<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">We are writing to invite you to be part of a group of thought leaders</span></b><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> seeking to help shape the future that is emerging. The goal of this conversation is to activate and strengthen our capacity to lean into that future</span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">—</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">individually and collectively.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The organizing approach is </span></font><b style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">U.Lab, a free MIT online course</b><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> that has been attended by over 90,000 people around the world. It was developed at MIT</span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">s </span></font><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><a href="https://www.presencing.com/" class="">Presencing Institute</a> </font><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">by Otto Scharmer. It blends mindfulness, design, and systems theories in a method called “Theory U.” The course is called “</span></font><b style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Leading from the Emerging Future: </b><b style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Transforming Business, Society, and Self.”</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Watch this </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8wV9OlUHc" class="">3 minute video</a> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">for more information:</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8wV9OlUHc" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8wV9OlUHc</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">(Lots more about U.lab is available online)</span></i></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">We are forming a Missoula U.Lab live </span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Hub" beginning</span></font><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span class="gmail-aqj" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">September 13</span><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">. Many dozens of other Hubs are starting around the world at the same time. Would you like to join the conversation?</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Join us Tuesday September 13, 2016 – 8-10am – to learn more and determine your interest:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Learn more about U.Lab and the Missoula Hub.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Meet other participants and learn why they are interested.</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Define principles of relationship, how the group agrees to work together.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Weekly conversations will take place each Thursday 8-10am September 15-December 15.</span></b></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We invite alums and anyone taking the course to join the conversation as your schedule allows.</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Weekly Hub meetings will include four Live-streamed sessions from U.Lab.</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We aim to build Missoula U.Lab Hub momentum, to be shaped by the emerging process.</font></li></ul></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Location - </span></b><font color="#262626" face="calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">At least the </span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">first two sessions (Tuesday and Thursday, Sept 13 & 15) will take place at the <b class="">Swift Center conference room at 315 S. 4th St. in Missoula, thanks to Ecology Project International.</b> EPI hosted the first Missoula U.Lab Hub last fall and enthusiastically encourages their staff and communities to learn and apply Theory U. </span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Why participate? </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Society is in the midst of a great transition. Many believe that the profound disruption we are witnessing in the world has to do with the end of an era, and the birth of a new way of living together on earth. We are gradually learning that the focus on ME has to shift to WE, that bigger isn’t always better, and that the corporate and political systems need to morph or be replaced by more human-oriented, localized, and more truly democratic and socially just approaches.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Otto Scharmer</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""> describes this as </span><i style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">“updating our economic logic and operating system from an obsolete ‘ego-system’ focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole.”</i></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Prerequisite -</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">A 90 minute online prerequisite course is required to register for the full U.Lab course. Learn more, register for both and take the 90-minute course <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/awareness-based-systems-change-u-lab-how-mitx-15-671-0x" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">here</span></a> (<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/awareness-based-systems-change-u-lab-how-mitx-15-671-0x" class="">https://www.edx.org/course/awareness-based-systems-change-u-lab-how-mitx-15-671-0x</a></span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">).</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">The onus is on each one of us to be part of catalyzing change locally, leading to global societal change. </span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Will you join us?<a name="_GoBack" class=""></a> Please RSVP to Jenny or Suzanne </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">or </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">contact us for more info at:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Suzanne Wilcox: </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><a href="mailto:swilcox18@gmail.com" class="">swilcox18@gmail.com</a></span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><a href="tel:406-459-0449" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">406-459-0449</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Jenny Mish: </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="mailto:jenny@one4alldevelopment.com" target="_blank" class="">jenny@one4alldevelopment.com</a></span></span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, </span></span><u style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">406-240-6474</span></span></u></p><div class="">
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