Who We Are

The Proteus Initiative facilitates learning processes and conversations for individuals and groups in the social sphere. Proteus courses are run within organisations wherever they are, in Cape Town, and at our wilderness centre, Towerland, in the mountains of the southern Cape, South Africa (where an immersion in wilderness and powerful natural elements infinitely enhance our experiences and capacities).

Proteus associates also work globally as social and organisation development consultants in response to specific requests from organisations concerned with social renewal (organisations exhausted by fragmented and piecemeal solutions and wishing to develop more coherent, responsive and thorough ways of working and organising, towards social renewal).

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The Proteus Initiative is led by

Allan Kaplan

Social and organisation development practitioner, researcher, teacher and writer; founder and former director of the Community Development Resource Association; author of The Development Practitioner’s Handbook, The Development Practitioner and Social Process – Artists of the Invisible, and The Building of Capacity; compiler and editor of Dreaming Reality – The Future in Retrospect (reading social intervention through the CDRA Annual Reports 1990-2003)

and

Sue Davidoff

Social and organisation development practitioner, researcher, teacher and writer; founder and former director of the Teacher Inservice Project; author of The Learning School – an Organisation Development Approach, the Courage to Lead, Valuing Teachers through Appraisal and Changing Your Teaching: The Challenge of the Classroom.

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in association with:

Liz Smith
Social Eurythmy – revealing and mastering the world of social relationship, through movement

and

Keith Struthers
Natural Architecture – enlivened thinking through living the dynamics of space and form

PATRON
Professor Brian O’Connell
Rector, University of the Western Cape

Board
Sandy Lazarus, Afsaneh Tabrizi, Oliveira Mucar (Mozambique), Alan Ralphs, Liz Smith, Sue Davidoff, Allan Kaplan

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