Editing Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future

=On the Surface: Symptoms of Death and Rebirth (Downloading)=
We move from the toppling of tyrants to an exploration of the deeper fault lines that keep generating the disruptive changes of our time. We also look at these disruptive events from the viewpoint of changemakers: In the face of disruption, what determines whether we end up in moments of madness or mindfulness?

==The Three Divides==
# The Ecological Divide
## Water
## Soil
## Climate
## Eco-Systems
# The Socioeconomic Divide
## Hunger
## Poverty
## Inequality
# The Spiritual-Cultural Divide
## Happiness and Well-Being
## Burning, Depression, Suicide

==Journaling Questions==
Take a journal (or blank piece of paper) and write your responses to the questions below. Spend no more than one to two minutes answering each question. Number your responses.
# Where do you experience your ecosystem that is dying (in society, in your organization, in yourself)?
# Where do you experience your ecosystem that is waiting to be born (in society, in your organization, in yourself)?
# Where have you experienced moments of disruption? And what did you notice about your own process of presencing or absencing?
# How do the ecological, socioeconomic, and spiritual-cultural divides show up in your personal experiences?

==Circle Conversation==
Assemble a circle of five to seven individuals and hold a first meeting to share the context that each person brings to the circle. Respond to the following:
# Introduce your personal story with one or two formative experiences that shaped the person you are.
# Where do you experience your ecosystem that is ending/dying, and where do you experience your ecosystem that is beginning/wanting to be born?
# What do you consider to be the root causes and issues of our current crisis and the three divides?
# What do you personally feel is going to happen over the next year? The next one to five years?
# What would you like to do right now in order to make a difference going forward?

=Structure: Systemic Disconnects (Seeing)=
What are the structural issues that lead us to reenact patterns of the past and not connect to what is emerging? What is the underlying blind spot that, if illuminated, could help us to see the hidden structures below the waterline?

===Structural Disconnects and System Limits===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="9"|Structural Disconnects and System Limits
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|'''Ecological issue'''
|'''Income issue'''
|'''Financial issue'''
|'''Technology issue'''
|'''Leadership issue'''
|'''Consumerism issue'''
|'''Governance issue'''
|'''Ownership issue'''
|-
|Surface Symptoms
|1.5 planet footprint
|Top 1 percent own more than bottom 90 percent
|US$1.5 quadrilion speculation bubble
|Quick technological fix syndrome
|Collectively creating results that nobody wants
|Burnout, depression, consumerism without well-being
|Inability to face challenges at sale of whole system
|Overuse of scarce resources; tragedy of the commons
|-
|Structural Disconnect
|Decoupling of unlimited growth and finite resources
|Decoupling of Haves and Have Nots, of wealth and basic need
|Decoupling of financial economy and real economy
|Decoupling of technological solutions and societal needs
|Decoupling of old leadership tools and new challenges
|Decoupling of GDP and well-being
|Decoupling of parts and whole
|Decoupling of current ownership forms and best societal use
|-
|Systemic Limit
|Limits to growth &rarr; cultivating finite resources
|Limits to inequality &rarr; embodying human rights
|Limits to speculation &rarr; organizing around the real economy
|Limits to symptom fixes &rarr; focusing on sustainable solutions
|Limits to leadership &rarr; direct, distributed, dialogic self-governance
|Limits to consumerism &rarr; attending to inner and relational sources of happiness and well-being
|Limits to competition &rarr; redrawing boundaries of competition and cooperation
|Limits to state and private property &rarr; property rights for the commons
|}

Common characteristics of Structural Disconnects and System Limits:
# embody systemic structures that are designed not to learn;
# are unaware of externalities;
# facilitate money flowing the wrong way;
# allow special-interest groups to rig the system to the disadvantage of the whole

