Presentation at the Knowledge Resources conference to launch the book Organisational Change and Development on 22 July 2015 - an African Approach. Using Spiral dynamics and Inclusivity theory to describe the need for fresh and transformational approaches to organisations development in organisations that can impact sustainability in societies.

1. Organisational
Change and
Development –
an African
perspective
Dr Rica Viljoen

2. Dr Rica Viljoen
08:30–08:40 Welcoming and introduction
08:40–09:30 Organisational change and transformation in the new world of work - Dr Rica Viljoen, Managing Director, Mandala Consulting
09:30–10:30 Spiral dynamics for Africa Dr Loraine Laubscher specializes in integrating First and Third World cultures in the global workplace
10:30–11:00 MORNING BREAK
11:00–11:45 Organisational development in practice Doctrine Loshnee Naidoo, Specialist in socio-economic development
11:45–12:30 Alternative OD modalities - Doctrine Tonja Blom, Specialist in the field of organisational change
12:30–13:30 LUNCH – FEED YOUR BRAIN TO ENHANCE THINKING PERFORMANCE
13:30–14:45 Strategy and organisational change and development Dr Adri Drotskie, MBA Director of Henley Business School South Africa
14:45–15:00 The link between organisational change and development and consulting psychology Dr Anna-Rosa le Roux, Head of
Organisational Effectiveness at Woolworths Financial Services
15:00–15:15 RECHARGE BREAK
15:15–16:15 World Café exercise – conceptualizing the future of OCD in Africa
Facilitated by Joyce Toendepi and Rica Viljoen from Mandala Consulting
Please join us for the BOOK LAUNCH afterwards

3. Intent – boundary for the day
Not a conference – an OCD Event
Whoever comes is the right people.
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
Whenever it starts is the right time.
When it is over it is over.
The Law of Two Feet:
"If you find yourself in a situation where you aren't learning
or contributing, go somewhere else.”
Boundary management – checking in phones ringing to be
interpreted

4. Content of the day
OCD not CDO
Optimising social systems
Making it functional on different levels /domains:
I, We, IT,

5. Philosophical under-pinnning
• Phenomenological, social constructivistic ontology
• Ethnographic and interprevistic epistemology
• Integral methodological assumptions

6. 3890
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Total: More than 60000
Multicultural work in 42 countries

8. Saying what they want us to hear

9. Understanding the underlying beliefs in a system

10. Becoming authentic

11. The Age of Authenticity
• Bringing spirit (anima) back into organisations
• In males and females
• Extended definition of organisations
• Becoming authentic and real

13. Theoretical framework
• Inclusivity theory – Viljoen
• Spiral Dynamics – Graves, Beck, Beck
• Human Niches – Laubscher
• Jung – normal psychology, James Hollis
• Freud, Bion – groups are not normal
• Consolation work - Hammilton
• Integral Theory - Wilber
• Appreciative Inquiry = Cooperrider, Sharmar,
Wheatly, Hamilton
• Body, Mind and Soul work – Paula Reeves, Marion
Woodman
• Auto-ethnographical – Ellis, Plummer

15. So what is the one pager
solution?

16. Sustainability thorough Inclusivity - energy on all dimensions
Alternative ways
New
world of
work
Nature of the world
Why we change Essence of Change
New
Sciences
We change differently
Consciousness
The
Individual
The
Team The
Organisation
How individuals
change
How groups
change
The What
Context:
Industry
South Africa
Africa
Global
Leadership
Doing
Being Disconnect
Apathy
Engagement
Inclusivity
Organisation
Group
IndividualEQ Journey
Dialoguing
World CafeStorytelling
Appreciative
Inquiry
Organisational Leadership
Trust
Leadership
Work attributes
State Engagement
Trait Engagement
Behavioral Engagement
How organisations
change
The way: How we change
The landscape of Organisational Change and Development
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17. Inclusivity as radical OCD methodology
Definition of Inclusivity will be used:
“A radical organisational transformational methodology which
aligns the doing and the being side of the organisation around
commonly defined principles and values, co-created by all.”
“It is a systemic approach that focuses on underlying beliefs
and assumptions, and challenges patterns within the
individual, group and organisational psyche to spend energy
and engage in a sustainable, inclusive manner with the
purpose of achieving a shared consciousness.”

