Manga Drawing for WellbeingIf you are stuck at home, and have a little more time on your hands, perhaps you are thinking of developing or honing new skills. The Japan Society has many resources online for those interested in finding out more about manga, or hearing from artists.
As part of this programming, we’re delighted to be able to offer our first online manga workshop with UK-based manga artist, Fumio Obata, which will focus on the healing aspects of creativity and being mindful of your surroundings, something much needed in times like these.
The workshop also reflects on Fumio's recent work, The Garden, created in collaboration with writer Sean Michael Wilson and published in May this year by Liminal 11.

This trendy focus on 'leaders' is, in itself, undemocratic.

We need a future in which everyone is involved in making a good society and work place...not just the 'leaders', surely.
People who organise these very common, 'future leaders of society and business' type courses and events seem to think its a positive contribution to a more progressive world, or better business anyway.

They dont seem to focus on the basic structural elements going on in the very idea of their being leaders. It means everyone else, apart from that small percentage of leaders, is a follower, a subservient, a 'do what the leaders decide' robot....how democratic and empowering can it be when from 80% to 99% of people are pushed down like that?

Sometimes these things say that a good leader needs to be accessible and listen to staff, to play their part in enabling others and improving society, etc... if that is the actual aim then why not make ALL staff equal? Why not make it a workers cooperative in which every single member of staff gets an equal say in how the organisation is run, what it produces, how it connects to the wider community and environment...and in how the profits are shared?

Why not a society in which there are no hugely powerful leaders or an inflexible hierarchy which holds most of us down at a powerless bottom?

THAT is a really progressive work place and society.
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Lead that!