Meeting the Author (Online): Hide Enomoto

Transition Town in Japan - A Community Action Research Connecting Individuals with the World

Date: 27 August 2023 (Sun) 

Time: 16:00-17:00*

Venue:  You are welcome to join a *Book Reading Session (in Cantonese) that will be held at the Green Hub on the 27 August at 15:00-15:45 and then meeting Hide San online together;

OR register to join the zoom event individually. 

Fee: $50 (at Green Hub, include the *Book Reading Session and organic snack) OR Free (Zoom) 

Language: The Meeting the Author session will be conducted in English and the *Book Reading Session will be conducted in Cantonese.

Inquiry: 2996 2836 / olivia.tam@kfbg.org

🎬Interview with Hide Enomoto: https://youtu.be/SYaEl8Xhi5E  (Youtube)

Meeting the Author: Hide Enomoto
《日本轉型城鎮: 一場連結個人與世界的社區實驗》

Hide Enomoto shares the story of how Fujino, the town where he lives, has become the first official Transition Town in Japan and rippling the positive effect national-wide to connect individuals to cultivate resilience. This book helps readers to move from feeling anxious about crisis to developing a positive vision and taking actions to rebuild beautiful connections.

This book was originally written in Japanese. The Chinese version is published this summer with the support of Partnerships for Community Development.

【PREPARATION】 We recommend participants to read the book and send us your questions/comments to the author by 24 August through email to olivia.tam@kfbg.org. This will help us organise the Q&A question prior to the event for fruitful interaction.

【Book Order】 A limited copy of the Chinese book is available for sale at Green Hub at a discount of 25% off, first come first served.  Mailing order is available up to 24 August 2023.

【About the Author】Hide Enomoto is a graduate of California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, USA and holds M.A. in Organizational Development and Transformation. While living in S.F., he came across Co-Active Coaching developed by The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and became the first Japanese to be certified as a Professional Coach.

In 2000, he founded CTI Japan and played a key role in spreading Co-Active Coaching and later Co-Active Leadership in Japan. A few years later, he made a sharp left turn in his career where he resigned from the President’s role at CTI Japan in order to move to Findhorn, a world-renowned Ecovillage located in the north of Scotland, with his family in 2005. There, he came across  two major global civil movements called Transition Town and Awakening the Dreamer Initiative, both of which he later took back to and spread them around Japan in order to create a resilient and a sustainable future.

Fujino, the town he currently lives, actually became the first official Transition Town in Japan and its projects such as Fujino Electric Company has attracted a lot of media attention. In 2012, he has set up his own business called Yoku-ikiru Kenkyusho which roughly means Institute for Right Livelihood and offers talks and workshops that are the integration of all the things he has been doing to date.

He has written 3 books; “Empower Your People by Coaching” (PHP Institute, 1999), “The Real Work”(JMAM, 2014), “Living Your True Self”, (Shunjusha, 2017) and translated 4 books; “Virtual Teams”(Stamps & Lipnack, Diamond, 1998), “Co-Active Coaching” (Whitworth & Kimsey-House &Sandahl, Toyo Keizai, 2002), “The Transition Handbook” (Hopkins, Daisan Shokan, 2013), “Active Hope” (Macy & Johnstone, Shunjusha, 2015).

Reference:

• Transition Japan: Interview with Hide Enomoto, Transition Town Fujino - YouTube 
  
• Hide Enomoto on his new book about the story of Transition in Japan - resilience 
  
• Green Hub Visitor Center: transition community books for reference reading.