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A new presence-based coaching method, The Five Level-Depths Method of Presence, works with actively sourcing and cohering the development of your emerging presencing self.

A new presencing-guided coaching method, The Five Field-Stages Method of Presencing fundamentally changes how presencing is practiced in a coaching context.

Featured in a growing number of peer-reviewed articles and books, Dynamic Presencing is the next-generation coaching methodology behind the DPC Approach.

A new presence-based coaching method, The Five Level-Depths Method of Presence, radically supports and transforms the development of your emerging presencing self.

A new presencing-based coaching method, The Five Field-Stages Method of Presencing fundamentally changes how presencing is practiced in a coaching context.

Featured in recent peer-reviewed articles, Dynamic Presencing is the next generation coaching methodology behind the DPC Approach.

Dynamic Presencing Coaching is an original body of work developed by Olen Gunnlaugson. While informed by Theory U, DPC has evolved into a distinct approach that is not affiliated with the Presencing Institute.

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Stay tuned for two upcoming books featuring a new path and paradigm for presencing-based coaching.

Research Perspective :

WHAT GENERATIVE AI CANNOT ACCOMPLISH

Generative AI operates through algorithmic simulation. It draws from vast data sets and recursive feedback loops to produce increasingly refined outputs. But no matter how advanced, it cannot access the living ground of human experience. More simply, it lacks a body, a soul, and the existential reality of being in this one life in the world. From the perspective of Dynamic Presencing Coaching, this limitation is fundamentally ontological.

Generative AI cannot inhabit the felt contours of an emerging moment, nor attune to the subtle aliveness of a coaching conversation sourced from the living essence of presence. Its mode of knowing is rooted in algorithmic pattern recognition, not in presencing. It generates meaning from data, yet remains disconnected from the embodied ground where meaning is actually lived and presenced. Generative AI simply can’t access an embodied, organic, experiential, deeper soul or source based creative perception.

Because of this limitation, it is a sophisticated version of McLuhan’s caricature of driving into the future using only our rearview mirror. Orienting from continuous feedback copies of itself within the global knowledge base updating in real-time, Generative AI will always be a stranger to actual, living creative ways of being and engagement grounded in human experience. It can only immitate the deeper wisdom that resides in stillness and in the felt-sense of what is most real.

Because Generative AI isn’t grounded in a living body and consciousness, nor embedded in the actual existential human conditions of our world and its past, it transmits a thought-based form of pre-existing knowing that is unable to participate in the depth of a transformative coaching encounter.

And in the case of Dynamic Presencing Coaching, which fosters a generative way of being, knowing, seeing and feeling from level-depths of embodied presence that are lived into in the coaching conversation, this adds yet another living layer of human experience that simply can’t be reproduced. Based on algorithms of prediction rather than a presenced basis of experiencing, Generative AI lacks an intrinsic sense of deeper truth, presence and reality underlying its language. 

Lacking access to the living source of human experience restricts AI’s usefulness in the domain of transformative coaching. While there are AI Coaches, they work well within non-transformative contexts designed to motivate with continuous incremental improvement and real-time feedback. Generative AI coaching simply has no basis to be attuned to the deeper presencing processes a DPC Coach apprentices with. In the Dynamic Presencing Coaching approach, coaching is sourced from two human beings presencing the unfolding of what is most real, most true, and most soulfully alive—together.

Research Perspective :

WHAT GENERATIVE AI CANNOT ACCOMPLISH

Generative AI operates through algorithmic simulation. It draws from vast data sets and recursive feedback loops to produce increasingly refined outputs. But no matter how advanced, it cannot access the living ground of human experience. More simply, it lacks a body, a soul, and the existential reality of being in this one life in the world. From the perspective of Dynamic Presencing Coaching, this limitation is fundamentally ontological.

Generative AI cannot inhabit the felt contours of an emerging moment, nor attune to the subtle aliveness of a coaching conversation sourced from the living essence of presence. Its mode of knowing is rooted in algorithmic pattern recognition, not in presencing. It generates meaning from data, yet remains disconnected from the embodied ground where meaning is actually lived and presenced. Generative AI simply can’t access an embodied, organic, experiential, deeper soul or source based creative perception.

Because of this limitation, it is a sophisticated version of McLuhan’s caricature of driving into the future using only our rearview mirror. Orienting from continuous feedback copies of itself within the global knowledge base updating in real-time, Generative AI will always be a stranger to actual, living creative ways of being and engagement grounded in human experience. It can only immitate the deeper wisdom that resides in stillness and in the felt-sense of what is most real.

Because Generative AI isn’t grounded in a living body and consciousness, nor embedded in the actual existential human conditions of our world and its past, it transmits a thought-based form of pre-existing knowing that is unable to participate in the depth of a transformative coaching encounter.

And in the case of Dynamic Presencing Coaching, which fosters a generative way of being, knowing, seeing and feeling from level-depths of embodied presence that are lived into in the coaching conversation, this adds yet another living layer of human experience that simply can’t be reproduced. Based on algorithms of prediction rather than a presenced basis of experiencing, Generative AI lacks an intrinsic sense of deeper truth, presence and reality underlying its language. 

Lacking access to the living source of human experience restricts AI’s usefulness in the domain of transformative coaching. While there are AI Coaches, they work well within non-transformative contexts designed to motivate with continuous incremental improvement and real-time feedback. Generative AI coaching simply has no basis to be attuned to the deeper presencing processes a DPC Coach apprentices with. In the Dynamic Presencing Coaching approach, coaching is sourced from two human beings presencing the unfolding of what is most real, most true, and most soulfully alive—together.

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Featured in 15 edited, sole authored and forthcoming books as well as over 50 articles in leading peer-reviewed academic journals and book chapters.

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