Sublime

My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h

Leadership in this century means shifting the structure of our collective attention—listening—at all levels.

“the blind spot of contemporary science is experience.”

Rather than organizing our work around resolving the symptoms of reactivity, disorganization, and inefficiency, I invited Roger to be curious about how he got off track in the first place.

Discovery hinges on the questions to be asked.

began calling the state at the bottom of the U “Presencing.” I will talk much more about this in Part III, but for now, we can call it “seeing from our deepest source”: that is, sensing and operating from one’s highest future potential. It is the state each of us can experience when we open not just our minds but our hearts and our wills—our impetu

when we act in the moment, with an awareness and intention that is based on the recognition that [I/we] are connected, we create space for new possibilities to emerge.

I suggest we call these ways of acting our field structures of attention.

Theodore Zeldin.