Promoting Healing-Centered Ecosystems through our Commitment to Care (Part 1)

Healing-centered Ecosystems framework

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.