Faculty are supported in their struggles to conceptualize nursing in a new way. Forums in which faculty come together and aesthetically re-present and share their nursing story is one strategy that effectively engages self and other in the knowing of nursing. It is also a wonderful way to orient faculty as to how to use nursing situations to teach nursing. Faculty support each other as colleagues in learning to teach nursing in a new way, in becoming expert in the practice of nursing education, and in living out the basic assumptions of this theory. This need for support holds true not only for faculty-faculty relationships but for all relationships. The comfort of faculty teaching nursing from the perspective of Nursing as Caring is enhanced as the value of knowing other as caring, as living our histories and as having special nursing stories to share is appreciated. The administrator, faculty, and staff assist in fostering an environment that furthers the development of the students' capacity to care. Competency in caring is a goal of the educational process. Students are continually guided to know self and other as caring person as faculty and administrators model actions that reflect respect for person as person. Each student is known as caring person, as special and unique. Policies allow for consideration of individual situations and diverse possibilities. In this culture, the dean and faculty attempt to know the student as caring person and student of the discipline. The intention of the dean to know students in this way can be evident through invitations for regularly scheduled dialogue in which students share openly their conceptions about nursing. The administrator is truly with students to know them as caring persons and to hear from them their understanding of nursing as caring. Externally, the dean "ministers" to faculty, students, and staff through securing resources necessary to accomplish program goals. The dean articulates to persons in the academic and broader community their role in the dance of nursing. The role of these persons is to provide resources such as scholarships, faculty development possibilities, learning resources, and research monies. Although this may be a primary responsibility of the dean by nature of the role, all persons in the circle share in this process by virtue of their commitment to nursing.