Arawana and Social Presencing Theater

In Part 2, Otto and Arawana suggest that Social Presencing Theater does for the collective what mindfulness does for the individual:
https://youtu.be/IhQg_SOephU
WOW
ok, so this is wicked cool again!
As I heard this, and sense what she was talking about I FLASHED to Ritual and the time I did it with the KINS group.  I mean a dozen in a circle doing a Ritual from before the start of time.  Of course it's all about connecting to the universal mind, and the power and experience of being more than just a man, or person, or individual. . . And ancient Ritual that regenerated karma, what kinda freaky vision is that?  How could it show up in my lap?  I immediately started to wonder if Otto had found this experience, or wrote about it at the same time my mom died.  Or the same time Colleen got cancer, or the same time the kids cured her cancer?

I mean I immediately Flashed to these times and experiences wondering how people connected in spirit through rituals, and her one showed up for me, like some freaky destiny experience, that people write about or dream about or spend life-times trying to figure out!

Again now,  i see how this is what Douglas, Sharon, Russell and I have been Doing and working on.
https://youtu.be/Zt7GgzDok6I

Funny, what feels sad for me now, it that I sent them all the first set of videos, and they didn't watch them all, and again now, I KNOW I will be sending this to all of them.  And I wonder who will watch or who will miss the boat.  Then I flash to maybe it's my Son or Wife who got copies and never watched?  Who knows?

Wow, that was weird.  I just Flashed back to the KINS meeting where I did Ritual, and I told them how to move energy in a simple real way they could experience it.  And then came back and asked who did it, since I could feel the shift.  I mean there is only ONE consciousness, so whether we know, accept or understand this. . . If we play with crazy Rituals that shift creation, we feel it.  Course Carol eventually told me she did it.  Funny, I seem to remember she told me weeks later, and Sharon remembered me asking and never getting an answer, as Carol missed the next meeting or something weird like that.

It's so strange to see all these things connecting again and again.  Like I wrote this morning, 5-investors?  Really weird shit showing up!

More: https://youtu.be/qlM7ThIS15s
powerful, and clear, lol. . . to me at least ;-)

Ah, so now do this:

There are two ways to use this video:

1. Watch and see what the 20 Minute Dance looks like. Then start the video over, find a place to practice, and do the exercise while you listen to the audio. Recommended if you have never done this exercise before.
2. Skip directly to practice. Use the audio as a guided facilitation of the 20 Minute Dance. Recommended if you have previously done this exercise, or are practicing with a trained SPT facilitator.
3. yes the last link, you can do it now.  Just hit play and do it as she walks you through it: https://youtu.be/trFFWRrhjnc

Wow, the Stuck videos are great too: https://youtu.be/-FLT-l7luY8

this next one, shows people doing it where YOU CAN FEEL it, or at least I did, just seeing them make a pose, ouch! https://youtu.be/uVeU1fTuSZc

What does your stuck want to do?
Where does it- where in the body is it just
not wanting to do that anymore?
And the movement begins there, and you just follow it along
until it comes to an end.
And if you have thoughts about it, that's fine.
Just let those go.
Let go.
The loyalty is to the body.
Really take your time to feel your stuck.
See it clearly and really sense into it.
What does the belly feel like?
What about the knees?
What do they have to say about this?
What about the neck?
What about the muscles of your face?
What about the hands?
Where is it relaxed?
Where is it intensified or held?
All of that is information.
Your stuck is a great resource.

Wow can we do a group stuck too:  https://youtu.be/XvgVt-JBpO8

Nobody is stuck on their own. When you are stuck, there is a system of forces that keep you from moving forward. This video shows how the Stuck method can be used to explore possible ways for a person's system of stuck forces to evolve from current to future reality.
Watch the video and afterwards, if you are practicing with a group, try doing the exercise together.

