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Page 1: Presencing: Leading from the Future As It Emerges 17th Annual Pegasus Conference November 5, 2007, Seattle C. Otto Scharmer MIT Presencing Institute

Presencing: Leading from the Future As It Emerges

17th Annual Pegasus ConferenceNovember 5, 2007, Seattle

C. Otto Scharmer

MITPresencing Institutewww.presencing.com

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“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition

of the intervenor.”

William O’Brien, former CEO of the Hanover Insurance Company

The Blind Spot of Leadership

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Source: Who

Blind Spot: Inner place from that we operate

Process: How

Results: What

Blank Canvas

Process of Painting

Completed Painting

The Blind Spot of Leadership

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I-in-me

I-in-it

I-in-you

I-in-now

Listening 1:Downloading

Listening 2:

Factual

Listening 3:Empathic

Listening 4:Generative

Attending from your open mind Seeing new/disconfirming dataUnderstanding technical complexity

Attending from your open heartSeeing through the eyes of anotherUnderstanding social complexity

Attending from the patterns of the past Reconfirming what we knowStuck in your own prison

Attending from Source (open will)Seeing from emerging futuresUnderstanding emerging complextiy

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Two Sources of Learning, Two Learning Cycles

A. Learning by reflecting on the experiences of the past

act - observe - reflect - plan - act

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B. Learning from the future as it emerges (presencing)

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The U Process of Presencing in A Nutshell

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Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute

On the Core Process of Profound Innovation

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Downloading

Observe,observe,observe

Retreat and reflect:Allow the inner

knowing to emerge

Act in an instant

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suspending

redirecting

Open Heart

Open Mind

Seeingwith fresh eyes

Sensing from the field

AccessYour...

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Downloading patterns of the past

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suspending

redirecting

letting-go

Open Will

Open Heart

Open Mind

Seeingwith fresh eyes

Sensing from the field

Prototyping: co-create strategic microcosms

Crystallizing vision and intention

embodying

enacting

letting-come

Performing:achieve results through

practices, infrastructures

AccessYour...

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VOC

VOJ

VOF

Downloading patterns of the past

Who is my Self? What is my Work?

Presencing connecting to Source

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suspending

redirecting

letting-go

Open Will

Open Heart

Open Mind

Seeingwith fresh eyes

Sensing from the field

Prototyping: co-create strategic microcosms

Crystallizing vision and intention

embodying

enacting

letting-come

Performing:achieve results through

practices, infrastructures

AccessYour...

© 2004 C.O. Scharmer

VOC

VOJ

VOF

Downloading patterns of the past

Who is my Self? What is my Work?

Presencing connecting to Source

Places and practicesof observation

Places and practices of stillness

Places & practicesof prototyping

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Downloading:Talking nice, politenessrule-reenacting

Debate:Talking toughrule-revealing

Listening 1:Downloadinghabits of thought

Listening 2:Factual, object-focused

Listening 3:Empathic listening

Listening 4:Generative listening

Centralized:Machine bureaucracy

Decentralized:divisionalized

Networkedrelational

EcosystemBa

Micro:THINKING/LISTENING

Meso:CONVERSING/LANGUAGING

Macro:ORGANIZING/STRUCTURING

Mundo:Mechanism of COORDINATING

Hierarchy:Central plan

Market:competition

Dialogue:(mutual adjustment)

Collective Presence:Seeing from the emerging Whole

Dialogueinquiryrule-reflecting

Presencing:Collective creativity, flowrule-generating

Field 1: Operating from the old me-world

Field 2: Operating from the current it-world

Field 3: Operating from the current you-world

Field 4: Operating from the highest future possiblity that Is wanting to emerge

Field Structure of Attention

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VOC

VOJ

VOF

1. Co-initiating: uncover common intent stop and listen to others and to what life calls you to do

2. Co-sensing: observe, observe, observe go to the places of most potential and listen with your mind and heart wide open

3. Presencing: connect to the source of inspiration and will go to the place of silence and allow

the inner knowing to emerge

4. Co-creating: prototype the new in living examples to explore the future by doing

5. Co-evolving: embody the new in ecosystems that facilitate seeing and acting from the whole

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suspending

deep dive

letting-go

Open Will

Open Heart

Open Mind

2. Observing:Attend with Your Wide Open Mind

3. Sensing:Connect with

Your Heart

6. Prototyping: Integrate Head,

Heart, Hand

5. Crystallizing:Access the

Power of Intention

embodying

enacting

letting-come

Who is my Self? What is my Work?

4. Presencing:Connect to the Deepest Source

of Your Self and Will

7. Performing:Play the

“Macro Violin”

1. Holding the Space:Listen to What Life

Calls You to Do

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Resources and Literature:

Scharmer, C. Otto (2007). Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future As It Emerges. The Social Technology of Presencing), Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.

Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. (2004). Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.

Scharmer, C.O. (2001). Self-transcending knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around Emerging Opportunities. In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5, no. 2: 137–150.

www.presencing.comwww.ottoscharmer.comwww.theoryU.comwww.dialogonleadership.org www.presence.net