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Our Programs
Our offerings blend systems thinking, action learning, social arts, awareness-based practices,
and multi-sector learning and collaboration.
Open Programs
Where to Start?
Introduction to Theory U
A short 60-minute online course offering an overview of Theory U.
It's the perfect offering to share with others who aren't familiar with it yet!
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Core Foundational Courses
Essential learning to apply Theory U in practice as an individual, team, or ecosystem.
All the courses listed below are part of our certification pathways.
Theory U
u-lab
A free 6-week online program in partnership with MITx Online, covering the basics of Theory U and how to apply it to your own context. This is our most popular program—discover why!
u-lab typically runs in two cycles: u-lab 1x from September to November, and u-lab 2x from February to May. In 2025, due to lack of funding, u-lab 2x will not take place, presenting an opportunity to reimagine the program. If you would like to support this work or have any questions, please contact support@presencing.org.
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Presencing Foundation
A 4-day in-person program with a group of 60-80 participants, designed to immerse you in the full U-process alongside your cohort. You'll build meaningful connections and deepen your learning experience together.
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Ecosystem Leadership Foundations
A 4-day intensive in-person and in-nature program, with multi sector leaders and change agents from the same region, to cultivate the kind of leadership needed to face the challenges of our time, and activating ecosystemic change.
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Social Arts
Social Presencing Theater Basic
A 2-day in-person or 3-day online program designed to develop embodied awareness for social and organizational transformation within a container for flourishing. The course introduces practices to enhance embodied presence, sense larger systems, strengthen relationships, and build confidence for creative solutions.
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Scribing Essentials
A foundational program to develop the inner capacities of scribing—a process of drawing while people talk—for real-time reflection.
Core Collective Impact Courses
Ecosystem Leadership for Impact
A 4-day intensive in-person and in-nature program with multi-sector leaders and change agents from the same region, to bring ideas into action, to keep weaving a community of changemakers, and to deeply impact systems regionally.
Core Deepening Courses
Theory U
Ecosystem Leadership Deepening
A 4-day in-person program held in nature, bringing together multi-sector leaders and change agents from the same region to deepen the knowledge acquired in the Foundation level and to bring ideas into action.
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Social Arts
Social Presencing Theater Practitioner Development
An intensive yearlong practitioner development program in applying SPT expertise to enable social field shifts.
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Visual Practice for Theory U
Applying scribing to each movement of Theory U, to see and sense an emerging future.
Open Certification
To build a solid foundation in awareness-based systems change
while earning a practitioner credential
Theory U | Awareness-Based Systems Change
Social Arts |
Visual
Presencing
Thematic Courses
These courses are not part of our certification pathways
Executive Champions with Peter Senge
Reconnecting with Place to Reshape Our Future. A program that brings together diverse leaders from around the world who share a vision of helping people connect more deeply to place and one another as a basis for regenerating the institutions that shape our society.
Levels of Listening
Kelvy Bird and Otto Scharmer, together with other senior faculty and practitioners, explain one of the most important tools for leadership, innovation, and teamwork. The course explores how we can practice these different listening skills.
Activating and Holding Transformative Change Online
Learn how to activate and hold transformative change online—a frontier of leadership facilitating greater accessibility and participation.
Just Money
This course looks into banks that operate differently, namely, “just banks" that use capital and finance as a tool to address social and ecological challenges. This course is for anyone who wants to understand the unique role banks play as intermediaries in our economy and how they can leverage that position to produce positive social, environmental, and economic change.
