The essence of fundamental

change

Stop focusing on the parts, start seeing the whole

Suppose you have a headache, regularly

Looking from the outside, it’s a problem waiting to be solved

Suppose you are getting wrinkled

Problem solved ?

Suppose oil is running out

Problem solved ?

“Problemsolving often functions as a way of maintaining the

status quo rather than

enabling fundamental change”

Why

Problem solving is reactive

“We are downloading habitual ways of thinking”

“Simply labeling a situation as a “problem” allows us to distance ourselves

from it and blocks observing whatever arises

as it actually is”

David Bohm

“Normally our thoughts have us, rather than we having them”

Fundamental change occurs when we learn to see from the whole

Seeing from the whole does not happen as a result of ‘trying’.

It comes out of ‘suspending’ our voice of judgment

“If we can simply allow ourselves to sit with all the seemingly unrelated bits and

pieces of information we see, fresh ways to understand a situation

can eventually emerge”

The less you pack, the more awaits you

“When we truly suspend taken-for-granted ways

of seeing the world, what we start to see can be

disorienting and disturbing”

“Embarking and continuing this journey requires

the willingness to accept many such moments

of “profound disorientation”

Break down the walls between self and world

Sense what is happening from within a situation,

rather than from outside

Minds are like parachutes

They only function when open

THE END

Acknowledgement

This presentation is the personal view of Marina Noordegraaf of the essence of "Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations and society", Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski en Betty Sue Flowers

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