Workshop Overview

The emerging challenge for leading sustainable organisations through perpetual change and transition is to see more – more patterns, interdependent parts, deeper solutions.

The key to this challenge, say theorists and business leaders is to develop a more adaptive way of thinking enabling us to see culture as an emergent, dynamic flow, dependent on the complexity of the environment and the way people experience their world.  Leadership in this context would require a more systemic approach, dependent on our ability to personally reflect on our practice in order to see the truth of who we are, who we lead and what we change from what to what.

Spiral Dynamics Integral, or SDi for short, concerns itself with the deep complexity codes that shape our many worlds. The framework describes and makes sense of the enormous complexity of human existence, and then shows how to craft elegant, systemic problem-solutions that meet people and address situations where they are.

This powerful conceptual system has been field-tested in some of the most complex environments on the planet, from inner-city Chicago to racially plagued South Africa.  It is equally applicable for individuals, teams and organisations.

Your facilitator, Margaret Devlin has been working with Spiral Dynamics since 1998.  She has been trained by both Dr Don Beck and his co-author Christopher Cowan. She is one of only two internationally accredited Australian trainers of SDi. She has conducted workshops for leaders and managers in local and state government agencies, and in some of the largest private companies in Australia.