Is Life-Grounding CanMEDS intellectually compelling but too conceptually dense for the people expected to implement it? This Critique examines three potential weaknesses in the framework: its steep theoretical entry point, its reliance on deliberation in the face of concentrated political and commercial power, and whether its structure sufficiently communicates the urgency of the CanMEDS 2026 opportunity. Read More
This book introduces The TATi Compass, a groundbreaking model for coherence-based healing and systemic regeneration across the nested domains of biology, medicine, education, and governance. Rooted in the four-phase grammar of Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate (TATi), the framework integrates insights from developmental biology, biosemiotics, trauma theory, fascia science, mitochondrial research, systems thinking, and narrative medicine into a unified, holofractal architecture.
The body is reframed as a semiotic field of pattern-making holons, rather than a machine of discrete parts. Disease is no longer a malfunction, but a breakdown in coherence signaling; healing is a recursive re-patterning process that must be understood across biological, emotional, relational, and ecological levels.
Drawing from multiple disciplines — ancient and contemporary, scientific and experiential — this book provides a regenerative grammar for reimagining medicine, restoring meaning to care, and designing systems that mirror the life-affirming intelligence of the living world.
