Dear SJ members,

I believe there may be many people who are suffering from the disaster that hit and still hitting Tohoku and Kanto area. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and all those affected by this disaster.

We have already contacted participants and presenters at the Praxis Seminar that the event is canceled and this is a report to you all.

I wish the very best for you, your family and people you feel connected, and hope that those who are hit the hardest will recover soon.

Best wishes,
Eriko Machi
SIETAR Japan, President

The following event has been cancelled.

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2011, Mar 19(Sat) & 20 (Sun)

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The retreat program this year will be held in Izukogen on March19 (Sat) and 20(Sun). We will have three wonderful presenters at the seminar.

On the first day, we have invited Dr. Jacqueline Wasilewski to host a workshop on a dialogue process to create MIID (Multicentered, Interlinked, Inclusive, Discursive or Dialogic) communities. Dr. Wasilewski currently resides in New Mexico, and it is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the 3-year COE NEAD (North East Asian Dialogue) Project with which she was involved when she was teaching at International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo.

For the evening program, Ms. Tomoko Kusaka will present the different factors that satisfy husbands and wives in marriage. She will talk about research results from 45 Japanese couples on the marriage satisfaction survey, about how the results are similar to/different from the results gathered in other countries, and analyse the reasons for these differences.

On the second day, Ms. Michiko Tomioka and Dr. Makiko Deguchi will be conducting a workshop from the new SIETAR Japan Interest Group, Living Within Diversity (LiDi). Themes will be on the common ground of human rights education and intercultural communication and on psychological research on the characteristics of racially privileged/dominant groups.

We believe there will be a lot of in-depth discussion about how people from different cultural backgrounds can live together in society and about how diversity can be accepted. The venue offers an ideal environment for networking among participants. We look forward to your participation.

Date:
March 19th (Sat) - 20th (Sun), 2011

Place:
IzukogenObirin Club TEL: 0557-51-4846

Fee:
JPY 16,000 (members),
JPY 19,000 (non-members)
JPY 13,000 (member or non-member full-time students)

(This includes accommodation, facilities, meals, reception, and participation fees)

Room:
3-4 people share one room. For couples or families, we can prepare one room if you can let us know beforehand. A fee for a family member is JPY 11,000 for adult, and there is a child discount.

Program:
March 19 (Sat)

12:30- Registration
13:30-17:30 Workshop, "ICU-COE North East Asian Dialogue Project: BuildingMIIDCommunities"
Dr. Jacqueline Wasilewski (English)
17:30-18:00 Break
18:00- Dinner
20:00-20:30 Evening program, "Marriage Satisfaction Factors from Husbands and Wives - From Intercultural Perspective", Ms. Tomoko Kusaka (Japanese)
20:30- Free time, Networking Party

March 20 (Sun)

9:00-12:00 Workshop, "Living Within Diversity"
1. Human Rights Education and Intercultural Communication
Ms. Michiko Tomioka (Japanese)
2. Understanding the Psychological Processes of Dominant Groups
Dr. Makiko Deguchi (English)
12:00- Lunch

* Please note the above schedule may slightly be changed on the day.

Application:
Please send the information on the following page to by Saturday March 5th.

• First-come, first-serve basis, as the number of rooms available is limited.
• Please write "Application for Praxis Seminar" on the subject line of the e-mail.
• If you do not have e-mail, please send the application by fax (03-3368-2822)

1. Name
2. Member, non-member, student-member
3. Affiliation
4. E-mail
5. Address
6. Tel
7. Shuttle Service: No / Yes (Please choose time: 11:45 12:45)
   

Confirmation:
Our e-mail will confirm your application.

Payment:
Payments are to be made on site. (Cash only)

Cancellation Fee:
After March 16: 10,000 yen
On the day: 100% of participation fee

We very much look forward to your participation.