How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense
and shape the future? This is just one of the questions posed by the authors of a book that combines unusual personal
honesty with rigorous critical thinking.
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new
theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski,
and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and social and business
entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery articulates
a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it --as it is and as it might be.
Radical and hopeful, Presence synthesizes leading-edge thinking, first-hand knowledge, and ancient wisdom to explore
the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking
to emerge." Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities. Developing
these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that serves the whole--ourselves,
our organizations, and the communities of which we are a part.