What are the most important questions?

DO WE REALLY WANT TO LEARN GROW AND EVOLVE, BE CHANGMAKERS, or just talk about it?

What are the most important questions?

It's all about getting grateful since this is an experience we all share learn and know . . . lol . . . Oh and now these GREAT guest lectures too! Starting with Michelle Long trying to get where people have equal footing.  Cool "And I said, what if we had a business organization where we all were contributing with our highest purpose and meaning toward the things that we all care about?" Figures!  And next is Nipun Mehta talk and he's talking about his development too: Ghandi 2.0 many to many network!  Teaching people to be in the FLOW with their Kindness Muscles: "We were just holding space for them to practice an act of kindness every day. And even they thought they were just doing the small thing, but this small thing coupled with the inner transformation that accompanies it, coupled with a circle that holds all of those reflections, starts to really create an incredible capacity" Neato how he's talking about the Time Bank we are doing here in Tampa Bay. . . The Gift Economy where people are trading time and experience. . . Not sure how many years it's worked, but they used the STARS account so I could get the exact details easily ;-)

Next is Peter Senge with the System Dynamics group he started with. . . principles of systems thinking--"the importance of the feedback loop, the importance of delays, the importance of non-linearity, as I was talking before. This, you might say, the conceptual underpinnings, but it only really leaps into full impact on reality when it's combined with the ability to activate and develop our sensory understanding, because then it becomes a feeling as well as a thought" Oh wow, and my favorite quote at the very end of this from Peter: "We have this immense capacity, which we can barely even imagine. And it's that capacity that now is essential for our survival."

Cool, some more: Week 6h-Peter Senge(Part3) Wow, great piece again where Peter talks about the experience with Rusty the Astronaut looking at the Earth from space for hours. . . Then Otto brings it back to reality saying when we talk about shifting the interface on that we operate, it really is a shift from me to we. From just kind of my own small part to a larger whole that to some degree is accessible, and to some other degree is not."

What are the most important questions?

Week 5 - PROTOTYPING SUPPORT & GALLERY

First video with Otto, about forming the Right Intentions and then the Right Connections, and then Iterate, Iterate, Iterate . . . with the Marshmallow challenge. . . where the kindergarten kids do best and MBA students do worse!  Not a big surprise, but great stuff, see Marshmallowchallenge.com . . . It helps people ID hidden assumptions, shared experience, common language, shared understanding, common stance . . . Next was Otto's experience and description of 0.8 prototyping, which is like a half-step short of version 1.0!

That's principal number four. Platforms and spaces that function as a landing strip for the emerging future.  And now always listen to the Universe . . .

6TH PRINCIPLE: Integrating Head, Heart, and Hand

Watch the video, then answer the questions in the sixth box of your U.Lab Source Book, page 7. Once you finish, you will have completed Worksheet #2 in the Source Book. There are additional resources throughout the book that you may find useful as you prototype. 

Still have questions? Continue to the next section to meet Ela Ben-Ur who is available this week to support you with prototyping.

wow, she's doing some cool stuff. . . working with Otto might be really cool!   Theory U really is linking systems thinking, and leadership, and creativity, from the viewpoint of the deeper dimension of human creativity.

Week Four

I started another Listening Post this morning . . . Then finished it when I walked the dog again tonight . . . . So now, I'm back rereading my notes from Week-4 since I never blogged about it:  "that is the way I would describe or define a true systems philosophy, which is one that closes the feedback loop between the human being, their experience of reality, and their sense of participation in that whole cycle of experience."  I've started with the Guest Lecture now, and this is Peter Senge from the files/videos Week 4g-Peter Senge.pdf . . .

of course we all feel like we are always doing the same thing, where we started with some problem, something deeper, cutting across all these boundaries.  It's great how he's talking about the Collective Agent and the awakening to see this.

Funny he said about age 15, while for me it was an accident, 5/30/1980 . . . a date even for me.  But then he goes on to say how it's the firs time this issue has come up on a Global Scale where we all recognize this now.  It's great to hear him say how "there's always been these two parts-- the phenomenal part and the consciousness part."

Next video about how the groups coercive to other participants. . . .

And then more from Ed Schein who is talking about the MIT Center for group dynamics working with Douglas McGregor and Kurt Lewin at MIT which took him from social phycology to Business. Then how this lead into the groups learning from themselves, just by experiencing the space together, or allowing the learning to evolve from the participants, much the way MOOCs do now online.  The management-oriented laboratories where they discovered the power of the experience.  Where Action Research developed with the researcher was participating with the researched.

