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Arawana heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues, she brings her background in the arts, meditation, and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities for individuals and groups.
Arawana’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation.
Her dance career ranges from directing an interracial street dance company formed by the Boston Mayor’s Office for Cultural Affairs in the aftermath of the 1968 murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, to being one of the foremost performers of Japanese Court Dance, bugaku, in the US. She has been Co-Director of the Dance Program at Naropa University, Boulder, CO; and founder-director of two contemporary dance companies in Cambridge, MA.
She is currently on the core faculty of the Presencing Institute. She joins Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer for the Executive Champions Program co-hosted by the Presencing Institute and the Center for Systems Awareness. She co-hosts social arts residencies with Claudia Madrazo and Ricardo Dutra in Mexico, and joins Michael Stubberup and Ninni Sodahl for the Sustainable Co-Creation program in Denmark. She co-teaches with Phil Cass in the Physicians Leadership program in Columbus, Ohio.
Social Presencing Theater Basics
With Manish Srivastava and Crystal Huang
For Asia-Pacific time zone
Social Presencing Theater Basics
With Angela Baldini
Berlin, Germany
With foreword by Otto Scharmer
This book offers a journey into the origins, principles, and practices of an innovative social art form co-created by Arawana Hayashi and colleagues at the Presencing Institute. This embodiment practice supports individual and social transformation. With a welcoming introduction to the work, Arawana provides a starting place for beginners and a deeper understanding for experienced practitioners who wish to create powerful spaces for heart-based learning and action. The book contains practice instructions and stories highlighting the uses of Social Presencing Theater in companies, schools, and social projects.
"Arawana Hayashi is a master. She has invented a form whereby people learn to use their bodies to explore, individually and collectively, what the intellect can never fully grasp—the complex social structures we humans create and become stuck in. She has created a wonderful vehicle to guide the journey."
“Arawana's clear and lighthearted storytelling invites us into new ways of being together—she explores how we can collaborate beyond words, become more present and aware of the world around us, and sense into the emerging future.”
“This book takes you on a remarkable journey into uncovering the link between embodiment, awareness, and social systems. As Arawana describes her process using Social Presencing Theater, we experience how our own movements can be problematic, or hold the key to creativity and coherence of the whole.”
"Social Presencing Theater guides us to be present to the vibrancy of each moment, and to integrate awareness of the inherent truth of our physicality with an understanding of how it expands into social consciousness and action. This profound and multi-layered book is an eloquent and inspiring affirmation of the power of art as spiritual practice and as an agent for social change. It offers a balm for our turbulent world.”
“The Art of Making a True Move is a fierce and gentle contribution at a moment when we desperately need to reconnect with our own bodies and to make sense of the collective body, the human community. This book is both a treasure and a prayer."
“Throughout Arawana’s graceful teachings are the qualities of inspiring, visioning, and guiding people through the movement of life—movement of learning, movement of change, movement of manifesting.”
“It is not easy to write about a lived, embodied experience; but Arawana’s deep connection with spiritual roots and her long-standing dance practice enable her to share in a very expressive way the essentials of Social Presencing Theater."
"This outstanding and beautiful book presents Arawana’s experiences and wisdom in an inspiring and uplifting way."
Social Presencing Theater | L'arte di compiere movimenti autentici - in Italian Edition
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