Stefan__K

Otto, I would be interested in your opinion on this critical issue: U.Lab/Theory.U aims to transform our current thinking and acting (from ego2eco). It integrates concepts of mindfulness and awareness which are rooted in spirituality (e.g. Buddhist philosophy). How can these (novel) approaches be ‘secured’ of not being misused by the current system to maintain itself ? How do you/the U.Lab relate to that? [e.g. many large companies now introduce mindfulness/meditation etc; the question is, is this used for better profit making (ego) or for a real transformative change (towards eco-system economies)?]

Thanks for your reply. I asked that question, as there is often a fear related to this issue - of losing something ‘good’ (e.g. mindfulness approaches) to something ‘bad’ (e.g. purely profit/power oriented commercial company). In the way of being misused. However, I do think, e.g. when such ‘good’ approaches are applied and used and integrated e.g. in a ‘bad’ context, this ‘bad’ context, may transform itself. For instance when (the majority of) employees would apply mindfulness approaches within company G, then this exemplary company would transform itself, even there was a different objective originally attached to its application by higher hierarchies (it changes from profit-making in the best case to eco-system economies). Is this a wish/a naive thought, or what could really happen? So maybe we would need to ‘let loose that fear’…

....just another thought/question, a bit different... deep listening (what I understood so far) is also about non- judgements. This reminds me of the work of Marshall B. Rosenberg on non-violent communication. Has this been inspirational for Theory U? And there is the link to mindfulness: which I understand also as letting loose judgements, and more about observation/realisation...