Social Presencing Theater
Drawing on the arts and contemplative traditions, Social Presencing Theater brings to the surface a clearer sense of the relationships, hidden dynamics, and emerging possibilities inherent in a team, organization or larger system. It allows co-creators in a given system to gain insight into the current situation, seeing potential opportunities for change. It sets the ground for creative collective action.
Using awareness practices, Embodied Presence trains an individual to synchronize mind and body. This is similar to a moving meditation. From this alignment, the practitioner extends awareness out into the social and environmental field. This awareness field reveals the richness in connections among people. It enables learning to take place at a deeper level.
Social Presencing Theater is a way to apply this learning to specific leadership, organizational and societal questions or challenges. “Theater” here denotes a place and time where people enact significant events. It is an empty stage or a blank canvass where the different aspects and roles of the system can be embodied. In that space, the roles can interact in fresh and creative ways to reveal emerging possibilities hidden in the system.
Links:
www.arawanahayashi.com/socialtheater.htm
www.arawanahayashi.com/articles.htm
www.windhorsefarm.org/pages/programs-events.php
