Soon it's time for the User Forum Annual Meeting 2009

September 9-11, it's time to meet in Stockholm for The Four Rooms of Change User Forum. The User Forum consists of the more than 200 active and certified users of The Four Rooms of Change and its tools.

People who are presently under training to become certified are also members of the User Forum.

The purpose of the User Forum is basically to be the active network that will work for continuously developed quality towards the end customer or the end user.

The theme of the 2009 annual meeting is: The rooms, the movement and the crossings of the Four Rooms of Change – To better understand and affect them within oneself and in relation to others.

New this year: Invite a guest for parts of the meeting.

The tentative agenda will soon be available here.

Participate in the Four Rooms of Change certification program

September 22-23, 2009, Stockholm
Four Rooms of Change Certification CourseFor those of you in Europe, Africa and Asia who might find traveling to North America difficult and you have been looking for an opportunity to become a certified user of the Four Rooms of Change Theory and pedagogic tools.  We want to let you know that on September 21, 2009 – September 22, 2009 there will be a Part I Four Rooms of Change Certification Program in Stockholm, Sweden and the program will be conducted in the English language.
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December 21-22, 2009, New York City
Four Rooms of Change Certification CourseJoin us for the final 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.
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User Forum 2008 gathers users of the Four Rooms of Change

Photo: Presentation from one of the groups on the theme »Teenagers and the Four Rooms« with Anna-Lena Bengtsson from Lemshaga Akademi.

On September 10 through 12, 45 active users of The Four Rooms of Change gathered in Stockholm to learn, exchange experiences, perform real client work on different workplaces and also to collaborate and have fun.

Day 1, September 10

Photos, left: Preparation for Open Space session one. Right: Groups exploring the real social effects of certain aspects of Claes Janssen's Outsider Scale.

Day 2, September 12, morning

Most of the participants is working with clients. A small group is in a session on censorship and denial with Claes Janssen.

Day 2, afternoon

Photos: Consultants in reflective teams and mixed groups.

Key persons from the client systems are joining the group at Drottninggatan 55 for mutual feed-back and Learning Exchange. Approximately 60 people, consultants and clients, engaged in an intensively working meeting. The aftermath concluded that the day and the afternoon had been filled with learnings for all parties, everyone seemed to be bringing something home.

Afterwards a meal in the Four Rooms of Change office space.

Day 23, morning

The morning session mirrored what had happened during day one and two – all in a clear light of contentment. After that there was a session for deepened learning around The Outsider Scale. Also, the last Open Space sessions were performed before closing. Photo: One of the themes in the last Open Space session. Consequences of the YES/NO conflict in life and in workplaces.

The 35th certification program

Part one of the 35th Sweden based Four Rooms of Change certification program started in June 2008. 13 participants from different corporations, municipalities, government agencies and consulting firms attended part one of the certification program on June 16-17 in Stockholm, Sweden. Some interior from Part one:

In the picture, standing from the left: Anki Udd, Swedish Managers Trade Union; Åke Nilsson, HRM in the North; Kristina Eriksson, the Swedish Motor Vehicle Inspection Company; Helene Åhlberg, Crenato AB; Carina Gadnert, TRR; Britt Tham, Sörmlands Savings Bank; Lena Axhamre, TRR. Sitting from the left: Britt-Marie Romero, Swedish Armed Forces; Moa Lork-Dieborn, consultant; Marie-Louise Ribbnäs, Oxus AB; Cecilia von Schedvin, New Dialogue; Bjarne Edlund, consultant; Ann-Christin Hartman, DO – The Ombudsman Against Ethnic Discrimination.

The certification was lead by Eva Widegren who, among lots of other topics presents Marvin Weisbord's och Sandra Janoff's latest and excellent book Don't Just Do Something – Stand There and Bengt Lindström, among other tasks behind the camera.

More photos from the certification:

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