"Presencing" and OST

[Chris Corrigan]

I've read Presence and I like it a lot, but they really don't pay attention 
to process in anything like the kind of way full time facilitators do. They 
are certainly aware of OST, as the Senge crowd wrote about it in the Fifth 
Discipline Fieldbook and Adam Kahane, the guy behind the Leadership Labs 
quoted some great advice from Harrison in his last book "Solving Tough 
Problems." It was a quote about most facilitators "working too hard." Adam 
also quotes Avner in that book as well. 

I wrote about Presence on my weblog in the fall and was especially 
interetsed in the process of Seeing, and what that means. It's all about 
downloading mental models and understanding them so that you can let them go 
and set the stage for the emptiness that is presencing which leads to the 
emergent future coming. There is another practice in the book I like too, 
and that is "letting come" which is about the chaordic confidence needed to 
stand in the unknown and be open to the new, in whatever form it takes.

The book is based around Otto Scharmer's work on the the U THeory, which you 
can read about here:

http://www.ottoscharmer.com/downloads.htm

Chris

On Apr 3, 2005 9:39 AM, Artur Silva <arturfsilva at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>   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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