SIETAR-Kansai - Past Monthly Programs

March 2004

One-day Workshop
with Hyogo Prefecture's International Exchange Association

Conflict Resolution: Cooperative communication and problem solving

* Registration is by fax required, and due to the participatory nature of the workshop, the number of participants will be limited to the first 30 participants that register before March 17.

Date:
March 27, 2004, Saturday 9:45am-4:30pm

Facilitator:
Suzuki, Yuka
Asia University, Obirin University, Intercultural Education Trainer

Place:
Hyogo Kokusai Plaza 3F
(Hyogo Prefecture's International Exchange Association)

In the International Health Development Center (IHD Bldg.)
10 min. walk from JR Nada Station or 8 min. walk from Hanshin Iwaya S tation, or at the Kobe City and Hanshin Bus “ Prefectural Art Museum ” bus stop.

Fee:
500 yen for materials

Language:
Japanese

Description of the Workshop:
Conflict with its many troubles has become a problem in our daily lives. This workshop will introduce a guide for taking action, influencing attitudes and forming resolutions to problems, the basis for negotiation. In order to promote good human relations, ways to examine one's own communication styles will be introduced. This could be said to be one of the basic skills practiced in intercultural communication. This workshop is an arrangement of “Cooperative negotiation training” that is widely used in training of UN staff, and of elementary school children as well as company executives in Britain and the US , specially for Japanese participants in the Japanese language. It is useful for anyone in society who has interaction with those from other cultures, such as teachers, students, public employees, etc. This training can also be applied to “Peace studies,” “Intercultural understanding education,” “Communication education,” etc. It provides a venue for thinking about basic communication problems that occur with others through a variety of participatory learning activities.

Profile of the Facilitator:
A graduate in Policy Science from Seikei University 's Faculty of Law, Suzuki, Yuka received her masters in International Educational Development from Columbia University 's Teacher College 's Department of International Relations and Intercultural Education. She went on to teach Japanese at Vanderbilt University and the University of California , Santa Barbara in the United States . She is currently a part-time lecturer at Asia University and Obirin University while working as a facilitator of intercultural understanding and intercultural education to company trainees and teachers of Japanese. She has published such works as Bunpo no Yowai Anata e , (Alc), Ibunka Kyoiku e no Konfurikuto Resoryushon no dounyu ni tsuite: Kyouchoteki koushou to ibunka kyouiku , (Ibunka Communication Vol. 6, 2003), and Konfurikuto manejimento: kyouchou, koshou, midieeshon , (Sanshusha, to be published in 2004).

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