It’s common to say that trees come from seeds. But how could a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources needed to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial: a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.
--Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, Flowers
Awakening Faith in an Alternative Future
Reflections, the SOL Journal on Knowledge,
Learning, and Change, Vol. 5, No. 7, 2004.
Now that you've emerged from the food coma of Thanksgiving, you may be wondering if there is (depending on your generation) a Reader's Digest, CliffNotes or SparkNotes version of Scharmer's book. You are in luck! The Presencing Institute has a two page version of the basic concepts posted here.
Image: Torii at Shrine on Mount Hakone, Japan. R. Manley/Shostal Associates for brittanica.com.
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