Our next SINCA session is on Sunday, Nov.29. As we have little over a month before the year 2020 ends, we want to reflect back the year. For majority of us, the year 2020 has been the difficult one with Covid -19 among others. But before we welcome the near year 2021 with refreshed mind,…
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Following up the Video 1 posted, here is the video #2 of the SINCA session on Nov. 8. The topic was your Dream Destination and Place to Live. We have report from 3 breakout groups. As I asked for rather unconventional places (rather than very familiar places, by asking them to go BOLD in choices,…
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Here is the video 1 of the SINCA session held on Nov. 8. Video #1 shows my introductory remarks with my own Dream destination. It is followed by the report of discussion from Breakout groups. Some of them are very interesting. We tried to insert the visual for some of the Dream destination/place to live…
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Our next SINCA session is scheduled for Sunday, November 8. As many of us may be suffering from “Covid-19” fatigue, we decided to free ourselves from variety of restrictions. As restrictions of movement across national borders (and some areas within the country) continues with the second/third surge of Covid-19, we want to unleash our imagination…
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We hosted SINCA online auction on Sunday, September 18. We had some 30 participants and 13 items were offered for auction. The concept of this session was to explore marketability of our hidden skill/assets and experiences. We often describe the person as a collection of “objective” credentials such as work experience, educational background etc. Now…
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Based upon the discussion we had at our last session on September 27, we are hosting the SINCA session where sellers and buyers could meet virtually for exchange. We are focusing on hidden skills/talents/experiences rather than the current jobs, educational background etc. -qualifications objectively measured. For example, if you are interested in pursing the career…
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The video of the SINCA session we hosted on Sunday, September 27 is now ready. The topic was “Design your job/work style.” As the labor market and job/work style is undergoing transformation due to Covid-19, and some concerns regarding losing the job and hope to try new work style such as remote work from local…
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This evening (my apology for late announcement), we will host SINCA online discussion on “What kind of job/work style you want?.” As we feel the impact of Covid-19 slowly affecting the employment and labor market, we want to discuss job/work style you would like to have. There are many more options re:type of work other…
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On Sunday, September 13, we hosted SINCA online debate session for two topics. The first one was on whether Universal Basic Income should be adopted in Japan or not. The second casual one was whether Olympics/Paralympics in the current form should be discontinued. As I was struggling to arrange four groups and record the session,…
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After several sessions where we had breakout group discussion to respond to questions, followed by report back from each group, we want to go back to Debate on September 13. The topics are 1. Olympics/Paralympics should be discontinued 2. Universal Basic Income should be adopted in Japan Both of these topics are very important and…
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