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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.”

acts of leadership depend less on the magnetism and social dominance of heroic individuals and more on the capacities of individuals (who may be located in a wide variety of positions) to skillfully intervene in complex systems.

Tom Atlee’s work offers profound inspiration and practical support for people willing to live the questions together in order to redesign the human presence on Earth.

“We usually ask for more of our leaders than what they have been developed to do” (Kegan and Lahey, 2009).

On this level our work focuses on getting our (old) self out of the way in order to open a space, a clearing, that allows for a different sense of presence to manifest.

You ask questions, and you carefully observe the responses that nature (data) gives you.

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

creating a game-changing vision for their organizations. They do so by… … finding and amplifying intersections … making it about more than money … not being afraid to look back to look forward … involving a broad group of leaders in the process

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