This presentation is the personal view of Marina Noordegraaf of the essence of "Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations and society", Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski en Betty Sue Flowers

1. The essence of fundamental change Stop focusing on the parts, start seeing the whole

2. Suppose you have a headache, regularly

3. Looking from the outside, it’s a problem waiting to be solved

4. Suppose you are getting wrinkled

5. Problem solved ?

6. Suppose oil is running out

7. Problem solved ?

8. “ Problemsolving often functions as a way of maintaining the status quo rather than enabling fundamental change ”

9. Why

10. Problem solving is reactive “ We are downloading habitual ways of thinking”

11. “ Simply labeling a situation as a “problem” allows us to distance ourselves from it and blocks observing whatever arises as it actually is”

12. David Bohm “ Normally our thoughts have us , rather than we having them”

13. Fundamental change occurs when we learn to see from the whole

14. Seeing from the whole does not happen as a result of ‘trying’. It comes out of ‘ suspending ’ our voice of judgment

15. “ If we can simply allow ourselves to sit with all the seemingly unrelated bits and pieces of information we see, fresh ways to understand a situation can eventually emerge”

16. The less you pack, the more awaits you

17. “ When we truly suspend taken-for-granted ways of seeing the world, what we start to see can be disorienting and disturbing ”

19. “ Embarking and continuing this journey requires the willingness to accept many such moments of “profound disorientation”

21. Break down the walls between self and world

22. Sense what is happening from within a situation, rather than from outside

23. Minds are like parachutes They only function when open

24. THE END