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Table of Contents
WELCOME ................................................................................................................................................. 1
U.LAB FOR SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP ................................................................................................... 2
U.LAB ON EDX – HOW IT WORKS ...................................................................................................... 3
SYLLABUS FOR 0X .................................................................................................................................. 4
TEAM ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
0X CURRICULUM ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
GRADING ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8
DISCUSSION SPACE .................................................................................................................................................... 8
U.LAB ON SOCIAL MEDIA .......................................................................................................................................... 8
CONTACT THE COURSE TEAM .................................................................................................................................. 8
Welcome
Welcome to u.lab 0x! This 90-minute course will introduce you to Theory U, a
framework and method developed at MIT and practiced by individuals,
organizations and larger communities around the world to learn from the emerging
future.
You may be wondering: a 90-minute course? Why so short?
Syllabus for 0x
Below, you will find some practical information about the 0x course, including –
course team bios, curriculum overview, grading, discussions and how to reach us
with questions and/or ideas.
Team
Otto Scharmer
Otto is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, a Thousand Talents Program Professor at Tsinghua
University, and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He also chairs the MIT IDEAS
program for cross-innovation in China and Indonesia. Otto introduced the concept
of “presencing” —learning from the emerging future — in his bestselling
books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored). His new book Leading From
the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies (co-authored with
K. Kaufer) applies mindfulness onto the transformation of business, society, and self.
Adam Yukelson
Adam is an Action Research Fellow at the Presencing Institute. In addition to co-
facilitating u.lab and the digital architecture, he writes about, films and helps deliver
Theory U-based initiatives that aim to create more sustainable, aware and inclusive
economies.
Dayna Cunningham
Dayna is Executive Director of the Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at MIT.
Dayna was previously an Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation and has
also worked as a voting rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund.
Kelvy Bird
Kelvy is a graphic facilitator specializing in systemic mapping of content within
collaborative and multi-stakeholder environments.
Julie Arts
Julie is an economist, working internationally as a Theory U practitioner, designing
and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and leadership programs. Her
recent work has focused on improving quality of life for people with disabilities in
Belgium, developing innovative solutions for water quality in The Netherlands, an
OD change process for Trager International and a 1-year Climate Change Leadership
program in Burundi, Africa.
Arawana Hayashi
Arawana’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply
sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social
Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working with Otto Scharmer
and colleagues at the Presencing Institute, she brings her background in the arts,
meditation and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both
current reality and emerging future possibilities.
Lili Xu Brandt
Lili facilitates innovation. She enjoys exploring the dynamic tension between
entrepreneurial and systemic forces by enabling deeper individual and collective
creativity in community contexts in China and beyond.
Martin Kalungu-Banda
Martin is a consultant in organization and leadership development, a facilitator of
innovation and change; trainer, coach and author. He is faculty for the Presencing
Institute, and for HSBC Next Generation Development, HRH Duke of Edinburgh’s
0x Curriculum
u.lab 0x has four modules
Systems thinking The Iceberg model suggests that beneath
the visible level of events and crises that
define our world today, there are
underlying structures, paradigms of
thought, and sources responsible for
creating them. If these are ignored, they
will keep us locked into re-enacting the
same old patterns time and again.
Theory U Learn the origins of Theory U and how it
has been – and is being – applied in real
world contexts around the world
The story of u.lab for systems leadership Over two decades, we’ve learned that
profound transformation in social
systems is possible – but can it really go
to scale? When we launched the u.lab
MOOC in 2015, it was the first time we
saw a way to bring awareness-based
systems change to scale. Here we explain
how it happened and how you can get
involved going forward.
Set your intention What does all this mean for you? At the
end of the course, we will ask you to
upload a video or photo in which you
share an issue or challenge you want to
address in your u.lab journey going
forward. We’ll combine these photos and
videos into a montage that shows the
diversity of change initiatives the u.lab
community is working on around the
world.
Discussion Space
We have decided not to use the edX discussion board for this course, as the
structure there makes it difficult to host meaningful dialogue amongst participants
(and with the course team). We are currently developing a new discussion feature
that we will integrate into 0x in mid-2017. For now, we encourage you to post
questions, comments, and ideas to the u.lab Facebook page, or on Twitter using the
hashtag #ulab.