The Essentials of Theory U

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Part I: A Framework for Seeing the Field......Page 15
1. The Blind Spot......Page 16
Three Divides......Page 17
The Blind Spot......Page 18
In Front of the Blank Canvas......Page 19
Learning from the Future as It Emerges......Page 20
Social Fields......Page 22
Making the System See Itself......Page 24
The Process: Three Movements......Page 26
Mapping the Deeper Territory......Page 28
Three Instruments of Inner Knowing......Page 30
Two Barriers to Moving Up the U......Page 32
Presencing and Absencing......Page 33
The Grammar of Social Fields......Page 36
Attending......Page 41
Conversing......Page 42
Organizing......Page 46
Coordinating and Governing......Page 48
Field 1 to Field 4: A Journey of Inversion......Page 50
Making the System Sense and See Itself......Page 53
“I Expect a Lot from You”......Page 54
Reintegration of Matter and Mind......Page 55
Through the Eye of the Needle......Page 56
Inverting the System-Self Relationship......Page 57
From Reacting to Regenerating......Page 62
Part II: A Method for Consciousness-Based Systems Change......Page 63
Co-initiating: Uncovering Shared Intention......Page 64
Co-sensing: Seeing Reality from the Edges of the System......Page 68
Presencing: Connecting to the Highest Future Potential......Page 76
Co-creating: Crystallizing and Prototyping the New......Page 86
Co-shaping: Grow Innovation Eco-systems......Page 91
Part III: A Narrative of Evolutionary Societal Change......Page 96
Economy 4.0......Page 97
Democracy 4.0......Page 102
Cross-Sector 4.0......Page 103
4.0 Lab......Page 108
Staying on Course......Page 109
“I Can’t Not Do It”......Page 110
u.lab......Page 111
Get Involved......Page 113
About the Author......Page 115
About the Presencing Institute......Page 116
Index......Page 117