ToTAL/OPEN Programs "Nonviolent Communication (Series of 3 classes)" 2022

We are happy to announce "Call for Entries" to the subject workshop. Any of Tokyo Tech students, who are belonging to the categories below, are being encouraged to apply the workshop.

Communication skills are fundamental to the collaboration of diverse people. It is a process where people with different values and opinions understand each other and work together. However, improving communication skills is not easy. Nonviolent Communication is attracting attention as a practical technique. By learning these methods now, you will be more confident in your future research, friendships, and ways of doing things at work. This time, we will be hosting a two-day intensive workshop with two NVC specialists.
What is Nonviolent Communication (NVC)?

NVC is an approach to nonviolent living developed by Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s. NVC is based on the assumption that all human beings have capacity for compassion an empathy and that people only resort to violence or behavior harmful to others when they do not recognize more effective strategies for meeting needs. NVC theory supposes that all human behavior stems from attempts to meet universal human needs, and that these needs are never in conflict; rather, conflict arises when strategies for meeting needs clash. NVC proposes that people should identify shared needs, which are revealed by the thoughts and feelings surrounding these needs, and then they should collaborate to develop strategies and make requests of each other to meet each other’s needs. The goal is interpersonal harmony and learning for future cooperation.

Day 1: 14/MAY (Sat) 13:00-17:30
Day 2: 20/MAY (Fri) 18:00-20:30
Day 3: 27/MAY (Fri) 18:00-20:30

Online (Zoom)

S. Nagata, M. Imai

Please select "Attend" in the column of the schedule (and Attending Plan) to be downloaded as below and send it back to total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp by email.
Whether nor not the applicant can actually join the workshop will be informed later to the applicants.

ToTAL/OPEN Programs are courses that graduate students outside of ToTAL may apply (credits and Gas can be given) and are workshops, the contents of ToTAL courses, to which both graduate and undergraduate students may join on ad-hoc basis (no credits/GAs will not be given). The most of ToTAL/OPEN Programs are a part of “Entrepreneurship Development Programs” of Tokyo Tech and are also "events" listed in "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program".
Schedule (and Attending Plan) and outline of ToTAL courses and workshops, as contents of the courses (and if the workshop are part of
"Events" designated by "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program") can be downloaded from URL below.

If you want to join any workshop(s) of ToTAL/OPEN Programs, please select "Attend" in the column of the schedule (and Attending Plan) to be downloaded as above and send it back to followings;

Prof. Kamura, Prof. Matsuzaki and Prof. Yamada Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) total.
total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp