I’ve recently joined a Collective Presencing Circle, a holding space for deep, generative listening. What has amazed me is how this holding space is created through a process of storytelling and context sharing.
The shift in this circle is that we have power over the place versus the place having power over us. It is though our practices of intentional silence and generative dialogue that we actually transform our place into a holding space.
This quote from Theory U best describes the feeling when I leave circle practice:
“What happens is that you leave that conversation as a different being-a different person-from the one who entered the conversation a few hours earlier. You are no longer the same. You are (a tiny bit) more who you really are. Sometimes that tiny bit can be quite profound. I remember that in one instance I had a physical sensation of a wound when I left a particularly profound conversation. Why? Because that conversation created a generative social field that connected me with a deeper aspect of my journey and Self” (Theory U, Scharmer).
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