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Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning based in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada and founded by Michael Bopp and Judie Bopp—is a "sister organization of Four Worlds International that focuses on building human and institutional capacity for social and economic development, as well as international research and consultancy activities related to eco-health, civil society strengthening, governance and institution building and indigenous people’s development."

Judie Bopp
"Judie has a Masters degree in education with a focus on curriculum development and a PHD in Education. Her thesis focused on helping organizations to learn the art and the science of participatory development." Judie Bopp is also "cofounder of Four Worlds International and is director of the Four Worlds Centre for Developmental Learning. She is a specialist in curriculum design and organizational transformation. She has worked in Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, the former Soviet Union, the Caribbean, and the Indigenous North America. She has recently co-authored two books, the first related to community-based sexual-abuse intervention and the other concerning building sustainable communities."

"Judie is a co-founder and director of the Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning. She holds a Masters degree in Multicultural Education and a Doctorate in Organizational Development and has provided training, technical support and evaluation services related to program development and organizational change to many different types of groups, ranging from the ministries of national governments to small non-governmental organizations.  She has worked in Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, the former Soviet Union, the Caribbean and Indigenous North America.  She has also provided technical support to many Canadian and American professional organizations and Indigenous communities."

Judie’s publications include a basic text on community development entitled “Recreating the World: a practical guide to building sustainable communities”, “Aboriginal Domestic Violence in Canada”,  and “Mapping the Healing Journey”. She has worked in Canada’s North since 2006 on issues related to women’s homelessness and mental health. She is also currently working with village leaders in northern Pakistan to build sustainable solutions to their economic and social development challenges.

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Michael Bopp
He completed his BA in English at Dalhousie University, then his MA in 1981 at the University of Alberta in Community Development focusing on the "development dilemma of Dene communities in Canada’s McKenzie Valley (NWT)."

He completed his Ph.D. in Education for Development at the University of Alberta in 1985.

In 1983 he co-founded The Four Worlds Development, "a research and development effort ... that focused on supporting the learning and technical needs of tribal communities" based at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and remained there as Director of Research and Development until 1992, authoring or co-authoring over 20 original pieces.(LinkedIn). Michael Bopp "is also cofounder of Four Worlds International and is director of the Four Worlds Centre for Developmental Learning. He is a specialist in participatory change and development processes and with Judie Bopp, has worked in community development internationally. He has published extensively and conducted trainings on human systems transformations, community health, research methodology, and learning for social change."

From 1990 to 1992 he was a faculty member at St. Frances Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Michael Bopp was Professorial Head at the The National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea (NRI) from 1992 to 1994.Confirm In 2008 he began working in Pakistan. In 2011 he began working with the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation.

"With a Masters degree in Community Development and a Doctorate in Education for Development, Michael is a co-founder of the Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning, and has more that thirty years of experience in grassroots training, in facilitating participatory development, and in helping organizations to become more effective in human and community development processes. He has lived and worked in Africa, the South Pacific, the Former Soviet Union, Latin America, the Caribbean, and in tribal communities across North America.  Michael has written and published extensively on personal transformation and community development related issues.  His publication list includes a National research study on Aboriginal community healing and recovery from residential school trauma, and a book on community development. Four Worlds is well known for its ability to bridge indigenous cultural perspectives with mainstream development agencies and resources, and to facilitate participatory action research processes. Currently, Michael is coordinating the development and launching of a virtual college to bring accredited training, related to human and community development directly to communities and the people who work with them. Fully accredited training programs are being offered in Canadian Aboriginal communities, and Four Worlds is currently involved in developing and delivering training for community development leaders in northern Pakistan, as well as in guiding comprehensive community planning in several Canadian Aboriginal communities."

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Four Worlds
"Four Worlds was born out of the intense deliberations and prayers of a gathering of Aboriginal elders and community leaders that was held on the Blood Indian Reservation on the high plains of Alberta in the last week of December 1982. Forty distinguished representatives of North American tribes met in search of a solution to the social devastation brought on by alcohol, poverty and an increasing sense of powerlessness in Indigenous communities."

In their 1998 report for the Assembly of First Nations, co-authored by Phil Lane Jr. and the Bopps, described the medicine wheel as described by Lane's father at Alkali Lake in 1986.