===The Challenge-Response Model of Economic Evolution===

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="7"|The Challenge-Response Model of Economic Evolution
|-
|
|'''Primary societal challenge'''
|'''Response: coordination mechanism'''
|'''Primary sector/players'''
|'''Primary source of power'''
|'''Dominant ideology'''
|'''Primary state of consciousness'''
|-
|Society 1.0: State-Driven, Mercantilism, Socialism
|Stability
|Commanding; hierarchy
|State/government
|Coercive (sticks)
|Mercantilism; socialism (state-centric thought)
|Traditional awareness
|-
|Society 2.0: Free-Market-Driven, Laissez-Faire
|Growth
|Competing: markets
|Capital/business: state/government
|Remunerative (carrots)
|Neoliberal and neoclassic (market-centric thought)
|Ego-system awareness
|-
|Society 3.0: Stakeholder-Driven, Social-Market Economy 
|Negative domestic externalities
|Negotiation: stakeholder dialogue
|Civil society/NGOs; capital/business; state/government
|Normative (values)
|Social democratic or progressive thought
|Stakeholder awareness
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Society 4.0: Eco-System Driven, Co-Creative Economy
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Global disruptive externalities, resilience
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Presencing: awareness-based collective action (ABC)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Cross-sector co-creation; civil society/NGOs; capital/business; state/government
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Awareness: actions that arise from seeing the emerging whole
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system-centric thought
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system awareness
|}

=Transforming Thought: The Matrix of Economic Evolution (Sensing)=
Exploring the abyss between the world of new leadership challenges, and the world of old economic and management tools.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="9"|The Matrix of Economic Evolution
|-
|'''Stage'''
|'''Nature'''
|'''Labor'''
|'''Capital'''
|'''Technology'''
|'''Leadership'''
|'''Consumption'''
|'''Coordination'''
|'''Ownership'''
|-
|0.0: Communal: Premodern Awareness
|Mother Nature
|Self-sufficiency
|Natural capital
|Indigenous wisdom
|Community
|Survival
|Community
|Communal
|-
|1.0: State-Centric: Mercantilism, State Capitalism; Traditional Awareness
|Resource
|Serfdom, slavery
|Human capital
|Tools: Agricultural Revolution
|Authoritarian (sticks)
|Traditional (needs-driven)
|Hierarchy and control
|State
|-
|2.0: Free Market; Laissez-Faire; Ego-Centric Awareness
|Commodity (land, raw materials)
|Labor (commodity)
|Industrial capital
|Machines: first Industrial Revolution (coal, steam, railway)
|Incentives (carrots)
|Consumerism: mass consumption
|Markets and competition
|Private: exchange of private ownership in markets
|-
|3.0: Social Market: Regulated; Stakeholder-Centric Awareness 
|Regulated commodity
|Labor (regulated commodity)
|Financial capital (externality-blind)
|System-centric automation: second Industrial Revolution (oil, combustion engine, chemicals)
|Participative (norms)
|Selectively conscious consumption
|Networks and negotiation
|Mixed (public-private)
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''4.0: Co-Creative: Distributed; Direct; Dialogic; Eco-Centric Awareness
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system and commons
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Social and business entrepreneurship
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Cultural creative capital (externality-aware)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Human-centric technologies: third Industrial Revolution (renewable energy and information technologies)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Co-creative (collective presence)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''CCC: collaborative conscious consumption
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: awareness-based collective action
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Shared access to services and common resources
|}

==Journaling Questions==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="9"|The Matrix of Economic Evolution
|-
|
|'''Nature'''
|'''Labor'''
|'''Capital'''
|'''Technology'''
|'''Leadership'''
|'''Consumption'''
|'''Coordination'''
|'''Ownership'''
|-
|1.0
|Resource
|Serfdom
|Human
|Tools
|Authoritarian
|Traditional
|Central planning
|State
|-
|2.0
|Commodity
|Commodity
|Industrial
|Machines
|Incentives
|Consumerism
|Markets and competition
|Private
|-
|3.0
|Regulated commodity
|Regulated commodity
|Financial
|System-centric automation
|Participative
|Selectively conscious consumption
|Networks and negotiation
|Mixed (public-private)
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''4.0
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system, commons
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Entrepreneurship
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Cultural, creative
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Human-centric
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Co-creative
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Collaborative conscious consumption
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: Awareness-based collective action
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Commons: shared access
|}
# In each column, check one box (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, or 4.0) that best represents the currently dominant operating model in your ecosystem and context.
# Then draw a current reality line that links all the boxes that you checked.
# What would be the most appropriate operating model for the future work that needs to happen to address the big challenges of the next decade or two? In each row, check one box, this time using a different color.
# Now draw the emerging future line by connecting the second set of checked boxes with the second color.
# Compare both lines, the current reality line and the emerging future line. Do they differ, and if yes, where, and what does it mean?

