I held a workshop on the following subject on November 1-3, 2008 in Minami-Machida, Japan.

 

Developing and Attaining Visions for Global Leadership    -- Innovative Communication in the Difficult Times （ビジョンはどう開発し、どう達成するか―創造性を視野に入れて）

  

Outline :

   

Part 1:  Identifying your real vision

  (A) What does a real vision look like?

    1)  The vision that heart-throbbing life begins now with.

    2)  The vision that harmonic life resonates with.

  (B) Feasibility and sustainability

Part 2:  Attaining your real vision

  (A) Conventional ways

  (B) New ways

Part 3:  Advanced studies of vision tools

  (A) Spherical methods

  (B) Paradigmatic methods

  

Overall Picture :

  

   Many examples show that it makes a great deal of difference in success between having a vision and not having one. It is not as simple as it may sound to have a real vision, in the challenging times particularly. Even young dreaming people or experienced people with a lot of thoughts and wishes find it not that easy to express their visions in concrete terms. Part of the difficulty involves striking a complex balance, really understanding the self and deep uncertainties. Further, one may feel confused to hear, “Once a real vision is hit, it is as if it already is achieved.” Part 1 of this workshop was spent to understand what vision is all about in the difficult times and how a real vision can be developed.

  

   Part 2 was on attaining a vision. I attempted to guide the participants to some unconventional, radical approaches as exemplified by “Ask, and you will receive” or “Creativity is the magic of the universe”, and compare them with the conventional approaches. Sciences including quantum physics and somatic science do not deny certain non-causal experiences including some seemingly esoteric phenomena. Neither can we ignore the results of certain experiments and applications based on body knowing the best. “The law of attraction” has even become a fad today in the US. Also, an experiment is being attempted as an “Intention Experiment”. Some Japanese approaches such as Qi-gong and Reiki may also be relevant in vision attainment. Most of these are mainly “feeling or analog” approaches as compared to thinking or rational approaches. My attempt was to learn from these mutually contradictory but equally effective approaches to attaining the real vision. In fact, I had a feeling that this workshop might change the life of some of the participants and me.

     

   There are some tools that are quite useful in developing and attaining a real vision. It makes some difference whether, or not, you are familiar with these tools that are useful in the current complex environment. They help you know who you really are and what is really happening at the base of real visions. The tools are handy particularly when you need to co-dream in developing and attaining corporate or other organizational visions such as those of communities, schools, NPOs and others.

        

   Corporations and other organizations have been using mainly digital approaches based on analysis and logic, but analog approaches based on intuitive feelings can be increasingly more relevant as currently seen in the difficult times. Part 3 was focused on the advanced technologies of vision attainment.