- Title
- Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society
- Author
- Senge, P.; Scharmer, O.; Jaworski, J.; Flowers, B.S.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
- Year
- 2005
- ISBN
- 1857883551
- Library
- In Library
Curriculum and Classification
- Subject
- Process understanding and Systems Thinking
- MainCurriculum
- Process Design
- SubCurriculum
- Systematic Thinking
- Semester
- Semester 2
Abstract
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Book Description Radical and hopeful - Presence synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. A book built around a series of wide-ranging conversations over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery articulates a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it - as it is and as it might be.
Presence explores the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge." Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that services the whole - ourselves, our organizations and the communities of which we are a part.
Synopsis Radical and hopeful - Presence synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. A book built around a series of wide-ranging conversations over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery articulates a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it - as it is and as it might be. Presence explores the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge." Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that services the whole - ourselves, our organizations and the communities of which we are a part.
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Review by Peter Busch - busch@kaospilot.dk How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future?
How can groups move through a collective learning process, where creativity and the unthought possibilities suddenly appear, and everybody feels certain about the way to move ahead?
How can self-organising be one of the most powerful means to solve global problems?
Is our state of technology just a prototype, and probably not the solution to our further development?
This book is about the authors process during two years of debate and meetings to gain some insight in the questions that are much bigger than what we usually see and discuss – questions about how we treat the world, our role as human beings in the evolution, invisible energy-streams between organisms and collective and shared consiousness. About man communicating with nature and animals, and a lot of other things.
It is an amazing eye opener, and a thought provoking book, especially because it is written by a group of authors you wouldn’t expect to deal with these more “religious” and “alternative” views of the world.
At the same time the book shows and discuss a model for innovation and thinking out of the box – The U-model, based on techniques like meditation and slowing down the thought process to be able to pre-sencing the world and what will come next.
Better read the book – it is great !