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Workshop - June 2008
June 28, Saturday, 13:00-17:00
Your pre-registration is highly appreciated in order to grasp the participants, although the number is not limited. Send an email with your name and contact number to 
WORKSHOP:
Creating a New Story of Life
LEADER:
Kichiro Hayashi, Ph.D.
PLACE:
Reitaku University Seminar Center, Shinjuku i-Land Tower 4F
LANGUAGE:
Japanese, with some English
FEE:
Members 5000Yen
Non-members 6000Yen
Member Students 1000Yen
Non-member Students 2000Yen
Non-member Graduate Student 3000Yen
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Achieving a vision, either for an individual or an organization, may be conceived of as starting to live a new story of life. I designed this workshop to create dialogues on story-making through use of relevant concepts and simulations from the emerging paradigms.
From the viewpoint of intercultural communication, story-making ingredients include cast (subjects & objects), time (past, present & future) and stage (digital & analog space). The dramatic frame may sway among the 1st floor (Newtonian-Cartesian), 2nd floor (postmodern), and 3rd floor (unity consciousness) view of the world. The key concepts involved will be paradigm shift, harmony and creativity.
Despite the description above, the approach will not be too philosophical or academic but rather experiential and applicable to daily life, coaching, facilitation, and leadership. The workshop is meant for those minds and hearts not yet married firmly with any one paradigm, today’s common sense paradigm particularly. The idea is to be playful. Examples of experiential learning will include edge walk on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, impro analog-digital role-plays, Bohmian group temperature, meditative embodiment experiment and the like. The base language will be Japanese this time. But there will be lots of English words used. Participants can use English if they wish.
WORKSHOP LEADERS:
The presenter is Professor of SIIC, Portland, Oregon (10 years) and Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin U. He was Chairperson, SIETAR Japan for two office terms around 1990.
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.
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