""At a midsummer gathering of indigenous nations held at Alkali Lake, British Columbia, Canada in 1986, Phil Lane Sr., a distinguished Yankton Sioux elder, was talking to a large gathering of tribal people representing over thirty-five different tribes and nations. He held a stick in his hand, and with it he drew a circle in the sand. "Our people used the circle to explain many things," he said. "For instance, the circle represents the hoop of the people. All of the people are a part. No one is excluded. The hurt of one is the hurt of all. The honour of one is the honour of all." In this way he explained a very simple idea that has very complex implications. The circle means that everything is connected to everything else in life. Nothing can happen to any one part of the circle without affecting all the other parts. "The human people are not the only people in the circle," the old man went on to explain. "The mineral people, the plant people, those that crawl, those that walk, those that fly, the four leggeds, even the air itself and the water and the stars and planets beyond number--all of these are part of the circle, and so are you, and so am I. What happens to any part of the circle happens to all of us." And thus the elder introduced the concept of deep ecology; of the profound interdependence of all things. The medicine wheel is simply the circle divided into four parts. Seeing things in fourness, or what Jung called "quaternity," is very common to most indigenous people in the world (we were all once indigenous somewhere).""

- "The Medicine Wheel: An Integrative Scheme of Thought to Guide Action"

In 2002 Bicker et al Four Worlds was cited as an example of participatory development.

"""In North America, the Four Worlds International Institute for Human and Community Development (2000) has built a its foundation on a consultation with elders from forty different North American First Nations. The Institute was born out of intense deliberation and prayers at a gathering of Native elders and community leaders held on the Kainai First Nations on the high plains of Alberta in December 1982. Distinguished representatives of the tribes involved met to search for a solution to the social powerlessness sweeping across tribal communities. The Institute is involved in training, health issues and funding international humanitarian work. Its four strategic foundation principles are" "development comes from within", "individual and community transformations must go hand in hand", "no vision, no development;" and "holistic learning is the key to deep and lasting change.""

- Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge p.97

The Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning
"The Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning emerged in 1994 out of all this work as a research, training and technical assistance group that provides direct services to communities, development organizations and projects around the world, to Indigenous communities, governments and organizations, as well as to agencies whose work intersects with and impacts grassroots communities."

In May 1999 Michael Bopp and Chief Phil Lane Jr. represented the The Four Worlds/Four Directions at the first ever Canadian Aboriginal Trade Mission to Mexico sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations, led by National Chief Phil Fontaine, Contigo International, and the Government of Canada through Aboriginal Business Canada, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Department of Indian and Northern Development, and the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City. Phil Lane Jr. (Dakota) is the President of Four Directions International and coordinator, Four Worlds International; "internationally recognized indigenous educator and development specialist;" recipient of the 2000 Swiss Foundation International Award for Freedom and Human Rights.

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HiMaT
"The HiMaT Indigenous Leadership and Development Project was born in 2009 out of several years of pilot efforts in Pakistan and elsewhere, informed by lessons learned from poverty alleviation efforts around the world, and given legs through a new partnership between an indigenous NGO in northern Pakistan (Karakorum Area Development Organization—KADO) and groups from Europe (HiMaT Grassroots Development Foundation—HGDF) and Canada (Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning)." "work carried out by a team of five development facilitators working on-the-ground in Hunza, supported by two Canadian rural development specialists."

The HiMaT Grassroots Development Foundation began as a partnership with Karakorum Area Development Organization (KADO), the Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning and a German businessman, Frieder Krups in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. HiMat's first development was in July 2008 when it "began supporting development efforts in the 11 villages of the Chipursan Valley in the most northern region of Pakistan high in the Himalayan Mountains."

Indigenous Leadership and Development Program's Rural Development Learning and Support Centre was created as a capacity-building centre for "rural communities, institutions and leaders (including women and youth)" social and economic development that offers "regional training, coaching and support."

Frieder Krups is the founder of HiMaT Grassroots Development Foundation in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan and co-founder of the "HiMaT Leadership & Development Project of KADO, coaching and supporting village communities in the far north of Pakistan in their own development activities." The name HiMaT means courage.

""HiMaT. Himat (also spelled himmat) is an Urdu word for courage, self-drive, spunk or empowerment. We have chosen to write the word as HiMaT to reinforce the concepts of effort (Mehnat) and transformative power or strength (Taaqat).""

