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. <br>
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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.<br>
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The book is based around Otto Scharmer's work on the the U THeory, which you can read about here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.ottoscharmer.com/downloads.htm">http://www.ottoscharmer.com/downloads.htm</a><br>
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Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On Apr 3, 2005 9:39 AM, <b class="gmail_sendername">Artur Silva</b> <<a href="mailto:arturfsilva@yahoo.com">arturfsilva@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Dear </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">OSers</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">First there is no reference to OST and I don't think the Author knows about it (the more close he</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> gets</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> is to refer "appreciative inquiry" and that is not close </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">enough</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> in my opinion).</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">BUT a lot of words and phrases that could also be written by one of us are pulling up in every page. Some examples:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- letting go</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- deep breathing</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- being in the now</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- selfless</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- bringing the collective new into reality</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">-
"the old social body goes through a sort of death-like transformation
that allows for a different quality of social substance to re-emerge"</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- "co-creating and giving birth to a new reality"</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- participatory consciousness</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">-
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" </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- emergence</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- from "reflective dialogue" to "generative dialogue"</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">-
"suspension of the habitual judgment, thus opening a space that allows
for a more deep and profound encounter with the phenomenon"</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- the East tradition and the emptiness </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- (objective:) "</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">setting</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> the organizational contexts and infrastructures that will allow the new to continually unfold" (OSO?)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">-
"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).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">If someone wants to read the text and discuss it in the list or in private I will be very interested</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">From a sunny Lisbon today </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Artur</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">PS:
There is also a book on "Presencing" co-authored by Senge, Sharmer
and others. Did anyone read it? </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">---------------------- The link to download the text in PDF</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Presencing -- Learning From the Future As It Emerges -- On the Tacit <br>Dimension of Leading Revolutionary Change - by Claus Otto Scharmer (MIT/SOL)<br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/presencing.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" lang="EN-GB">http://www.kmcluster.com/presencing.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><span class="ad"><p>
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