Description of Challenge
Often we live our day to day actions and interventions informed by past experiences, thoughts and
patterns as well as the culture belief systems, in which we have been grown up and got educated
in.
How can we be present and allow our actions to be lead by the current needs of a particular
system rather than personal reactions or possible projections onto the future. How can we open
our mind, heart and will and hear the present and emerging future ?
"The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener" Bill O'Brien
Solution
Presencing, described as a stage within the Theory U Process as well as other contemplative
methods, is the capacity to connect to the deepest source of self, which allows the future to
emerge from the whole rather than from a smaller part or a special interest group.
Danish sculptor and management consultant Erik Lemcke describes his experience of this process
as follows: “After having worked with a particular sculpture for some time, there comes a certain
moment when things are changing. When this moment of change comes, it is no longer me, alone,
who is creating. I feel connected to something far deeper and my hands are cocreating with this
power. At the same time, I feel that I am being filled with love and care as my perception is
widening. I sense things in another way. It is a love for the world and for what is coming. I then
intuitively know what I must do. My hands know if I must add or remove something. My hands
know how the form should manifest.”
References
Website: www.presencing.com/principles
www.josephjaworski.com
Books:
“Source” and “Synchronicity” by Joseph Jaworski
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future Paperback by Peter M. Senge, Otto
Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers
Submitted by Luea Ritter, Still Consulting / Wind Harvest International
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