ABOUT THE PRESENCING INSTITUTE

The Presencing Institute (PI) is an awareness-based action-research community that creates social technologies, builds capacities, and generates holding spaces for profound societal renewal. This community tries to contribute to shifting the economy from ego to eco, and toward serving the well-being of all.

A ten-year research project that we started in 1996, conducted by Otto and his colleagues, including Joseph Jaworski and Peter Senge, at MIT resulted in a consciousness-based framework of leadership and change. That framework, referred to as presencing or Theory U, says that the quality of the results that a system creates is a function of the awareness from which the people in that system operate. The findings ...

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