Domestic Violence Therapy Japan
Tomorrow is our first real workshop at Ten-Sho-An, the 30-hour overnight workshop. There will be about ten of us, including part-time participants. In thirty hours, you are pretty much free to sleep, eat, rest…etc. You can choose to talk, take a break, or sleep by yourself. The other twenty or so hours will be devoted …
In today’s Women’s workshop, two men came from the very beginning, and the women didn’t get together easily. When it was a little bit past the start time, the women also started to gather… After all, there were three men and five women in the session. The topic was “the proportion of emotions”. The idea …
Today at Ten-Sho-An… I took a chainsaw and chopped the trunks and branches of a yard tree that I had previously cut down for the stove. It was a far different from the saw. It’s such a smooth, swift cut. I could understand why Jason would want to swing it around… We had to split …
We’re hosting a 30-hour workshop at Ten-Sho-An this coming Saturday and Sunday. 30-hour De-Violence Workshop Domestic violence, moral harassment, abuse, etc., can happen in any family. In spite of the fact that the social situation has become so difficult to live in, there are no systems or facilities to support the difficulties of such families. …
I took a night bus both to and from Yoyogi for the workshop session yesterday. When I boarded the bus, the driver asked me to wear a mask, but I just put my thumb up and got on. On the return bus, the driver came all the way to my seat and asked me to …
Last night’s Men’s workshop had a slightly slow turnout, probably due to the unsettled weather, and ended up with nine people in attendance. But there were three women and six men, including some newcomers. The topic of the workshop is the creation of dialogue in the blank balloons of a two-frame comic strip. The meaning …
Today at Ten-Sho-An… we harvested the persimmons that had ripened. It’s not so big but we got about 50 persimmons. Tomorrow we will clean up the harvested vegetables and persimmons and sell them at the unattended vegetable stand in front of JAFAREC. Originally posted on October 20, 2020 English text translated with DeepL (Japanese to …
Yesterday, I helped the staff move to a new house. Besides me, there were also two other staff members and of course we arranged a moving company to help us out. As the old saying goes, better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away. Especially these days, we don’t have a …
Last night was our monthly Gourmet Night. My recommendations were saba sushi (mackerel), taco rice, simmered sea bream, and so on. The turnout was slow, and by 8:00 pm there were only a few guests… but by 9:00 a.m., a lot of people showed up, and as usual, more than ten attended. It would not …
People today are given goals and objectives in their upbringing, and they are evaluated and approved when they reach their goals. Of course, the reaching is only a step in the process, where a new goal is presented to us. The effort to achieve the goals is endless. And if you fail to make the …