For professionals who want to pursue Integrative (Holistic) Advising, many approaches are possible, depending on how many people are involved in the process, how they operate together, and what concepts, tools, and procedures they employ. Furthermore, it is safe to say that no one model would be best for every situation.
Undaunted by this reality, a team of AIFLP and LPN members came together starting in 2009 to create a model – not "the" model, merely "a" model – intended to be useful to a wide range of practitioners.
We chose to define a collaborative approach – one that enables professionals in diverse fields to maintain their independent practices but also to work together on cases where Integrative Advising is desired. The main reasons for this are that it seems to best reflect the status of most practitioners in today's environment, and that this kind of model could be readily enough adapted by people who prefer to work in some other manner.
The result is a free guide to putting this model into practice. The guide includes:
- A conceptual framework for Integrative Advising, which we call "The Seven Domains of Integrative Advising";
- Guidance on organizing for Integrative Advising, which discusses how to initiate and maintain an informal, collaborative organization;
- The outline of a process for pursuing Integrative Advising with clients, from identifying suitable prospects, through long-term follow-up; and
- A collection of tools and sample documents you can use.
We make these materials available to you at no charge (at least for now), if only because they have mostly not been field tested. You have the opportunity to be among the first to try them out, with whatever modifications you feel are suited to your own circumstances. All you need to do to get started is to download the materials, following the instructions below.
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There are two different downloads available:
- A Zip file that contains the principal document, "A Collaborative Model for Integrative Advising: Practitioner’s Guide." This Guide itself includes an Appendix with the tools and sample documents you will need, but the Zip file also includes separate versions of these items, so you can more easily customized them for your own use.
- A Setup.exe file that will install the one tool that is not a document: the closed-ended "Integrative Advising Initial Assessment" tool described in the Guide.
Click on the download icons below to obtain these items.
A Collaborative Model for Integrative Advising: Practitioner’s Guide 
Integrative Advising Initial Assessment tool
Notes on the software download:
- This is a Windows application. Run the Setup.exe program to install it on a laptop or desktop computer. Once it is installed, you can find it under the Start menu > All Programs > Integrative Advising > IAAssessment.
- Important: For Windows versions later than Windows XP, when you run it the first time, right-click on it and select "Run as administrator". If you forget to do this, you will get an error message when you try to view the results, and you will lose the inputs that were entered.
- Note that there is no method available to save the inputs and come back to them later, though you can go back and forth among the input screens.
- You can request just a three-page summary, or you can get a detailed report that runs 20 pages and includes the summary.
- This version of the software is usable through the end of 2011. After that, it may be modified, converted to a web-based application, and/or become available only for a fee, depending on how useful it proves to be.
- See Appendix H of "A Collaborative Model for Integrative Advising: Practitioner’s Guide" for more information on using this software.
- If you have problems, questions, or comments about the software, write to Chuck Yanikoski..
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