A Profound Shift

A summary of:
Senge, P., Scharmer, C.O., Jaworski, J. & Flowers, B.S. (2004). Presence: Exploring Profound Change inwards People, Organizations together with Society. Nicholas Brealey Publishing: London.
Part four – Meeting Our Future (part two of 2)

The mass concludes alongside verbalize close what profound shift means. Their ideal is the following: “‘The telephone telephone is clear: for the whole thirteen-year period, nosotros must exercise all nosotros tin to exercise this residue together with connection alongside ane another. ‘We’re facing these problems… because of our lack of relationship, non only alongside ane some other but alongside all of nature. My role is to assist the human race sympathise that it is facing self-destruction unless at that topographic point is a furnish to residue together with harmony alongside nature’” (233).

But how tin you lot convey this (or whatever change) about? The authors advise it comes dorsum to ‘presencing’. The authors differ inwards their private definitions of the concept: 1) “‘A profound opening of the heart, carried into action’” (234); “…waking upwards together – waking upwards to who nosotros actually are past times linking alongside together with acting from our highest hereafter Self – together with past times using the Self equally a vehicle for bringing forth novel worlds’” (234); together with “…it’s the indicate where the post away of creation burns together with enters the basis through us’” (234).

This department offers an of import indicate of clarification close this ‘presencing’ notion. Though the term seemingly implies an in-the-moment-ness, the authors define it inwards business office equally “becoming aware of ‘a hereafter seeking to emerge’” (220), together with “‘pre-sensing’ together with bringing into presence – together with into the acquaint – your highest hereafter potential” (220). This has to exercise alongside tapping into a course of written report of Jungian Collective Unconscious; a whole that is greater than oneself. But, again, a clarification is necessary: “‘The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests inwards detail communities, groups, and, ultimately, inwards us equally individuals’” (228). This changes our mission, if nosotros desire to alter society, because global alter begins locally together with spreads outward to the whole (like Sheldrake’s theory of Morphic Resonance, where minor alter reverberates through a connected organization (199)). This implies the importance of “glocalization” equally a agency of change.

One way to catalyze a shift is to start a dialogue. Betty Sue Flowers (author) says, “‘Maybe that’s what we’re doing alongside the floor of the U…. We’re trying to educate a linguistic communication that tin assist people remember together with verbalize together close how the whole tin shift. We know then much close the problems of the basis today that it’s slowly to autumn into fearfulness together with denial. What nosotros ask is a linguistic communication of promise together with possibility that’s grounded inwards ideas together with experiences emerging from innovators inwards science, business, together with communities’” (218). At the real least, I promise that my PhD inquiry volition start a dialogue close the ask for a to a greater extent than spiritual approach to technological development.

Consider this equally a springboard into discussion:
“Rose von Thater-Braan, ane of the organizers of an integrative learning middle for the written report of indigenous noesis together with native scientific discipline says, ‘The many differences betwixt native scientific discipline together with Western scientific discipline starting fourth dimension alongside intent. The mutual role that drives modern Western scientific discipline is to sympathise nature inwards monastic enjoin to amend command – some would tell commodify – nature.’ By contrast, inwards native science, ‘The cardinal intent is to cash inwards one's chips to a greater extent than human together with to larn how to alive inwards harmony alongside nature together with alongside ane another. Native scientists may invent technologies to brand their life easier, but these are ever secondary to human development’” (202)….

What are nosotros aiming to exercise alongside technology? Why are nosotros non trying to assistance our human development?