Dialogue on Leadership

The Presence of the Circle Being
Conversation with the Circle of Seven Ashland, OR, September 15-16, 2003, Interview by Otto Scharmer
Editors: Barbara Cecil, Glennifer Gillespie, Otto Scharmer

1. Summary with Links
2. Interview
1. Introduction
2. Circle Work: A 21st Century Movement in the Making
3. Charging the Container
4. Collective Presence
5. Stories
6. Building the Container
7. Taking Risks
8. Feeling the Essential Connection
9. Keeping the Field Clear
10. The Power of Collective Listening
11. Unconditional Witnessing
12. Being a Portal to Universal Patterns
13. Unconditional Love
14. Three Conditions of Collective Listening and Holding
15. The Holding Practice
16. Collective Second Person
17. Transformation through Holding (Listening)
18. Naming the world
19. Your Essential Self Is Present with You
20. Evoking the Presence of the Circle Being
21. Calling the Circle
22. The Small Group Is the Unit of the Future
23. Locating your collective identity in the Great Field
24. Serving the Clearing
25. Painting Pictures of Circle Presence
26. A Field from which Creation Stems
27. Being Seen and Witnessed as Essential Self
28. We All Come into this Circle Surrendered to the Field
29. The Presence of the Circle Being
30. Forgoing Images for the Truth of the Moment
31. Practices and Practical Results
32. Commitment to Keeping the Field Clear and Open
33. How Do You Hold the Collective?
34. The Theory of Change: Shifting the Fields of Attention
35. In Summary, the Circle in Action
36. Bio
3. Complete interview (Acrobat PDF Download)