Group shot from our first "Social Innovation Tour"! 🔥
This was the culmination of months of preparation with a travel company to roll out meaningful, unique & educational experiences for groups of students visiting #Japan🇯🇵 Thanks to partners @codechrysalis for hosting the students (from Oklahoma!), to @yanarchy for giving such an awesome talk/workshop on #CodeChrysalis, Japan's IT sector, and programming (complete with mega-fun activities/games), and to @konojpng for sharing her insights on Japan's labour market, demographics, and other big-picture trends👏
昨日、一般社団法人 #SocialInnovationJapan として、初めての #教育ツアー を無事開催できました！
旅行会社とパートナーシップを組んで、アメリカの大学生向けのツアーを一緒に企画しました。昨日は #スタートアップ企業 「Code Chrysallis」を訪問し、日本のITセクターについて学び、 #プログラミング体験 を参加者の方々にしていただきました。それに加え、日本の #社会問題 についてディスカッションやゲームを行い、かなり盛り上がりました 😹今後も主に #インバウンド の高校生・大学生向けの #ソーシャルイノベーションツアー をどんどん企画したいと思いますので、もし訪問してもいいよ！というスタートアップ・企業・#非営利団体 がありましたら、是非ご連絡ください！
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#SocialInnovationTour #SocialInnovation #ソーシャルイノベーション #ソーシャルイノベーター #PurposefulTravel #MeaningfulTravel #LearningJourney
A few weeks ago, I hit my limit... Back-to-back deadlines, events, meetings, along with lots of exciting opportunities and invigorating encounters. Anyone who knows me knows that my projects are my passion/obsession, and that I truly care about what I do. BUT, I thought that I was invincible, and that I could “sleep when I die” kind-of-a-thing. But - of course - I was wrong. I made no time for self-care. I was eating total crap (cereal for dinner repertoire). I wasn’t sleeping enough. And It all came crashing down one night, when I ended up rushing to hospital at midnight. I thought I was (no joke) having a heart attack. At age 30. Long story short - it was a mix of flu and total exhaustion (I was averaging 3 hours of sleep that week). While I was hunched over on the floor - for a split second - i genuinely feared for my life... and it made me realize a lot. So what’s the lesson? No matter how passionately you’re pursuing something, make sure you look after yourself, even if it’s just for a few moments a day. Now, I remind myself to do what I can with the time I have... The other morning, I took a break and went for a run. And this is the view that greeted me... I remembered to slow down and say “thank you”. Lesson learned. Let’s be kind to ourselves 😇 #SelfCare
Hundreds of people took to the streets in #Tokyo on Friday - #InternationalWomensDay - to celebrate the achievements of women and call for a more equal society🔥Marchers were voicing frustrations with the #GenderPayGap, challenges in child-rearing and at the workplace, sexual harassment, and many other issues that are faced by women in #japan🇯🇵 and around the world. That being said, the atmosphere was incredibly upbeat and positive. People - no matter what their personal, political, religious differences - rallied together to show that they will not stand for “business as usual” and are serious about pushing for change. There’s nothing more uplifting than a group of people of all sexes, nationalities and backgrounds, fired up, and demanding their #HumanRights...
Happy (belated) #IWD2019 and thanks to everyone who joined our group from #SocialInnovationJapan 🙂
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#BalanceForBetter #HeForShe
#genderparity #genderequality #everybodysbusiness
#InternationalWomensDay2019
Big shout out to this *Dream Team* for pulling off our #CircularEconomy event last night in #Tokyo 👏 👏 👏 We were thrilled to have over 80 people join us for a screening of the #ClosingTheLoop documentary, followed by a discussion with an all-star panel of #sustainability experts 🌎 Thank you - as always - to our #volunteers for bringing such good vibes and energy, as well as our partners #SoNowAsia, @nagatachogrid and @tinypeacekitchen for making this such as fun and meaningful collaboration 🙏 As #SocialInnovationJapan, we’re committed to achieving a #sustainable society, and will continue working with awesome people to make big things happen :) Feeling very inspired after last night 🔥 🔥 🔥 Onwards and Upwards!!
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#sustainabilitymatters #circulareconomyclub #sustainabilityeducation #circulareconomyjapan #循環経済 #sustainablejapan
