Social Presencing Theater (SPT) is a methodology, developed under the leadership of Arawana Hayashi, for understanding current reality and exploring emerging future possibilities. SPT can be practiced at the individual, group, organization, and larger social systems level. It is one of the most important and effective methods developed by the Presencing Institute, and has been used effectively for over ten years in business, government, and civil society settings, in places including Brazil, Indonesia, China, Europe and the United States. This is not "theater" in the conventional sense, but uses simple body postures and movements to dissolve limiting concepts, to communicate directly, to access intuition, and to make visible both current reality, and the deeper – often invisible – leverage points for creating profound change.

Two Practices

How can we start with just being present, and tap into the where, the who and the how we are? In the first three and a half-minutes of this video, Arawana Hayashi leads us through an Embodiment Practice - what do you sense, feel and resonate with when you settle into this practice? Then, she guides us through a two-sculpture process:

Social Arts at the Global Forum - SPT Track

For those of you who did not take part in the Global Forum, or for those of you who would like to revisit the experience, here is the video of the Social Presencing Theater track session that took place as one of the four Social Arts virtual workshops, where participants were offered a space to explore a specific Social Arts track - such as Social Poetics, Visual Practice, Social Presencing Theater, or Music - to crystallize their future intention and cultivate their action confidence towards bringing that into reality.

Upcoming Program

Our next SPT online workshop The Art of Making a True Move ONLINE will take place Oct 30-Nov 2020.