Innovating from the Future that wants to emerge – Part 1: Co-Initiating

Co-Initiating: Uncovering Shared Intention:

The starting point of the process is to build a container (a holding space) for a core group that is going through the process together.

This first stage lays the foundation for the later process and its impact. This first step of co-initiating focuses on uncovering common intention.

Listening is the Key.

• Listening to your own intention or to what life calls you to do (listening to oneself)
• Listening to your core partners in the field (listening to others)
• Listening to what you are called to do now (listening to what emerges)

Outcomes of Co-Initiating:

Whatever you do during the movement of co-initiation, make sure that by the end of that stage you have established the following:

1. A Shared intention of what you want to create
2. Critical questions you need to explore
3. A core group that guides the initiative
4. A core team to dive into the U process
5. Deep Listening and Conversation Practices
6. An effective support structure
7. Resources: People, Place, Budget
8. An initial set of driving forces to explore
9. An initial list of possible learning journeys.
10. An initial roadmap for the way forward.

Principles:

1. Listen to What Life Calls you to do.
2. Listen and Dialogue with Interesting Players on the Edges
3. Clarify Intention and Core Quesions
4. Convene a diverse core group around a shared intention
5. Build the Container (holding space)

Next writeup will be on Co-Sensing.

This write up is based on Theory U by MIT Prof. Dr. Otto Scharmer.

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