What is Holistic Development?
  Various Aspects of Holistic Development
Holistic development is a process of self –
actualization, and learning that combines an
individual’s mental, physical, social, emotional,
and spiritual growth.
 
Mind and Body Dualism of Descartes  person.
Theory of Duality (Rene Descartes) –
understanding the nature of things in a simple,
dual-mode.
 People perceive things as dual in
character.
 Mind and body
 Male and female
 Yin and Yang
 Life and Death
Gestalt
 According to Christian von Ehrehfels,
the whole differs from the sum of its parts.
 An example of gestalt is evident in the
music. A symphony cannot be defined by
one of its notes alone. Even the clusters or
sums of these different notes do not make
up the whole symphony nor characterize
the whole symphony.
 Another example is a car. A car is made
up of hundreds of different parts.
Separately, these parts do not represent the
car, but when put together and made to
work with each other, these parts produce a
new entity entirely different from its parts.
 
Now it's your turn...
Think of another example of a whole that is greater
than the sum of its parts.
 
The parallelism between a symphony, a car, and
humans in terms of being unified follows the
principle of gestalt. In understanding humans, it
is important to see the person in his entirety
and not just his part.
 
1. Physiological – the physical attributes
including the five physical senses.
2. Cognitive – the intellectual functions of
the mind.
3. Psychological – how thinking, feeling,
and behaving interacts and happen in a
4. Social – the manner by which an
individual interacts with other individuals or
groups of individuals.
5. Spiritual – the attribute of a person’s
consciousness and beliefs, including the
values and virtues that guide and put
meaning into a person’s life.
When you look at a person and try to
understand this individual, it is always good to
consider these five aspects and what it is about
this person that makes him/her unique from
yourself and from others.
Understanding a person holistically means that
one aspect cannot be seen in isolation from the
whole person.
Attitude and Behavior
Attitude is a result of a person’s evaluation of
an experience with another person, object,
idea, behavior, or situation based on his/her
values and belief system.
Behavior is a manifestation or acting out the
attitudes an individual has.
Figure 1. Relationship
between attitude and
behavior.
 Read the situation to illustrate how attitude
and behavior are related:
                 Riding an overcrowded MRT couch
and experiencing all sorts of physical sensations
such as heat, smell, and body contact can create
an unfavorable attitude that riding the MRT is an
unpleasant and abhorring experience. As a result,
the individual with this attitude will express this
disgust by either avoiding the MRT or totally
shutting down and becoming oblivious to the
distasteful experience, or become aggressive and
unpleasant to other people while on-board the
train.
                 If this individual continues to ride
the MRT with the same attitude and
corresponding behavior, other people will get
affected by this individual’s behavior, who in turn,
will act out a similar aggressive or uncivil behavior
on-board the train. This may affect other
commuters and a chain reaction will follow.
Can ATTITUDE be changed? Answer: Yes!
 There are ways to change attitude. Behavior
can change attitudes.
Values
  
4. Hospitality. Whenever a visitor stays in a
Filipino home, there will be a feast or a grand
celebration as it is somehow a tradition for us to
prepare bountiful Filipino cuisine for guests to have
a taste of our culture through food.
5. Respect for Elders. Respect for one’s elders is
traditional in the Philippines. When a Filipino child
meets an older family member, the youth
customarily greets them with a gesture called mano
po, taking the older relative’s hand and placing it
on his or her own forehead to express profound
respect for the elder.

 a system of beliefs that adheres to the   

highest ideals of human existence.
6. Remedyo Attitude. A Filipino trait of being
Universal Values according to United Nations creative and resourceful. The ability to do things
(UN) that are next to impossible. Example in fixing
appliances that look impossible to repair.
 Peace
 Freedom
 Social Progress
 Equal rights 7. Colonial Mentality is the internalized attitude of
 Human Dignity ethnic or cultural inferiority felt by people as a
result of colonization, i.e. them being colonized by
Positive and Negative Filipino Values
another group. 
1.  Bayanihan is used to refer to a spirit of
communal unity and cooperation.
8. Crab Mentality involves pulling down anyone
who achieves or is about to achieve success greater
than yours. This behavior takes its name from how
2.  Close Family Ties. One value that Filipinos are crabs scramble to get out of a boiling pot by
known for is the “close family ties” that results in clambering on top of the others.
extended family structure. It is because Filipinos
believe that families should be together and help
each other out. 
9. Filipino Time means being minutes to
Family and relatives do as much as they can to
hours late compared to the standard time.
support each other even financially.

  
10. Manana Habit means mamaya na in Filipino
3. Filipino Resiliency. Filipinos are able to rise
or to do a certain thing in a later time.
from the debris and ashes of their destroyed lives,
at times even with a sense of humor.