"Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American scientist
and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan
School of Management. He is known as author of the book The Fifth
Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organizationfrom 1990 (new
edition 2006). He is a senior lecturer at the System Dynamics Groupat MIT
Sloan School of Management, and co-faculty at the New England Complex
Systems Institute."
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Transcendent Empathy: The Ability to See the Larger System
Keiko Krahnke is Associate Professor of Management;
Business Communications at University of Northern Colorado in the Montfort
College of Business. Areas of research interests include
spirituality and business, systems thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, and
corporate citizenship.
Peter
Michael Senge is an American scientist and director of the Center for
Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
"We suggest that empathy is something broader than knowing
or feeling another's psychological or emotional state. The fundamental
concept of empathy is to care about another as if you were in the shoes of
the other. Our purpose here is to expand this caring to the larger living
systems of which we are part. We propose the notion of "transcendent
empathy" as the ability to see these larger systems in time and space, to
move beyond mere intellectual understanding to embrace "system sensing" as
a doorway to other awareness of what exists now and to future
possibilities." Sub
Conferences: Workplace and Science
Introduction
Need for Understanding A System:
Towards Seeing Processes, Patterns and Wholes
Reflection and Seeing the Real Issues Beyond the
Symptoms
Transcendent Empathy: Empathy As the ability to See
the Larger System
How Wide Can Out Circle of
Compassion Spread - Empathy as Biosphere Consciousness
Empathy as the Recognition
That We Co create the World
Empathy as the Ability to
See Connections across Time
“A unique
relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue
regularly. They develop a
deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop
a richer understanding of the
uniqueness of each person’s point of view.”
Peter Senge
"To
listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath
the words. You listen
not only to the "music," but to the essence of the person speaking. You
listen not only for what
someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of
sound, which is far
slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is
the art of developing
deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your
ears' natural speed, and
hear beneath the words to their meaning.
"
Peter Senge
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