• Awareness: The essence of leadership is to shift the inner place from which we operate.
• Sensing: The awakening and activating of all our senses, both individually and collectively, is the biggest lever for triggering profound renewal and change.
• Presencing: Connect to the place of stillness and listen to the future that wants to emerge (through us).
• Prototyping: Explore the future by doing—link head, heart, hand.
• Tri-sector engagement: Integrate all sectors and key players within a system.
• Power of Intention: Be an instrument for a global community of change makers that serves the well-being of the whole.
• Coaching Groups: Participants will join coaching groups (groups of four) and interact with each other between the sessions.

Each module will include the following Core Features:

• Opportunities to deepen the core competencies for designing, facilitating, and delivering Theory U–based change projects and programs;
• embodied awareness work in all phases of the Lab, including collective sensing practices through social presencing theater and engagements with our natural world;
• an ongoing support infrastructure to sustain Lab participants in their work, including in-depth case clinics and peer coaching groups;
• presentation and exploration of the latest tools, practices, and research, including the Business and Society 4.0 research project;
• selected guest faculty, including master practitioners and inventors of social technologies;
• regular opportunities for self-reflection, stillness, and inner cultivation work;
• tools and techniques of project management and leadership in the context of complex multi-stakeholder initiatives;
• the practice of ecosystem entrepreneurship: ways to seek and connect places of highest potential where change can happen, and turn opportunities into practical projects or initiatives.

Module I : Co-initiating and Building Helping Relationships
October 27–30, 2010

Guest Faculty:
Ed Schein, MIT
Reola Phelps, PI
Jeffrey Hollender, Seventh Generation
Nicanor Perlas, CADI

Focus:

• How do you create and sustain a helping relationship?
• How do you co-initiate complex multi-stakeholder projects?
• How can you map the boundary profile of your system?
• What is our theory of change?
• What larger system changes do we see in business and society today (Society 4.0)?
• Tools and lessons learned in co-initiating, and facilitating complex multi-stakeholder projects

Module II: Co-sensing and Prototyping
May 10–13, 2011

Guest Faculty:
Bob Adams, Stanford Univ.; formerly IDEO
Eric Saperstein, formerly IDEO
Elizabeth Johansen, Design That Matters
Ela Ben-Ur, IDEO
Marcelo Cardoso, Natura
Marcia Marsh, WWF (invited)
Phil Thompson, MIT

Focus:

• How do you create learning journeys and processes that allow for effective co-sensing of groups?
• How do you return from a co-sensing process and make sense of the experience?
• How do you map your learning and make it accessible to the whole group? What methods and tools help (Systems Thinking, Scenario Thinking, Constellation work, Café, Sculpting/modeling)?
• How do you move from sense making and brainstorming to prototyping?
• How do you do prototyping in the context of social sector and multi-stakeholder work?

Module III: Co-inspiring and Presencing
October 26–29, 2011

Guest Faculty:
Arthur Zajonc, Amherst College/PI
Eileen Fisher, Eileen Fisher Co.
Humberto Maturana, Escuela Matriztica de Santiago
Jeremy Hockenstein, DigitalDivideData
Peter Senge, MIT/SOL
Ximena Davila, Escuela Matriztica de Santiago

Focus:

• How can we connect to the Source in the context of institutional complexity and downloading?
• How can we integrate mindfulness in everyday team and management practices?
• How can we connect to the deeper path of our professional and personal journeys—both individually and collectively?
• Business and Society 4.0?

Module IV: Co-evolving and Institutionalizing
June 20-23, 2012

Guest faculty:
Len LeRoux, Synergos Namibia
Hal Hamilton, Sustainable FoodLab
John Heller, Synergos US

Focus:

• How do you envision, inspire, orchestrate, and nudge along the birth of the new system while still operating in the midst of the old?
• How do we sustain and scale the transformation to Society 4.0?
• How do you scale up from prototyping and piloting?
• How do you institutionalize supporting infrastructures for ecosystem-wide collaboration and innovation across boundaries?