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Shadowing
Learn by silent accompaniment: define a focus question, then spend half a day to a full workday at someone's side — observing their working reality without commenting or helping — followed by a debrief interview with them and a personal debrief for yourself. Another person's world experienced at full length, not summarized.
- The shadowee opens their working day to observation — consent covers what may be watched, noted, and repeated afterwards
Practical
- Time
- 240-480 min + 60 landing
- Group
- 2–2 · pairs
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Host agreement; notebook; focus question
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, open-awareness, life-embedding
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- u-school.org/shadowing — u-school for Transformation — Theory U tools, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY (Presencing Institute)
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Otto Scharmer / Presencing Institute (management-learning lineage) — Theory U (co-sensing)
In this directory via u-school for Transformation — Theory U tools · HostingTransformation Methods ToolBox
Related: Sensing Journey (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-26