Promoting Healing-Centered Ecosystems through our Commitment to Care (Part 1)
6 min readApr 11, 2023
Before we get into the framework…
I read an article by Masahiro Arimoto on “Using Classroom Assessment to Improve Pedagogy- The Japanese Experience” and I was captivated by the indigenous psychology of assessment steeped from deep cultural words like:
- kankei — interrelationships; access to networks of trusted people; no line between uchi (inside, us, in-group, inside home) and soto (outsider, other groups, outsider the home)
- kata cultural script — collective consciousness based ways of performing or doing
- kaizen — continuous improvement down to the smallest and most detailed level of self-introspection
- kizuna — another aspect of outcomes, growth rather than performance; bond, ties, wet human relationship like omoiyari (compassionate consideration for others) based on “innate nature is goodness”
- kizuki — more multidimensional and multi-level level of awareness; constructing a new understanding of the targeted issue
- kyodo tsunagari — native place, birth-place is dispensable for reflecting each other; one’s old home is an epitome of the present-day world
The word kizuki got me drawn to knowing more about it.