"Presencing" and OST

[Artur Silva]

Dear OSers:



A bit by chance (as it normally happens) I came across the text below. "Presencing" is a new buzzword coined by the likes of the SoL mentors - and is sometimes called "the sixth discipline" (and that is not a very good presentation, if one knows what the other five "disciplines" were unable to deliver). But the text is really interesting for us, I think.



First there is no reference to OST and I don't think the Author knows about it (the more close he gets is to refer "appreciative inquiry" and that is not close enough in my opinion).



BUT a lot of words and phrases that could also be written by one of us are pulling up in every page. Some examples:



- letting go

- deep breathing

- being in the now

- selfless

- bringing the collective new into reality

- "the old social body goes through a sort of death-like transformation that allows for a different quality of social substance to re-emerge"

- "co-creating and giving birth to a new reality"

- participatory consciousness

- intervention depends on the inner condition of the intervener - "when you open your soul and when you bring your whole heart into the room, it changes the structure of the room"

- emergence

- from "reflective dialogue" to "generative dialogue"

- "suspension of the habitual judgment, thus opening a space that allows for a more deep and profound encounter with the phenomenon"

- the East tradition and the emptiness

- (objective:) "setting the organizational contexts and infrastructures that will allow the new to continually unfold" (OSO?)

- "The experience of presencing is twofold: co-creating and giving birth to a new reality and, at the same time, being transformed and born into a new world by the very same process" (and here is a good description of "metanoia", I add).



As they don't seem to use OST but "leadership laboratories" I wonder if and how they are more effective than Argyris' ones to change from Model I to Model II. Nevertheless, some of the descriptions seem to be only possible if the Author has some vivid experiences of what he is talking about. Somehow, without OST, he has some metanoic experiences - similar to the ones OST normally allows for.



If someone wants to read the text and discuss it in the list or in private I will be very interested



>From a sunny Lisbon today



Artur



PS: There is also a book on "Presencing" co-authored by Senge, Sharmer and others. Did anyone read it?



---------------------- The link to download the text in PDF





Presencing -- Learning From the Future As It Emerges -- On the Tacit
Dimension of Leading Revolutionary Change - by Claus Otto Scharmer (MIT/SOL)
http://www.kmcluster.com/presencing.pdf







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