Now let's really do this:  https://youtu.be/9uTYjA5RSIA

eric's Dashboard | Presencing Institute U.School

eric's Dashboard | Presencing Institute U.School: It's weird, as sometimes I feel almost forced into the higher listening. Today I had to work out table at the Flea Market for an hour. Students coming up asking questions and wondering what the college is all about. So of course I'm sharing knowledge and feeling where people are at and what they really want to know. But then suddenly I flash into something more. Not just sharing knowledge or learning about sustainability. . . I'm connected to where their passion is and how they are ready to move into something more. So my questions shift and my attitude. Suddenly I'm excited and suggesting new ideas and ways to express and find their own new ideas. It was weird as soon one kid was commenting how I connected him with the next kid and how they could easily work together to develop something. So here I suddenly went from listening to their words to projecting new opportunities and benefits which were beyond the moment. Like I flashed into the future where they could do so much more and I was only a spectator, maybe just suggesting directions. It was weird as the kid noticed it and I had no idea. . . . I know I do that all the time, leading into new things where everyone benefits.

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Post to this thread | Presencing Institute U.School: 19 Oct 2015 - 9:35am
by eric weaver

Of course it will work. However, we have found that much of the system here is based on old technologies and old methods. Sure we all want something new, but the major players are all making a LOT of money from the old technologies and the old ways. For example the state now has NEGATIVE incentives for solar. What's that mean, well extra taxes and expenses on new solar energy systems, so the old existing coal and gas power systems and monopolies are safe and supported. This is true for 80-90% of the economy. Like the car, everyone wants trains and mass transit, but drive down the street and 70-80% of the businesses are car repair, car services, car parts, gasoline, insurance for cars, attorneys for accidents. . . To shift to trains would destroy all these businesses. Health care is the same thing. Get people healthy and we loose the drug-store on every corner and the doctors and hospitals in every neighborhood. Mayor, farmer and teacher all want things to change, but all the money in the city is from industries that wont change. Like curing cancer is illegal, since it's completely man-made for men to profit. . . . remove cancer and the whole state economy collapses!

What causes wellness | Sir Harry Burns | TEDxGlasgow - YouTube

Of course the end of week 2 give us more on the issues in Scotland.  Great details I need to explore for our event next month: Enriching Community Connections: Recognizing the Power of the Collective, which Russell explains so well!

What causes wellness | Sir Harry Burns | TEDxGlasgow - YouTube: Published on Jul 25, 2014

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How can meaning and purpose contribute to one's wellbeing? Sir Harry Burns explores the concept of salutogenesis and the impact it has on the most disadvantaged members of our community.

As the former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Scotland, the Scottish Government’s Principal Medical Adviser and Head of the Scottish Medical Civil Service, Sir Harry is dedicated to improving people’s health and social well being.

In 1994, he became Director of Public Health for Greater Glasgow Health board, a position he occupied until 2005. During this time, he continued research into the problems of social determinants of health, and later in 1998, was lead clinician in Scotland for cancer care.

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Post to this thread | Presencing Institute U.School: Hey Markus, that sounds neat. And I think I have felt that a lot too. Sometimes it's our own confort level that allows us to hold a certain level of listening. Like is this person I'm with sharing something real from the heart, or just gossip? Course this is really my own interpretation and easily could be either. Like I can percieve it as gossip when it's really deep truth, just like I can perceive it as deep truth when it's not. But now that fun begins, either way, does it help or hurt me, or the other? Will it really hurt me if I get deep into the feeling and emotion of simple gossip vs real truth? And in either case will that lead me to learn, share and love more and/or help them learn share and love more? Or maybe the real question is Does listening into level four ever hurt?

Great stuff Markus, you got me thinking about all sorts now too! thanks

Moments of Transformation | Presencing Institute U.School

Moments of Transformation | Presencing Institute U.School: 18 Oct 2015 - 9:24pm #16
by eric weaver

It was something that happened once. Then it happened again seemingly years later. Then I noticed it would happen monthly and now weekly. Each time I connect with someone and inspire passion. . . I can see The Shift in their eyes. Some how they understand something new and beyond what was there only a moment before.

Adit did it last week. He understood what I meant to find his passion. I asked him if he had scored every hour 1 to 5, and how many awesome 5s he had. He told me how he went home and thought about all the experiences he had that day. What was best of all was that he knew he had a bunch of 5s and he was able to see and explain what he really enjoy the most from his experiences. That remarkable transformation!!!! Where I can see a new Soul come out ready to play! Wow is that such an inspiring moment. And he was ready and excited about telling me every detail. How awesome was that. . . .

