Organizational development

The underlying principles of the contemporary design of our present organizations date from a period marked by attempted predict and control of our reality. Many of the present ways of organizing, decision making, communication, management and planning are still based on these underlying principles. As a consequence, organizations are less and less capable to find the right answers to the challenges they are confronted with nowadays.

• How do you organize inspiration?
• How do you create a conscious continuously evolving organization?
• How do you in practice create sustainability and meaning?
• How do you integrate the wisdom and inspiration of all engaged in decision making?
• How do you manage results in a turbulent, complex and changing environment?
• How do you include awareness that everything in and around organizations is a coherent system and at the same time see that all parts can be viewed as autonomous?

Organizations are just like people. They can re-invent themselves or burn out.

We work from an integral perspective on organizational development, which means: creating the context and conditions within which people can contribute their knowledge and inspiration for the benefit of the goal of the organization. The design principles we use are based on self-governance and integral resilience. System, process and function are interwoven as one vital whole.

Core principles are the organization’s DNA.

This process of design and interweaving is called synnervation. Synnervation is in essence about the creation of all connections inside and outside systems that are continuously developing. In this way we can focus totally on what matters now.

These connections create space for the natural life force and vitality of a system and move in the direction of more creativity and innovation. It makes the organization and the environment in which it operates more vital and resilience.

Synnervating contributes when:

• the present ways of working no longer offer fit solutions for the complex challenges we are now confronted with
• there is a need for an extra impulse to create and innovate
• the collaboration does not deliver sustainable results and you feel the need for innovative insights and perspectives
• There is a need for greater coordination of a diversity of actions: collective focus in close cohesion with individual initiatives
• you wish to activate the collective intelligence of a system. There is a longing for more awareness – and therefore more influence – on the evolution of an organization
• there is a need to address mind, feeling and ‘gut’ intuition as equal parts of wisdom