Drawing on the arts and contemplative traditions, Social Presencing Theater brings to the surface a clearer sense of the relationships, hidden dynamics, and emerging possibilities inherent in a team, organization or larger system.
It allows co-creators in a given system to gain insight into the current situation, seeing potential opportunities for change. It sets the ground for creative collective action.
"Theater" here denotes an empty stage or a blank canvas where the different aspects and roles of the system can be embodied. In that space, the roles can interact in fresh and creative ways to reveal emerging possibilities hidden in the system. It is "the art of making a true move."
What this program will provide
Social Presencing Theater is a series of embodiment practices that develop capacity for awareness-based engagement in social and organizational transformation (grounded in Theory U framework).
Participants will learn the basic Social Presencing Theater practices which invite:
Experiencing the wisdom of embodied presence
Seeing and sensing the larger systems in which we live and work
Cultivating our social field of relationship in family, teams, organisations and communities
Building action confidence to create new solutions.
Guest Facilitator
Arawana Hayashi
Arawana heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues, she brings her background in the arts, meditation, and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities for individuals and groups.