The Four Rooms of Change in Schools Program in Australia Takes Another Step

Thursday, March 15, 2012, the Teacher Learning Network hosted a Get to Know the Four Rooms of Change in Schools event.

The morning was spent introducing curious teachers, headmasters, educators, psychologist and consultants to the Four Rooms of Change concept. The group was guided through the process of constructing the theory out of their own experiences by Drusilla Copeland of A&L Partners AB and Mike Cook of Clarion Learning Pty Ltd.

Then in the afternoon teachers from three of the schools that participated in the 2011 Pilot Program shared their experiences with the group.

Here's what the prestigious daily newspaper The Age wrote about The Four Rooms of Change in schools: On the board: learning emotional intelligence in class.

What's Behind the Numbers?

On day two of the Four Rooms of Change Certification Program, the group worked through the Organizational Barometer. The big questions were What’s behind the numbers? and What are you seeing that I am not?

Stage 3 in the certification programme

A team of consultants from Utvecklingspoolen on the way home inspired after Stage 3 of the certification program for the Four Rooms of Change.

2012 Melbourne, Australia Four Rooms of Change Certification Program

Part I of the 2012 Melbourne Four Rooms of Change Certification Program begin Tuesday, the 13th of March. There are participants from Melbourne, Tasmania, Perth and New South Wales. The program is being lead by Drusilla Copeland of A&L Partners and Mike Cook of Clarion Learning.

The work began with the group constructing the theory of the Four Rooms of Change just as every other group has done before them.

Certified User in Melbourne Host - 1/2 Day Get to Know the Four Rooms of Change

After an informative and regenerative reunion meeting Friday morning, the Australian Four Rooms of Change User Forum hosted twenty-nine business leaders in an afternoon lead by Mike Cook where many gained their first exposure to the Four Rooms of Change theory and model.

Four Rooms of Change users meet in Melbourne

Friday, December 2, 2011 members of the 2010 Four Rooms of Change Certification Co-hort met in Melbourne Australia. The purpose of the meeting was to reconnect to share learnings, to learn what's new with the Four Rooms of Change and to prepare for the afternoon...

Victorian School Project Teacher Training Day 3

Thursday, December 1, 2011 the pioneering the schools and their teachers who participated in the Four Rooms of Change in School Project came together to discuss their learnings, experiences and aha moments with each other.

The second certification group in Australia

Melbourne, Victoria Australia - Four Rooms of Change® Certification Part III - The second certification group in Australia met November 29 - 30 2011 to complete the classroom work related to becoming certified to use the Four Rooms of Change theory, model and associated tools.

The Participants met Wednesday, November 30 2011 to consider and mutually agree with the Certification Program Management Team their next steps along the Four Rooms of Change journey.

User Forum 2011

The Four Rooms of Change Annual User Forum was convened in Stockholm Sweden on September 7-9, 2011. The theme was The Manager as Change Leader and the Forum gathered 80+ users and clients from four continents. Here you see Claes Janssen from Sweden and Mike Cook from Australia.

Want to know what happened? Download the program here (pdf).

The Four Rooms of Change moves into the classroom

The usage of the Four Rooms of Change is intensifying in Australian schools. The project where we have trained teachers in the Four Rooms of Change is now making impression in the classroom. Here are students in The Victorian School Project having a language lesson where the teacher is incorporating the words that the students have populated the Four Rooms of Change with to write stories about how they are feeling.

Victoria School Project Workshop, day 2

A number of primary and secondary schools in Victoria, Australia are now ready management wise to start up implementation of the Four Rooms of Change development work – including the classroom application, the Children's Four Rooms.

The governance of the project will be shared by representatives from the Independent Schools Victoria, Teacher Learning Network Victoria, the Catholic Education Office and other stakeholders.

