Otto Scharmer: What Future Is Wanting to Emerge Through You?
Jul 16, 2024
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Renowned MIT lecturer Otto Scharmer discusses moving towards a future wanting to emerge, reframing narratives of hope, ego-system vs. ecosystem awareness, and creating holding spaces for social transformation. Topics include deep listening, human spirit awakening, and the importance of attention, intention, and agency in personal and collective evolution.
Moving from reacting to sensing and actualizing the future that is wanting to emerge.
Shifting from ego-system awareness to ecosystem awareness for societal change.
Creating a new narrative of hope and possibility amidst societal challenges.
Deep dives
Introduction to SoundsTrue and SoundsTrue One Community
SoundsTrue introduces its new membership community and digital platform, SoundsTrue One, offering transformational docu-series, community events, classes, including live shows like Insights at the Edge with Q&A sessions. SoundsTrue also highlights the Sounds True Foundation, a nonprofit supporting equitable access transformational tools and teachings.
Otto Scharmer's Background and Theory You Framework
Otto Scharmer, known for Theory You, studies innovators' methods at MIT, leading to the Theory You framework emphasizing inner and outer presencing for change. Scharmer joins Insights at the Edge discussing awareness -based systems change and its role in personal and global transformation.
Shift in Collective Perception towards Current Global Disruption
Scharmer recounts a UN event where collective depression shifted to empowerment, realizing individuals' impact on global challenges. Addressing the illusion of insignificance, Scharmer highlights the power of collective intention and the need for redefining narratives amidst societal crises.
Embracing the Emerging Story of Connection and Initiative
Scharmer discusses the coexistence of narratives: one of decline and another of new connection and initiative's birth. He emphasizes fostering a new civilization grounded in reconnection with self, others, and the planet, highlighting the untold potential of emerging positive narratives.
Empowering the 69% Collective Willingness for Global Change
Scharmer discusses the UN Human Development Report revelation of 69% willing to sacrifice income for global challenges. He explores bridging personal intention with collective action, transforming the shared willingness into a multi-faceted movement for addressing ecological, social, and spiritual divides.
Looking at the state of our world, says Dr. Otto Scharmer, it’s plain to see that there’s something wrong with our collective decision-making. How, then, do we move from just reacting against the issues of the past, toward sensing and actualizing the future that is wanting to emerge? That is the profound question at the heart of this podcast featuring the renowned MIT lecturer, author of Theory U, and contributing faculty member to Sounds True’s Inner MBA® program.
In a bold conversation that speaks directly to both our individual empowerment and the larger societal changes that are becoming increasingly urgent, Tami Simon and Otto Scharmer discuss: the collective sense of depression and disillusion at this time; reframing a fearful cultural narrative to one of hope and possibility; bridging today’s ecological, social, and spiritual divides; ego-system awareness vs. ecosystem awareness; big changes through small steps; the subtle shift of “opening the will”; letting go of what’s not essential; moving from certainties to not knowing; Social Presencing; courage; why transformational work and activating our potential is easier than we think; creating a “holding space” and allowing generative forces to come forth; attention, intention, and agency; the invisible yet vital part of our social field—the quality of our relationships; deep listening; the awakening of the human spirit; and more.
Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.
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