How to organize a Living Library and enhance sharing stories?

Talking to Miki Yamashita is like visiting an interesting exhibition, or like reading a fascinating book. Every single minute is a precious moment of discovery of how sharing stories best functions in Japan. No wonder, as Miki is a highly skilled organizer of the Living Library, a methodology based on working with stories. In our exchange, she generously shares her experience in storytelling as a trainer of the programs for women empowerment at one of the Japanese companies in Tokio, as a professor of Global Management at the Reitaku University in Japan and as a person who loves metaphors. In Japanese culture, where saving face plays such an important role, working with stories has an interesting dynamics. Check it out and listen to our conversation.

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00:00 Intro
00:08 Welcoming
02:05 Inspiration for storytelling
04:11 Two stories of japanese women
05:48 Nominication is the art of communicating and bonding through the process of drinking with others
06:15 Difference between japanese generations
08:00 What is the living library?
11:44 Differences in workshops with mixed groups and japanese groups
16:06 Role of universitys and collegas in Japan
17:20 Who can be a book?
19:45 What was the biggest surprise so far?
22:04 Wgat is correct, what is incorrect?
24:00 Listening without judgement
27:50 What word helped you?
30:12 Kintsugi
31:36 wabi-sabi
34:08 Note of thanks
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