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Workshop - February 2003

Friday, February 28, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

WORKSHOP:
Multisensory Method for Improving Intercultural Competency:
Experiential Learning Through Movement Exercises

LEADER:
Kaoru Yamamoto (Oba)
Intercultural Training Consultant, Part-time Lecturer at Obirin University

PLACE:
Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower 4th Floor)

*Registration starts at 6:30 p.m. The program starts 7 p.m. sharp. Please be on time.

LANGUAGE:
English and Japanese

FEE:

Member 1000Yen, Non-member 2000Yen

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This workshop will attempt to help participants explore using their senses to improve communication skills and intercultural competency. In addition to the basic five senses, we will be focusing on exploring senses that have not been well recognized such as kinesthetics and tuning into energetic presence in our communication to experience the importance of resonance in human relations. Through movement exercises, we will explore how to learn to learn from our own body--creating a dialogue within ourselves and deepening our intra-personal communication. We will also work on using our antennae to SENSE things out in interpersonal communication and experience resonance.

This workshop is a movement exercise/game (applied from Chi Gong, dance therapy movement exercises) where we actually move our bodies most of the time. Please dress comfortably, be ready to work in bare feet, and bring a bathing towel.

LEADER:
Kaoru Yamamoto (Oba)has been working as a free-lance Intercultural Training Consultant since 1986, and has worked in the U.S., Guinea-Bissau ( Africa) and Taiwan. She came back to Japan in 2000 and is currently teaching intercultural communication and presentation courses at Obirin University. Kaoru has been researching how to integrate multi-sensory, kinetic and somatic learning methods in intercultural communication workshops, including those movement techniques such as Chi Gong, Japanese classical dance, Western dance and dance therapy in intercultural communication workshops.

How to get there?:
i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station it is approximately a 10 minute walk. Once you get to the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. After you get off on the 4th floor, walk to the right until you get to the last door on your left