Domestic Violence Therapy Japan
The day before yesterday we had Women’s workshop, and last night we had Men’s workshop… In both workshops, we had Egograms. At the Women’s workshop, a victim woman who was in the middle of the crisis participated via Skype. In spite of the vividness of her story, the participants listened attentively without being swayed. If …
Family conflicts, domestic violence, moral harassment… Every family has some kind of problem, more or less. Although it may seem like a happy family, someone is going through a hard time, or they are just living together without communicating. These people come to me with feelings that they can’t talk about with others. These people …
Last night was the Women and Men workshop at the Dawn Center in Osaka. There were about ten of us there, including some women who hadn’t been there in a while and some who joined via Skype. The Dawn Center is tied in with the Purple Ribbon Campaign, and many places were illuminated with purple …
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 …
The US and Europe have been criticizing the Japanese government for many years about significant human rights violations in Japan due to the sole custody system and judicial decisions. The Japanese media doesn’t report on it at all. However, under external pressure, with the media slowly reporting the message of the domestic mutual self-help groups …
Last night was a Men’s Workshop with 11 participants, including two women, and the day before yesterday was a Women’s Workshop with 10 participants, including Skype participants. The theme of both sessions was “The Family Map of a 10 year old”. The idea was to map out the relationships in the original family of the …
Yesterday was the third lecture of the Men’s Counseling course…my lecture was a slightly more compact version of what I’ll be talking about tomorrow at an university, “Gender and the Law”. I spoke about various phenomena related to “sex” from a perspective that goes beyond the norm. We accept “sex” as a matter of course, …
Reality is changing. It’s like the flow of life, or the fact that everything is constantly changing without stopping. The same is true of a single subatomic particle, and of the universe since the Big Bang. The evolution of humanity, the chain of life, and the state of society are changing, and the changes are …
In counseling today, a woman shared her story with me, full of anger. The Child Protection Service, which believed a report of abuse of a child in the past, took the child into their care without any evidence of abuse and did not return the child to the parents, although they allowed them to visit …
The number of people who come to me with marital problems is almost, 50/50, regardless of gender. In the world, laws and systems have been established and support mechanisms have been created based on the assumption that women are victims and men are perpetrators. Therefore, female perpetrators, male victims, and male perpetrators are not eligible …