==Circle Conversation==
# After completing the tasks above individually, have each member share with the group what the answers might mean going forward.
# What interesting prototypes can you think of for exploring 4.0 types of operating models in the context of your own work and life right now?

=Source: Connecting to Intention and Awareness (Presencing)=
Exploring the source level of social reality creation, the deepest level of the “current reality iceberg”, the level of intention and awareness, and connecting to the source of the future that is wanting to emerge.


{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|The Matrix of Social Evolution
|-
|'''Field: Structure of Attention'''
|'''Micro: Attending (Individual)'''
|'''Meso: Conversing (Group)'''
|'''Macro: Organizing (Institution)'''
|'''Mundo: Coordinating (Global System)'''
|-
|1.0 habitual awareness
|Listening 1: downloading habits of thought
|Downloading: speaking from conforming
|Centralized control: organizing around hierarchy
|Hierarchy: commanding
|-
|''Suspending''<br>2.0: ego-system awareness
|Listening 2: factual, open-minded
|Debate: speaking from differentiating
|Divisionalized: organizing around differentiation
|Market: competing
|-
|''Redirecting''<br>3.0 stakeholder awareness
|Listening 3: empathic, open-hearted
|Dialogue: speaking from inquiring others, self
|Distributed/networked: organizing around interest groups
|Negotiated dialogue: cooperating
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''''Letting Go''<br>4.0 eco-system awareness
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Listening 4: generative, open-presence
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Collective creativity: speaking from what is moving through
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system: organizing around what emerges
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: Awareness-based collective action: co-creating
|}

==Journaling Questions==
Use the Matrix of Social Evolution table to assess your current situation by answering the following questions.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|The Matrix of Social Evolution
|-
|'''Awareness'''
|'''Micro: Listening'''
|'''Meso: Conversing'''
|'''Macro: Organizing'''
|'''Mundo: Coordinating'''
|-
|1.0 habitual
|Level 1: downloading
|Downloading
|Centralized control
|Central planning
|-
|2.0: ego-system awareness
|Level 2: factual
|Debate
|Divisionalized
|Markets and competition
|-
|3.0 stakeholder
|Level 3: empathic
|Dialogue
|Networked
|Negotiation and dialogue
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''4.0 eco-system
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Level 4: generative
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Collective creativity
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: seeing/acting from the whole
|}
# What percentage of your time do you spend on each level of listening? Write down the percentage.
# What percentage of your time do you spend on each level of conversing?
# What percentage of your time does your institution make you organize around centralized, divisionalized, networked, or eco-systemic structures?
# What percentage of your time do you spend on connecting to the whole through the mechanisms of hierarchy, competition, stakeholder negotiation, or ABC (shared awareness of the whole)?
# With a different-colored pen, indicate in the table what you would like the future to look like (using percentages).
# Compare the two sets of percentages, notice the gaps, and develop ideas for bridging them.

==Circle Conversation==
# After answering the six questions above individually, have each member of your circle share their insights, questions, and intentions in regard to their personal profile.
# What interesting small prototypes can you think of for exploring 4.0 types of operating that can move your profile from actual to desired?

=Leading the Personal Inversion: From Me to We (Crystalizing)=
Stepping into the field of the future starts with attending to the opening of an inner crack. Following that crack requires us to let go of the old and “let grow” something that we can sense, but that we cannot fully know before we see it emerge. This moment, which requires us to move although we cannot yet fully see the new, feels like jumping across an abyss. At the moment we leap, we have no idea whether we will make it across.

==The Three Conditions for self to Self, me to We==
# Bending the Beam of Observation - Enabling presencing between Levels 2, 3, 4 of listening.
# A Holding Space for Embracing the Shadow - The cultivation of a holding space allows a shift of the social field to happen, the mind and the heart to open.
# Going to the Edge of Letting Go - The willingness to go to the edge of the abyss, to let go, to lean into the unknown—and take the leap.

