has attempted to bring together his professional experience as a planner with his longstanding interest in a practical and holistic approach to spirituality. He incorporates what I think of as fundamental human values. I believe his explanation of how spirituality can be introduced into the workplace will have a compelling appeal to anyone interested in creating a more peaceful and happier world, whatever work they do”.  The Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate

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• “I am writing on behalf of Gary Spanovich. I hope you will decide in favor of funding this important project to promote world peace and intercultural communication”. United States Senator Mark O. Hatfield - Oregon

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• “I do believe that we can’t survive at the beginning of the 21st century with the ethics of the 20th century. We need to change the value system.” President of Costa Rica Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez & 1987 Nobel Peace Prize

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• “It is indeed wonderful of you to have such an enormous interest and warm heart about peace establishment not only on the Korean Peninsula but across the world”. Former President of South Korea Kim Dae Jung & 2000 Nobel Peace Prize

 

Partial List of Clients

 

Port of Portland; Clark County, Washington; Port of Tillamook Bay; ODOT; LCDC; Clackamas County, Oregon; West Linn, Oregon; City of Olympia; Cogan Owens Cogan; Portland & Western Railroad; Western Oregon University; Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon;  World Undersea Tunnel Association, Seoul, South Korea; World Trade Center Association, New York, New York & Dalian, China; Korean Transport Institute, Seoul, South Korea; other clients.

 

Books Published

 

• “A Book of Gentleness; Developing a Dialogue with God” - College text book in College Religion and Philosophy Departments.

• “How to Achieve World Peace; 6 Nobel Peace Laureates Answer the Question” - College textbook.

• “A Wholistic Approach to Planning & Decision-Making” – With A Two Foreword by the Dalai Lama, 1989 Nobel Peace Prizewinner recommending Professor Spanovich’s Wholistic Approach