How is Gen Y tackling our current social and organisational challenges with new ways of leadership and learning?
What are the opportunities for Gen Y to help the current system shift and move towards a better society?
How can we create enabling spaces for Gen Y to innovate and be even more effective in bringing such transformation into being?
Within our Lab, there was acknowledgment that the industrialized system, as described by Seth Godin, was both inadequate and inappropriate. There was a real sense of urgency for the development of new forms of learning, which were perceived as being largely experientially and playfully based.
Gen Y contributors expressed a deep desire to be shown ways that help them see themselves within the current system to effect ways to shift it from within.
They sincerely want to contribute through entrepreneurship, to feel connected, to be creative and authentically themselves.
They want to be awakened, think for themselves, be heard, be part of a collective and realize their potential.
They want the corporations they work for to positively impact the communities, governments and societies they operate in by role modelling a different way.
This requires the development of a new skill set based on the Presencing principles:
1. The quality of our results in a system is a function of the awareness that the people in that system operate from; the essence being “I attend this way, therefore it emerges this way.”
2. The new reality emerges from the opening of the mind, heart and will to connect ourselves to our deeper sources of wisdom, creativity and humanity.
3. In order to bring about profound change around us, we first have to go through a profound inner opening not only as individuals, but also collectively. It’s about to linking people to each other, to themselves and to their own journey.
I have spent the last six years developing a deep understanding of the practical applications of the Presencing Process, as well as two years researching, designing and prototyping my own innovative global corporate learning consultancy, I hope that ImagineNation™ is just one “small move” that has been smartly made re-inventing corporate learning to spark innovation. I hope that it will contribute towards creating an