Elements of Theory U the process behind profound innovation:
Sensing – Presencing – Realising
Suspending, Redirecting, Letting Go, Letting Come, Crystalising, Prototyping, Institutionalising
Principle:
Sensing:
is suspending our current mental models, immersing yourself in the reality of the situation to become one with it
Presencing:
is reaching a state of clarity about and connection to what is emerging, and to an inner knowing where `in a sense, there is no decision-making What to do just becomes obvious and what is achieved depends on where you’re coming from and who you are as a person`.
Realizing:
is acting to create something new from a source deeper than the rational mind, it is a state of flow that arises from not imposing our will- operating from a larger intention
Issues:
The expanded self at the bottom of the U naturally encounters a larger purpose
Are human beings fundamentally separate or inseparable from nature? We need to re-experience our place in the universe before we can see how it needs us as well as how we need it….
… for me it has to do with our stewardship responsibility today
… the “real message of globalization”, is becoming “more aware of how deeply we’re interconnected as human beings across all of society”
The self doesn’t react to a reality outside, nor does it create something new in isolation- rather like the seed of a tree, it becomes the gateway for the coming into being of a new world.
Ultimately it becomes impossible to say `I’m doing this` or `We’re doing this` because the experience is one of unbroken awareness and action.
This sensibility was beautifully expressed more than two thousand years ago in the Bhagavad Gita: `
“All actions are wrought by the qualities of nature only. The self, deluded by egoism, thinketh: `I am the doer`.”
Applications:
To understand the theory behind innovation processes
Source of Theory U the process behind profound innovation:
(Senge, Scharmer, Jaworkski, and Flowers, 2005)