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Men's workshop My Rules JAFAREC
Men's Counseling

Family is other people… Be happy and free from the family illusion

The topic of yesterday’s Osaka workshop and the one before that at Men’s workshop was “My Rules”. The idea was to sort out the behavioral norms that we are hardly aware of into “My Rules, Family Rules, and Social Rules” and share them with others. By separating the norms that apply to you alone, the …

JAFAREC Ten-Sho-An snow garden
Men's Counseling

Suffering and joy… the answer lies within ourselves…

My counseling is based on Rogers’ Person-Centered Therapy, while adopting some psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approaches, but mainly a narrative approach, like talking therapy, which leads me to my own Men’s Therapy. Men’s therapy or Men’s counseling does not mean counseling for men. It refers to therapy based on Men’s studies. Neither the therapist nor the …

Shinjuku station
Men's Counseling

Knowing, accepting, and talking about yourself…the basics of trust

Yesterday, I had my monthly Yoyogi workshop session. The first mini-lecture in the morning was about “Family functions and therapy”. I started by talking about how the men’s movement has been involved in supporting men or women, going back thirty years ago when I started Japan’s first men’s movement with my companions, and how men’s …

JAFAREC Ten-Sho-An plate
Men's Counseling

How do you heal the brokenness in your family… and how do you bring family function into therapy…

Today’s meeting was our once every three months case study meeting, and we had ten members, including Skype. After each of the recent updates, the dialogue proceeded with case studies. As usual, several cases of domestic violence and moral harassment in married couples were discussed. They also talked about the issue of separation, which is …

JAFAREC Avocado seeds
Men's Counseling

It’s not treatment, education, correction, or guidance… Men’s counseling is about growing up together

Any de-violence program for perpetrators has a power structure built into it. And it’s not just perpetrator programs; it’s all forms of therapy. Those being treated, those treating, those being listened to, those listening, those listening, those being guided, those guiding… they are all troubled persons and the supporters trying to solve their problems… more …

JAFAREC cotton rose
Men's Counseling

Are you listening to your body? …the basis of self-reliance

Today was my first run in three weeks. Unlike last time, the temperature was 29 degrees, which is a big difference of 7 degrees, but I’m pretty low on fitness to begin with, so it doesn’t matter what the temperature is, I’m not speeding. It’s just fast enough to walk. I walked and ran from …

JAFAREC Ten-Sho-An sowing
Men's Counseling

Everyone’s Family Home Project … in progress

The modern family is a form of family linked to the capitalist economy, which is based on the premise of extended reproduction.However, with the loss of new frontiers and the distribution of wealth to the extreme and the widening disparity between people, the family has lost its family function, and it is no longer possible …