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1. Home Page of.. John G. I. Clarke B.Soc.Sc (SW), B.Soc.Sc (hons) (Rel Studs) Leading Image Leading Image Profile Purpose Focus Contact details Consultant in Organizational Effectiveness, Development Facilitator and Social Worker My work is to facilitate organisational learning and development that leads to more ‘human scale’ organisations that can effectively manage complexity and build peace, using the best available methods and insights from the human and management sciences. Generally..people who are stressed by life’s fears, anxieties and responsibilities to support them to choose creative paths into the future Particularly...managers in who want to get beyond petty organisational politics and create organisational cultures that are life-affirming and productive. Offerings “Systems for Success” The Need My response Participants responses Practicalities Team Syntegrity® Consulting Rooms: 45 Equity Drive, Blairgowrie, 2196, South Africa Postal Address: Postnet Suite # 6, Private Bag X10015, Randburg, 2125 Tel: (27) (0) 11 787 8470. Email: johngic@iafrica.com; Fax (27) (0) 11 787 6407 The Enneagram

2. Offerings Leading Image Expertise Offerings • John Clarke has had senior management experience in several organisations with a human service orientation. He has been mentored in systems thinking and cybernetics by Prof Stafford Beer, the founder of managerial cybernetics, and his partner Dr Allenna Leonard. • Chilean Professor Manfred Max-Neef, author of Human Scale Development and pioneering thinker and writer in Ecological Economics has futher enabled John Clarke to apply systems thinking to improve his understanding of the paradoxes of human and organisational development, especially in emerging economies like South Africa. • With his professional training in Social Work and Religious Studies John Clarke is able to thus integrate various disciplines into holistic, life affirming development processes for any type of organisation. • Lead facilitator of Team Syntegrity® organisational learning processes to creatively manage ideas and effectively connect people. • Instructor of Technologies for Creating® course. • Teacher of the Enneagram system for personal and interpersonal peace-building. • Systems Thinking problem solving and creative thinking methodologies • Materials development and creative writing • Leadership Mentoring and Development Counselling • Designing and Organising Team Learning events and processes • Conflict Resolution and Mediation Offerings “Systems for Success” The Need My response Participants responses Practicalities Team Syntegrity® The Enneagram

3. Systems for Success Leading Image Insight, Inspiration & Industry through effective Systems Thinking Offerings Is Systems Thinking just another management fad, or an important trend that will ensure 21st Century Organisations will remain viable? Systems for Success The Need What do I need to do so that my staff look forward to coming to and invest their time creatively when they arrive? How can I make these complex and intellectually sophisticated theories practical and useful to ordinary salespeople? My response Participants responses Practicalities Team Syntegrity® The Enneagram Find out by clicking here

4. Systems for Success Leading Image Offerings Insight, Inspiration & Industry through effective Systems Thinking These questions are chosen from many that I have heard in my work as a facilitator and consultant in organisational effectiveness. The first is a ‘head’ question expressing a need to understand. The second is a ‘hands and feet’ expressing a need for practical use. The third is a ‘heart’ question expressing a desire for the inmost satisfaction of human needs. If you are a developing manager and these questions strike a chord with you, you will want to know how to integrate them into your own personal and organisational learning. This seven hour workshop is all about getting Inspiration, Insight and Industry into your work through effective Systems Thinking and Practice. It is divided into two sessions either side of a good night’s sleep, to allow your subconscious and dream faculties to aid your learning. It is structured so you that you don’t have to be out the office all day, but can still take some time out to think and reflect in the company of other executives who want their organisations to flourish. Every concept introduced will be understood through action learning and the use of practical exercises that you can take back to your organisations for personal empowerment, team building and organisational learning. Systems for Success My response The Need Participants responses Practicalities Team Syntegrity® The Enneagram

5. Systems for Success Leading Image Insight, Inspiration & Industry through effective Systems Thinking Offerings Systems for Success Participants responses What others have said about it. “Thank you once again for the course. This course makes one realize that we do not spend enough time thinking. System Thinking should be taught at schools and become a way of life. It is a lot easier to change ones way of life at a young age.” Rosalba Biddlecombe (Project Leader in I T firm) “I now understand my organisation as a living organism. The experiential learning exercises were extremely motivational, especially thanks to the interaction with managers from other organisations, as we discovered things that were true for all organisations. The “Wheel of Fundamental Human Needs” is very helpful in understanding development. I am looking forward to learning more, as I now understand better the saying ‘life is a journey’, and I am making the journey with greater confidence.” Kenneth Thlaka. (Director. Northern Province Youth Development Organisation) “If you thought the way you think is the only way, Think again as you might discover other fascinating ways of dealing with your business and personal life.” Sydney Dube (Computer Systems Specialist) The Need My response Practicalities Team Syntegrity® The Enneagram

