PRESENCING:

7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society, and Business

Co-authored by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer, this groundbreaking guide offers 7 transformative practices to catalyze multi-system change and planetary healing. Blending proven frameworks like Social Fields with real-world stories of global change-makers, it provides a powerful pathway to collective transformation.


Amid today’s crises, small "islands of coherence" are paving the way for a new planetary movement. Learn how to unlock generative listening, presencing, and ecosystem leadership to co-create a future of unity and flourishing. Your local actions can ripple outward to inspire global change—be part of the next renaissance.

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Praise for the Book

"This book provides a new language and teaches us new ways to integrate the insights of the psychology of mindfulness with the sociology of groups and the forces of the political and economic system. It is an incredible tour de force."
Carrie Hessler-Radelet
Former Peace Corps Director and International NGO Leader

“For two decades, Katrin and Otto have been helping thousands of people and hundreds of communities build capacity to hold the tensions of ‘either-or’. Now this book offers the guidance to build capacity for meeting this extraordinary time on its own terms.”

Peter Senge
MIT and Center for Systems Awareness

“What we learn from Presencing is that seeding the soil of consciousness with holistic understanding elevates the highest potential of a society.”

Pedro Tarak
Co-Founder, Sistema B and Regional Impact Trade Alliance (RITA)

“I’ve experienced firsthand the profound impact of Otto and Katrin’s transformative work. This book gives us the framework, methods, and tools to co-create and further evolve regenerative businesses that are working for all.”

Eileen Fisher
Fashion Designer and Founder of Eileen Fisher Inc.

“Presencing introduces practical tools and methods to confront disruption and how to counter is and discern our North Star – not only for us individually, but also for the institutions we lead and work in, and the societies we live in.”

Dayna L. Cunningham
Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life

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The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications

C. Otto Scharmer

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Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges

C. Otto Scharmer

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Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges

C. Otto Scharmer 

2nd Edition, 2016

In this ground-breaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways. What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention – both individually and collectively – is key to what we create. What often prevents us from “attending” is what Scharmer calls our “blind spot,” the inner place from which each of us operates. Learning to become aware of our blind spot is critical to bringing forth the profound systemic changes so needed in business and society today.

By moving through the “U” process we learn to connect to our essential Self, see our own blind spot and pay attention in a way that allows us to experience the opening of our minds, our hearts, and our wills. This wholistic opening constitutes a shift in awareness that allows us to learn from the future as it emerges, and to realize that future in the world.

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Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics

C. Otto Scharmer and

Katrin Kaufer

2013

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Leading from the Emerging Future:

From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics

C. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer

2nd Edition, 2013 

We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system from an obsolete “ego-system” focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole.

Filled with real-world examples, this thought-provoking guide presents proven practices for building a new economy that is more resilient, intentional, inclusive, and aware.

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Presence:

An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer,

Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers

2004

Organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty S. Flowers explored the nature of transformational change – how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.

Drawing on the wisdom and experience of 150 scientists, social leaders, and entrepreneurs, including Brian Arthur, Rupert Sheldrake, Buckminster Fuller, Lao Tzu and Carl Jung, Presence revolutionary and original work goes on to define the capabilities that underlie our ability to see, sense and realize new possibilities in ourselves, in institutions and organizations, and in society itself.

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Presence:

An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, andBetty Sue Flowers

2004

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Presence:

An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer,

Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers

2004

Organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty S. Flowers explored the nature of transformational change – how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.

Drawing on the wisdom and experience of 150 scientists, social leaders, and entrepreneurs, including Brian Arthur, Rupert Sheldrake, Buckminster Fuller, Lao Tzu and Carl Jung, Presence revolutionary and original work goes on to define the capabilities that underlie our ability to see, sense and realize new possibilities in ourselves, in institutions and organizations, and in society itself.

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