Otto Scharmer in Dialogue with Thomas Hübl: Global Social Witnessing and the Current Crisis

What is the background to the current global crisis situation with the #coronavirus #pandemic? What do we need now and what are the prospects? What role does collective trauma and absencing play? In contrast, attention and awareness is the real super power today. In this exciting and energized dialogue, Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT Boston, and inventor of Theory U, and Thomas Hübl bring together their concentrated expertise, analysis of the situation and outline a future perspective. A total of 1,400 people followed the livestream on March 30, 2020.
This exchange was part of the Global Social Witnessing Conference of the IfGIC (Institute for Global Integral Competence), which had to be cancelled as an onsite event due to the crisis and was partly held online. Many thanks to Prof. Kazuma Matoba and his team for organizing the conference!
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The GAIA project initiated by Otto Scharmer: www.presencing...

[@greenmanlove1]

love how otto brought the term absencing in consouseness.its been so helpful bring clarety to alot of the root of problems in society

[@markumlauf650]

Presencing and Absencing are excellent ways of looking at our choices of responding to our collective and individual situations. I like Otto's diagram and explanations. Thomas adds to the mix with his own ideas that augment the dialogue between these two like minded individuals. These guys really know their craft. Skills beyond the ordinary healers of today. Fine examples of evolutionary thinking and deep running intelligence. We can see living examples of how being present can attain a higher realm of conscious thoughts. Leading us toward a better tomorrow. From two professionals in tune with our current Covid19 crisis. Talk about trauma! It's gonna take a lotta "Atta Boys" to make up for this "Oh, SHIT!" Best regards to us all. Namaste' pilgrims.

[@DarkMoonDroid]

2:00 Thomas asks more about "Absencing" Otto's response 3:56 We-Presencing 5:56 Global Social Witnessing 8:55 Gift and Choice 10:34 Love this diagram! Have to draw my own copy.. 13:10 Imagine what it would be like if this story did appear on the news. If all the Absencing Talking Heads were gone and folks like you guys were there instead and telling this story... 14:14 The Collective Version (In Ken Wilber's language, this would be Lower Right or Collective Exterior) 15:12 How he developed this idea/diagram - Varella's Inquiry into Becoming Aware 26:23 Thomas' response 30:34 I noticed Otto's blind spot when talking about "Choice" up around 8:55. 33:53 This little tid-bit harkens to the esoteric lore around the forms. Fascinating... 42:01 Otto's response and deepening the inquiry into the difference between general vs. personal. Authentic vs. Counterfeit Whole. Authentic Whole presences itself into the Parts. 😍 Sorry I couldn't finish. Exhausted. 💜

[@suzanneniemeijer196]

Thomas, you speek about letting other people be a mirror for that where you can not see yourself. And then you speek about the nature of not seing yourself as a protection system... Can you explain a little bit more of that? I find that very Interesting. Thank you two beautiful men for your important perspectives in this exiting time🙏

[@ThePocketProject]

Very enriching and good aspects in terms of understanding collective trauma.

[@KathrynDavison]

These principles and evolutionary potentials are so ripe, and i'm beyond ready to be in dialogue and prototyping rather than sitting in my room with ideas no one will try out with me. Arrgh.

[@delphinebrooks5110]

so interesting. Thank you

[@SusmitaBarua_mita]

How can trauma be neutralized at the collective level through collective presensing, theta level hypnosis self-programming and energy psychology? In awareness based community there is heart-mind resonance, interdependent nature of individual and collective is understood and the space offers safety, compassion, mutual learning and growth for each other with distributed awake leadership.

[@dokarlene]

The processes described requires huge amount of HONESTY. Otherwise, everything would just be cerebral

[@dokarlene]

and huge doses of HUMILITY : )

[@campusco-evolve5494]

Thomas talk about developing and using coherence building tools. What would be examples of that?

[@megoshaughnessy7107]

thank you!

[@suebottomley4881]

I enjoyed Otto 's contribution. However that of Thomas feels over self centred for me. The work of Paul Lowe is for me more relevant