This training process will develop and deepen participants’ ability to work with organizations, leaders and individuals, to respond more effectively to the obstacles and challenges they face. In essence, it uses the skills and theory of learning organizations and unites these with powerful contemplative practice from the great spiritual traditions. This synthesis creates broad new possibilities. The result is a consistent ability to touch and awaken a profound ‘common ground’ or ‘collective spirit.’ Participants describe experiencing dialogue and mutual understanding in ways they had not imagined or thought possible. This practice, we believe, creates the possibility of successfully engaging the movements of co-presencing, co-creating and the possibility of collective engagement described by Otto Scharmer in Theory U. Participants describe this as a tangible outcome in their ongoing work with the practice. The remarkable power of this process creates a safety in which participants can experience being their real and best selves in a group, and work cooperatively for the common good. It provides groups and their members with a greater ability to engage and surmount the challenges they face, and to do so with integrity and compassion. creating collective awareness. Led by Steven Wirth September 27-30, 2010 North Louisville, KY/Jeffersonville, IN Please email jd@contemplativedialogue.org for more details.