第２３２回 Workshop報告（９月１７日）/参加者１５名

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《今回のworkshop　》
○workshop参加人数：15名
○【前半】：What makes you feel “Youthful”?
○【後半】：Diversity
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≪FIRST HALF≫

＜Agenda＞

What makes you feel “Youthful”?

To be honest, I’m a big fan of the high school baseball tournament, which is called “Koshien” in Japanese. I always watch the games as much as I can, even sometimes I watch a game with my clients together while I’m working.

Every game has drama because they play baseball with their best performance. Ichiro, who is one of the best baseball players in the world, said “High school baseball is ‘baseball’ but Major League Baseball is a ‘contest’“.

So, you may get the point, yes, the high school baseball tournament makes me feel “youthful”. Therefore, I realized that I am not a teenager anymore but I can feel youthful through the tournament, which means it doesn’t matter how old you are in actual age, the matter is your mindset. I believe age is just a number, the most important is your inner-age of mind.

I found a significant message that my opinion may be true. One of my clients showed a poem written by Samuel Ullman, who is an American poet(1840-1924), describing youth. “Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.”

Not only this poem made me feel impressed but also surprised that people consider the same thing beyond the generations and cultural backgrounds.

It would be a great idea to share your “youthful” story. I would love to hear your thoughts on question no.1 or 2 after the discussion.

<Question>

1. I would like to hear what makes you feel “youthful”? Anything could be possible, for example, some items, places, songs, memories, events, smells and so on.

2. Do you think actual age matters when you feel youthful? Or it doesn’t matter? Please share the reasons why.

3. If we had a Time Machine, what period of your lifetime would you want to visit? Or you would not want to visit the past anymore? Please share the reasons why.

<References>

Ichiro to coach high school baseball team

https://www.mlb.com/news/ichiro-to-coach-japanese-high-school-baseball-team

Youth, Samuel Ullman

https://www.uab.edu/ullmanmuseum/

≪LATTER HALF≫

＜Agenda＞

Diversity

In broad terms, diversity is any dimension that can be used to differentiate groups and people from one another. It means respect for and appreciation of differences. Diversity became popular in Japan with SDGs.

 However, looking at recent events, promoting diversity is not easy. Many controversial events involving diversity have happened. Let’s consider why diversity is important.

<Question>

1. Which type of a child were you?

Complete your summer homework as soon as possible.

Plan and do homework constantly

Finish summer homework at the last minute

2. What do you believe is the most important role in the Diversity aspect?

3. Do you know about any other cases involving diversity?

4. Which do you value more: Transgender feelings or fairness?

**Additional

1. Did you participate in any summer activities this year?

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