exercise · all tools
Story Sharing
Depth · what it can open●●●○3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedrequired
In trios, each person tells a story of a moment when their sense of Self clarified — when they knew, for a while, who they were and what they were for — with five to ten minutes to tell and a couple of minutes of reflection from the listeners. Shifts a group from seeing each other's roles to sensing each other's sources.
Prerequisites
- Tellers choose which clarifying moment — the depth is theirs to set
Hold with care
- Listeners reflect what moved them, not what it means — interpretation flattens a story someone just trusted you with
Practical
- Time
- 20-45 min
- Group
- 3–30 · triads
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Timekeeping; assigned roles per round
- Mechanisms
- narrative-identity, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- u-school.org/storysharing — 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
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Otto Scharmer / Presencing Institute — Theory U (co-sensing; 'shift from seeing to sensing')
In this directory via u-school for Transformation — Theory U tools
status: checked · added 2026-08-26