About the Journal
Aims & Objectives of the Journal
The International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching (IJPLC) is an annual peer-reviewed publication dedicated to advancing the global field of presencing research. IJPLC suports scholarship with the potential to transform and evolve presencing practice. IJPLC provides a generative inquiry space to advance the development of both Theory U-based presencing research and what Gunnlaugson (2023) identifies as emerging presencing approaches, particularly in leadership & coaching contexts.
The International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching encourages a broad spectrum of traditional and progressive research methods, including action-oriented, theoretical and conceptual approaches. The journal also encourages inter-disciplinary perspectives across first, second- and third-person viewpoints, inviting contributions from a diverse array of fields including leadership, organizational studies, coaching, education, psychology, applied arts, consciousness studies among many others.
As an open-source, peer-reviewed, online international journal, IJPLC supports submissions that illuminate new ideas, thinking, and innovations in presencing practice in leadership and coaching contexts.
Background
The roots of presencing can be broadly traced back to different Eastern, Indigenous, and global wisdom traditions, including early Greek practice. Presencing has also been explored in contemporary western thought through the works of existential philosopher Martin Heidegger. In the early 2000s, organizational consultants Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, Otto Scharmer, and colleagues developed the term in a new direction in their consulting work and book Presence, bringing the practice of presencing to mainstream awareness. Framed as an integrative leadership approach and method for learning from the emerging future, in recent years exposure and interest in presencing has continued through Scharmer and colleagues’ work with Theory U and ULAB as an awareness-based change approach supported by a growing global community of practitioners, researchers and organizations.
Contributions by Francisco Varela’s phenomenological method, Joseph Jaworski’s storied journey of Source as an inner path of knowledge creation, and more recently Gunnlaugson’s Dynamic Presencing have introduced methods for engaging the deep interior dimensions of presencing practice. However, aside from these contributions, the territory of presencing is surprising underresearched and theorized about. To address this growing need, IJPLC invites submissions that foster fresh thinking, research and practice , expanding this field of inquiry in leadership and coaching contexts.
With the increasing global interest in presencing theory and practice, IJPLC is committed to advancing the field's development and evolution by strengthening, cohering and advancing different forms and approaches to presencing-based research in leadership and coaching contexts for years to come.
