ABSTRACT
Robben Island diversity experience (RIDE) is staffed by competent organisational consultants working in the systems psychodynamic consultancy stance, chosen in a representative manner with regard to diversity characteristics, including gender and race. RIDE was conceptualised by the directors, Marius Pretorius and Derek Hendrikz, of the hosting organisation. The training group (TG) made the pre-conference work for RIDE fragile and the TG became the container for the organisers, the director, and the TG director having to deal head on with the possibility that RIDE would not take place at all. RIDE is designed and presented from the systems psychodynamic perspective. The primary task is to provide opportunities for participants to study South African diversity dynamics as they unfold in the here-and-now of the event and to transfer their learning to specific organisations. South Africans experience many diverse and unresolved emotions from the apartheid era, associated with racial segregation, minority domination, and inhumane acts.
