Dear Friends, Earlier this week I was invited to have dinner with Peach Heart’s founders. A year ago five young women created Peach Heart because
Dear Friends, I’m on my way home to Kyoto for a brief visit before returning for a for five final days of work in Fukushima.
I’ve spent the last few days in Iwate Province, the most rural and most northern of the three provinces devastated last year on March 11th.
Dear Friends, I spent yesterday in the new FutureCenter in Minamisoma, a community 25km south of the reactors in Fukushima that had a population of
This past weekend I was one of 350 people at the Fukushima Kaigi in Fukushima City. I was amazed. It was a weekend long Community
What’s your immediate response when you hear the words “Future Center”? I first heard them a few months ago from Bob Stilger who had been
Wow, I’ve been back in Japan for a quick visit. When I left in mid-December, my intuition was that I should come back for a
Pausing as I write the phrase, ordinary people…. What’s really true is that I am just blown away. I’ve spent the last three days meeting
In a week I’ll be headed back to my beloved Japan. What will I find there? Community. Friends and family. Colleagues. Grief. Destruction. Possibility. Fear.
I first met Arawana Hayashi in the summer of 2004 at the Shambhala Authentic Leadership Institute (now ALIA — www.aliainstitute.org). It was my first time
So last week we invited 60 or so people to do something unusual in Roppongi. A few blocks away from the Japanese Parliament and on
Perhaps it is ironic, but women’s leadership has never been a topic that has captivated my attention. Since I was little, I have heard my
