by Elmer S Soriano
Developing leaders requires not just the buildup of their toolkit or competencies, but also shifting their Level of Consciousness (O'Brian, 2016; Scharmer 20__). The next challenge is explaining these concepts to an audience that did not have college education.
I attempted to translate the concepts by likening them to channels on cable TV, pointing out the different units of analyses provided by the different channels.
Channel 1: The Selfie Channel - The percieving the world thru one's own self-centered worldview.
Channel 2: The Discovery/Science Channel - Interpreting the world primarily through science.
Channel 3: The Oprah/Empathy Channel - Interpreting the world through the Other person's worldview
Channel 4: The Balcony/Reality TV Director's Channel - Interpreting the world by observing emergence.
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/sites/default/files/2000_Presencing.pdf
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27112706/OBRIEN-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf?sequence=1
The idea of thinking in “channels” kinda makes sense to me. I never really thought about leadership as shifting your level of consciousness, just assumed it was about skills and knowledge. But seeing it like TV channels—self, science, empathy, balcony view—makes it way easier to picture. Definitely gonna check out more on this while messing around with YouTube Vanced stuff later.
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