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Setting the Context for Transformation towards Authentic Leadership and Co-Creation

This chapter presents a new educational approach for developing authentic leadership and co-creation based on Theory U. The main arguments are that authentic leadership and co-creation develop together and cannot be taught through lecturing. Leaders must themselves experience going through the U in order to reconnect with their authentic self. To help the process unfold it is argued that 1) a holding space of trust and respect must be built previously, and that 2) the context, here understood as physical space, social atmosphere, and pedagogical principles and practices, must be designed appropriately to provide encouragement for co-creation. These arguments are sustained by empirical material and practical examples from an executive master education.