In Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, a companion book to the best selling classic The Fifth Discipline and its sequels_,_organizational learning experts Peter M. Senge, Otto Scharmer, and their coauthors Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers provide an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, the authors explore their experiences and those of 150 scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. How does something truly new come into the world? How do we see with fresh eyes? How do we connect or understand the reality we are facing in ways that we haven't in the past? Their journey of discovery articulates an inspiring way to see the world and of understanding our part in creating it--as it is and as it might be.