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Sensing

The Patient-Physician Dialogue Forum • The Field Structure of Sensing • Sensing in Belitung, Indonesia • Principles • Opening the Heart • The Grail Question • Sensing in Action • Two Types of Wholeness • Epistemological Reversal • Field Notes

When moving from seeing to sensing, perception begins to happen from the whole field. Peter Senge believes that this turn is at the heart of systems thinking. It’s about closing the feedback loop between people’s experience of reality (“what the system is doing to us”) and their sense of participation in the whole cycle of experience. When that happens, he said, people say something like ...

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