Embodied Presencing Practice

I had heard of Arawana Hayashi and the Social Presencing Theater she does in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and Theory U. Everyone raved about the experience. Yesterday I finally got the chance to spend a day with Arawana in her intro class that she presented here in Boston.

I was fascinated by the simplicity of Arawana’s teaching. With simple instruction, we were able to profoundly sense into our own sense of self in relation to the collective field of our community of learners by simply attending in new ways to “lying down, sitting, standing” and other things we do daily, like walking!

Arawana is informed in part by her study of Bugaku. I love that. She is one of the few holders of the lineage of Bugaku, an ancient Japanese Imperial court art form. When she described the richness in the stillness of the movement, I could really get that. It helped me really understand that space, inherent in the Japanese culture, more deeply than I had before.

Moving through the U with Arawana’s embodied practice was very cool. Here is what she says about the program.

“This work is capacity building for using the Theory U as a method for accessing profound change, and it is an integral part of the Presencing Foundation course of Presencing Institute. The Art of Making a True Move workshop provides people interested in further training with conceptual frameworks, methods and practices”.

The work is of benefit as:
• A training in a wholistic body-mind approach to leadership   capacity
• The foundation for creative process in teams
• The technical and conceptual framework and training for engagement in the Social Presencing Theater

The next four day program Meditation & Embodied Presence Practice
for Theory U Change Work is December 10 – 13, 2009 at Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale, NY

You can register at Arawana’s site. Enjoy!