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What do you do, when you want to develop your nursing practice into a more unitary nursing model? We hope this short paper would provide you worth a try in terms of Margaret Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness (HEC). HEC emanates from pattern within a unitary nursing paradigm. Newman suggested nurses to assist clients to recognize the power that is within them to move to higher levels of consciousness. For that, clients need to recognize their own pattern. Newman convinced that an important factor in recognizing one’s own pattern is the mutuality of the presence of a nurse who has been transformed by the theory with a client being served. It implies that dialog between the nurse and the client is essential because the shared vision will come about through dialog. Then, we wondered what will happen if dialog‐within ‐group of nurses is conducted. We assumed it would be helpful for nurses to recognize their own care pattern, get meaning into it, and move to potential for action in nursing practice. That is, a nurse tells honestly about his/her nursing practice and others actively listen to him/her, and then they have dialog‐within‐group. Based on HEC, we predicted that in being conscious about care pattern, each must recognize one’s own care pattern, understand the meaning into it, gain insights from it, and find a potential nursing action. Therefore, we thought that the method of dialog‐within‐group would be helpful for practicing nurses to find how to transform one’s own nursing practice toward a more unitary practice which Newman recommended. For this reason, we repeated dialog‐within‐group based on HEC and nursing practice. As a result, the participants’