What was neat about this was how the next Guest Lecture was Steve Jobs, telling you three stories from his Life at Stanford University . . . First - Connecting the Dots!  Started college with no idea what he was doing, or what college would do for him. . . and dropped out to then take classes he really wanted to take.  Following his curiosity and interests instead of the Required Program for a degree.  You can't connect the dots looking forward, but you must believe it.  2nd story about Love and Loss. Started in the garage at 20 and Apple grow until he was 30 and then got fired. And loved it anyway and started over with NEXT and PiXar - - creating Toy Story.  And Apple bought NEXT! Wow!  Sometimes life hits you with a Brick, but DO WHAT YOU LOVE, and Keep going anyway.  Don't settle, keep looking until you find what you love!  3rd Story about Death => live each day as if it was the last.  Asking each morning "if this is my last day, am I doing exactly what I want to do?"  Your life is limited so don't live someone else's dogma. . . find what you love and live your own life!

And then a TED Talk about Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability. . . the Researcher Story Teller! to expanding perceptions!  BELIEVING THEY ARE WORTHY is where it all is.  Worthiness based on whole hearted people based on Courage (telling the story of who they are with the whole heart) Compassion & Connection (as a result of authenticity)  - - let go of who they thought they were to BE!  And fully embraced Vulnerability!!!  Eeek, not there yet!  lol!  Reminds me of what Otto said "many of the change makers, that are around today face challenges that call on us, that require us to let go of everything that isn't essential in order to step through the gate to emerging future possibility."

How do you respond to Vulnerability . . . Hum!
Interesting, as I came in to reread my notes, and there were no notes from the videos at the end.  So I watched them all again, as I read my notes. . . Now seeing I was noted from Otto's intro:

And the self has these two key elements; who I am today, my current self, and my emerging future Self, my highest future possibility. And making these two selves begin to listen to each other really is the essence of what this part of the journey is all about.

Now again it feels like what Peter Said in the video, how at 15 I realized what was happening, essentially the same thing I always did, but now watching it happen and taking a more active part instead of just watching it.  It's weird, as i remember my experience before my accident.  I was always seeing beyond, imagining and anticipating what I could do, where things broke shifted and changed, and how to get what I wanted. . . and now my Notes are at the line where Otto talks about the fire that took the life he knew away, changing his perspective . . . Like my accident, of that sweet 16 of 15 Peter mentioned

Funny, to think it's all linked to my work too, as I've been rewriting my theory piece, going back to where Grounded Theory and Sensemaking came from.  How they compliment each other and work together.  Linking them stronger and clearer each new word I read and write.  I guess that's really cool too!  What I trip to see what I highlighted and updating it now, as I click through them taking out the extra spaces. . . Just the numbers there alone are sooooo cool. . . 11/11/15 shifting to 11/15/15. How weird is that.

And Quintin was asking on the Abe List about the Kabbalah where they analyze the Names of God based on the Alphabet that directly translated into Numbers!  Of course the screen shot is timed at 8:05:55pm, so it's just more cool numbers.  And I remember the literature today reading the foundations of Weick's Sensemaking which included some piece on Language which listed analytical mathematics on the scale with it too. . . got another screen shot now:

Funny thing here is that it's from my PC at school, while the first clip was from my MacBook here at home. . .

OH I remember what I wanted to write about. . . you see how the math is at the bottom and music and art are at the top, or opposite end of this scale.  But what's so cool is that the top is connected to the bottom, or they are one in the same.  Like creating a big loop. . . and I remember Otto's prayer or meditation about connecting to the Earth.  So back to my notes and the next highlight is back to the fire where he said "And only in that moment of loss, with all of that gone, I realized how much I had been attached to it. How much my identity had been attached to that world."

Course then he says about how we should Journal about since it's moments like this that connect us and remind us we are change-makers here for a reason!

Oh yes, here it is the big loop again:

Imagine if we were trees, we would have roots going downwards. As human beings, we don't have these physical roots, but we still can feel the connection downwards. Attend to your feet and attend to the connection downwards. Imagine this connection would go downwards all the way down to the middle of the earth. Feel that connection. And now slowly move your attention upwards, up the legs, up the spine to the head, to the upper part of your head. Attend to the upper part of your head. And attend to the connection that is extending upwards. And as you attend to that connection notice how the sphere, the globe of your head is a small microcosm of the macrocosm that is surrounding us. Attend to that connection. Attend to the connection upwards.

found something: Remember the Mayan Chant is all about connecting Heaven and Earth...  Male and Female...  lol...  I can't tell you too much more... lol...  but gay and lesbian women fit into it all very well...  lol...  Like Laura and Aerial are both women and were together here when they first witnessed it years ago.    The witch Priestess in town that I visit, is Married to a Cherokee lady...  lol....   They taught me the Tree Meditations and witnessed the chant as it was just starting, too.  NO FEAR...  NO JUDGMENT ...  Why did God send Lesbians to me to witness and help start this???  Who knows?  Maybe this makes it easier for us to understand the New Community!!!
Oh i new I would find it Club Hedo =  Tree Meditation!

