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Presence Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society Presence Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society Peter Senge C. Otto Scharmer Joseph Jaworski Betty Sue Flowers First published in Great Britain by Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2005 3–5 Spafield Street 20 Park Plaza, Suite 1115A Clerkenwell, London Boston EC1R 4QB MA 02116, USA Tel: +44 (0)20 7239 0360 Tel: (888) BREALEY Fax: +44 (0)20 7239 0370 Fax: (617) 523 3708 www.nicholasbrealey.com www.presence.net Copyright © 2004, 2005 Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers The rights of Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN: 978-1-85788-355-8 eISBN: 978-1-85788-429-6 Managing Editor: Nina Kruschwitz Book design: Chris Welch Coltsfoot illustration: Diane Leonard-Senge British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, elec- tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publishers. This book may not be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise disposed of by way of trade in any form, binding or cover other than that in which it is published, without the prior consent of the publishers. Dedicated to the memory of Francisco J. Varela (1946–2001) Contents Introduction 3 Of Parts and Wholes 5 The Emergence of Living Institutions 7 New Ways of Thinking About Learning 10 The Field of the Future 12 Presence 13 About This Book 15 Part 1 Learning to See 1. The Requiem Scenario 21 2. Seeing Our Seeing 27 The Capacity to Suspend 29 Suspending Together 31 Building a Container 33 The Courage to See Freshly 35 Contents vii The Inner Work of Suspending 37 Integrating Inner Work 38 3. Seeing from the Whole 41 Redirection: Seeing the Generative Process 42 Encountering the Authentic Whole 45 Seeing from Within an Organization 48 The Inner Work of Redirecting 50 4. Seeing with the Heart 53 Part 2 Into the Silence 5. The Generative Moment 71 6. An Emerging Understanding 83 The Seeds of a Theory 84 A Second Type of Learning 86 Sensing 88 Presencing 89 Realizing 91 7. The Eye of the Needle: Letting Go and Letting Come 93 A Question from the Heart 94 Surrendering Control 96 Primary Knowing 97 The Alien Self 100 Surrendering into Commitment 102 8. The Wedding 105 Part 3 Becoming a Force of Nature 9. In the Corridor of Dreams 117 viii Contents 10. The Grand Will 131 Crystallizing Intent 133 Seeds Are Small 138 Intentional Work 140 Awakening 142 11. In Dialogue with the Universe 145 Prototyping 146 Creating and Adjusting 149 Listening to Feedback 152 Rediscovering Purpose 154 Staying Connected 158 Synchronicity 159 12. Realizing and the Craft of Institution Building 163 Part 4 Meeting Our Future 13. Leadership: Becoming a Human Being 177 14. Science Performed with the Mind of Wisdom 187 Fragment ation 190 Measurement 192 Unbroken Wholeness 193 The Blind Spot 196 A Reflexive Science of Living Systems 198 Science Performed with the Mind ofWisdom 201 Our Faustian Bargain: Shifting the Burden to Modern Science and Technology 203 A New Path 204 15. Presence 213 Contents ix Epilogue: “With Man Gone, Will There Be Hope For Gorilla?” 235 Notes 249 Acknowledgments 263 About the Authors 257 About the Organizations 271 Index 273 Reader Comments 285 x Contents
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