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Japanese concept of ba

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woensdag 12 juni 2019

Japanese concept of ba

Op 11 juni was er een bijzondere masterclass. Onderwerp van gesprek was het Japanse “Ba”, een begrip dat verwijst naar het energieveld tussen mensen en dingen. Lees hier het verslag in woord en beeld. Masterclass en dus ook het verslag in het Engels.

There was a special master class on 11 June. The topic of conversation was the Japanese “Ba”, a term that refers to the energy field between people and things. Masterclass and therefore also the report also in English.

Objective of this masterclass is to explore the Japanese concept of Ba and how it can help in our volunteer work

Emiko Tsuyuki

Emiko Tsuyuki is Professor in Chuo Business School, Chuo University, Tokyo Japan. M.A. in Sociology, M.Sc and Ph.D. in Knowledge Science. She is specialised in Organization theory and Organization Behavior, especially, team work and collective creativity.

Japanese Ba

We often think that learning and creativity are individual processes, but we influence and need each other in this process. We are corporeal beings, in a physical environment, and are related to each other as well as to our history and culture. In this way an energy field (Ba) comes alive. If we are aware of this field (Ba) we can consciously use it in our interaction with each other. In this masterclass we learn to feel the Ba-field and how to use this to our advantage in interaction with each other and we learn the importance of passive listening. How we feel and sense is important as well as how we think.

Emiko shares about her business background as well as about her volunteer work with the Japanese fishermen after the tsunami. She is interested in how people interact and work together. People are sensing each other. You can feel it, if somebody is really listening.

In order for a good ba to emerge, you should not push and have goals, but be patient.
Conflict and crisis are signs that something is moving. This can lead to progress and a big shift in creating ba. (comment of one of the participants: ‘the universe is giving more space’).

There is a question if you loose your own personality if you adapt all the time. Emiko sees that it could be strength as well as a weakness. Therefore we have to ask ourselves the question ‘who do we want to be in this environment, now and in the future.’

Ba is about feeling the context and about what we feel instead of words, therefore it is important to meet physically and do things together.
How can we create a good ba?
We work together in small groups on the question ‘how can we create a good ba?”
If everybody is happy, it is a good ba.

- openness
- don’t bring your own luggage
- if you can relax, the other can relax as well
- you need to create room for the other
- harmony is about flexibility and acceptance
- diversity is important for a good ba (Dutch people are very direct and Japanese people are indirect, we have richer communication if we can learn from each other and expand our ways of communicating)

- openness, kindness, respect each other
- energy management
- nice harmonious setting, light (this is not a guarantee, but ‘what we can do, we have done’)
- kindness, respect, patience, happiness
- creating space for the other
- being in your body, your body is always present

Emiko comments that she feels a good ba in the volunteer academy and with the participants.

Foto’s: ©Theo van Ghesel Grothe
https://www.vangg.nl/

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