Otto Scharmer
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Field of the Future blog, podcasts, and some video interviews and talks Otto has participated in. Find more talks by searching for Otto Scharmer on Youtube.
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Field of the Future Blog
by Presencing Institute | “Slowing down enough to listen more deeply…”
Protect the Flame: But Where the Danger Is, the Saving Power Also Grows
“I have just returned from Latin America. I find myself a somewhat different person than the one that left a couple of weeks ago. What changed?”
Protect the Flame: Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse
In Otto Scharmer’s recent article “Protecting the Flame,” he asks: When systems collapse, what are we left with? The response: “we are left with each other. We are left with our relationships. With how we relate to Mother Nature, how we relate to each other, and how we relate to our emerging Selves.”
Putin and the Power of Collective Action from Shared Awareness — Part 2: The Social Grammar of Creation
In Part 2 of his article on Collective Action from Shared Awareness, Otto Scharmer continues his 10-point meditation on our current moment. In this piece, you are invited to look at the current planetary crisis through the lens of presencing; the lens of a social field shaped by the grammar of co-creation.
Putin and the Power of Collective Action from Shared Awareness — Part 1: A 12-Point Meditation on Our Current Moment
In Part 1, of his article on Collective Action from Shared Awareness, Otto Scharmer unpacks some of the deeper systemic forces at play on Putin’s war in Ukraine, and looking at the current situation through the lens of absencing, the lens of a social field shaped by the grammar of destruction.
Democratizing Access To The Tools For Transformation
Otto Scharmer asks us to consider how can we build our collective capacities for transformation to bring about a just, inclusive, and regenerative society for all, in the face of accelerating social and environmental breakdowns. Read more about our big goal for whole-person, whole-systems innovation in the vision for u-school, activating millions of changemakers globally.
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn. How to Transform Trumpism After Trump: On Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, and Post-Humanity
This Otto Scharmer’s article has been translated into six languages. The US election felt like a planetary watershed moment, with implications well beyond the United States. This moment has an exterior and an interior dimension.
Action Confidence: Laying Down the Path in Walking
This article is co-authored by Otto Scharmer and Eva Pomeroy, about our opportunity to reshape the world. How can we nurture creativity, connection and innovation at all levels of the system?
A New Superpower in the Making: Awareness-Based Collective Action
Transforming health care across the world
VIDEOS AND PODCASTS
Public Talks and Interviews
Recent public engagements featuring Otto. If you’re interested in booking Otto as a speaker, please email us.
Point of Relation Podcast with Thomas Hübl, Otto Scharmer and Antoinette Klatzky: Creating Social Systems With a Soul
Inner Change for Emerging Futures: From Imagination to Action | at ChangeNOW2023
Inner Development Goals for Global Action | at ChangeNOW2023
Beyond the Darkest Hour Sismique Podcast Interview
Führen in Zeiten des Umbruchs
A Force for Good
Transforming Food Systems from Within
Radical Regeneration and Collective Healing | Collective Trauma Summit
El Liderazgo y las Nuevas Formas de Coaching | Futuro 360
Liderando el Futuro Emergente
Theory U: Emerging Futures | at Mondragon University
Reimagining and Reshaping Learning and Leadership | NESA | Q&A with Maddy Hewitt
Collective Trauma Summit 2021 | Thomas Hubl in conversation with Otto Scharmer
u-lab: Transforming Business, Society, and Self
Love: letting Appear | Humberto Maturana and Otto Scharmer
Conversations on Education part 1/3 (12 minutes) | Interview by Sipian Mao
Conversations on Education part 2/3 (12 minutes) | Interview by Sipian Mao
Conversations on Education part 3/3 (12 minutes) | Interview by Sipian Mao
Innovating in the Face of Disruption | MIT Management Executive Education
The Power of Collective Healing | Thomas Hubl in conversation with Otto Scharmer
Leading the Change
Liderar para la Sustentabilidad
Climate & Finance
Solvable Transformation & Collective Trauma
From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies | Wisdom 2.0
Shaping the Future | WEF
What is Theory U?
To transform an organization you need to engage the larger eco-system of that organization. That’s our collective challenge of change, learning, and innovation.”
Otto Scharmer, Interview
“Change on many levels”
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