U-Process: A Social Technology for Addressing Highly Complex Challenges
By Zaid Hassan and Adam Kahane | May 2005 | View Full Text | Email Link

Abstract

The U-Process is a methodology for addressing highly complex challenges -- for solving complex problems or realizing complex opportunities. It is a "social technology" for effecting the transformation of reality, within and across the worlds of business, government, and civil society.

In using the U-Process, an individual or team undertakes three activities or movements: Sensing the current reality of the system of which they are part, carefully and in depth; Presencing and reflecting to allow their "inner knowing" to emerge, about what is going on and what they have to do; and then Realizing, acting swiftly to bring forth a new reality.

The U-Process is a core methodology of Synergos' Multi-Stakeholder Partnership program.

The U-Process has been developed through twenty years of intensive learning-by-doing by Joseph Jaworski and Adam Kahane of Generon Consulting in partnership with Otto Scharmer and Peter Senge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Society for Organizational Learning. They have done this development in a range of settings around the world, with corporate executives and line managers, politicians and public servants, activists and revolutionaries, scientists and intellectuals.

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