Main attractions of day 2 were:

• Teams beginning the morning by completing their self-analysis using their data from the Organizational Barometer.
• Teams sharing their learnings and aha's from the work with the Organizational Barometer
• Michael Victory of TLN outlining the logistics of the project
• Bengt Lindstrom sharing the history of the Children's Four Rooms and a few classroom examples
• Teams sharing their preliminary plans for how to Get Started with the Four Rooms of Change project in their school from now and throughout 2011
• Using the Four Rooms of Change in the Room technique for understanding the here-and-now processes

This is how it all began:

• March 2010: Parents in a Melbourne suburb spent Thursday evening with the Four Rooms Change theory
• March 2010: Education professionals from Melbourne and Sydney get to know the Four Rooms of Change
• September 2010: The Four Rooms of Change in Australian schools

Some photos from day 2:

Four Rooms of Change pilot school project now launches in Australia

Karin Morrison of Independent Schools Victoria and Michael Victory of Teacher Learning Network.

The Teacher Learning Network Vic. (TLN) and Independent Schools Victoria collaborates in launching a pilot school development project in Victoria. The project will be running from December 2010 through 2011 and will be researched, monitored and quality controlled by a steering committee of different stake holders.

The project was officially launched on December 2010 when seven groups of school management representatives met to try out a number of Four Rooms of Change key tools and to learn more about the theory invented by Claes Janssen, Ph.D., a Swedish psychologist, researcher and author.

The workshop that is going on until December 3rd is delivered by Drusilla Copeland and Bengt Lindstrom of A&L AB.

Four Rooms of Change certification in Finland

Ten people starts their Four Rooms of Change certification process on November 26 through 27 in Helsinki, Finland. The program is convened by Harry Johansson of Brainwork Oy and Bengt Lindström, A&L AB.

The Four Rooms of Change in Australian schools

On September 16, 2010, a group of 20 School professionals met in the facilities of Teachers Learning Network, TLN in Melbourne, Australia. The aim of the half day meeting was to get to know the Four Rooms of Change and more specifically its school applications. Mike Cook of Clarion Learning Ltd introduced the group to the theory and Bengt Lindstrom of A&L AB described the developments of Claes and Ulla Janssen and the experiences of more than 10 years of use in schools in Scandinavia. A video presentation of Heini Bargum teacher at Rekolanmäki School in Vantaa, Finland, where she shared her experiences of using the Children's Four Rooms in her class of eight-year olds was also presented. You can see the video here:

More photos from the workshop:

Four Rooms of Change certification in Australia

On September 13-14, Part 2 of the Four Rooms of Change certification program is going on in Melbourne, Australia. The participants have successfully used the theory and the tools in countries such as Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia. Part 3 will take place in December this year. Pictured above is Drusilla Copeland.

Four Rooms of Change User Forum 2010

On September 8-10 110+ professionals met in Stockholm, Sweden for the annual User Forum. Theme of this event was Here's how to create real results in real-time with the Organizational Barometer.

Here are some photos from the first day:

Here are some photos from the second day:

Here are some pictures from the third day when one of the highlights was Eva Amundsdotter telling the story of her research project on gender equality that led to the thesis Att framkalla och förändra ordningen (To develop and change the order of things). In the research the Four Rooms of Change was used as the main development fluid. Her partners in the research project was Birthe Josephsson, Kommunal and Søren Holm, Mastercoach Sweden. All three are certified users of the Four Rooms of Change.

The Children's Four Rooms of Change

At the brink of Sodertalje Canal Astrid Bergfors (L back), Marie-Therese "Fiffi" Mellström (L front), Bengt Lindström (R back) and Eva Widegren (R front) met to further the development of the work methodology, the classroom kit and the family kit, all connected to the Four Rooms of Change in Schools Project, developed in Sweden some ten years ago. It was a strikingly beautiful summer day which was concluded through lunch and increased clarity around the teachers' trainings that are coming up during the fall and winter. Teachers' trainings are now in scheduled for Sweden, Finland and Australia.

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 A&L 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 A&L 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 A&L 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 A&L 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 A&L 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 A&L. 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
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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.
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