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This workshop engages participants in the principles and practices of presencing. “Presencing,” a word that blends “presence” and “sensing,” refers to the ability to sense and bring into the present one’s highest future potential—as an individual and as a group.

Through interactive presentations, reflective exercises, case clinics, and embodiment practices, participants will learn and apply the seven capacities of the deep leadership cycle that helps change-makers to transcend old behavior patterns, realize new possibilities, and enable transformation and innovation.

Participants will explore their own blind spots as leaders and expand their awareness of what they do and how they do it. You will learn to pay attention to what’s going on in ways that lead to the opening of the mind, heart, and will. This holistic opening constitutes a shift in awareness: participants recognize the future in the present moment and learn from that spark of the future as it emerges.

During the program you will not only explore ways of enhancing your leadership presence through practices that enable you to be calm, observant, and focused; you will also explore how those practices are being used in organizations and learn what networking resources can help you to sustain the practices in your own life and work.

What is required in order to connect to and learn from the future as it emerges? What kind of attention allows our actions to be guided (and informed) by that future? To answer these questions, participants will learn and apply interdependent elements of the U-process and Presencing, which include:

Practices of the U-Process:

  • Four levels of responding to change
  • Four types of listening and conversation
  • Three (inner) instruments: Open Heart, Open Mind, Open Will
  • Accessing and bringing forth one’s authentic Self
  • Overcoming three barriers in one’s inner work
  • Five movements of Presencing as a social technology for change (co-initiating, co-sensing, co-inspiring, co-creating, co-evolving)
  • Twenty-four principles and practices of Presencing
 
Please also review the background for this course.