The Presencing Institute (PI) aims at advancing awareness-based social technologies such as Presencing, and to support individuals, groups, organizations and societies by making social technologies available to change makers, innovators, and local communities around the world.
PI’s Core Activities
Research: PI pioneers awareness-based action research and collaborates with action researchers and universities from around the world. Most research is cross-sector action research, and supports ongoing societal changes processes.
Social Technologies: PI develops and disseminates tools that help change makers to create deep innovation and change. Our tools are published under Creative Commons licenses, which allows users to download and use the tools free of charge.
Capacity Building: PI develops and delivers capacity building mechanisms such as the Presencing Foundation Program, the Presencing-in-Action-Lab, and a suite of online Global Classroom programs that feature live-online video lectures with local/virtual interaction in small groups. PI Programs are delivered in North America, Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. For an overview go to Programs
Living Examples: PI supports and co-creates a variety of projects that use awareness-based social technologies for profound institutional and societal change. PI works in different sectors and different regions. Some of these projects are featured here.
Social Presencing Theater: Deep innovation and change requires the capacity to access deeper levels of knowing both individually and collectively. Social Presencing Theater ( co-inspired and developed by Arawana Hayashi allows people and communities to re-link their collectively embodied behavior with their individual and collective awareness.
Community: PI is building a global community of presencing practice that cultivates the capacityfor deep innovation and profound change across cultures. PI People.
Power of Place: Innovation and presencing happens in places. The global PI community intends to cultivate a network of power places that can function as a holding space for a global movement of civilizational renewal and societal change.