So then I ask him to look at the events he loved the most in his life, and really find the feeling deep inside and try to discover what inspired his passion. I told him we can all feel great with others looking up to us, or listening to us, but what about that experience was the most powerful "inside of him?". . . So I sent him on to discover more. . . And we're meeting for lunch to talk about next term classes now. . . wow

There is something extraordinary happening in the world — Medium

There is something extraordinary happening in the world — freed myself from society, I’ve released myself from attachments I had and fear that locked me to the system. And since then, I started seeing the world from a different perspective. The perspective that everything is changing and most of us have not even realized that.

Of course, everything is connected all the time for me. . . And so I got an email about catching up on this Edx course I'm doing with Otto.   So I click the link to my course, and find where I left off.  I've been making a PDF as I read and take notes from all the lectures and then Blog about it too.  So I open another browser and this is what's open - -  Yea emails send to one browser and blogs from another browser.  I will have Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft open on my PC and the Safari and Chrome open on my Mac, and go back and forth between the two.

Like now I got another notice from Edx how silly is this:
On Oct 18, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Presencing Institute U.School wrote:This is a friendly reminder to complete your daily listening assessment. Here's the link: http://uschool.presencing.com//ulab/survey. Be sure you are logged in to the site, otherwise you will not be able access your survey and results.

To opt out of these emails, follow this link to edit your profile and uncheck the checkbox for Listening Assessment Email. http://uschool.presencing.com//user/2031/profile

I've been in the same place so much it's remarkable.  See I noticed I finished the videos from week 2 and hadn't added to the Wordle. . . until now, so how nice is this to see all the great words coming together!!!

Just perfect!

DAYNA CUNNINGHAM: THE PLUMBER & THE SOCIAL FIELD

In Week 1, Dayna described her background and how she came to understand presencing as a social technology that can facilitate a shift in empathy in a social field. In part two of this four-part series, Dayna shares a metaphor about the social field that she learned from her plumber. 

Dayna will join Otto and Adam to film the office hours video that we will post on Wednesday, September 30th. As you watch, if you have questions or comments for Dayna, please post them on the discussion board. She will be reading them!

Dayna shares a metaphor about the social field that she learned from her plumber.  - - - the roots of the tree grew into the pipes and clogged them.  Dead tree will grow for three more years . . . if you pay attention you can smell the roots growing . . . you got to sense it and understand it. 
A social field is so abstract, but even in winter if you are not paying attention the ground is frozen, but if you pay attention the seeds and germinating or growing . . . Shift society to a beloved community. . The role of the individual is great, but the role of the community is the power that needs to be attended to. . . as a leader, How you pay attention, and knowing the roots are there. . . the leader needs to capture social reality creation in flight. . . how you pay attention in any context, can shift what is happening in the room . . .

What Emerges for me!

I recently expressed to my wife a bit of what emerged for me this week.  It was really kinda weird, and I know some will think it's really nothing at all.  But it's just coming beyond reason.  The synergy and circumstances that come into my day are simply remarkable some times.  And it's one thing to set intentions and allow emergence, but it's really something totally different when things just get weird.

Every morning, I take my dog for a walk.  Behind my house is like 20 acres of City Park.  I've been trying to walk down to the river more, so my dog gets to run a bit more. . . I still will just sit on the lawn chairs and watch him.  But I knew he and I both needed to walk more.  Anyway, as I walk back home along the edge where the houses line up like my own, I noticed a few have a bunch of ferns growing along the fence line.  I thought it would be nice to get that started along my fence too.

Yesterday morning, as I walked out the back, with the dog running out ahead, I stopped, remembering the ferns.  I have a little mattock in my garden that would be easy to get some ferns.  As I turned back inside the gate, I saw a machete by our deck and grabbed it. . . Sure chop a bit, no problem.   As I walked over to the house, I started looking for runners, where the ferns spread out into the grass field away from the fence and the bordered yard.