==Twelve Principles for self to Self, me to We==
# Practice, don't preach.
# Observe, observe, observe: Become a black belt observer.
# Connect to your intention as an instrument.
# When the crack opens up, stay with it - connect and act from the now.
# Follow your heart - Do what you love, love what you do.
# Always be in dialogue with the universe.
# Create a holding space of deep listening that supports your journey.
# Iterate, iterate, iterate.
# Notice the crack to the field of the future.
# Use different language with different stakeholders.
# If you want to change others (other stakeholders), you need to open to changing yourself first.
# Never give up. Never give up. You are not alone.

==Journaling Questions==
Take a journal and some quiet time to answer these sixteen questions. Spend about one to two minutes per question.
# What in your life and work is dying or ending, and what wants to be born?
# Who have been your “guardian angels,” the people who have helped you to realize your highest potential?
# Where, right now, do you feel the opening to a future possibility?
# What about your current work and/or personal life frustrates you the most?
# What are your most important sources of energy? What do you love?
# Watch yourself from above, as if from a helicopter. What are you trying to do at this stage of your professional and personal journey?
# Watch the journey of your community/organization/collective movement from above. What are you trying to do in the present stage of your collective journey?
# Given the above answers, what questions do you now need to ask yourself?
# Look at your current situation from the viewpoint of yourself as a young person at the beginning of your journey. What does that young person have to say to you?
# Imagine you could fast-forward to the very last moments of your life, when it is time for you to move on. Now look back on your life’s journey as a whole. What would you want to see at that moment? What footprint do you want to leave behind on this planet?
# From that future point of view, what advice would your future Self offer to your current self?
# Now return to the present and crystallize what it is that you want to create: your vision and intention for the next three to five years. What vision and intention do you have for yourself and your work? What are the core elements of the future that you want to create in your personal, professional, and social life? Describe the images and elements that occur to you. The more concrete, the better.
# What would you have to let go of in order to bring your vision into reality? What is the old stuff that must die? What “old skin” (behaviors, thought processes, etc.) do you need to shed?
# Over the next three months, if you were to prototype a microcosm of the intended future in which you could discover “the new” by doing something, what would that prototype look like?
# Who can help you make your highest future possibilities a reality? Who might be your core helpers and partners?
# If you were to take on the project of bringing your highest intention into reality, what practical first steps would you take over the next three days?

==Circle Conversation==
Invite each person in your group to share the most meaningful things that surfaced through this sixteen-step journaling experience. Listen deeply and go with the flow of the conversation.

=Leading the Relational Inverstion: From Ego to Eco (Prototyping)=


=Leading the Instituional Inverstion: Toward Eco-System Economies (Performing)=

=Leading from the Emerging Future: Now=

The U process of learning from the emerging future follows three movements:
# Observe, observe
# Retreat and reflect: allow the inner knowing to emerge
# Act in an instant

==Journaling Questions==
What do you see when you turn around? What is the seed of the future or the sprout that you see in your field? Here are twelve questions for you to ponder in your personal reflection. Take a journal and a quiet moment to write for a minute or so on each of them:
# What do you feel is wanting to transform within yourself?
# What do you want to bring into being?
# What do you need to let go of?
# While reading this book, what has been your most important insight?
# While reading this book, what has been your most important insight about yourself?
# While reading this book, what has touched you and why?
# While reading this book, what precious seed of the future (intention) did you become aware of?
# How can you pull people together from across different systems in order to do something inspiring, fun, and meaningful—your version of a GNH or Society 4.0 Lab?
# Who is your coaching circle—your circle of five or seven?
# What practices (moments of stillness) do you use to connect to Source?
# How do you balance beauty and truth in your life and work?
# What are your most important next steps? Your action items for the next three days?

==Circle Conversation==
With other people in your circle, reflect on these points:
# Each shares where you feel the crack
# Each shares an observation on your own opening over the past few weeks (open mind, heart, or will). # Share your observations on a conversational shift in your group that you may have noticed.
# Share how all these observations relate to the institutional inversion around you.
# What initiative, if taken on jointly, could help to shift the field of your system to 4.0?
# Who needs to be involved to make it work?
# Dialogue on and determine your next steps.
# Use the [http://presencing.com presencing.com] as a resource to get tools, share stories, and link up with a global community of other circles that are “joining the river.” Let’s meet at one of the upcoming forum events that will allow us to connect online or in person.

=Appendix=

[[File:Health-inequality.png|thumb|left|Health and social problems are closely related to inequality among rich countries.]]

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