Arawana Hayashi

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Arawana Hayashi’s work as a choreographer, performer, and educator is deeply sourced in awareness-based collaborative improvisation. She is a cofounder and senior faculty of the Presencing Institute where she heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater. Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues, she brings her background in performance art-making and meditation to the creation of an embodied presence practice that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities within organizations, schools, and community contexts. Arawana teaches meditation and creative process in Shambhala, a community committed to the creation of enlightened society. She is the author of Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move published by PI Press.  

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