I found a few that would soon be mowed over, that I could pull to plant in my yard.  And there on the ground behind the border where some ferns pulled out?  I picked one up.  It was still green, with clump of dirt around the roots still.  Then I noticed there were a bunch of them.  Like my neighbor had pulled all these ferns from somewhere else in his yard and threw them over the fence into the field.

Some neighbors have piles of brush along the fence, some have little borders.  I've planted a few beds for vegetables and set up lawn chairs.

WOW, so I went to get some ferns and found bunches there pulled-out, waiting for me to pickup.  There were a few other boarder plants I liked there too.  I never used my machete, but now have a bunch of ferns in water by my kitchen window.  I should be able to plant them all soon.

Something else almost as weird.  Last week, I raced out of my office.  A block down the street there is a stop sign, where I turn right, and then right again to get onto the main road into town.  As I made the first turn I noticed a police car sitting in the grass around the corner.  Course it started moving and soon the lights were on.  The officer asked me for my drivers license, registration and insurance card.  Yes, I know I didn't come to a "complete stop" at the stop sign.

Course then she said my insurance and registration cards were out of date.  I flipped through a dozen more from the glove box, as I add another every year, just printing and dropping into my box.  Nope couldn't find any up to date.  A few minutes later she came back and gave me two warnings.  She said I could have been given three tickets costing me over $500 in violations.

Yesterday, I raced out again for lunch.  As I pulled through the first turn.  I noticed a police car on the grass starting to move.  "OH, Shit" not again. . . and I kept going.  I soon noticed the cop stopped and DID NOT come out to ticket me.  As I was racing down the main road to lunch.  I stopped to think about the last time I was stopped by a cop.  Seems like they all ignore me, or only give me warnings, as  I seem to have several.  I was wondering if maybe something I did while working for the city of county got me labelled or something "do not ticket"!

Either way, it was all just weird.  Intention and emergence is just weird stuff, and I never can explain it or understand how these things happen.  But everyday I see something weird like this.  Some days a LOT more weird than other days!

week 4 office hours. . . reviwing everything

Otto - - inside the Alchomist - - where we are now!  Of course, how perfect.  I need to talk more abotu my own ULab journey. 

After the last season we are in process, connecting to the deeper parts of who we are . . . as we look around, we see nothing.  We are at this point in the journey. . . Three words in Action: 1) Connecting!  Linking to the left-hand side, heart wide open, seeing the world from the edge. . .2) Staying WIth, after connecting with the deeper source, stay with it adn wait until something emerges.  DO NOT jump into action, WAIT, stay with what is there, see what emerges 3) GO WITH IT, when something emerges, stay with is, help it come into reality - - the three action principles. . . at STAY WITH NOW in the ULab processes. . . go to live season and do the journalling. . . go on dialog walk,  start processing...
ON the 19 questions.  See the inner Castle Video - - - what is it that wants to emerge - - HOW can I create the space for this....

Adam - - important to have a dialog with one person!  After the Jouranlling exercise. . .
Otto - - create safe place with 2nd live season, to drop into the deeper aspects of the own experience, adn then proces with current present individual. . . before engageing in larger groups.

Adam - - Emotional theate?
Otto - - what comes up, through mirroring process. . . something that you do not expect.  Two week awareness training and then one week solo. . . resulted in a lot of sadness, and then explored it deeper to explore and discover where it came through. . . I became aware of that my actions brought me sadness.  Balance out the sad and positive, do not go too deep in one side.  Balance the two.  Be sure to share with one or two others, and you can deal with it, if you want and ready to deal with these.  Only do what you are comfortable, never do it if another tells you to, but only when you are ready.

