Bion + Janssen = True
Certification on use of the Team Barometer

»What differentiates a good and productive leader from an ordinary or mediocre one is that the productive one seems to be capable of keep thinking clearly even though he or she is under hostile fire – from within.«
Wilfred R. Bion

To increase ones capacity to act more constructively in groups that are under stress and anxiety is something that becomes more and more important in our modern and ever changing world. This capacity can be trained and developed – not only among the leaders but among all engaged.

The 2010 Team Barometer certification program part one begun June 21 through 22. The Team Barometer is the tool in the Four Rooms of Change series that in a quite unique and very powerful way combines Claes Janssen's research with that of Wilfred R. Bion. Together and complementing each other they become a unbreakable team, possible to use by anyone in the organization.

To become certified on the Team Barometer requires certification on the Four Rooms of Change basic tools.

Ten experienced Four Rooms of Change users are being trained in the practical applications of the Team Barometer. This session is followed up by a session in November of 2010.

Certification jubilee

The 40th Swedish Four Rooms of Change certification program started in Stockholm on June 14 through 15. 18 participants gathered from all corners of the country to study, learn, practice and use the basic toolkit developed by Claes Janssen and Ander & Lindstrom AB. This program will be finished in mid January 2011.

The participants come from small and medium sized consulting companies as well as from organizations like the Church of Sweden, Swedbank, Trygghetsradet and Karolinska university hospital. The program is managed by Eva Widegren and Bengt Lindstrom of Ander & Lindstrom AB in collaboration with the originator Claes Janssen.

Users of the Four Rooms of Change met to discuss challenges

On May 28th the Four Rooms of Change User Forum of the western region of Sweden met at Eva P. Svensson's residence in Onsala. The meeting was managed as an Open Space Technology meeting with the theme The Four Rooms of Change – opportunities and challenges. The users created the agenda together and selfmanaged tha workload of the day. And they experienced a wonderful day together.

Parents in a Melbourne suburb spent Thursday evening with the Four Rooms Change theory

Thursday evening, March 18, 2010, Drusilla Copeland and Bengt Lindstrom of Ander & Lindstrom AB and Mike Cook of Clarion Learning LTD met with a group of parents at the St. Leonard's College in Brighton a suburb of Melbourne to introduce them to the Four Rooms of Change in schools. Mike Cook explained the theory, the movement, the borders and the doors. Bengt Lindstrom told the story of how Ulla Janssen developed the process. Drusilla Copeland shared what is happening now in schools that are using the Four Rooms of Change in Sweden and Finland. Read the article Bullying in schools in Teacher Magazine here.

Education professionals from Melbourne and Sydney get to know the Four Rooms of Change

Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Drusilla Copeland, Bengt Lindstrom of Ander & Lindstrom AB, and Mike Cook of Clarion Learning met with around 15 education professionals in a Getting to know the Four Rooms of Change in schools half day event. As with any other group trying to get to know the Four Rooms of Change we started by building the theory together out of the groups own experiences, Mike Cook lead this portion of the event. After that Bengt Lindstrom shared with the group how the process of working with children in the classroom was developed and implemented by Ulla Janssen at Vasaskolan in Strangnas, Sweden. Next, Drusilla Copeland shared with the group what has been happening in schools in Sweden and Finland. There were many thoughtful questions and interest in finding a way to bring the Four Rooms of Change in Schools program to schools in Melbourne Victoria and possibly others states in Australia. The workshop generated plans for several new meetings.

Some photos from the day:

The Four Rooms of Change Certification in Melbourne Australia March 16, 2010

The Four Rooms of Change Group a company within Ander & Lindstrom AB of Stockholm, Sweden in collaboration with Clarion Learning Pty LTD would like to announce the convening of the first Four Rooms of Change Certification Program in the Asian-Pacific.  March 15 – 16 2010, consultants from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore gathered with Drusilla Copeland and Bengt Lindstrom to learn Claes Janssen Ph.D. theory about change the two different ways of approaching life.  The group also learned how to work with two of the fundamental and foundational tools associated with the theory.  The members are now on their way to becoming certified users of the Four Rooms of Change theory and its associated tools.

Utah Transit Authority launches new Future Search website

We have had a long and productive collaboration with Utah Transit Authority (UTA) for more than 11 years in several aspects of consultancy including – but not limited to – Future Search conferences. Now UTA has launched a website that showcases its three conferences.

The trustful collaboration amongst the three principles John Inglish, Drusilla Copeland and Bengt Lindstrom might be interesting to you. Embedded in those relations you will find the ingredients for extraordinary results that were the outcomes of these conferences.

• www.utahfuturesearch.com

You can also listen to John Inglish, CEO of UTA, tell in his own words why he has chosen Future Search conferences three times in the last ten years:

• www.utahfuturesearch.com/content/?page=12

Get to know the Four Rooms of Change in Skara

On Friday October 23rd, the popular Get-to-know-the-Four-Rooms-of-Change-workshop was carried through in Skara, a city in western Sweden, with a total of 14 participants representing a a very broad variety of work environments. Ingrid and Jon Ullberg, OD Consultants from Mångfald i Vinköl organized the workshop together with Bengt Lindstrom from Ander & Lindstrom. It was an engaging morning full of learnings and with quite a number of ahas. Learn more about Mångfald i Vinköl here.

A most exciting Four Rooms of Change User Forum - 90 participants altogether

On September 9-11, 2009, some 90 Four Rooms of Change users gathered for the annual User Forum meeting and learning exchange in Stockholm. The meeting started out with eight presentations of uses of the Four Rooms of Change in different environments. Among them:

• Tele2 (major phone operator) in Riga, Latvia
• Wyeth AB (pharmaceuricals) in all of the nordic countries
• the trade union Kommunal (organizing workers in cities and municipaliteies) and their gender equality project and a large group intervention in the City of Stockholm.

The User Forum can be characterized as showing an enormous diversity not only when it comes to environments but in depth and width of the uses.

See photos from the Four Rooms of Change User Forum 2009 at Flickr

Participate in the Four Rooms of Change certification program

December 21-22, 2009, New York City
Four Rooms of Change Certification CourseJoin us for the Four Rooms of Change Certification of 2009 in New York City! Why not end this year of global change and transition by beginning your journey to becoming a certified user of the Four Rooms of Change Theory and pedagogic tools.
» Download the certification brochure, pdf
» Register

March 15-16 2010, Melbourne Australia
Four Rooms of Change in Australia
For those of you living in Australia and the Pacific Rim and have been interested in becoming a certified user of the Four Rooms of Change theory and pedagogic tools. We invite you to join us the Four Rooms of Change Group and one of our collaborators in Australia Clarion Learning.
» Download the certification brochure, pdf
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