Anchoring Profound Transformational Work within a Major Academic Institution
Establishing
a base for the work in a major academic institution could make a
significant contribution to the movement worldwide. Such a convening
place could provide a stronghold for support of the new global
consciousness. It could also provide a platform for developing a new
pedagogy, creating a new type of school and a place of opportunity for
the next generation of leaders.
“Life put me into this place
where I have one part of my life at MIT, another part of my life going
around the world, working in these distant places where I have
deepening partnerships with organizations and communities. I know that
in this global movement there could be a stronghold in a major academic
institution like MIT while doing this kind of profound transformation
work, i.e., work that leads individuals and communities to connect with
different states of consciousness.
The place [and anchoring]
at MIT could make a big contribution [to the larger movement]
particularly if we would allow people from the next generation to
connect with the global network that we know informally. [These young
leaders could connect with experienced leaders and practitioners
worldwide] in ways that are not generally accessible to them, as a
collective network for mentoring, inspiration and support. That is part
of my intention.
If [we] could utilize MIT not only as a
convening place but as a place that could give birth to a new type of
school that in the rapidly evolving global network we are all part of,
it would anchor [and enable] part of this new global consciousness
inside a major academic institution." -- Otto Scharmer
Presencing and World Café Technologies are
Directly Relevant to Evolution of A New Approach to Governance Now
Being Considered in America
“I think this movement [seen
in the Barack Obama Campaign for President] -- which you know is
pragmatically very much like our movement-- is needed to shift the
direction of this country and therefore the world. It will have to
continue as part of the governance system that has never been
acknowledged before, that a President Elect should be mature enough to
have a governance system of a movement that would also include in it
the issues of a subsidiarity and then the structuring down through that
system. It occurs to me that Presencing and World Café are both
[approaches] that [will be] needed should this new movement continue in
a positive direction.” -- Anne Dosher