In July 2011 the HiMaT Indigenous Leadership and Development Program of KADO organized a learning and action forum that was held in Kyber, Gojal and Hunza. "Participants of the Kyber forum analyzed the food and agricultural crisis in Gojal, and called for nothing short of an “agricultural revolution”. HiMaT-KADO subsequently organized a series of small farmer schools to begin a search for solutions."

"In April 2013, a Farmer’s Forum on Sustainable Agriculture brought together some 90 farmers (men, women, young and old) from across Gojal. At this forum the following critical decisions were made. Gojal farmers will work together to create a “second green revolution” that will seek a shift toward sustainable agricultural methods for addressing food security and agriculturally based prosperity. Participants agreed to form a Gojal Farmers Alliance. TInitially, this work will be coordinated collaboratively by GOLSON and the LSOs of Gojal, with the technical support of KADO-HiMaT and the department of Agriculture of the Karakorum International University (KIU)."

In January 2010, the Attabad landslide disaster in January 2010 completely blocked the Hunza Valley. A new lake — now called the Attabad Lake or Gojal Lake — which extends 30 kilometers and rose to a depth of 400 feet, was formed as the Hunza River backed-up cutting off the Gojal people. The landslide completely covered sections of the Karakoram Highway. In his 2013 report Ashraf Karim described how KADO's HiMaT Indigenous Leadership and Development Program (HILDP) provided training for women in two of the IDP camps.

In xxxx Chipursan (CLSO) and Sost, Gojal Rural Support Organization (GRSO) - two HiMaT supported local support organization LSOs tied for first place beating out the other 28 participants by a "significant margin." in a study evaluating LSOs undertaken by Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy with support from the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP).

Publications
In 1984 they co-authored The Sacred Tree with Lee Brown and Phil Lane, Jr. and a Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace, and author of My Life with the Chimpanzees.

In her 2011 PhD dissertation, Marie Anderson, former Native Training Institute (NTI), described the Medicine Wheel framework of Lane, Bopp, Bopp, & Brown (1983), which she adapted in her thesis, as "one of the first such frameworks" to be published.

""The Four Worlds Development Project is the result of many people's efforts and wisdom. Some were directly involved, others inspired us through their work in education and alcohol and drug abuse prevention. Direction for this project was set at a conference held in Lethbridge, Alberta in December 1982. Participants at the conference were Native elders, spiritual leaders and professionals of various Native communities in North America. Their contributions were framed by their deep commitment to Native people and their own, often hard won experience. To each of them we offer our deepest respect and appreciation. Harold Belmont, Mark Belmont, Andy Black Water, Ed Calf Robe, Steve Courchene, Ricki Devlon, Tyrone Eagle Bear, Perry Fontaine, Leonard George, Cindy Ginnish, George Good Stiker, Rufus Good Stiker, Woodrow Good Stiker, Ed Heavy Shields, Peter Hefferman, Lionel Kinunwa, Germaine Kinunwa, Phil Lane, Sr., John Many Chiefs, Sandy Many Chiefs, Jon Metric, Allan Murray, Wilson Okeymaw, Lee Piper, Doreen Rabit, Chuck Ross, Jerry Saddle Back, Herman Saulis, Frank Sovka, Eric Tootoosis, Mike White, Rose Yellow Feet..."

- The Sacred Tree 1984

In 1989 Four Worlds produced the documentary Healing the Hurts which is crediting with "first opening the door to discussion about residential schools."

In 1997 the Bopps co-authored a manual "intended to assist aboriginal community sexual abuse response teams in Canada to develop their own strategies for addressing the issues of sexual abuse in their communities" that is listed as a resource on the National Crime Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library collection.

In 1998 they co-authored a study for the Assembly of First Nations on social security reform. This comprehensive report includes The Alkali Lake and the Hollow Water, Manitoba community stories as case studies.

In 2005 Wanda McCaslin compiled articles published in "Justice as Healing" - a newsletter on aboriginal concepts of justice from 1995 to 2004, produced by the Native Law Centre of Canada, located at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon - into a textbook which was republished in 2013. which included a chapter by Phil Lane Jr, the Bopps and Julian Norris of Four Worlds International.

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References Bopp publications
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