As we move about with others, we create visible patterns and structures.

In Social Presencing Theater we begin by acknowledging that wisdom lives in all systems, individual and collective, and that change is a naturally unfolding process.

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

When thoughts about what we want or don’t want occupy all of our mind space, we lose touch both with our sensing body and with the felt awareness.

in a very short period of time, it shifts the conversation from debate to dialogue, it shifts the level of listening from shallow to deep, and it creates a new language that allows stakeholders to shift their quality of interaction from a silo to a systems view.

Awareness is the leverage point for change.

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

Our decisions must consider the well-being of those who have been excluded.

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.