Living the Future Now
Yamizaka-san and I were invited to do a workshop in Osaka. Yamizaka-san was a landscape architect 10 years ago. Now he’s something else? But what does he call it? A community developer? A community designer? Both of those have the sense of someone working from the outside. He works from the inside and is no [...]
We met a couple of nights ago in Tokyo to reflect on the recent Art of Hosting in Kiyosato (see earlier blog). After almost four months of work here this year, I still am surprised. What brings 22 people out for five hours on a cold weekday night to reflect on their learning together a [...]
Ten years ago Tsumura-sensei created the Human Relations Center at Nanzan University in Nagoya. Twenty years before, he had been trained by NTL – National Training Laboratories for Experiential Learning – in “T” Group processes. He became passionate about experiential learning. What I hadn’t understood was that “T” group work is really a key ancestor [...]
Since my arrival in Japan in January I’ve wanted to do an Intergenerational Dialogue here. It finally happened last month. On a beautiful Sunday in the middle of November, nearly 70 people gathered in a lovely building on the Tokyo University campus for the first intergenerational dialogue here. The youngest was just a month old [...]
Like a trip down a water slide, the Art of Hosting at Kiyosato, Japan began and then, quickly, was complete. Whew! Our second one this year. This time the hosting team from outside Japan was Toke Moeller from Denmark, Susan Virnig, Bob Wing and Bob Stilger from the US, along with Annie Virnig from the [...]
They came from all around the world. Fifty from Japan, twenty from Israel, Denmark, the Netherlands, UK, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan. An amazing production across culture. They came to the lovely space of Fuji-Xerox’s Knowledge Dynamics Initiative (KDI) which organized and hosted the summit with support from The Future Centers Association. Low [...]