6. Systems for Success Leading Image Insight, Inspiration & Industry through effective Systems Thinking Offerings What you can expect. • An interactive process that provokes deep thinking and enquiry into the dynamics of life affirming organisations. We explore the paradox why “organisations enable ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things” – to quote Peter Drucker – but so often frustrate creative and highly motivated, (extraordinary) people! • Notes are provided on the practical research and teaching of Professor Stafford Beer (The Viable Systems Model and Team Syntegrity) and Professor Manfred Max-Neef (Human Scale Development Theory). The emphasis is on practical learning through group exercises that stretch and build Team Learning and Systems Thinking capabilities, laughter and dialogue, rather than lectures. A personal learning follow-through and application process is part of the deal, to ensure enhanced organisational performance and personal satisfaction. • Details of Next Courses • In Randburg 17th and 18th August 1999, At Bailiwick Manor, 60 Dover Street Randburg • In Durban. 23rd and 24th August 1999, at the Royal Natal Yacht Club, Esplanade, Durban • In Randburg. 9th and 10th September 1999, at Bailiwick Manor, 60 Dover Street, Randburg • In Cape town. 28th and 29th September 1999 (venue still to be finalised) • Each workshop has two sessions, an afternoon (from 1.45 to 5) and a morning session (from 8 to 1 followed by a concluding lunch), so you don’t have to be away from the office all day. • For more information Email John at johngic@iafrica.com. Systems for Success Practicalities The Need My response Participants responses Team Syntegrity® The Enneagram

7. IcosindabaDevelopment Associates IDeA Team Syntegrity® Leading Image Offerings Connecting People and Managing Ideas. As founder of Icosindaba Development Associates John Clarke offers a facilitated, custom designed group methodology known as Team Syntegrity®to help people and organisations come to terms with significant issues or problems that require their commitment, attention and subsequent action. Professor Stafford Beer invented Team Syntegrity® as a systemic model that brings the creativity, honesty and directness of informal and ‘grapevine’ conversations into a formal process to envigorate organisational learning and develop capability in handling complex realities. A “Syntegration®” brings together a group of people (ideally 30) who, through a sequence of structured activities come to a shared understanding, and then create a platform for collaborative and co-ordinated action to deal with their issues or solve their problems. The icosahedron (above) provides the architecture for organising participants in a perfectly democratic structure of 12 interlocking small groups, which ensures the ‘reverberation’ of ideas and the development of a powerful group consciousness. “Systems for Success” The Need My response Participants responses Practicalities Team Syntegrity® The Enneagram A virtual organisation of South African based free thinkers, consultants, trainers and OD facilitators who are trained and accredited by Team Syntegrity International to deliver Syntegrations together.

8. The Enneagram Leading Image Offerings Human beings are systems too, perhaps the most complex of all systems, because of our capacity for consciousness. This comes through personal growth that flows from loving interaction at the interpersonal and even transpersonal(spiritual) level. Mature self-love is the way to loving others. The Enneagram helps us to love ourselves and thus others ‘contemplatively rather than compulsively’ - without fear and judgement. John Clarke is a long time user of the Enneagram as a model for helping clients develop insight and greater mental health amid the complexities of life and love. The Enneagram is a system of nine dynamic, interacting energies, or ‘personality forcefields’ that are best understood in the context of developing committed relationships, either at work or in the family. The ancient Sufi mystics are generally though to have first discovered the enneagram structure in the human personality, but Stafford Beer ( Beyond Dispute: The invention of Team Syntegrity, (John Wiley and Sons) relates how Joe Truss, now President of Team Syntegrity International Inc, discovered the characteristic enneagram pattern within the Icosahedron. Joe proposes that the icosahedron, which Plato first marvelled at for its regular symmetrical properties, is the actual origin of the enneagram, and believes that the two dimensional plane figure of the enneagram was in fact coded esoteric knowledge, handed down by ancient civilisations that predate the Sufi’s. The implication is that there is a lot more to the Enneagram than initially meets the eye, and it is likely that it derives from a more complex structure which we are only now beginning to understand. For a review of popular enneagram writers click here. John’s favourite Enneagram writer is Suzanne Zuercher, OSB. In the Systems for Success workshop a brief overview of the enneagram is given. “Systems for Success” The Need My response Participants responses Practicalities Team Syntegrity® Enneagram