Many teachers have an intuitive sense that different students have different learning styles. Some are verbal and some are visual; some are linear, and some are holistic.
The medical world is now paying more attention to holistic medicine which is an approach based on the belief that people state of mind can make them sick or speed their recovery from sickness.
Smith says he'll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm work-shops on holistic management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting.