Foundation training in Theory U

29 June – 4 July 2025 in Germany, organised by PI Europe gGmbH.

Overview of the training

The training was a combination of the following elements.

  • theoretical input based on the book “Presencing” of Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer about the current trends in society asking for a reframing.
  • practices to support the transition process from Ego to Eco-System Awareness in individuals, organisations and society.
  • embodied presence activities and exercises.
  • stories from the field as exemplification of process application.
  • the power of questions: practical application.
  • seeing and sensing the emergent: practical experience.
  • planning individual leadership journey
  • grounding practices.

Competences acquired

As result of the participation in this training experience, Peter Hofmann gained the following competences and professional skills:

  • capacity to align attention, intention and agency.
  • ability to embody difficult situations as starting point for reframing.
  • competence in storytelling for transformation.
  • capacity to use a set of practical tools to explore the attain quo by accessing the intelligence of the hands, the heart and the body.
  • the power of listening.
  • the power of asking questions.
  •  the ability to prospective taking as a way to explore and analyse.
  • connection with the emerging future.
  • leadership abilities as capacity to respond the current individual, organisational and societal challenges.
  • cultivation of the social soils or the invisible qualities in relationships.