Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move

Maps are made for deep learning. We do not judge them as good or bad. We are not attached to outcomes. We use them to learn about the hidden aspects of the systems that we co-create. All maps hold some truth about a system, and all are regarded as expressing or showing movement forward toward deeper understanding and skillful action.

Every 4-D Map includes the Earth, the Excluded, and our Highest Aspiration.

Awareness is the leverage point for change.

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).

There is no right or wrong experience—only learning.

Awareness opens and transforms experience

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.

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.

Practice and Reflection Instructions Sit on chairs in a large circle. The facilitator will have prepared in advance the name of each stakeholder role (this process is not described here), with each name written on a card.7 The facilitator calls the name of the first role. If you feel some resonance with that role, stand, walk into the circle, recei