This slide presentation is a part of the fourth week's "Co-creating" assignment for MITx's "massive open online course", U.Lab: Transforming Business, Society, and Self. The assignment reflects my experience in outlining the proposal of a "Pilot Project" for Roanoke's U.Lab Hub and Initiation of a prototype.

1. Roanoke’s U.Lab Hub
Leading Innovation from an
Emerging Future
Hosted by group epignosis (an urban ecolab)
Welcome to . . .
Brian McConnell - Director

2. Session 6 - Prototyping
Outcomes
“Valuable feedback from
stakeholders on an idea
that helps refine the
concept and its underlying
assumptions. A practical
and tested mini-version of
what later could become a
pilot that can be shared
and eventually scaled.
Ideas to refine the existing
and invent new concepts.”
from “Prototyping” at the
Presencing Institute
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3. Session 6 (Prototyping) – From Ego-System to
Eco-System Economies
▪ Modeling the course’s “Case Clinic” approach (see handout)
–Select time keeper.
▪ Brian’s “Intention Statement”
–The key challenge I’m currently “up against” . . .
▪ Stillness
▪ Mirroring: Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Will
▪ Generative dialogue
▪ Closing remarks and Individual journaling (to capture learning
points)
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4. Brian’s “Intention Statement”
. . . helping us “crystalize”
ideas and subsequently
“prototype” them. This
“means creating a landing
strip for the future, and
building something that
allows us to explore an
emerging idea or concept by
doing.”
1 - Current situation : The
key challenge I’m currently
“up against” is . . .
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5. Brian’s “Intention Statement”
. . . that part of this process
of "crystalizing ideas" entails
both co-creating and holding
the "we-space" in which our
core group's "story" or
"shared narrative" can (and
will) continue to unfold (e.g.
"co-evolve").
1 - Current situation :
The key challenge I’m
currently “up against”
is . . .
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6. Brian’s “Intention Statement”
1. Property owners in
southeast Roanoke
2. Local community
members (including
homeless)
3. Businesses and civic
organizations
4. Roanoke’s citizenry
2 - Stakeholders : How
might others (i.e.
stakeholders) view
this situation?
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7. Brian’s “Intention Statement”
In this same respect then,
the future I'm trying to
create would be initiated
at the local level by
generating health,
happiness, and well-
being, amongst the
community's members.
3 - Intention : What
future am I trying to
create?
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“The “pilot project” adopted by Roanoke’s U.Lab
Hub is a community-based, whole-system,
approach to vitalizing southeast Roanoke’s
socioeconomic well-being. In the broadest practical
application of knowledge and theory, and to the
fullest extent possible, this project aspires to
integrate science with culture (i.e. art and religion)
through the introduction of innovative system
design as a joint process of treatment recovery and
community (wealth) building." from “A Pilot Project
of Roanoke’s U.Lab Hub and Initial “.8” Prototype".

8. Brian’s “Intention Statement”
What’s a “second-tier
distributed network”?
“4.0” – Co-creative ->
Seeing & Acting from the
Whole
3 - Intention : What
future am I trying to
create?
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Graphic from, “10 insights on
the Ego-2-Eco Economy
Revolution – Otto Scharmer”

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Brian’s “Intention Statement”
I need to “let-go” of my
biases against 1.0, 2.0, and
3.0-type systems.
4 – Learning Threshold:
Attention’s structure assumes
various forms (e.g. habitual 1.0,
ego-system 2.0, stakeholder 3.0,
eco-system 4.0) in both healthy
and pathological conditions
across the collective scale.
KnowledgEvolution

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Brian's Intention Statement
5 – Help : Where do I
need input or help?
I’d like to expand our
context to include a
community of practice by
forming an integral
sangha (ashram or dojo)
to support our work as a
“practice center”.

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Brian's Intention Statement
5 – Help : Where do I need
input or help?
. . . in forming a core holding group.
"Then, in broader "rings" beyond this core,
draw the individuals and /or groups who
should experience the prototype, and with
whom you should empathize around their
experience."

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▪ 1 - Listen to your heart : Connect with your heart to what
you're hearing
▪ 2 - Listen to what resonates : What images, metaphors,
feelings and gestures come up for you that capture the
essence of what you heard?
Stillness

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Mirroring: Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Will
1 – Coaches share
what
images/metaphors,
feelings, or gestures
arose for them.
2 - Having listened to
the coaches, Brian
reflects what he
heard in response.

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Generative Dialogue
1 – Reflecting on
Brian's remarks move
into generative
dialogue on how these
observations can offer
new perspectives on
his situation and
journey.
2 - Go with the flow
of the dialogue. Build
on each other's ideas.

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Closing Remarks
1 – By coaches.
2 - By Brian: How do I
now see my situation
and way forward?
3 - Thank you: An
expression of
genuine appreciation
to each other.

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Individual Journaling

17. Roanoke’s U.Lab Hub
Leading Innovation from an
Emerging Future
Hosted by group epignosis (an urban ecolab)
Welcome to . . .
Brian McConnell - Director