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John G. I. Clarke B.Soc.Sc (SW), B.Soc.Sc (hons)
(Rel Studs)
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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 lifes fears, anxieties and
responsibilities to support them to choose
creative paths into the future Particularly...mana
gers in who want to get beyond petty
organisational politics and create organisational
cultures that are life-affirming and productive.

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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_at_iafrica.com
Fax (27) (0) 11 787 6407
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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

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Insight, Inspiration Industry through effective
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Is Systems Thinking just another management fad,
or an important trend that will ensure 21st
Century Organisations will remain viable?
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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?
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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 nights sleep, to
allow your subconscious and dream faculties to
aid your learning. It is structured so you that
you dont 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.
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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)

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• 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 dont
  have to be away from the office all day.
• For more information Email John at
  johngic_at_iafrica.com.

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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.
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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.
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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 Sufis.
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. Johns favourite Enneagram
writer is Suzanne Zuercher, OSB. In the Systems
for Success workshop a brief overview of the
enneagram is given.
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