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Presencing Resources
 Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges
Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges, is SoL's newest publication by C. Otto Scharmer. In it, the “U” process, first introduced in his previous work Presence, is expanded, deepened, and offered in comprehensive detail. The shift in awareness he documents allows us to connect to our best future possibility and realize it.
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Presence in Action: An Introduction to Theory U (DVD)
Presence in Action is a DVD featuring C. Otto Scharmer's keynote address at the SoL Global Forum in Vienna, 2005. The complex challenges facing today’s leaders require a new form of learning, one that connects us to the emerging future. In this presentation, Otto Scharmer introduces the social technology of presencing to management and management science.
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 Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Society, and Organizations
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book introduces the idea of “presence”—a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts—to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.
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 Inside Out: Stories and Methods for Generating Collective Will to Create the Future We Want
Inside Out, by Tracy Huston builds on U-theory by exploring “collective presencing” approaches for developing the personal, relational, and systemic conditions needed to support leaders in collaborating across their institutional boundaries to create the future they want. Drawing from her work in multi-stakeholder change initiatives, as well as from a variety of "ensemble" practices employed in the arts, Huston offers a rich mix of stories, cases, and practical methods for generating and sustaining whole system change, from the “inside-out."
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Appendix 3: The U Process
This appendix to the revised edition of The Fifth Discipline explains how the U process "can provide a framework for organizing how the five disciplines are used in time."
Download Appendix 3: The U Process (PDF file).
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Download a FREE article from Reflections 5.7!
"Awakening Faith in an Alternative Future" by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. Drawn from the introductory chapters of Presence, this article looks at what will be required to "create the world anew." Pointing out that the key is to see "that we have choices, and that our choices matter," the authors conclude that we will be called to participate in changes that are both deeply personal and inherently systemic. The article is accompanied by commentaries from Darcy Winslow of Nike, the UNDP's Elena Diez Pinto, and Robert Fritz, author of The Path of Least Resistance. Read the article...
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The Presencing Institute
The Presencing Institute is a global community of individuals, institutions, and initiatives that apply and advance the U process of presencing to collectively create profound innovation and change. The Presencing Institute focuses on refining the social technology and making it available to change makers, innovators, and communities. The purpose of the PI site is to feature ongoing action research and practical applications of the U process and other related methods and tools as well as to link practitioners and researchers that collectively advance these social technologies. Each month the site will feature a new project. www.presencing.com
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Thought Leader Interview Project: Dialog on Leadership
Many of the interviews that are quoted or referred to in Presence are available at www.dialogonleadership.org. The site includes interviews with dozens of thought leaders (free pdf downloads) and a set of papers documenting an ongoing inquiry into leadership and social change.
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