![]() The basic assumption in the practice is that everyone attending is sane and whole, that there is no-one and nothing to fix or repair. It’s a social practice for mindfulness, awareness and fresh insight around leadership challenges related to social systems. But it is not a means for improving and fixing things. It is applied in facilitating group and organizational change in such different areas as, for example, education, business, art, and social justice. The practice has spread to thousands worldwide through courses and online programs. Picture by Jane Sverdrupsen, 2019, University of Art, Norway The Articulating Body Social Presencing Theater has emerged during the last two decades from the life’s work of American artist, dancer and meditation teacher Arawana Hayashi and her collaboration with Otto Scharmer. Social Presencing Theater is part of Theory U, a framework for effecting change personally and organizationally, in communities and globally (see chapter on Theory U in this book*). These things can be hidden social dynamics, blind spots, or forgotten resources. Finally, “Theater” stands for embodied play in its original form - a tool to raise awareness, to make invisible things visible. It refers to the quality of attention we practice in Social Presencing Theater. It is a combination of being conscious (i.e. “Presencing” derives from two words: presence and sensing. We are exploring social fields in our practice. The word “Social” stands for people and groups, like in organizations and social systems. Through a synthesis of mindfulness, creative embodied expression, and group dialogue, Social Presencing Theater directs our consciousness to our own body, as well as the social body, and its deeper knowledge. Social Amnesia contains a forceful argument for "thinking against the grain - an endeavor that remains as urgent as ever." It is an important work for sociologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.Social Presencing Theater as tool for embodied transformative learning Social Presencing Theater (SPT) is an art form and “social technology” that brings together social change with creative expression. He discusses how in the years since Social Amnesia was first published society has oscillated from extreme subjectivism to extreme objectivism, which feed off each other and constitute two forms of social amnesia: a forgetting of the past and a pseudo-historical consciousness. Jacoby's new self-evaluation has the same sharp edge as the book itself, offering special insights into the evolution of psychological theory during the past two decades.In his probing, self-critical new introduction, Jacoby maintains that any serious appraisal of psychology or sociology, or any discipline, must seek to separate the political from the theoretical. It is simultaneously a critique of present practices and theories in psychology. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past.
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