with empathy, authentic reflection, and compassion. She courageously exposed her own vulnerability showing up as a human being. Michelle Obama also does not primarily focus on the opponent, but rather on her own experience, her own opening process, and on the positive future that she feels is wanting to emerge. Thats what it takes to be a warrior of the third category, a warrior of the open heart: as you engage the current moment, your eye is on the future that is seeking to emergenot on the past that you try to fight against.Someone who fits that third category would blend the compassion and presence of a Michelle Obama with the systems change focus of an Elizabeth Warren. Such a person (or combined 2020 ticket) would need to connect with a powerful global movement of changemakers who collaborate around new forms of economic, political, and cultural renewal.Systemic disruptionFigure 1 shows how the three responses to systemic disruption give rise to three conflicting cultures:1. Downloading: same old, same old.2. The cycle of absencing: denying, de-sensing, blaming, and destroying (closing the mind, heart, will).3. The cycle of presencing: seeing, sensing, crystallizing, and co-creating (opening the mind, heart, will).Figure 1: The Social Fields of Presencing and AbsencingSo what is it that is ripping our communities apart? Its that the social field of absencing, that is, the closing of the mind, heart, and will, keeps ampliying prejudice, hate, and fear because its supercharged by business (its a billion dollar media industry) and technology (with Facebook and Google keeping us well inside our echo chambers or filter bubbles). Moreover, nearly one-fifth of election-related tweets came from bots, from robots, according to a new study by University of Southern California researchers. Our social media is designed to systemically spread and amplify negativity, its not designed around an intention to build community and generative cross-boundary dialogue.What We Are Called to Do NowWill President Trump act like candidate Trump? Or will he evolve and grow with the demands of the job (like others did before him)? We dont know. Most likely his biggest contribution will be that he helps us recognize the other (downside) part of our culture that needs loving attention, compassion and transformation. As the German poet Goethe put it so eloquently when making Mephistophelesrepresenting the role of the evilsay: I am part of that force which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.What is the good that President Trump could work for us? Here is a short list:Letting go of any illusion that the necessary changes of our time will originate from the White House or any other top-down structure. It will come instead from a new global movement of local and multi-local change makers that apply the mindset of Michelle Obama (open mind, heart, will) onto the transformation of the collective.As we begin responding to the disruption of this week, we have an opportunity to organize in new ways that go beyond the usual responses to disruption:1. Personal rage: taking it out on something outside ourselves,2. Personal change: using that energy to transform oneself, or3. Movements