Presence is a constellation on a number of practices. Building presence means evolving your capacities to perceive. To do this means an evolution of: 

Action Logic: This means increasing our capacity to perceive and deal with the complexities facing us as we try and maintain work / family / personal / practice balances. Managing and transforming dilemmas depends on the capacity to see through and beyond the horns of the bull facing us.

State Engagement: Through meditation, aikido, yoga and a host of other practices we can deepen our sense of that which grounds and connects us to our selves, others and the eco-systems into which we are interwoven. Compassion springs from this engagement as does our access to intuition, creativity and transcendence of the daily grind rat race prison of helplessness we often find our selves within.

Action Learning: This is the process of doing, reflecting, learning, and doing it all over again. In a sense, we often do this without conscious consideration. The Action Learning process helps us bring our developmental practice to a clear and explicit place in our lives and those whom with we engage.

Character Assessment: Assessments like the DISC, MBTI, LSI, etc... help us see where our preferences, tendencies, habits are in terms of engaging others. They help us see our strengths as well as how we limit our selves by relying on those strengths. At some point, through the insight gained from Action Logic evolution and State Engagement it is possible to create a Presence that extends beyond the limitations of character.

Group Resonance: Learning how to engage fully with others and create elevated learning and creative ba is the practice of understanding and being able to generate group resonance. The tricky thing is the harder we try to create resonant or peak experiences the less likely it is to achieve them. There are, of course, many other paths up the mountain. The ones I've listed here have worked well for me and the rest of my team at Interkannections. If you have any suggestions for additions to the list, we'd love to hear them.

This post also appears in the Capacity Evolution blog