As learners of the online u.lab 1x course Leading From the Emerging Future tuned into the second live session of the course from their hubs, coaching circles, or individual spaces, Antoinette Klatzky kicked off the session and introduced the worldwide u.lab 1x team.

 

Some u.lab 1x Statistics

Antonio Moya-Latorre referred learners to the Office Hours, in which questions from participants are answered and new learners are caught up, before sharing some course statistics. The numbers he shared included the 2019 u.lab 1x course enrolment of over 14,000 people - more than 60% of which women - from 150+ countries. Furthermore, he announced that 195 new hubs have been created and that there are currently 224 active coaching circles on our platform. Finally, Toni pointed out the diversity of sectors represented, including the public and private sector, business, education, healthcare, civil society and grassroots organizations.

Antoinette closed off this section by sharing numbers from the topic-focused track registrations:

• Higher education: 151 participants
• Climate: 210 participants
• Youth: 30 participants
• Business: 396 participants
• Government: 130 participants

 

Image Resonance Practice

Otto Scharmer then moved the session into an experimental practice called Image Resonance, for which he shared an image that was generated by Olaf Baldini during the in-person Eco-System Leadership Program. Otto asked participants to contemplate this image and go through the following steps:

1. Individual seeing: contemplate the image in silence.
2. Collective seeing: share your observations on Twitter, using the hashtag #ulab and the sentence structures "I see...", "I sense...", and "I feel..." Many of those were then read aloud to mirror back to the viewers.
3. Stillness & Resonance: let go and attend to the resonance, the images and feelings, this has evoked in you.
4. Sharing: share what came up for you on Twitter, using the hashtag #ulab.

 

Stepping Into the Field of the Future

After this practice, Otto guided participants into a 45-minute journaling exercise. Through 17 questions, he led participants through a deep presencing practice to connect to their Field of the Future - which at one point they were invited to physically step into. After its conclusion, Otto invited participants to turn to the person next to them to reflect on the process or spend some solo time.

 

Dark Space and Our Own Light

Kelvy Bird concluded the broadcast by sharing her scribing reflections on the session. She started off with referring to the image of the stars and a sense that "we look into the darkness first, and then the light comes, which might relate to how we hold absencing and presencing."

She continued with a soulful reflection:

"I had the urge to draw the roots strongly and was wondering about the relationship between the earth and the universe, and how it's so much to hold, but that's what our times call for... By connecting into what the planet's really wanting now, and staying rooted, we rise through that, through our focus and through our open awareness, and grow into the dark space with our own light."

 

Voices from the Field

It was clear from the numerous posts on Twitter that many participants felt a great sense of gratitude for the session, as can be seen here:

 

Video Recording

Participants of u.lab 1x can watch the full recording of the live session here.