Director’s Report:
A research project team on Dignity Education led by Associate Professor and Chaplain Jeffrey Mensendiak of Oberlin University visited ARI for three days from September 9. (Dr. Emi Hasegawa, Dr. Akiko Asai, and Dr. Misako Takizawa are the other team members.)
Rev. Mensendiak, who translated a book on dignity (Dr. Donna Hicks’ book “Leading with Dignity”) into Japanese, developed his own dignity workshop, and has been conducting the workshop for ARI participants for the past 4 years. This year, in addition to the workshop to the ARI participants, a workshop in Japanese was held for the general public.
When we look at various problems in the world and the entanglements in human relationships through the glasses of “dignity,” we can see that dignity is undermined everywhere, and we can understand how important it is for us to recognize and enhance dignity. ARI would like to put more effort into promoting dignity education.