1. Learning from Future Emerging Possibilities: The U Process
Dr Stefan Cantore

2. Propositions
‘……….we cannot transform the behavior of systems unless we transform the quality of awareness and attention that people apply to their actions within these systems, both individually and collectively.’ Otto Scharmer ( Downloaded from 13 July 2015)

3. “The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.”
William O’Brien,
former CEO of the Hanover Insurance Company

4. Open Mind Open Heart Open Will Downloading past patterns
Performing by operating from the whole
suspending
embodying
Open
Mind
VoJ
Seeing with fresh eyes
Prototyping the new by linking head, heart, hand
redirecting
enacting
Open
Heart
VoC
Sensing from the field
Crystallizing vision and intention
letting go
Open
Will
letting come
VoF
Presencing connecting to Source
Who is my Self? What is my Work?

5. Open Mind Open Heart Open Will reconfirming old opinions & judgments
Downloading habits of judgment
LISTENING 1: from habits
disconfirming [new] data
LISTENING 2: from outside
Factual listening noticing differences
Open
Mind
seeing through another person‘s eyes emotional connection
LISTENING 3: from within
Empathic listening
Open
Heart
connecting to an emerging future whole; shift in identity and self
LISTENING 4: from Source
Generative listening (from the future wanting to emerge)
Open
Will

6. Dialogue: Reflective inquiry
Field: Structure
Of Attention
Field
I-in-me
I-in-it
I-in-you
I-in-now 1
Downloading:
Talking nice
Speaking from what they want to hear
Polite routines, empty phrases
Autistic system (not saying what you think) 2
Debate:
Talking tough
Speaking from what I think
Divergent views: I am my point of view
Adaptive system (say what you think)
Speaking from seeing myself as part
of the whole
From defending to inquiry into viewpoints Self-reflective system (reflect on your part) 3
Dialogue: Reflective inquiry
Speaking from what is moving through
Stilness, collective creativity, flow
Generative system (identity shift: authentic self) 4
Presencing:
Generative flow

7. References
Scharmer, C. O. (2009). Theory U: Learning from the future as it emerges. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Hall, G. (2008). Inside the theory of the U: interview with Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer. Reflections: The SoL Journal, 8(4), Senge, P. M., Scharmer, C. O., Jaworski, J., & Flowers, B. S. (2005). Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations, and society. Crown Business.