Alan Seale - Tools to Navigate Uncertainty & Complexity -
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The document discusses the concept of transformational presence, which involves creating conditions for potential to unfold through three fundamental questions about opportunity, identity, and action. It highlights engaging with life as a dialogue, emphasizing a proactive approach to navigating complexity and uncertainty. The document also delineates levels of engagement and provides a structured path for discovery and action towards meaningful shifts in personal and organizational contexts.
![Three Fundamental Questions
[1]
What opportunity is available to you,
your team, or your organization now?
[2]
Who is that opportunity asking you to be?
[3]
What is that asking you to do?
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![Three Fundamental Questions
[1]
What wants to happen?
[2]
Who is that asking you to be?
[3]
What is that asking you to do?
4](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/agilemaineppfeb2019pdf-190409225633/85/Alan-Seale-Tools-to-Navigate-Uncertainty-Complexity-4-320.jpg)
![Four Levels of Engagement
Drama
Whose fault is this? Who can I / we blame?
Situation
How do I / we fix it?
Choice
Who do I / we choose to be?
Opportunity
What wants to happen?
D [i] S C O
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![Four Levels of Engagement
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1] Go to the level you are in right now with your topic.
2] Go to the level that is your default or comfort zone. What about this
level makes you comfortable?
3] Go to the level that would make you the most uncomfortable. What
about it makes you uncomfortable?
4] Go to the level that would be a stretch for you. What inside you is
getting stretched here?
5] Go to the level where it would serve you the most to be now. What
about it would serve you?
6] Where do you choose to be now with your topic? Let that level
show you your next step.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/agilemaineppfeb2019pdf-190409225633/85/Alan-Seale-Tools-to-Navigate-Uncertainty-Complexity-11-320.jpg)
![The Deep Simple—A Path For Discovery
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1] What are three things you know to be true about your topic?
2] Which one of those things holds the greatest power to explore
right now?
3] With that thing that holds the power, what wants to shift?
4] Who is that shift asking you to be? What role is it asking you to
play?
5] What is one step you can take now to begin moving towards
that shift?
Take that step, and then go back to #1.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/agilemaineppfeb2019pdf-190409225633/85/Alan-Seale-Tools-to-Navigate-Uncertainty-Complexity-13-320.jpg)
![3 Fundamental Questions
[1]
What wants to happen?
[2]
Who is that asking me to be?
[3]
What is that asking me to do?
14](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/agilemaineppfeb2019pdf-190409225633/85/Alan-Seale-Tools-to-Navigate-Uncertainty-Complexity-14-320.jpg)
Alan Seale - Tools to Navigate Uncertainty & Complexity -
- 2. Transformational Presence Navigating Uncertainty and Complexity in a Rapidly Changing World Center for Transformational Presence Alan Seale, Founder and Director www.transformationalpresence.org © 2016 Alan Seale
- 3. Three Fundamental Questions [1] What opportunity is available to you, your team, or your organization now? [2] Who is that opportunity asking you to be? [3] What is that asking you to do? 3
- 4. Three Fundamental Questions [1] What wants to happen? [2] Who is that asking you to be? [3] What is that asking you to do? 4
- 5. Transformational Presence Model Opportunity è Presence è Action 5
- 6. What is Transformational Presence? A way of showing up that creates the best possible conditions / environment / culture from the inside out for the hidden or emerging potential to unfold. It’s all about “tending the garden.” 6
- 7. A Fundamental Concept Push Against or Flow With “Flow with” vs. “Go with the flow” 7
- 8. Life as a Dialogue Do you talk to Life, or do you let Life talk to you? 8
- 9. Four Levels of Engagement Drama Situation Choice Opportunity 9
- 10. Four Levels of Engagement Drama Whose fault is this? Who can I / we blame? Situation How do I / we fix it? Choice Who do I / we choose to be? Opportunity What wants to happen? D [i] S C O 10
- 11. Four Levels of Engagement 11 1] Go to the level you are in right now with your topic. 2] Go to the level that is your default or comfort zone. What about this level makes you comfortable? 3] Go to the level that would make you the most uncomfortable. What about it makes you uncomfortable? 4] Go to the level that would be a stretch for you. What inside you is getting stretched here? 5] Go to the level where it would serve you the most to be now. What about it would serve you? 6] Where do you choose to be now with your topic? Let that level show you your next step.
- 12. The Trap of “How?” “How?” is not something we know before we start. It’s something we discover and create as we go. Replace the question “How?” with “What is our next step?” 12
- 13. The Deep Simple—A Path For Discovery 13 1] What are three things you know to be true about your topic? 2] Which one of those things holds the greatest power to explore right now? 3] With that thing that holds the power, what wants to shift? 4] Who is that shift asking you to be? What role is it asking you to play? 5] What is one step you can take now to begin moving towards that shift? Take that step, and then go back to #1.
- 14. 3 Fundamental Questions [1] What wants to happen? [2] Who is that asking me to be? [3] What is that asking me to do? 14
- 16. 16 The Center for Transformational Presence Power Point Design by Media Platoon © 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 Alan Seale www.transformationalpresence.org