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ESD Platform WILL
'WILL' is creating
'encounters' and'linkages'
For realizing a sustainable society.
Work, Inclusion, Life & Love ...
What is ESD Platform WILL?
WILL, a youth organization promotes "Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)" with a diverse group of people and organizations. We aim to create a society where everyone can be involved and realize "sustainable development (SD)". WILL members, while taking action on their own, seek to find methods of multi-layered and pluralistic "encounters" and "connections" between people in society.
Ofunato ESD Project
After 3.11the Great East Japan Earthquake, we started the support project in Akasaki-cho, Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture
Sustainable island building project @Oku-Komyoen
"ESD Volunteer Volaban" has been volunteerd at a Hansen's disease sanatorium Oku-Komyoen since 2007.
WILL and RCE Hyogo-Kobe collaborate to operate this portal site.
Through activities in various fields related to ESD / SD, you can deepen your learning from multiple angles.
WILL members are trying to learn ESD practically by going out to various areas while keeping their focus on the main project.
Graduate School of Human Development and Environmental Studies, Kobe University
Human Community Creation Research Center
This center, where WILL has its secretariat, has eight core divisions.
We are promoting the practice and research towards the creation of the multi-layered pluralistic community
It is one of the United Nations University-certified ESD promotion regional bases.
Set up a secretariat at Kobe University and tour in collaboration with WILL
It is the management of the programs and practices research meeting.
The management team, consisting of the secretariat, steering committee members, and council members, is responsible for the practical aspects of project design and program promotion. We aim to create a platform that facilitates the activities of our members!
What's WILL?
What does each letter in the acronym W,I,L,L, represent?
Work
WILL focuses on WORK (volunteer work, workshops, work camps).
Volunteer Work
Isn't a volunteer a social device that easily crosses the boundaries of each specialty? Through volunteering, we become aware of various problems and know the ideals pursued in the fields. What kind of volunteers will make you aware of what social problems?
Workshops
There are various methods that allow participants to loosely connect with each other and establish their own independence. We develop the methods based on each period the concrete circumstances (time, place, person, purpose and environment) and consider their meanings and effects.
Voluntary Workcamps
We focus on Workcamps as the place where people are not good at interacting with people and putting themselves in a group can have a little confidence and reconsider what they thought to be natural. Workcamps may teach us the importance of face-to-face holistic and physical relationships with human and other beings, land, water, air, nature, etc.
Inclusion
Participants who are taking action are not the only members of WILL. We promote ESD with multi-stakeholders.
Moreover, “Everyone is the Protagonist” in WILL. Each member is different, from those with disabilities, those of differing nationalities, ages, etc. We promote the creation of an ”Inclusive Community” that is not stagnant, but actively changes and is accepting of its varying members.
Life & Love
Through WORK we are exposed to varying values and belief systems, compelling us to observe our own lifestyle. We create a platform that encourages encounters and connections, thus leading to a sustainable society, that values all different kinds of INOCHI.
*INOCHI: Japanese pluriversal notion; lives, soul, spirit, existence of people, animals, plants and so on.
How can we create a sustainable society ...?
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What kind of places and ways are needed for people who are socially divided and characterized by immersive communication to collaborate each other for our common future?
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What kind of places and ways are needed for specialists who are pursuing expertise in a particular area to respect each other and collaborate together?
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What kind of places and ways are needed for stakeholders with somewhat conflicting interests to understand each other's positions and history, and to create encounters to encourage problem solving for the future?
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What kind of places and ways are needed to transform social structures and lifestyles through the mindful activities of all people?
At WILL, We are thinking about these questions,
creating multiple practical hypotheses, and working
to create a place for "encounters" and "connections"
toward the creation of a "sustainable society.
The relation between ESD and WILL
▶ ︎ ESD and WILL
The ‘E’ in ‘ESD’ stands for ‘Education’, however, in our opinion it also indicates “Empowerment’, ‘Enhancement’ and ‘Encounter’.
WILL does not focus on education in a narrow sense, instead, we stress the situations and methods of the empowerment, and the way of encounters which invent incidental learning.
WILL is a platform in which we can consider and invent education in a broad sense to nurture human development.
▶ ︎ SDGs and WILL
ESD means ‘E for SD’(Education for Sustainable Development) . We are compelled to consider the relation between ‘E’ and ‘SD’. ‘E’ exists in the movement of ‘SD’, and ‘SD’ is created through ‘E’. It is just like we need the soil of democracy when we learn democracy. We keep considering the mutual and integral relation between ‘E’ and ‘SD’.
Therefore, rethinking the relation between SDGs(Sustainable Development Goals) and ‘E’ is also the purpose of WILL. We do not uncritically accept the goals. We are trying to contemplate with many people whether or not they are appropriate goals for sustainable society.
WILLとは
プログラム
Program
これ以外にも、テーマ別プログラム（大船渡ESDプロジェクト、農村レジリエントプロジェクトなど）がたくさんあります！
Program
月に1回、WILLメンバー、ユーザーであればどなたでも参加できるミーティングやラジオ形式の配信を行っています。
WILL定例ミーティング
毎月第三水曜日19:30〜
原則、Zoom開催
月ごとの活動報告や事務局からの連絡事項、プロジェクトの審議事項などについて共有・協議するミーティングです。
WILL研究会
毎月第二水曜19:30〜
原則、Zoom開催
ESDやSDGsに関わるトピックについて、参加者でざっくばらんに意見交換します。ふだんの活動/生活を、ちょっと立ち止まって考える場です。
WILL 22 ラジオ
毎月22日19:00〜
Youtube（限定公開）
アーカイブあり（1ヶ月）
パーソナリティ、ゲストはWILLメンバー！活動中はなかなか聞けないメンバーの話をラジオ感覚で聞くことができます。
Recruitment
会員登録
We welcome people who are interested in social issues, people who are interested in volunteering, people who like to collaborate with others. We ALSO welcome people who are not good at interacting with people, people who hesitate to express themselves in the public. Various people will make the most of their unique characteristics in their activities. Everyone can be the protagonist. There are wide variety of people with different personalities in WILL.
Quarterly WILL
WILL publishes three magazines a year, "WILL Quarterly"
The quarterly is led by the editorial board of WILL, and its unique members write activity reports and columns.
You can see all pages and back numbers from here. (Members Only)
機関紙
Gallery
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ギャラリー
Contact
お問い合わせ
ESD Platform WILL Secretariat
esd.platform.will@gmail.com
〒657-0011
3-11 Tsurukabuto, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo
Graduate School of Human Development and Environmental Studies, Kobe University
Human Community Creation Research Center
Tel.078-803-7970
Fax.078-803-7971
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