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Transcript of Convention 2014 From Source by Jaworski and Leading from the Emerging Future by Sharmer and Kaufer.
Convention 2014
From Source by Jaworski and Leading from the Emerging Future by Sharmer and Kaufer
Beyond Servant Leadership
The Call for Deeper Leadership“What counts is not what
leaders do and how they do it but their interior condition, the inner place from which they operate or the source from which all their actions originate.”
Otto Sharmer
Need for an inner shift from fixing or fighting the “old” to sensing an emerging future possibility.
Call and Crisis of our Time
Crisis Call
Crisis reveals the dying of old social structures built on pre-modern, traditional and modern industrial forms of thinking and operating.
Call is to a shift to a new form of presence and power that grows spontaneously from groups of people with a different quality of thinking, conversing and collective action which operates from a real future possibility.
Converging Trends
Looking at the Systemic Factors
Evolution of Mental Models and Leadership Development
Reflecting on the Crisis and the Call
1. Global civil society in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King
2. Action Science represented by Kurt Lewin and Edgar Schein
3. Mindfulness and awareness inherit in the essence of all the wisdom traditions
Trends: Three Streams Coming Together
The Current System
Symptoms
Themes and Patterns
Systemic Disconnects
Mental Models
What are some Symptoms?Attendance declineYounger generations
not interestedIrrelevance –daily
issuesHypocrisyFunding the ChurchConflictReligion vs.
spirituality
Global Themes and PatternsDisconnect between
self and cosmos: i.e. compromised stewardship
Disconnect between self and others: i.e. compromised outreach
Disconnect between self and Self: i.e. compromised piety
Systemic DisconnectsStewardship: infinite
growth, undeveloped and/or irresponsible use of resources
Outreach: fixing or programming vs. meeting real needs
Piety: religious programming vs. spiritual transformation
Cultural Characteristics – Reinforce DisconnectsSystemic structures
designed NOT to learnUnaware of external
forcesSocial, financial, and
spiritual capital flowing inward vs. outward
Allow special interest groups/issues to rig system to disadvantage of the whole
currentNew/More is better,
efficientProblem solvingNetworks and
negotiation with stakeholders to be #1
Security, justice, respect, equality, development
Open, attentive, adaptive
Tuned in to adaptive and emerging changes
Aligned with well being of others and the whole
Mental Models
needed
Evolution of Mental Models“State Centric” –
hierarchy and control“Free Market” –
markets and competition
“Social Market” – networks and negotiation
“Co-creative” – seeing and acting from the whole
Stages of Leadership Development
Stage 1 – Self centric leaders: ego, position
Stage 2 – Achieving leaders: conform to & enforce established rules
Stage 3 – Servant Leaders: serve & develop others
Stage 4 – Renewing Leaders: breakthrough thinking, creating future
Renewing LeadershipFrom me to we
Better relating to others
Better relating to the whole
Better relating to selfExplore edges of system
Emerging mental models/consciousness
Explore edges of selfOpen mindOpen heartOpen will
Reflections on Systemic
Factors, Developmen
t, and Trends
Stage 4 (Renewing) Leadership is Collective Leadership
Renewing Leadership Practices need to be Cultivated
Renewing Leadership Principles are based on Theory U
More on Stage 4 Leadership
What is needed in renewing leadership today is the ability to hold and evolve our collective attention at the same rate at which reality around us keeps changing.
We need to develop new collective leadership mechanisms that allow a diverse constellation of players to connect, co-sense, and co-create.
This calls for deepening levels of awareness and avoiding the blind spots which keep us from seeing the future possibilities.
Collective Leadership
We cannot transform systems unless we transform the quality of attention people apply to their actions individually and collectively.
Quality of results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which people in a system operate.
Form follows consciousness.
Leaders and Transformation
Preparation – inner transformation, contemplation
Igniting passion – commit to pursue inquiry on the edges
Observing and Immersing – seeing with fresh eyes
Letting go – mental models, mindsets, world views
Indwelling and Illumination – surrendering to the Self (identity in God) and Work (Vocation/Mission)
Crystallizing and PrototypingTesting and Verifying – usable programs/
initiatives
Leadership Practices
Theory U
Absensing holding on manipulating De-sensing Deluding entrenching will abusingDenying Stuck in skin Aborting
blinding Stuck in one truth disembody
DownloadingDestroying
Avoiding Shadow of the U - Absensing
Energy follows attention – shift from what we are trying to avoid to what we want to create
Follow movements of the UGo to edges of the self – suspend judgment,
empathize, let go, let come“Eye of the needle” – Who is my Self? What
is my Work?Transform 3 enemies: VOJ, VOC, VOFStart by attending to the “cracks”, openings,
challenges, disruptions
Renewing Leadership Principles
Hold space for transforming fields of conversation: from debate to dialogue to collective creativity
Strengthen sources of presencing to avoid destructive dynamics of absensing
Principles - continued
Reflections on Stage 4
Leadership
Focus on critical mass of leaders with capacity for change (convene the system)
Refining and reaffirming core values, purpose, identity
Focus on 2 or 3 shifts which are neededMagnify positive attitudes, behaviors and
practices that already existProvide growth and development
opportunities throughout the congregationBuild a learning community – each person
teaches what they learn and learn from others
Congregational Actions
Co-initiation Implement solutions
Foundation Learning by
Workshops doing
Learning JourneysCommon immersionCommitment
Innovation Retreat
Innovation Lab
From Spectators to Stewards
Stewardship is a state of being where people see the whole and their role in it and accept responsibility for their role and the whole.
From Outreach to Engagement
Listening to others on the edge with open minds, hearts and wills
Gathering diverse stakeholders inside and outside the congregation to create new possibilities
Commitment to action
From Piety to TransformationSpiritual practices to
connect to our true Self
Listening for our true Work/Vocation
Loving what we do and doing what we love
Surrendering to God’s will for our lives and congregations
Reflections on Congregational
Actions