26. Januar 2008

Dr. C. Otto ScharmerMassachusetts Institute of

Technology

Presencing: Von der entstehenden Zukunft her lernen

ExpertInnenkommission Zukunft der SchuleBundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur

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I. Ausgangspunkt: Theory U und der Presencing-Prozess

II. 5 Thesen zum Innovationsprozess der neuen Schulen

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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“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition

of the intervenor.”

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

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4. Regenerating: sources of commitment and energy

1.Reacting: quick fixes

3.Reframing: values, believes

2.Redesigning: policies

thinking

process, structure

Source of energy, inspiration

and will

manifest action

Four Levels of Responding to Change

Two Sources of Learning, Two Learning Cycles

A. Learning by reflecting on the experiences of the past

act - observe - reflect - plan - act

B. Learning by presencing emerging futures

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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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I-in-me

I-in-it

I-in-you

I-in-now

Field-StructureOf Attention

Listening1:Downloading

Listening 2:Factual

Listening 3:Empathic

Listening 4:Generative

Field

Attending from an open mindnoticing disconfirming or new data

Attending from an open heartseeing the world through the eyes of another

Downloading habits of thoughtreconfirming old opinions, judgments

Attending from sourceseeing from emerging future possibilities

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Performing

reframing

redesigning

reacting

Observe,observe,observe

Act in an instant

Retreat and reflect:Allow the inner

knowing to emerge

Downloading patterns of the past

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innehalten

umwenden

loslassen

Open Will

Open Heart

Open Mind

Seeinghinschauen

Sensing hinspüren

Prototyping erproben

Crystallizing verdichten

verkörpern

hervorbringen

entstehen lassen

Presencing anwesend werden

PerformingIn die Welt bringen

AccessYour...

VoC

VoJ

VoF

Downloading runterladen

Who is my Self? What is my Work?

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These 1:

Die neue Schule lebt in vier unterschiedlichen Feldern der

Aufmerksamkeit und Kommunikation.

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I-in-me

I-in-it

I-in-you

I-in-now

Field-StructureOf Attention

Listening1:Downloading

Listening 2:Factual

Listening 3:Empathic

Listening 4:Generative

Field

Attending from an open mindnoticing disconfirming or new data

Attending from an open heartseeing the world through the eyes of another

Downloading habits of thoughtreconfirming old opinions, judgments

Attending from sourceseeing from emerging future possibilities

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I-in-me

I-in-it

I-in-you

I-in-now

Field-StructureOf Attention

1Downloading:

Talking nice

2Debate:

Talking tough

3Dialogue:

Reflective inquiry

4Presencing:

Generative flow

Field

Speaking from what I thinkDivergent views: I am my point of viewAdaptive system (say what you think)

Speaking from seeing myself as part of the wholeFrom defending to inquiry into viewpointsSelf-reflective system (reflect on your part)

Speaking from what they want to hearPolite routines, empty phrasesAutistic system (not saying what you think)

Speaking from what is moving throughStilness, collective creativity, flowGenerative system (identity shift: authentic self)

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These 2:

Der Lern- und Entwicklungsprozess der neuen Schule organisiert sich entlang einer evolutionären “sozialen Technik”

des Werdens (fünf Grundbewegungen).

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3. Gemeinsame Willensbildung: Geh zu einem Ort der Stille und lass

das innere Wissen entstehen (Presencing).

4. Gemeinsames Experimentieren: Entwickele Prototypen von Beispielen des Neuen, um die Zukunft im Tun zu erkunden

5. Gemeinsame Gestaltung: Umsetzung des Neuen, so dass Handeln und Wahrnehmung vom Ganzen her möglich wird

1. Gemeinsame Intentionsbildung: Den gemeinsamen Grund entdecken und freilegen

2. Gemeinsame Wahrnehmung: „Hinschauen, hinschauen, hinschauen“--gehe zu den Orten und Menschen, die für Deine Situation wichtig sind und höre mit offenem Denken und Herzen zu.

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These 3:

Die soziale Technik basiert auf und kräftigt sieben Kernfähigkeiten menschlicher,

sozialer und kreativer Kompetenz.

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Open Will

Open Heart

Open Mind

2. Seeing: Hinsehen mit dem

offenen Denken

3. Sensing: Hinspüren mit dem

offenen Herzen

6. Prototyping: Kopf, Herz und Hand praktisch verbinden

5. Crystallizing:Die Kraft der

Intention verdichten

7. Performing:In die Welt und in den

Alltag bringen

1. Raum geben und halten: Hinhören auf die entstehende

gemeinsame Intention

4. Presencing: Mit der höchsten zukünftigen Möglichkeit wahrnehmen und

anwesend werden

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These 4:

Die neue Schule ist ein differenziertes lebendiges System mit neun

unterschiedlichen Räumen und Infrastrukturen des Lernens.

Knowledge

andIntelligence

K1: non-reflective knowledgeknowledge without self-reflection

K2:self-reflective knowledge: reflection-on-action

K3: Self-transcending knowledge: reflection-in-action

OPEN MINDIQexplicit

OPEN HEARTEQembodied

OPEN WILLSQnot-yet-embodied

Lecturing: explicit knowledge “learning is to fill a barrel”

Training: practice+feedback “learning is to reflect on exercise”

Creative practice:e.g. theatre“learning is to improvise in real time”

Experiential: immersion journeys,action projects, empathy walk embodied knowledge

Case clinics, reflection papers, dialogue walk: reflection-on-embodied knowledge

Embodied Presence Practices;Performing personalintention statements; inspiration-in-action

Deep immersion practices: transfor-mative storytellling, total immersion journeysdeep inner knowing

Deep inversion practices: circle workguided journaling,deep inner self-knowing

Stillness practices: room of silence, solo in nature, con-templative practices intuition-in-action

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These 5:

Die Organisationsform der neuen Schule ist umfeld-erweiternd und offen und schafft Räume für gesellschaftliche Innovation.

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I-in-me

I-in-it

I-in-you

I-in-now

Field-StructureOf Attention

1Centralization:

machine bureaucracy

2Decentralization:

divisions

3Networked:

matrix

4 Ecosystems of Innovation

Field

Source of power: market successMeeting market demandperiphery-driven Logic: economies of scope (customer)

Source of power: networked relationshipsMobilize action through networks relational drivenLogic: economies of innovation (product innovation)

Source of power: hierarchyComplying with central rulescenter-drivenLogic: economies of scale (production)

Source of power: field of emerging possibilitiesShape innovation ecosystemsemerging field driven Logic: economies of presencing (system innovation)

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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

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.

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