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"Presence" is an intimate look at the development of a new theory
about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over
a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C.
Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the
nature of transformational change--how it arises, and the fresh
possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The
book introduces the idea of "presence"--a concept borrowed from the
natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its
parts--to the worlds of business, education, government, and
leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old
patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of
learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to
actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.
Drawing on the wisdom and experience of 150 scientists, social
leaders, and entrepreneurs, including Brian Arthur, Rupert
Sheldrake, Buckminster Fuller, Lao Tzu, and Carl Jung, "Presence"
is both revolutionary in its exploration and hopeful in its
message. This astonishing and completely original work goes on to
define the capabilities that underlie our ability to see, sense,
and realize new possibilities--in ourselves, in our institutions
and organizations, and in society itself.
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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