Wow what a trip to find this dated Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:39 PM, but I can tell it was forwarded from somewhere 

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

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.

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 . . .

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 ;-)

Assessment 1

Assessment 1
PART ONE: Reflect on your day. In the space provided, enter the percent of your time you felt engaged in each level of listening. The total should equal 100%.

Level 1: Downloading * 15

Listening from your habits, from what you already know; the result is you re-confirm what you already knew. 

Level 2: Factual * 10

Noticing something new, something that differs from what you already knew or expected to hear. 

Level 3: Empathizing * 30

Listening from the place the other person is speaking from, experiencing/sensing an emotional connection. 

Level 4: Generative * 45

Connecting to the emerging future - to a future possibility that links to your emerging self; to who you really are.

Total *100


PART TWO: Join our action research by co-creating a global deep listening database. Share a story about a moment today when you experienced a shift from one level of listening to another. Then select the tag below that indicates which shift you experienced.

DESCRIPTION OF YOUR EXPERIENCE
It was at lunch after a meeting.  I came in from out of town as a guest.  My associate had been invited to help his friend with the AASHE STARS report.  Our University had completed it several times, and he had worked as my work-study student helping me during the last term to update it.  Now his friend in the next city over was trying to complete the STARS report at their University, so they invited me to help get an idea about what this meant.

The three of us had planned lunch and two others came along.  It was clear to me sitting at lunch that we were the most outspoken at the previous meeting.  Of course, everyone had questions for me, but now I was able to sit back and listen to the conversation.  I'm always sensing too much, and rarely will speak up unless asked.  Now being in a social place, I was able to state the obvious. . . . I told them how they were clearly at a place where they would benefit from something we were doing.  Change Leaders are few and far between, but often they are busy and full with projects and activities.  However, we found that meeting to share, just socially, can be critical to progress.

We are all pushing projects and actions everywhere.  However, to stop and share socially with others who are doing the same thing can really be powerful.  Not creating another project, another team, or event. . . but simply meeting monthly to share the challenges and struggles we have in our own.  Leaders sharing leadership ideas and concept is critical.  Of course one person said he was intimidated bringing together leaders because they want to know what they will get, what the meeting results will be. . . Ah, clearly someone not ready!  Not yet seeing the Big picture enough to step beyond doing and getting, and step into simply BEing and SHARing which is enough in itself.

first live sessions

Otto starts after the intro from Adam and the Wordles, 6500 replies, as shown in the last post . . . Course I have used Wordles before, there is so much that can be read into these, as so much is about words . . . now an example with Ian from CA with Water issues, trying to find new ideas! Perfect!

Next Otto speaks about how we each start with our own intentions, speaking about how it is to move into the "co-sences" moving into the co-experience we are in today, in this current moment of disruption we are experiencing.  They launched Ulab in January, 9 months ago. . . as prototype/experiment - - 25,000 participants, surprised by the self organized "Activating the dormant field of change."  Third live session in February, prepared for the closing, strong response was "you can't end now!"

We are "birthing a globally distributed community of inspired change makers" - - we need more, 4th live session in April.  Met with Berlin Team - - focused on making sense of this, what are we "called to do", where does this "field want us to do". . .

So he started a video with Edgar Mitchel (and others) talking about seeing the Earth, and how we need to care for it too. . . then posed two questions:

Connect with what touched you and turn the camera back on "planet earth / planet self":
Where are you experiencing a world that is ending or dying?

Course I have the answers that they put into a Wordle.  So what do I EXPERIENCE DYING?   Really seems like a funny question for me.  Having "been there done that," which really makes it a challenge for me to feel for others who struggle with grieving.  I've tried and gotten better with this, as my wife has been challenged with a few deaths.  I kinda see it as temporary, or really something that is an illusion like time and space.  Sure time and space are real for us NOW, as is death.  But they all fit into the same box for me. . .

So ME, "experiencing dying" now feels more like seeing what is dying around me.  And that is the old Paradigm.  The ways of greed and control are fast dying.  They are simply killing each other off, very quickly.  And the sad part is that they will continue doing this until they are gone.  So what do I see?  I see selfish arrogant choking all around me on their own desires.  It's something I tend to avoid completely.  But I see it around me, on the roads, in the streets, people and experiences others have in the old way of doing things that is slowing killing them. I wrote my brother again today.  Sent him some real news about how the press and media present what Business wants, not the truth.  And the truth is hidden and buried behind. . . Sounds like the New Soils Otto spoke about, where our seeds of Truth are well buried, ready to come up after all the greed scorches the surface!

