Event report: Power of dialogue – your leadership in a changing world

対話の力 – 変わり続ける世界であなたが発揮するリーダーシップとは

Date: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sunday, November 10, 2019

Venue: 309A, South 6 building, Ookayama

Guest facilitator: Bob Stilger, Tamio Nakano

日時: 2019年11月10日（水）10:00-18:00

場所: 大岡山南6号館 309A 教室

ゲストファシリテーター: Bob Stilger, 中野民夫

ToTAL invited Bob Stilger and Tamio Nakano, two leading facilitators who have long been committed to community building where change and uncertainty are present. They have worked to co-create the spaces where people can create their own future. Bob Stilger is regularly called to North and South America, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Southern Africa. In this one day session, Bob invited students to dialogue within and among themselves and guided them with intriguing questions to be aware of “what is important for me right now, right here?”, which makes the foundation of their leadership.

長年にわたり、大きな変革の中にある場所に出向いてコミュニティービルディングをファシリテートしてきた、日米を代表するファシリテーター、Bob Stilger 氏、中野民夫教授をお招きして、ワークショップを行いました。お二方とも、その場にいる人々が自分自身の未来を作り出す場を、集まった人々とともに作り出すことに尽力されてきました。スティルガー氏は定期的に、南北アメリカ、日本、東南アジア、南アジア、アフリカ南部に呼ばれワークショップをしています。今回スティルガー氏は、たくさんの質問を投げかけることによって、自分自身との対話、仲間との対話に学生を導きました。その中で、「いま、自分にとって、何が一番大事なのか」に意識をむけることが、リーダーシップの基礎を作ると語りました。

How it turned out

1. Check-in / チェックイン

• Your name, by what name would you like to be called?

• Where were you born?

• Where are you living now?

• What brings you here?

2. Life story sharing – Bob Stilger and Tamio Nakano / ライフストーリー シェアリング

• Bob Stilger shared his stories when he arrived in Japan immediately after 3.11 disaster, how he spent time and built community together with people in Kesen-numa. He shared many leadership-related stories, for example, about how a young man, who arrived at a village with the full intention of helping but didn’t know anything, has found what to do by listening to people. Leadership is not only for disastrous times, but such alarm clock events often work to wake people up. Tamio Nakano told his experience of volunteering work after 3.11 in Tohoku and how it led him to an academic career.

You can see more about Bob’s story in his book:

-日本語: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4862761860/
-English: https://www.amazon.co.jp/AfterNow-Cannot-Future-Where-English-ebook/dp/B07H469SKM

• Bob introduced a core question for the day: “What’s important for you?”

• Dialogue with students

  
  
  

3. Silent walk – with a question “What am I ready to let go of?” / サイレントウォーク
   What really matters is not the answer but holding questions with you and asking yourself.

   
   
   
   

4. Lunch and sharing of what you have found during the silent walk / ランチ・サイレントウォークで考えたことの共有

5. Play-doh work (pair work) / 粘土をつかったペアワークと全体での対話

   
   
   

   

• Building a model of the system you are in and place you in the model

• Looking at the model from 4 directions

1. E: What do I love about it? What ignites my energy?

2. S: What are the key issues, conflicts and hard truths I must face?

3. W: What is coming to an end? What is waiting to be born?

4. N: What, for me, is the essential core?

• See other people’s models

• Dialogue with students

1. What did you find?

2. What does this work have to do with leadership?

6. Check-out / チェックアウト