Adam - - Final point, as a group member, we are there to hold the4 space not address the problesm.
Otto - - yes , stay with it, and give it attention, but not solutions, crystallize it and hold the blank canvas for an image to emerge . . .that's what we are practicing this week.

quiz 1 results

Why? What keeps you from operating on a level that is aligned with your intention? Enter two words that summarize your response, and let's see what common themes emerge in the word cloud below.

so I've learned.  Find the facts of where someone is at, and then they generative flashes off into space can be more productive, insightful, and determinate for making our space, time, and experience move forward.  Of course I wanted to me in the final space completely.  But without ego, there is no use being out in some space. .  .ALL ALONE!
 oh so that's what keeps people there in two. . .EGO and FEAR to leave the ego!  How easy is that. .  .  lol... wow another wordle:

big surprise ;-)

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Journal2MyGOD: The Future of Business | Slantpoint: Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT and co-founder of the Presencing Institute, we have entered an Age of Disruption. Traditional approaches are at an impasse. Yet the possibility of profound personal, organizational, societal change has never been more real.

Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!

What u doing now?

I need to do this class, or take notes live here too. . .  I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ.  Thanks for your strength love and wisdom as i travel through this with us.

MY POSTED Answers. .  .

I am anxious to develop new opportunities for our school and students locally
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9:51:02 PM the essence of co-sensing is about connecting to reality in a different way,
9:51:09 PM see movie The Legend of Bagger Vance: Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMjWb9mwQs
9:51:15 PM  how to connect with the field.
9:51:25 PM

it's time to see the field, . . . look at bobby jones. . look at his practice swing, searching for something, feel that focus, there is only one shot that is in harmony with this field, and that shot will choose us. . .we got to get out of the way and let the shot choose us. . . see he's in the field, see where everything that is, becomes one, gotta seek that place within your soul. . . don't think about it, feel it. . . feel it with your hands, not your head. just you, that ball, that ball and all that you are.   We gotta seek that place connected to the field were everything becomes one. . . That one place we can all recognize. 

Radio now!  grace wins every time. . . singing hayeluya. . . every
time.. .

I finally get the read the course:

Co-sensing is not about thinking. It's especially not about downloading ideas from the past onto new situations. It's about beginning to open up, to suspend habits of judgment, to connect to others with your mind and heart wide open. In every setting, there is much more going on than meets the eye. The more subtle aspects of social reality creation, those that the mind doesn't always grasp, are nevertheless visible to the hands and to the heart. We love how clearly this is expressed in the short clip that follows. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMjWb9mwQs

profound shifts in the fields of conversation that we can experience

this is really great stuff. . . it reminds me of my son ;-)

Conversations are the living embodiment of social fields. How do these patterns change?

In a level three conversation, a reflective dialogue,
I'm beginning to ask genuine questions.
What makes you think differently?
Why is it?
So what are the experiences, what are the foundations
based on which you come up with a viewpoint
that's so different, or slightly different
to my own conclusions.

wow, it's so cool to be reading this now . . . I've been getting this email about my listening experiences. . . So I opened some link somewhere and read the questions . . . course I'm always trying to stay grounded. It's like deciding the BE the change, instead of simply talking about it.  What's so funny about it now, is how I remember when I first got to Tampa.  One thing to know you were sent someplace. . . It's another where I can see, feel and measure the BOOT PRINT on my ass, kicking me down here.  Not able to sit still for YEARS! . . .

But still worse than this, . . . lol. . . or better still.  Was that I never came down from the flight.  Like BOOTED up in the air, and everything every where was flashing into what is to come. . . Like not seeing the past, not seeing the dialog or the conflict. . . not even seeing the empathy or thinking of how others felt.   I guess that went along with the boot on my butt?  Like I could not only walk in your shoes, I wore them hard and rough, through all the HURTS too.  All those old dirty boots from everyone kicking me all the time!

So wow, what a weird perspective. . . and its not clear yet.  As feeling all those boots from everyone all the time was not half of it.. . . shit only 10-20%!  As the 80-90% was feeling, seeing, experiencing what could be.

Always lost in the clouds floating along seeing the fantasies, visions, dreams  . . . wow. . . it was literally years learning about dreams i realize now.  So street marines, spoiled frat boys, desperate professors, civil servants desperate to fit in. . . wow.  Road rats on the bike, like the first 20 years in NJ. . . lol. . .

wow, been there, done that.  And now it was pre-sensing EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, all I could see, all i could imagine was out there in some future space where EVERYTHING was connected, One Life, One Experience, One Evolution