"Presencing" and OST

[Harrison Owen]

Certainly sounds familiar. The fact that Sharmer has apparently never heard
of OS, or more to the point - is unaware of the "presencing" that we all
have experienced and practiced may not be all that hard to understand. After
all it was not invented at MIT. But Peter Senge certainly knows, so maybe
the connection will be made.

 

Harrison

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Artur
Silva
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:39 PM
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Subject: "Presencing" and OST

 

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>
http://www.kmcluster.com/presencing.pdf 

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