18. Viljoen (2008) defined Engagement as
“Engagement, the systemic result of the interplay between the
individual potential, group potential and organisational potential
in the context of the specific industry or national culture”.
“as the output of the energy in the system to perform.”
Engagement Defined

20. "The darkest thing about Africa has
always been our ignorance of it.”
-George Kimble

21. Constellation Activity

23. Family
Relations
Rules of
Behaviour
Ceremonial/
Ritual
Time
Orientation
Stories
Ancestor
White/Blac
k MagicLand
Sky
Animals
People
Relations
Human
Domain
Physical
Domain
Sacred/Spirit
ual Domain
Interrelatedness of African Purple
Secrecy
Social Structure
Copying
Relationships
Elders
Old ways
Drumming,
Dancing, Art,
Storytelling
Exists outside past
or future
Storytelling and
Metaphors
Honoring and
Protection
Sangomas
Foresight
HealingGift of gods
Sacred earth
Sun, Moon, Stars
and Wind
Animal Spirit
Consultation
Communication
Harmony
Laubscher (2014)

26. Marikana 16 August 2012
34 Mineworkers killed by police
“Treat us with respect”, “long sleeve
shirts for the sun please”, “basic rights”,
“treat us with dignity”. Solve
PURPLE
problems
with
PURPLE
thinking

28. Xenophobia
• On 12 April 2015 shops in Umlazi and KwaMashu, outside Durban, were
torched. Almost 2,000 foreign nationals from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
and Burundi have been displaced as a result of the violence.
• Five people have been killed.
• On 14 April 2015, Looting of foreign shops spread to Verulam, north of Durban
following a day of clashes between locals, foreigners, and police in the city centre,
KwaZulu-Natal.
• About 300 local people looted foreign-owned shops, and only two people have
been arrested.
• A 14-year-old boy became the latest fatality. He was shot dead during looting in
KwaNdlanzi, allegedly by two security guards.
• In Durban's Central Business District (CBD), a car was set alight and police fired
rubber bullets, stun grenades and teargas canisters in clashes between looters and
foreigners

30. `ovrOvr
Over-culture congruence
Thinking structures Viljoen, 2015
Over culture

31. `ovrOvr
Over-culture congruence
Viljoen, 2015
Over culture

32. NORTH
Nature &
Community
Culture &
Spirituality
Science &
Technology
Economics &
Politics
RED
SOUTH
PURPLE
YELLOW
BLUE
WEST EAST
Doing
Being
Knowing
Thinking
Viljoen (2015)
An integral approach
ORANGE
BLUE
Green
BEIGE

33. “When father
Germany
(Europe)
and mother Africa
marry,
the divine child
called
TRANSFORMATI
ON
is born.”
-Jung 1953Dossey

34. “You cannot help but learn more as
you take the world into your hands.
Take it up reverently, for it is an old
piece of clay, with millions of
thumbprints on it.”
-John Updike

35. There is no shame in looking back
and fixing something!
Akan Adrinka Symbol
West Africa

36. We locked up our wisdom into our bones
And swallowed the keys
They sank in our rivers of blood
And we forgot the maps
Because we had to forget the mysteries To keep them safe. We wove our hair into
ms And swept over our paths And then burned the earth with our rage We didn't teach
ildren It was the only way to protect them, we thought But in them we planted seeds,
ds and keys And told them stories and riddles and songs With no roots, just tangled
s That would take years to unwind Just enough time For the rains to fall again and put
t the fires For the dams to break For the rivers to flood For the paths to be walked
For the soil to breathe And as the old bones crumble Deep beneath the rubble We find
always had the keys Our stories and our maps Our paths are revealed to some And the
seeds grow again The threads are unspun
And woven again~ Amara Bronwyn Hollow Bones

37. Unique contribution
• Scientific-practitioners approach
• Academically written yet practical
• Remembering organisational development
• Incorporate CHANGE in OCD
• Integral and systemic
• Multi-disciplinary approach
• Alternative modalities
• Deeply rooted in consulting psychology and ethics
• Multi-cultural integral approach
• Interdisciplinary inquiry into the ecology of social
systems

39. If a old person dies, a library burns
down . . .

40. Reflections…
?
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