“To see with the appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the

possible”

David Cooperrider

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The challenge for senior leaders

“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading”Emily Bronte, Stanzas

To develop and deploy the capacity

to sense and seize opportunities

in high-velocity, hyper-competitive environments(Scharmer et al., 2001)

Conversations

Strategic “Undivided wholeness in flowing movement”

David Bohm

Hope & Possibility “there is only one life you can call your own”

David Whyte

Appreciative & Generativeto “peer into the life-giving present, only to find the future

brilliantly interwoven into the texture of the actual”David Cooperrider

Nonaka’s Ba

The Physical SpaceA mental space where we belong and where we

are encouraged to experiment

The Relational SpaceThe people who are here are the right people

The Tacit & Spiritual Space What is it that wants to emerge here?

Nonaka, Toyama, Scharmer (undated)

The Swan

“like the swan,When he nervously lets himself down into the water,

Which receives him gailyAnd which flows joyfully under

And after him, wave after wave,While the swan,

Unmoving and marvellously calm,Is pleased to be carried, each moment more fully grown,

More like a king, further and further on.”

Rainer Marie RilkeTranslated by Robert Bly

Thank you