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Presencing: Leading from the Future As It Emerges
17th Annual Pegasus ConferenceNovember 5, 2007, Seattle
C. Otto Scharmer
MITPresencing Institutewww.presencing.com
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“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition
of the intervenor.”
William O’Brien, former CEO of the Hanover Insurance Company
The Blind Spot of Leadership
Source: Who
Blind Spot: Inner place from that we operate
Process: How
Results: What
Blank Canvas
Process of Painting
Completed Painting
The Blind Spot of Leadership
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© 2007 C.O. Scharmer
I-in-me
I-in-it
I-in-you
I-in-now
Listening 1:Downloading
Listening 2:
Factual
Listening 3:Empathic
Listening 4:Generative
Attending from your open mind Seeing new/disconfirming dataUnderstanding technical complexity
Attending from your open heartSeeing through the eyes of anotherUnderstanding social complexity
Attending from the patterns of the past Reconfirming what we knowStuck in your own prison
Attending from Source (open will)Seeing from emerging futuresUnderstanding emerging complextiy
Two Sources of Learning, Two Learning Cycles
A. Learning by reflecting on the experiences of the past
act - observe - reflect - plan - act
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B. Learning from the future as it emerges (presencing)
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© 2007 C.O. Scharmer
The U Process of Presencing in A Nutshell
Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute
On the Core Process of Profound Innovation
Downloading
Observe,observe,observe
Retreat and reflect:Allow the inner
knowing to emerge
Act in an instant
suspending
redirecting
Open Heart
Open Mind
Seeingwith fresh eyes
Sensing from the field
AccessYour...
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Downloading patterns of the past
suspending
redirecting
letting-go
Open Will
Open Heart
Open Mind
Seeingwith fresh eyes
Sensing from the field
Prototyping: co-create strategic microcosms
Crystallizing vision and intention
embodying
enacting
letting-come
Performing:achieve results through
practices, infrastructures
AccessYour...
© 2007 C.O. Scharmer
VOC
VOJ
VOF
Downloading patterns of the past
Who is my Self? What is my Work?
Presencing connecting to Source
suspending
redirecting
letting-go
Open Will
Open Heart
Open Mind
Seeingwith fresh eyes
Sensing from the field
Prototyping: co-create strategic microcosms
Crystallizing vision and intention
embodying
enacting
letting-come
Performing:achieve results through
practices, infrastructures
AccessYour...
© 2004 C.O. Scharmer
VOC
VOJ
VOF
Downloading patterns of the past
Who is my Self? What is my Work?
Presencing connecting to Source
Places and practicesof observation
Places and practices of stillness
Places & practicesof prototyping
Downloading:Talking nice, politenessrule-reenacting
Debate:Talking toughrule-revealing
Listening 1:Downloadinghabits of thought
Listening 2:Factual, object-focused
Listening 3:Empathic listening
Listening 4:Generative listening
Centralized:Machine bureaucracy
Decentralized:divisionalized
Networkedrelational
EcosystemBa
Micro:THINKING/LISTENING
Meso:CONVERSING/LANGUAGING
Macro:ORGANIZING/STRUCTURING
Mundo:Mechanism of COORDINATING
Hierarchy:Central plan
Market:competition
Dialogue:(mutual adjustment)
Collective Presence:Seeing from the emerging Whole
Dialogueinquiryrule-reflecting
Presencing:Collective creativity, flowrule-generating
Field 1: Operating from the old me-world
Field 2: Operating from the current it-world
Field 3: Operating from the current you-world
Field 4: Operating from the highest future possiblity that Is wanting to emerge
Field Structure of Attention
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© 2007 C.O. Scharmer
VOC
VOJ
VOF
1. Co-initiating: uncover common intent stop and listen to others and to what life calls you to do
2. Co-sensing: observe, observe, observe go to the places of most potential and listen with your mind and heart wide open
3. Presencing: connect to the source of inspiration and will go to the place of silence and allow
the inner knowing to emerge
4. Co-creating: prototype the new in living examples to explore the future by doing
5. Co-evolving: embody the new in ecosystems that facilitate seeing and acting from the whole
suspending
deep dive
letting-go
Open Will
Open Heart
Open Mind
2. Observing:Attend with Your Wide Open Mind
3. Sensing:Connect with
Your Heart
6. Prototyping: Integrate Head,
Heart, Hand
5. Crystallizing:Access the
Power of Intention
embodying
enacting
letting-come
Who is my Self? What is my Work?
4. Presencing:Connect to the Deepest Source
of Your Self and Will
7. Performing:Play the
“Macro Violin”
1. Holding the Space:Listen to What Life
Calls You to Do
© 2007 C.O. Scharmer
© 2007 C.O. Scharmer
Resources and Literature:
Scharmer, C. Otto (2007). Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future As It Emerges. The Social Technology of Presencing), Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.
Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. (2004). Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.
Scharmer, C.O. (2001). Self-transcending knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around Emerging Opportunities. In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5, no. 2: 137–150.
www.presencing.comwww.ottoscharmer.comwww.theoryU.comwww.dialogonleadership.org www.presence.net