Living the Future Now
My heart reaches out to Japan wondering what I can do to help. How do I witness this disaster from a distance in a way that helps to restore community and build more resilience? Stay connected. Stay connected. Stay connected. Those are the words that dance across my heartmind. So I tweet and retweet. I [...]
I first met Arawana Hayashi in the summer of 2004 at the Shambhala Authentic Leadership Institute (now ALIA — www.aliainstitute.org). It was my first time participating in the Institute. That year we’d organized an Intergenerational Dialogue on Leadership which was the ancestor for the dialogue held earlier this year in Tokyo. I was looking forward [...]
So last week we invited 60 or so people to do something unusual in Roppongi. A few blocks away from the Japanese Parliament and on the second floor of the Japan Foundation headquarters, we had businessmen and school teachers, consultants and nonprofit organization leaders, college students and retired government workers lying on the floor with [...]
Perhaps it is ironic, but women’s leadership has never been a topic that has captivated my attention. Since I was little, I have heard my mom’s stories about not being allowed to wear anything besides dresses for most occasions, about growing up at a time when there were no sports for women, about fighting for [...]
My body did protest a bit at the 5:30am alarm after five hours of sleep. But there was a Shinkansen “bullet train” to catch at 6:30 in Tokyo in order to arrive on the island of Shikoku a little after noon. Shikoku is one of found main islands of Japan, in the Inland Sea, just [...]
