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center for human emergence
July 2009 
Regime Change
Alain
Widely recognized as one of the chief architects of South Africa's post-apartheid democracy, Dr. Don Beck talks about how nations transition through different political ideologies. He reflects upon his experiences in South Africa and discusses regime change with specific reference to the current situation in Iraq.
About Don Beck
Dr. Beck is a leading global authority on political and societal change. He is a co-founder of the National Values Center in Texas, USA, founder of the Center for Human Emergence (CHE) and is CEO of the Spiral Dynamics Group. Beck's long career as a consultant has taken him to 10 Downing Street to advise Tony Blair's Policy Unit, to the offices of former President Bill Clinton and to the World Bank to discuss the future of Afghanistan. Between 1982 and 1998 he made over 60 trips to South Africa, where he played a central role in the peaceful transition to democracy.
http://www.bigpicture.tv/videos/watch/70efdf2ec
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Learn more on Dr. Beck's vision on Spiral Dynamics in the context of the Netherlands with this video taken at the CHE conference ”Klaar om te Wenden”
Klaar om te Wenden is an event for 900 people in the Fabrique in Maarssen, the Netherlands. During this even on March 31st 2006 four insipiring futurists share their vision of evolutionairy change an leadership in the world an a possible rol for the Netherlands as one of the guiding communions.
Other key note speakers at this event were Heman Wijffels, Ervin Laszlo and Peter Merry.
Klaar om te wenden? is organised in name of the Center for Human Emergence (Netherlands) by:
- Anne-Marie Voorhoeve
- Gertjan Broekman
- Mark Dekker
- Margreeth van der Kooij
- Jasper Rienstra
- Lisette Schuitemaker
- Martien van Steenbergen
- Alain Volz
- Alexander Zöllner
In the process of organizing this event we also used the concept of Presencing as part of our cooperation and leadership. We spent much time to reflect on our own internal and collective processes as part of the energy that we wanted to create at March 31st and beyond.