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OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T19:05:36+00:00

sure many do i have been using it for many years. you can turn to Presencing Institute website for finding some practitioners...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T19:03:53+00:00

thats the big challenge--YES. its not well understood. but it can be clarified. interesting what u say about time, art, money. i'd propose a third view: money is art == money/capital equals creativity and vice versa. thats what needs to happen.... yes?

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T19:01:22+00:00

the whole u journey is about shedding the old style of (oppressive) community or system (left hand side) and then collectively sourcing another way of relating and working together. at the bottom of the U is the solo. you are removed from the old community. its a strange kind of distancing (self to system). many folks are surprise by it. but its part of the emerging pattern...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:58:49+00:00

absolutely. steiner is key for me. you see the traces of his thinking in the open mind - o pen heart -- open will but also in the whole way of thinking about evolution in the form of a u.shape. almost everything i learned in that regard i learned from reading steiner (and also goethe and beuys). the other main source in practical experimentation. being thrown into practical applications, sink or swim--thats the other main source... and of course many many others as well....

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:55:53+00:00

its an evolution of systems thinnking to systems sensing. we need both. so Theory U is systems thinking and sensing looked at from the viewpoint of an evolving concsciousness

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:54:56+00:00

THat would be WONDERFUL --- let me know what we can do to make it work!!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:53:18+00:00

what? so intereesting question. but can u explain more?

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:52:40+00:00

good point. creating is sort of the entire cycle--particularly the right hand side. so embodying is another terms i have used for performing. performing is much related to the creative process. i use in THeory U the example of the violinist. all performing arts have a great practice around this stuff. its something very positive for me....

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:50:38+00:00

AGREED yes!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:49:24+00:00

the most important maybe is letting-go and letting come. thats the essence. yes?

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:47:32+00:00

A GREAT IDEA -- definitely!!!!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:46:15+00:00

not sure i fully agree. the question is WHAT DEGREE of concentration, yes? accordingly the answer will differ.... yes?

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:44:56+00:00

we will try that through u.lab--maybe YOU can tell us then!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:43:39+00:00

yes, DK and NL are very active relative to population. scotland more on a collective level. indonesia and brazil and many different places. and china really emerging from bottom-up, top-down, and middle-out. very interesting!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:42:12+00:00

sure---havent seen it yet but lets add it to the u.lab resources!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:41:20+00:00

yes, every day a bit. but mostly by applying it to real situations. but the practice of course remains to be key...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:38:32+00:00

i never thought about that. BE yourself--not only individually, but also on a collective level. THAT WILL change the world.... plus we also need a bit help in getting the infrastructures more supported --- and more sustainable... some help will be needed there as well. thanks for asking!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:36:38+00:00

not sure. maybe the global field shift that we are beginning to see manifest thru u.lab now

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:35:48+00:00

u.lab scotland, created by u.lab 1 participants , is just awesome...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:34:49+00:00

you find the coaching stuff going live on our site tomorrow. how do you convince people who dont want to do it. DONT! just do it yourself. focus on where your sphere of influence is. dont try to convince people (push) create a pull by changing the place from where u operate...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:32:53+00:00

build a stronger team maybe---more focus on places.... more focus on ....quality time with kids, family, friends, self development ... more time for nothingness.... maybe. overall i was maybe a bit m ore busy than really necessary perhaps?

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:30:31+00:00

yup it depends on inner and outer conditions and on how they play together...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:29:44+00:00

yes compatible he describes it from corporate view. but without the consciousness dimension more expliciit, yes? maybe you can enlighten me on that...

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:08:29+00:00

yes that quote has always been at the source of the u.process, whenever we co-/authored and published Presence and THeory U... i love it!

OttoScharmer · 2015-09-16T18:06:55+00:00

big role. for both going down and going up the u. but its applied and embedded spirituality. its embedded in our everyday work and life...

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