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Practice: Here is a checklist for a kickoff event that for the first time brings all the central players together. To create focus and commitment, clarify:

To lead profound change is to shift the inner place from which a system operates. This can be done only collaboratively, using what I have called a “social technology” throughout this book.

dialogues), to awareness-based collective action (ABC)—that is, to forms through which the system can sense and see itself and adjust accordingly.

The four sources differ in their positioning relative to the boundary of the system:

In the case of global NGOs, for example, there is one system that works on the ground in order to help and empower the beneficiaries in the field. Then there is the whole infrastructure piece that must be in place to adequately deliver the services to the field. That includes not only funding but also developing logistical infrastructures and so fo

day (morning: moving down the left arm of the U—co-sensing; afternoon: moving up the right arm of the U—co-creating).

Why are we doing all of this? What future possibility do we want to serve? What are we trying to create?

Four main principles come into play when entering the collective field of sensing: charging the container, deep diving, redirecting attention, and opening the heart.

did). And then I asked them to enact the voices, views, and concerns of all those stakeholders as if they were being filmed for a “current reality movie.”