Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move

Kurt Lewin, the founder of action research, is quoted as saying, “You cannot understand a system until you try to change it.”1

We make movement choices based on self-awareness, an awareness of the group (the visible arrangement of bodies) and on the felt sense of the experience (the invisible relationship quality).

Sculpture 1 (current reality) to Sculpture 2 (the emerging future).

Otto follows up on that idea with two of his own reflections: “You cannot change a system unless you change consciousness,” and “You cannot change consciousness unless the system can see and sense itself.”

Movement experience elicits genuine insights into our own behaviors and also into how groups shift from perpetuating stale relationship patterns toward becoming creative entities. It provokes reflection and learning. It makes visible the deeper patterns that support the cultivation of healthy social relations, sparking creative action in teams, org

As players move from Sculpture 1 to Sculpture 2, the instructions are to let go of thoughts and opinions and simply to stay in the body and extend awareness to the whole, recognizing that the whole system is its own being.

Awareness opens and transforms experience

the ecological divide, the social divide, and the spiritual divide. We invite players to embody these three challenges in every 4-D Map.

Basic goodness is our innate nature

We experience our natural connection to others as we engage physically and spatially in a group setting. We act from a sense of the whole, rather than from our individual part and agenda.