I Experience the Dying of the old ways of living!

Next questions:

Where are you experiencing a world that is emerging or wanting to be born?

Funny this is about "where"?  That's kinda interesting, a place!  Of course, I am experiencing the emerging here where I am!  So it's emerging in Tampa Bay, and here at the Patel College of Global Sustainability.

Where something full or Love, Collaboration and the collective with people is born and growing real and true before our eyes.  Course I see this more now than ever, as our new leadership is far removed from the old paradigm or fear and control.

This lines up very well with the U-process Otto is talking about letting-go to let-come . . . by "tuning into our deeper source of knowing"

Begins by tuning into the inner leadership knowing, by opening up the mind, the heart, and opening the will to let-go and let-come.  To bring the emerging sense of self for creating a "new we". . .

So now is the really cool part, he started a meditation online for everyone who was there. . to do a "collective intention setting" . . . and this is when someone sent in a new note to the New Hubs.  Someone is San Francisco was traveling to St Pete, asking to connect here.  Course this is when I clicked into the first video and here was Otto making his Mindfulness Experience part of his course. . . course NOW I do it 10.19pm 9/24/2015 . . . "feel your feet . . . connect that you can feel downward . . . if we were trees we would have roots, but as people we can still sense this connection, all the way down to the middle of the earth"

YUM!!!  How cool is this. . . So when I got this email from San Fran I jumped to the current Live session and he was doing this meditation, "we all connect to the SAME EARTH, our HOME" as he says now 10.22pm.  But there is no time, so my work now is connecting to all then, as in my own intentions to be full in the space of connection and truth!

• What is the highest future possibility that we as a community can step into?
• What is the intention that we can set for ourself, and to out collective community?
• Feel this intention rising from out heart. . . share it with us

And this was what I heard and felt as I got online the morning that it all started. And here is the Wordle they created next. . .

New videos today and I've not finished this post from the first one.  Course I wrote out two pages and lost it.  Why would such a program exist that doesn't save regularly or at least have the sense to store temp files in easily accessible places. . . feel like the cave-men are still running the planet!

Oh and Otto Ended the first live-session with this outline of the process, each step taking a week to do, or so...

new course

ok, so this is a new online course. . . a MOOC.   And this is my commentary on it. . . First I followed the directions they provided and creating this profile on their webpage:

 What I found particularly interesting was their first day of class, started with a live stream from MIT, where Otto spoke to us about their work, plans and all about the course. . . I've not yet seen the complete video.  But as shown here at right, I started with filling in everything that they asked for. . . seemed like a good place to start.  This included signing up for a HUB with other students to work together.  No hubs in Florida yet, so I read their "hub Instructions" and left comment about  virtual hub with Google Hangout?  Quintin offered to join it with me, but I've invited him and never got a reply.  This means that every new comment was sent to me also.  So with the live lecture starting someone else asked about a St Pete Hub. . . which means I got an email for this comment. . . WHICH REMINDED me about the live session.  I found it again and clicked the link for the live session and Otto was closing his Mindfulness session.  How perfect!  It was really freaky perfect, because it was all but at the point of Prayer to Change the World.  When else would I show up?

Now today to finally watch the full video is really cool, as they posted a Wordle about the questions we answered in the profile page above. SO the first  and second questions had these cool images:

Welcome to U.Lab

Welcome | Welcome to U.Lab | 15.671x Courseware | edX: Welcome to U.Lab: Transforming Business, Society, and Self. FaceBook Page, Setup Ur own HUB

As of today, we are a wonderfully diverse group of 33,086 people from 182 countries.

We all live in a time of disruptive change, one that requires a new collective leadership capacity. In U.Lab, we invite you on a journey to see the world in new ways, and to practice a method that allows leaders, entire organizations, and larger social systems to connect with and actualize their highest future possibility.

Over the coming weeks, we will introduce you to Theory U, an approach to leading profound change that has been developed by action researchers at MIT, and practiced by leaders around the world, for over 20 years.

You will apply this method to a challenge, issue, or system that matters to you, and “explore the future by doing” - which means, you will develop a prototype initiative that connects the personal, relational, and systemic dimensions of change.

To support your journey, U.Lab works by (1) creating a highly personal, practical, and mindful online learning environment (2) blending it with an eco-system of place-based learning communities and peer coaching groups, and (3) hosting real-time live classroom sessions throughout the course.

We'll explain how this all works in just a moment! But first, let's begin with the basics - how to navigate this course

What-else!  Of course . . . we need everyone to start doing this too.  Like find some data and make a change!